Date:         Sat, 1 Aug 1998 16:50:25 -0500
Reply-To:     "Steven E. Broomhead, Sr." <broom-sr@SWBELL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Steven E. Broomhead, Sr." <broom-sr@SWBELL.NET>
Subject:      Re: why swap engines
Comments: To: Michael Harrnacker <harrnack@YAHOO.COM>
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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A diesel vanagon owner want more out of his vehicle than a measly 45
horsepower!!  Thats why we (I) swapped engines.

Steven

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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