Date:         Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:27:51 -0700
Reply-To:     Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How To Choose YOUR Engine Conversion
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <01ad01cd9693$e4cf4440$ae6dccc0$@gmail.com>
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If you don't like something you don't like it, I can understand that
but I've never understood the rest that goes on when someone dislikes
a conversion. It's almost religious.

One person is having a code 42 problem & that's prominent in a
decision when there are hundreds if not thousands of Subaru
conversions done with help from the list. Conversions where it just
starts and drives .....

So many people forget that you generally go to a list with a problem.
It's rare that you stop to say you have 88,563 happy miles in 4 yrs
on your conversion, you did it with help from the list and it almost
cost you less than a rebuilt 2.1 would have from Bus Depot, almost.
(I just looked, $2300 from BD & my last conversion was just under
$3k. I ignored shipping & core charges).

The the only part that matters in this whole conversion talk is what
YOU feel.  You look at what is out there, is it worth it to YOU to
change it?  The stock VW motors were good enough for me for a lot of
years in a lot of buses. Today, this Subaru 2.2 is good enough for
me. Maybe my next VW will need an I-4 from a Jetta? I'll deal with that then.

It's just a car....

Rob
vwrobb@gmail.com
still in western WA state




At  9/19/2012 11:23 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:


>Follow the Subaruvanagon list for a couple of months if you want to talk
>yourself out of that conversion.  Seems no one has solved the mysterious
>"code 42" problem, among hundreds of others.  Forums are the blind leading
>the blind.  For me, only a professional conversion with a Subie would make
>sense.  Also $12 or more.