If I were to do a 2 wheel drive engine swap, I would remove the engine and trans. from a front drive 3.8 buick, and make it fit in the rear of a Vanagon. I've looked in to this a bit, and the only major problem, I've found so far is the engine cover needs to be moved forward. PArts are cheap, anyone can work on it, plenty of power, MPG would be about the same as the buick It came out of. Doing this in the Syncro brings am entire new set of problems, that's why my SS (Summer Syncro) is getting an inline VW 4. Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Sudhir Desai wrote: > if i could do my engine swap all over again, i would definately get a > porsche 944 4-cylinder engine... then i would spend about 4grand on a > beefed up 901-1 tranny with taller gears(has lower ratio??) to cruise > doing 70 at 3 grand. and 80 at 3500. > > thats my $.02 worth > > Sudhir H. Desai 1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6 > desa4622@kettering.edu sudhir_desai@geocities.com > ICQ# 17014903 & 8255956 http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1889 > > |
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