Date:         Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:26:10 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: why did VW ditch the boxer motor?
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At 09:31 4/6/99 -0700, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Before you spend $10,000 on your Westy talk to some of the list
>vendors!!!  That seems like a lot unless you are putting in that Porsche
>engine!   You should be able to get your tranny rebuild for under $1000,
>and the engine for $2500-$3000, and I have found extremely competitive
>parts prices from vendors here.

I'm only looking at $3000 or so right now, got a camshaft bearing about to
go plus some random odds-and-sods.  It had a new VW transmission (in
Scotland) at 85k, head and bottom-end work at 90k, transmission rebuild (I
got royally taken by the dealer, mea culpa.  I'd have done a lot better
with Todd and gotten a better job.) at maybe 155k.

>
>I am researching engine options myself, since my '84 has over 200k and
>can't have long.  I am really torn between rebuilding a 2.1 core I have
>sitting in the garage or installing an Audi 5000 engine, or even the
>Eurospec, both of which would cost about $2500 more to do.

Yeah.  Same dilemma.  I find the Subaru conversion strangely attractive --
but I've developed tendinitis and can't work on the thing, need it running
etc. etc.  I'm going to get a stock 1.9 rebuilt locally (Boston Bob, I
think) and hope to get rich enough to put any engine I want in it later on
(I talk to the treeeeeessss, that's why they puuuuuttt mee awaaaayyyyy).

cheers,
david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net