Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:08:22 -0500
Reply-To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject: Re: Air Cooled Conversion
John-
There are a number of list-certified vendors, and decent machinists on our
list. I don't want to suggest one over another, since I think you might
want to listen, and make your own conclusions. I can tell you one group to
avoid: Mark Stephens High Performance. I will fill the list in on all the
details later this week. But leave it to say, these guys were a squirrelly
on the customer service, and I should have taken my $$ elsewhere. As of
today, they have had six months to reimburse me a chunk of $$ they owe me.
MSHP---is OFF my list.
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Brush [SMTP:jbrush@AROS.NET]
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 9:53 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Air Cooled Conversion
>You aren't an idiot. A moron, maybe, but certainly not an idiot.
Hey, you did just forget the smiley after that, right?? :)
>You CAN get acceptable power from the 2.0 liter without going into
>crazy-weird stuff. Consider the following relatively inexpensive
>improvements to your stock 2.0.
I am thinking I might go such a route. I spent enough time under the hood
of my race cars as a kid that I can probably do it myself. The wife left
me, so I have lots of time, and room in the garage <g>
Will I find a listing of all the 'special tools' that I will need to do
the pull out, rebuild, and reinstall, in the archives. I am not much on VW
engines, but its all pretty much the same. I just hate it when I go to
work on a vehicle and find that I need a torx tool, or something unique
that I need to go to a dealer to get.
I am of the impression that there is enough knowhow in the group and in
the archives to get me through it.
Thanks a lot for the pointers. Sounds a lot like what I would do to get
more out of a 327 Chevy.
Where should I shop for the heads, the crank, and the bigger pistons??
Should I just buy them, or rework the ones I have?
Much obliged.
Regards from Utah,
John
