The automatic transaxle does not have a removable bell housing thus the need for an adapter plate. Tom Czerniak Raimund Feussner wrote: > > Mounting parts and other stuff is okay, but why use an adapter? > > All 4-cyl. engines have the same bolt pattern for the transmission. So why > not use the bellhousing of a diesel vanagon. You can bolt the new 4-cyl. > engine right onto the bellhousing, no matter if it is manual or automatic > ... > > Raimund > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <KENWILFY@AOL.COM> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:19 PM > Subject: Vanagon Conversion Kits for around $2500 > > > Is there serious interest in a kit to put the 4-cylinder Golf/Jetta engine > > into the Vanagon for around $2500. The kit would include the mounting > parts, > > the flywheel, adapter plate (manual or auto), oil pan, pickup tube, > coolant > > hoses, and a few other things to make the conversion as stock as possible. > > All of the parts except the adapter plates would be VW original stuff. > > Let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > Ken Wilford > > http://www.vanagain.com > > John 3:16 > > Phone: (856)-765-1583 > > Shop: (856)-327-0027 > > Fax: (856)-327-2242 > > |
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