Date:         Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:27:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: V6 vanagon, with 4 speed auto tranny
Comments: To: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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I think he's using the driveline from the big LHS cars, which places the engine longitudinally instead of transversely, as in the minivans.  Astride instead of sidesaddle, as writer Gordon Jennings once observed. No 4-cylinder was available in that configuration, as I recall.  Why he chose it is probably explained adequately in his posts, but I'd have thought the transverse (minivan engine) setup would require less space and be more Vanagon-friendly and provide a greater variety of engines, from fours to several displacements of V6.  This may just have been simpler.
 
Stephen

--- On Mon, 6/21/10, BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: V6 vanagon, with 4 speed auto tranny
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 11:07 PM


This guy has been spamming various area CL's for sometime. He had been
mostly promoting his discussion froum for his pariculat conversion.
This is the first time I saw him post an actual vehicle for sale. Glad
to see he finished one though.

I only wished he did a conversion using the 4-cylinder instead of the
6. Lots of those 6's at my local wrecking yards with dead motors. The
4-banger on the otherhand seems more robust. Have one in our '2000
Routan'. ;-)



BenT

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On Jun 21, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Dug Smith <dug@DUGBERT.COM> wrote:

> I found this while perusing Craigslist.  Not mine, and just in case
> anybody's interested.
>
> http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/1802372358.html
>
> toodle pip,
> --
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