Date:         Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:09:58 -0800
Reply-To:     Doug Jones <duge4wd@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Doug Jones <duge4wd@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: 2.1L Wasserboxer Power Rebuild

Ken, no flames here!!!  I agree 100%.

You can easily view engine rebuilding as an art because of the dynamic
nature of the medium. We've all seen fanastic Chuck Barris cars as children
which are considered by some as automotive art; but, some of them (and many
other customs) are only changed in the static parts of their existence. This
is much more easily done in comparison to building a dynamic work which must
continue to function after the repairs are completed. Much like a physician,
a rebuilder cannot cut corners for the sake of the aesthetic or for
financial reasons b/c the work will ultimately suffer. A doctor cannot
(should not, and let's not get into HMOs) look at medicine from the bean
counter's perspective, only from the perspective of essential
medicine...primum non nocere, First cause no harm. An engine rebuilder
should do the same b/c the engine is the dynamic centerpeice and heart of
the vehicle, without it you have a static, non-mobile automobile...a useless
contradiction of it's prime purpose...to move.

Doug Jones
[philosophical rant over]

>Ken wrote:
>PS I know I am going to get some flames about how that VW factory rebuilds
are
>good.  Well I hate to tell you this but ,as far as waterboxers go, they are
>not.  They mismatch case halves and several people I have talked to that
have
>had thier WB motor rebuilt by them have had broken cranks or some other
type
>of engine failures within the first 50k miles after rebuild.