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• Re: Air cooled camshaft
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:42:06 -0700
  ...It's basically a very underbuilt set up and can only 'sort of last' compared to real engines. Way better that the earlier air...
• Re: Long Range Gas Tank for Air Cooled Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:15:01 -0600
  ...done on an air > cooled vanagon? Dave, Piece of cake. Get a nice Syncro donor van for parts. Drop the engine/trans from your...
• Re: 15 degree VW I4 mount question
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:13:12 -0700
  ...I wanted to eyeball diff's between > AC and diesel engine mount holes. > > Will a VW gas I4 mount directly to an air cooled...
• Air cooled to Water cooled
  Historical mailing list - Mark Kazman
  Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:56:11 -0700
  Hi All, I plan on doing a subaru engine conversion in the future. Since I have an '81 air-cooled model, I will need...
• Re: Power of a 2.0L Air cooled vs 2.1L???
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:21:32 -0500
  ...The version of the same engine installed in Porsche 914s was rated at 90 hp, I think mostly due to a higher redline. For...
• O2vsH2O and heat?
  Historical mailing list - Julio T
  Fri, 29 Sep 2000 03:47:07 -0400
  ...Does this happen with the fuel injected air-cooled engines? And last but not least, how does the heater system work in an air...
• Re: 81 Westy Engine
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:57:24 -0800
  Go out and get "How to Rebuild Your Volkswagen Air-Cooled Engine" by Tom Wilson. If you're not even sure how to drop...
• Aircooled engine tins
  Historical mailing list - Pat Patterson
  Tue, 9 Dec 2014 23:58:22 -0500
  Anyone know where I can pick up the tin that goes under the engine of an air cooled. I have an 82 and need...
• yet more info on 83 air cooled vanagon westfalia for sale, engine ?, some parts gone
  Historical mailing list - sg
  Mon, 14 May 2001 13:52:52 -0700
  ...more info on 83 air cooled vanagon westfalia for sale, engine ?, some parts gone hi list, some key info i left out: van is...
• Is my engine a type IV?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:03:19 -0400
  ...I have an '81 westy with a 2.0L fuel injected air cooled engine. Is it a type IV? If it is a type...
• Re: Looking for a CA smog legal conversion/extremists
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:39:41 -0600
  In the SoCal junkyards I visit the air-cooled Vanagons > outnumbered the waterboxer models by at least 3 to 1 in at least > 100...
• Re: 12 volt linear actuator
  Historical mailing list - Doug F
  Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:15:05 -0800
  Why not use the belows type from an air cooled type 1 engine? I would think they are still avail? Are you saying the...
• Re: Adjustments to help 81 Air Cooled Westy pass emissions?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:57:06 -0800
  ...1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" (Bustorius) http://web.mac.com/tubaneil Engine swap beginings: http://musomuso.googlepages.com/home
• Re: Looking for How To change Front CV Boot (Syncro )
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:09:44 -0800
  ...1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - > "Jaco" (Bustorius) http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > > Engine swap beginings: http://musomuso.googlepages.com/home > -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled...
• If you're bored.... Vanagon Engine Conversion Progress (welding pics)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:59:05 -0700
  http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/passengersideenginecarrier Getting better! Neil. -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" http://web.mac.com/tubaneil http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
• Air-cooled to Water-cooled
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:09:30 -0500 (EST)
  I was just curious if anyone has ever turned an air cooled vanagon into a water-cooled one. I never hear much on the...
• mileage
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sun, 10 Nov 96 17:48:05 EST
  ...That seems kinda low, but then again we are talking a Vanagon Westy with a little teensy air-cooled engine pushing it around, so...
• Wasserboxer converted to Air Cooled
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:02:51 -0600
  ...fellow that was or had converted a Waserboxer to an Air Cooled engine. It was an elaborate pictorial on the process. Has anyone got...
• Re: Meltdown temp?
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:38:21 -0500
  So what are the symptoms of a popped valve seat on an air cooled engine? For those of you that have both an oil...
• Re: Lifters don't compress ...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:07:14 -0500
  ...After adjustment you have to wait sometime and them they will final adjust after the engine starts. The air cooled engines not only burn...
• WBX motor rather than ....
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:18:38 -0700
  ...Is not the WBX similar (or vica/versa) with the WBX being an air cooled with water? Except Porsche gave up after a few...
• Re: gas consumption and guiness in the oil
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:26:56 -0800
  ...Jason's got an air-cooled engine. I think it's been a > while since Mike's had an air-cooled. Somebody hand him...
• Re: converting watercooled vanagon to aircooled
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:43:56 -0400
  ...horsepower with and air cooled motor? (Not to mention "real" heat in the passenger compartment, as well as a quieter engine and "better" fuel...
• need new engine for air-cooled van (overheated one)
  Historical mailing list - Kragen Sitaker
  Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:15:42 -0400
  ...We have an offer for a $700 pig-in-a-poke air-cooled Vanagon engine. What are our other options for a new engine...
• Re: Re.: Synthetic oils
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Thu, 18 Aug 94 14:25:21 PDT
  ...have read ("How to rebuild your air- cooled VW", and others) implied that the engines were *engineered* to have the oil do a major...
• Re: Porsche engine mounting ring work on waterboxer?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
  Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:01:47 -0800
  ...www.mainelycustombydesign.com/enginecomponents.htm#enginestand > > > > The description says it will work on Porsche 911/356 and VW air-cooled. > > > > Are the mounting studs...
• Re: Trans. Upgrade: Secure Front Shift Rod Bushing?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:50:40 -0700
  ...Swapped tranny for > an air cooled (DK?) and re-mounted orig bell housing. He purchased and > installed the port side replacement engine mount to...
• Re: Friday - NVC - Air Cooled Question
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:45:26 -0400
  ...Contact Art Thraen @ ACE-Air Cooled Engineering in SLC for really fast engines in this category or go Okrasa? YMMV, Mr. BZ-fire it...
• Re: WAS: .... parts van? (84 Westy.....) NOW: Poll. Most Vanagons in your yard?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:49:02 -0800
  ...1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - > > "Jaco" (Bustorius) http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > > > > Engine swap beginings: http://musomuso.googlepages.com/home > > > > > > > > On 11/20/07, Kim...
• Re: Lifters don't compress ...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:32:34 -0500
  On the air cooled engines the push rod tubes and lifters are removable without pulling the heads. Dennis Sent from my Windows 10 phone...
• Re: Air vs. Water - pro's and con's
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:56:12 -0400
  ...The original >concept was to power the Vanagon with an air-cooled eng. Emmissions >standards >in the US made this impossible, thusly the conversion...
• Re: Pic of melting wiring in my Air cooled '81. How's yours? --- :^)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:00:07 -0800
  ...engine bay. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Neil. > > > > -- > > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" > > > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > > > -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air...
• '81 versus '83 wasserboxer
  Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
  Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:41:42 -0500
  ...Which one do I keep?? Any opinions on power, reliability, maintenance, etc (2.0L air-cooled vs. 1.9L wasserboxer)? I have no experience...
• Re: '84 Westy air-cooled
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:43:39 -0700
  ...Previous mechanic hadn't installed all the tin (baffling?) around the air-cooled engine and it overheated. 1st mechanic sez "enough" tin is there...
• Re: Pic of melting wiring in my Air cooled '81. How's yours? --- :^)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:48:52 -0800
  ...engine bay. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > > > > Neil. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" > > > > > > > > > > > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > > > > > > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air...
• Air Cooled Crate Engines
  Historical mailing list - Higginbotham, David A.
  Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:09:54 +0000
  ...A crate engine is one of the things I am pondering. Google returns a number of places one can buy a crate engine, GEX...
• Re: Two Types of Air-Cooled Vanagon Stock Engines?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:35:42 -0700
  ...line parts search I was asked which type of stock air-cooled > engine was in my 1980 Vanagon ... a 2.0L 1970cc H4 MFI...
• Re: Vngns ARE junk! Wilder's Law
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:02:19 -0700
  ...engine wasn�t what I needed. Subie time. > > So you converted an air cooled to a water cooled Subie, or is there an air...
• Re: new VW model has rear engine "waterboxer"
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:24:30 -0700
  ...Given that our engine is "designed" in the 70's from remnants of a 30's air cooled engine design, I would think VW...
• air cooled? : non van
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:18:35 EDT
  ...That thing is aircooled and rear engined. Seen a late bus with a corvair in back. Buslady
• Re: oil pressure problem on my 1983 air-cooled
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 23 Aug 2017 05:58:03 +0000
  Your engine is overheating terribly. Your oil temp should be around 200 or lower. Cylinder head temps are probably well over 400. Most likely...
• Re: Tatra air cooled V8 conversion?
  Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
  Mon, 26 Mar 2001 06:48:51 -0800
  ...maybe you talk of a different engine (DOHC). Tatra air cooled engines as early as 1932 with the Tatra 57B. Which pre-dates all...
• I'm thinking about buying Stinger Exhaust
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:59:12 -0500
  ...I'm mostly interested to see if it will give anything to performance or let the engine run cooler. Stan Wilder 83 Westfalia Air...
• Re: how to keep your vw alive
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:52:18 -0400
  ...For air cooled owners (loafs more than Vanagons) it has become a bible of sorts. I think you're correct in saying that it...
• Re: Unorthodox Inst. Cluster Electrical Question
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:41:59 -0700
  ...engine swap posts, this is regarding an air cooled instrument cluster I've been using on my air cooled to water cooled engine swap...
• more info on 83 air cooled vanagon westfalia for sale, engine ?, some parts gone
  Historical mailing list - sg
  Mon, 14 May 2001 13:41:50 -0700
  ...83 air cooled vanagon westfalia for sale, engine ?, some parts gone hi list, im posting this message in the service of my neighbor. a...
• Re: Pic of melting wiring in my Air cooled '81. How's yours? --- :^)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:39:16 -0800
  ...engine bay. > >> > > > >> > > Cheers, > >> > > > >> > > Neil. > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" > >> > > > >> > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > >> > > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air...
• Use Air Cooled Fuel Pressure Regulator on WBX?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 19 May 2012 23:10:14 -0700
  ...I don't recall if he was successful with using this part on a WBX engine. Has anyone else found that the air cooled...
• Re: air cooled rear hatch ...
  Historical mailing list - Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow
  Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:23:55 -0700
  ...engine lid is plastic? >> >> >>> On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The older, air-cooled and...
• Looking for a project?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:19:42 -0800
  ...http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1903636 A better idea might be to put an air cooled engine back in and...
• Air Cooled Vanagon parts for sale...
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Koch
  Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:37:57 -0600
  All kinds of Air Cooled Vanagon ('81 2.0l FI) parts for sale... a.. Transmission (4 Speed), b.. A variety of nice Doors, c...
• Re: genuine VW rebuilt engines available
  Historical mailing list - ThomasD. Hanlon
  Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:01:45 -0800
  ...Domestic freight not > included. > > 2.0 Air-cooled $ 1125.00 outright > The air cooled engine also comes with a genuine oil filter and VW...
• Re: Head Gasket Project
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:36:18 -0400
  ...I know of at least one air cooled >VW engine that suffered from overheating which also had it's block >painted. We theorized the...
• seeking Air Cooled info/advice (82 Westy)
  Historical mailing list - Loretta Abbott-Kennon
  Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:21:54 EDT
  ...engine. (my experience is with aircraft reciprocating engines). My Questions for you: 1. What is the average longevity of the 2.0l air-cooled...
• Re: Longevity of Conversion Engines
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:14:58 -0700
  >Unbelievable? >I think more like impossible---or perhap improbable---- >Pretty tough allegations----200,000 k, with nothing going wrong on an air >cooled engine...
• Re: Adding Slick50 to engine and transmission
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:54:54 +1200
  >So are you folks all implying that a $6 can of Restore won't increase the >compression on my air-cooled from 105 to...
• Re: Mileage survey closing
  Historical mailing list - vanagonvw
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:10:19 -0700
  ...Should have included 2.0L air cooled as an engine choice. Its not an "other" It was a standard engine for several years.... John
• Re: Push covers/enging tins
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:37:05 -0400
  ...Don't overlook the fact that Bob Hoover's article is about "Air Cooled" VW engines ... not wasserboxers.
• Re: Air cooled to Water cooled
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:47:54 +1000
  ...Air cooled to Water cooled >> Mark Kazman wrote: >> > >> > Hi All, >> > I plan on doing a subaru engine conversion in the future. Since I have...
• Re: Oil light comes up, 1.9 engine
  Historical mailing list - Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)
  Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:00:10 -0400
  ...Engine was reconditioned by VW Canada about > >> 70k back. Could it be the oil switch misbehaving? > >> Thanks to all. > >> Zoltan > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air...