Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 22:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: laird@cauchy.sosc.osshe.edu (Alan Laird)
Subject: Re: Bigmotors, etc.
> MSDS is Martin Schreiber Designed Systems. He has kits to put 911 motors into
> Vanagon. He also has a neat grill guard for Vanagon and some other neat
> stuff. There are 3 problems with his kits. Firstly, the 911 motor is
> expensive ($5,000+? used). Secondly, you have no heat, which is unacceptable
> to me as I drive in Vermont a lot in the winter. Thirdly, he put his motor
> into a Syncro and went through two transmissions fast. He invented a mod you
> all should do on your syncro transmission any time you go for a rebuild. This
> mod will allow the transmission to last longer and stand up to bigger motors.
Another source for this kind of thing of almost urban-myth proportions is
Kennedy Engineered Products. They are really great. For some reasonable
cash, they sell mounting plates and flywheels to mount just about any
type of engine to a type 2 tranny. I helped a pal put a Toyota 3-TC into
his '76 westy. I think the last time I spoke to him, he was getting
better than 30 m.p.g. and almost never had to downshift heading down into
Cal over the Siskiyou passes. I kept blowing up my engines and I was
going to put a '63 buick super engine (251 cid aluminum V8 -- bought by
ROVER) in it until I changed my mind and bought my '84 gl. They had kits
for lots of inexpensive motors. The only problem with the Vanagon is that
it only has 12-1/2 inches clearance so every motor but the Subaru engine
required some fabrication in the rear deck area. I heard that someone
else got around this by lowering the whole rear end (or raising the body I
guess).
Kennedy Engineered Products
38830 17th St. East
Palmdale, California, 93550
805-272-1147
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