Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1998 23:05:58 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
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From:         David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: why swap engines
Comments: To: Michael Harrnacker <harrnack@YAHOO.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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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
>
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