Date:         Wed, 10 May 1995 16:15:50 +0100
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         puusital@adobe.com (Paul Uusitalo)
Subject:      Re: Vanagon with Porsche power.

Al Sez:

>Y'all mention that 6000RPM might be a little scary.  Only for a wasserboxer.
>The carrera II will sing merrily at 6000 all day.  MSDS has the range panzer
>kit which trades your ultra reliable water heat for no heater at all but
>230+bhp.  He'll do the conversion for you for ~$10,000US includes the motor.
>or ~$4,000 you supply the motor.  Or the kit of parts ~1,500 and you do the
>work, buy the extra porsche parts and rx7 parts and of course supply a pukka
>carrera II motor.
>
>You run larger tires on 15" wheels to gear up for the 117mph top speed.
>
>The claim is it'll out climb (syncro of course) any box stock UJMT or stock
>US 4wd bronco, k5, powerwagon, etc.
>
>But no heat.
>
>The reliability of the carrera II is very good, much better than the poor
>overstressed 2.0l waterslosher.
>
>But no heat.
>...

How hard would it be to build some sort of heat exchanger from the
Porsche's oil cooler/exhaust manifolds to the reminants of the
Wasserboxer's cooling system?

Seems like a tractable problem, no?

Paul
puustial@adobe.com