Joe, There's hope for you. I just bought a rolled VW GTI - going to put the 1.8t in my vanagon. Virtually everything associated with the power train is in great condition -- it runs great - just messed up top & sides. So you could take something like this and migrate the coolant system and controls along with the engine swap. A bit of mounting for the radiator & air conditioning system and some longer hoses and you'd be good to go. Or so I believe, Werner On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:35:23 -0500, Joe Luther <jluther@ALFONS-HAAR.US> wrote: >Since my Vanagon is air cooled, am I toast on eventually converting it to a >water cooled engine such as an ABA 2.0 or a TDI? Not that I would want to >do this but the body and interior are so nice I would hate to give up on it >if the 2.0 AC parts supply becomes an issue. > >TIA > >Joe |
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