Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 16:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Porter_Fred%PAX9@mr.nawcad.navy.mil
Subject: Re: Big Motor Homework/Syncro Glitch--Oe
see attached for background......
I spoke to a california tranny rebuilder and I believe he said that a guy he
knows is returning every 18 months for tranny rebuilds with an installed 3+
liter porsche.
I also am interested in more horsepower and the same california tranny
rebuilder said that kennedy engineering has a kit in the works for a subaru
turbo DOHC that will turn about 190 hp.
(I referred to the calif. tranny rebuilder anonymously 'cause i didn't want
to misquote or otherwise misrepresent)
Fred Porter
87 syncro
just did the heads w/ 50% VOA assistance at 120kmi
replaced the power steering pump
replaced the exhaust
am doing the tranny now
what else will happen to my cruising machine?
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|From: "vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu"@PMDF@PAXMB1
|To: porter fred; "vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu"@PMDF@PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: Big Motor Homework/Syncro Glitch--Oe
|Date: Monday, November 06, 1995 10:31AM
|
|<<File Attachment: 00000000.TXT>>
| Derek Drew (drew@interport.net) said:
|
| >We've been wondering why the South African Syncros don't use the
| >larger Audi 2.5 litre motor that their 2WD Vanagons use and I
| >recalled something that suggests the answer.
|
| >I remember when I used to correspond with ultra-high-end aftermarket
| >company Oettinger (germany) that their six cylinder Vanagon motors
| >came in a 180HP version and a 135HP version (approx. going from
| >memory). They wouldn't install the higher HP of these two motors in
| >any Syncro as they said the 4x4 transmission could not stand it. :-(
|
| Yet the 3.2l Porsche 911 engine MSDS uses is installed in a Syncro.
| In stock configuration, that must be about a 230hp engine. We need to
| talk to him about how the drivetrain has held up; certainly, he
| will know the weak links.
|
| My confidence that we (Syncro owners) could handle substantially more
| HP was based on the fact that MSDS has demonstrated the 911
| conversion, and it appears successful. Some of these conversions,
| specifically the Audi non-turbo 5, are similar in HP to the Oettinger
| 4 cyl. engine.
|
| Tom F.
| 90 Syncro Westie
| 90 Audi 200 TQW
|
|
| 
