Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:47:42 -0500
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From: drew@interport.net (Derek Drew)
Subject: 2.5 Litre Big Motors From Brian
AWSOME message Brian!
>Hi,
>
>I departed from my house @ 9.30 am and arrived just before twelve pm.
>Easy to find location, the address says Industriestrasse, so when i saw a
>sign Industriepark, i turned and there it was: BAS.
>Two Transporters on the parking lot (and my old Opel).
>
>I walked into the shop and i immediately noticed several monstrous T-IVs
>on display, museum-like, later i saw a sign above the counter explicitly
>stating that they were not for sale. Also: a T-IV head that came from a
>911 !!! they are not made anymore due to the cost of it,they use four (!)
>911 heads for one engine they cut 'n weld 'em back together, an extensive
>operation that leaves you with two *HUGE* T-IV heads with overhead cams!
>Everyhing very clean and organized. I recognized Mr. Ralph Schmeisser
>from a picture in an older catalog i have. We shook hands and i wanted to
>say my name, but he interrupted me and said: "Mr. Verbeek i guess",
>obviously he saw my Dutch plates on my car. I gave him the printouts
>of our posts about Ahnendorp and the message of Tom seperately,
>i asked him to give this to Mr. Ahnendorp, "this is a message from the
>American he spoke to a few days ago and these are printouts of electronic
>mails about your company, maybe nice for you...". He promptly took 'em to
>Mr. Ahhnendorp and came back with a shopping car, "let's take a look at
>your motor". Got everything inside, and Ralph placed my case, heads and
>crank on a rolling table. While we were discussing some things about my
>case Mr. Ahnendorp came and asked (in Dutch!) if i could explain some
>things, well, you can ask me a lot about VW's, but when it comes to
>explaining V@L i don't know what to say... :( so i mumbled something like
>internet, mailinglist, hundreds of recipients all over the world etc.
Funny.
>Maybe it gets clearer when he has read the stuff i gave him, i gave him
>the weekly stats as well. Then he went on to talk about the conversation
>he had with Tom. It wasn't a long conversation, he said he gets American
>inquireries from time to time but that he thinks it's too expensive to
>ship in small quantities. He also said that he occasionally ships to
No. It is not too expensive to ship in small quantities. The key is to ship
via ordinary government surface mail (by boat). This way the person here in
the USA pays low postage and most boxes come stamped "buyer responsible to
pay duty" or something like that, which the USA buyer can do to the USA
authorities unless he happens to forget to do this, which is entirely possible.
If he means it is too much *trouble* to ship in small quantities, then
perhaps we really can make up a mass order for 2.5 litre engine parts. I bet
we'd get as many as 5 or even more list members who want to make their
Vanagon motors into 2.5 size.
>FAT Performance CA, he gave the example of the Porsche coolingshrouds,
>FAT orders way before they need 'em, so they don't have to go by airmail,
>also, you can place three of these on top of each other in one light package.
I've always *thought* of FAT as the place to go for the 2.5 engine job. Good
data to have this confirmed by this post. I have been impressed with FAT's
stuff over the years.
One of us should call FAT to discuss this whole issue and I expect we'll be
well illuminated. Perhaps we should send them copies of the relevant pages
from the catalog first. I will call them eventually, but not for a long time
as I have other things on my plate right now.
>On the Wasserboxers he said no problem on the real conversion (P&C, Crank
>Cam, Lifters etc.) but the induction, that's the problem, in this case the
Wow. No problem!
>Bosch Digifant injection system i believe, it has to be "retuned" to meet the
>bigger engines mixture-needs, BAS doesn't do ChipTuning out of the box, they
I think this is not such an issue as it sounds. Firstly, I think it is
common to go from 2.1 to 2.5 without altering the Digifant factory fuel
injection. I know the west coast couple with a 2.5 that I talked to had not
altered the brain/FI setup.
Secondly, I am sure that Dennis Haynes could make up any required/advisable
mods for this without abandoning Digifant.
>do tune EFI systems but they program every car individually while it's on
>their dyno. Another option would be dual carbs, but i understand that gives
>emission test problems, so i think y'all should investigate the Gene Berg
>supplied EFI, the sets looks like dual carbs and has four throttle bores,
>it incorporates a BrainBox that you can program yourself with a PC. I saw
>that Mr. Ahnendorp uses it on his wife's '67 1835 T1. A friend of mine has
>this system on '68 2.4L T-IV engined bug, he put in three programs,
>1: economy, 2: Speed, 3: coolest running mixture. You could always preserve
>such a preset for emission testing... My friend told me he can dial in mixture
>at any given enginespeed.
>
>I have the catalogs for you guys, i paid 20.- DM ea.
>I paid in Dutch Guilders so that makes 20 x 1.14 = 22.80 DG,
>22.80 : 1.65 = us$ 13.81 ea. I'll put 'em in the mail and let you know
>what that costs.
>
>Anyway, i hope to tell you more after next saturday, the 23rd. to fetch my
>engine, i'm sorry if this message doesn't supply you all the data you
>were looking for, i was very impressed with this all, and i also had my own
>motor in my mind. The catalog will tell *much* more, although it helps if you
>know the German keywords like kurbelwelle (crankshaft), nockenwelle (camshaft)
>etc. Let me know if there's more you want to know, or send me a mail that
>i can print and forward to Mr. Ahnendorp.
>
>The catalog tells me it's possible to convert the WB to aircooled.
>
>Hope it helps,
>
>Brian
>
>
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