I agree, a Digifant Inline VW 1.8 can be a fairly easy swap for a guy at home to replace his waterboxer. It helps if you have the full 83 diesel Vanagon donor parts and you are installing into an 83/84 Vanagon. That is the most compatible setup. Other year combinations get more challenging. Since most people want to convert a different year and since 83 diesel Vanagon parts are much less common than 82 diesel parts, most people will have more issues to overcome to convert their waterboxer van. Not huge issues but time consuming to discover and solve when you don't know they are coming. Where you wrote a "couple of hours" is more like "a few days", and that is assuming you have ALL the 83 diesel parts, the right 1.8, and going into an 83/84 without PS or AC. Mark
Don Hanson wrote:> ................ > > There are plenty of other ways to put an inline VW or Audi into the > Vanagon, but the simplest is the 50degree 1.8liter/Digifant 'direct' > install using all the Vanagon diesel parts....With all the parts in > hand, I bet you could do that swap in a couple of hours.....
Don Hanson wrote: >............... > Swapping motors is not "easy"...I didn't mean to try to say that... > What is true is that swapping an inline 1.8 gas VW motor into a Vanagon > using the diesel parts is probably about as easy an engine conversion as > you could ever find and it gives a pretty satisfactory result. That > conversion can be done at an outstanding cost and labor saving over most of > the other available conversion options. > > |
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