Date:         Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:40:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
Subject:      Re: pre-83 vanagon engine swaps: gas vs. diesel
Comments: To: Don Gibbons <dgibbons@presray.com>
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Don -- Let me make sure I understand.

You had an air cooled '80 -- '83 1/2 vanagon as the recipient;
you had a water-cooled diesel vanagon as a donor, also a rabbit
gti.  Am I right?

Some details that would be helpful:
What year of air-cooled  vanagon were you starting with?  Apparently some
if not all vanagons come with holes drilled for the diesel engine
mounts... since I haven't seen where those holes are I want to make
sure that I either have them drilled in my ('81, made in late '80),
or that there is at least something solid to drill them into.  I'll
look in my Bentley today and see if I can figure this out for myself...

What year of GTI were you using and what engine did it have?  I
have the impression that there were a number of gti engines and
I don't know much about that car...

And finally, the clincher -- how do you like the results?  Is it
substantially stronger?  Gas mileage?

Thanks for the info!

        Gary

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Don Gibbons wrote:
> I did this. But I had a diesel vanagon and a rabbit Gti as the donor. As long as
> the vanagon is water cooled there are no significant differences. Here is a list
> of diesel parts you will need:
> bell housing or whole transmission
> diesel oil pan
> diesel oil pump pickup
> diesel flywheel/clutch
> diesel engine mounts (alum castings and steel tube)
> diesel exhaust manifold (can make up custom or use twin tube dasher)
> I used the diesel exhaust manifold and the stock diesel transmission. while
> these are not the optimum parts it did get the job done is only a week end.
> Getting the fuel injection stuff, electrical and plumbing took another month.

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Gary Shea                                       shea@xmission.com
Salt Lake City                      http://www.xmission.com/~shea