Reasons for swapping my engine: 1 - The wasserboxer will have leaking heads, usually under 200,000 km 2 - $2000 Canadian for a decent rebuild of a wb with leaking heads 3 - 2.0L Audi 80 engine installed is about $1500 Canadian (less than a wb rebuild) 4 - VW / Audi inline four engines are still going strong at 300,000 km and I had a Deisel with 400,000km - they last forever 5 - If you inline four dies... burry it and get another from one of the millions of other VWs in the wrecking yard 6 - My conversion uses all factory parts and any VW mechanic can service it. 7 - Inline fours are less poluting, more efficient and with the 2.0L more power full At 20:36 7/30/98 -0700, Michael Harrnacker wrote: >I've been on this list long enough to notice a significant percentage >of vanagon owners have swapped out their flat-four engines and diesels >for other engines. > >My questions is why? Is the cost of replacing a boxer engine so >prohibitive that it's cheaper to reinvent all the supporting equipment >for a different engine? It doesn't seem to me that the engines >changes are gaining so much more power that it overrides the headaches >of reengineering the car, plus the headaches of finding parts for such >a (sorry) mongel. > >Mike H. >89 Weekender > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- David Marshall, Quesnel BC, mailto:david@volkswagen.org -- -- 78 1.8L VW Rabbit, 80 2.0L VW Caddy, 87 Audi 5KQ -- -- 85 1.8L VW Cabrio, 88 1.6L VW Syncro Double Cab -- -- Volkswagen Homepage http://www.volkswagen.org -- -- USE DAVID@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG WHEN SENDING PMAIL -- |
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