Date:         Wed, 15 May 2013 10:03:20 -0700
Reply-To:     mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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From:         mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: 2.0L I4 Opportunities
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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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.
>
>