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• Re: 81 Air cooled... Engine conversion options??
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:30:44 -0700
  ...to rear, removing the dash for a > water-cooled airbox and heater core, splicing in a engine harness, and mods > to the transmission. The...
• new/looking for a Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Todd Kaderabek
  Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:56:28 -0500
  ...I prefer the post 1980 buses for their water cooled engines and greater (generally speaking) comforts, but am not married to the new body...
• Re: Who has the Dakar this year?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:04:46 -0800
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• Re: Long-block source recommendation ('83)
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:38:33 -0600
  ...I feel you can bring your old engine back to life smoother and stronger than it was originally. I am very happy with my...
• Re: porsche engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:47:23 -0700
  ...engines - not sure when the change is, but all 911's, Boxsters, and now the new sports model - they're all water cooled. Scott...
• Re: New thermostat funky?
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:19:34 -0500
  Mike, My impression, pretty much without basis in fact, is that the VW engineers with their now-famous 30 days to come with a...
• FS, Sacramento area, lots
  Historical mailing list
  25 Apr 97 06:32:37 PDT
  ...361-8238 - - - - could be a deal here - - - - VANAGON '83 GL, water cooled, 4 spd cass, huge sunrf, full legal tint, lots of new parts...
• Re: Van on Bring a Trailer
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:45:03 -0800
  Man I sure don't miss them ! BTDT they're about 5 times harder to worn on that a vanagon ( water-cooled vanagon that...
• Re: 85vanagon overheating (water cooled)
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:50:11 -0600
  ...The engine sounds terrible. Almost about to backfire. It won't go past like 5-10 mph. > It's only 9am and it's...
• Re: Anyone running a Oettinger powered Van( or completed van) ?
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:37:53 EST
  ...Investing up to $5000.00 for a bigger engine so you can run an extra 50K miles is about two to three times what...
• Re: Wankels
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:21:38 -0400
  ...Wankels Evidently you haven't driven in the mountains with your Vanagon! The stock engine is woefully inadequate for slowing our vans down on...
• Re: Where to buy Redline in Canada
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 16 May 2006 19:19:45 -0700
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• Re: cold start problem - 89 GL
  Historical mailing list - Chris Agh
  Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:25:06 -0800
  What about the cold start valve? I don't think the water-cooled digifants don't have this valve as I didn't find...
• Re: VW approved engine conversion kit
  Historical mailing list - P.B.
  Wed, 12 May 1999 08:32:21 -0700
  The engine is gas powered, water cooled. The engine is very similar to the engine you notate for the 2.0 8V G/J...
• Re: 2.2L EuroCars Engine vs 2.1l Boston Engine
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:44:34 -0700
  ...which one? > > Eurocars: > > www.eurocars.bz > > 2.2 liter water cooled 115Hp of torque Engine > $3500 > > > Boston Engine: > > http://www.bostonengine.com > > 2.1...
• Re: new low milage gas
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 16 Jun 1996 17:21:22 -0700
  ...I recieved a phone call from a person traveling from Colorado and he was worried he had an engine problem, his mileage had gone...
• Re: Some potentially stupid questions
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:10:14 -0400
  ...On the water cooled ones, not really. No idea on the antenna. Take used antifreeze to your local autoparts store. They should take it...
• Re: Transmission gross vehicle weight capacity
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:17:04 -0700
  ...The brakes are marginal even without an extra load, so don't follow too close, and use engine breaking when descending hills. The engine...
• Trip Report/Questions
  Historical mailing list - victor cooke
  Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:03:11 -0700
  ...that time? Seems to me that air cooled engines burn more oil than water cooled ones. The other proplem I had was with the...
• 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...
• Re: No Water here, Sir! Was: 'nasty' rumor!
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:25:09 MST
  ...No heat, no cool are problems that a water-cooled engine fix, but at what cost? Admittedly my '57 is more of a toy...
• "jet engine" cooling fan
  Historical mailing list - Rob Campbell
  Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:05:27 -0800
  As pertains to water-cooled (1987) vanagon: I've heard reference to the cooling stage where the "jet engine" fan comes on (quite loudly...
• Re: Replacement fuel tank question
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:19:33 -0300
  ...On 20-Jul-2014, at 20:50, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > No, and blame Volkswagen for introducing the vanagon with the obsolete air > cooled engine...
• Re: 79 Water-cooled Bus?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 6 Jun 1997 01:56:23 -0400 (EDT)
  ...They used the old '79 & earlier bus body and had a radiator stuck on front and a watercooled rabbit engine in the back. chris
• Re: Mexican Busses (I made a bit LONG)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Mar 96 11:08:00 +0100
  ...Yes, why? lets look at it, i like these things :) A water cooled boxer engine is nothing new, Porsche, Alfa Romeo, Subaru, Jensen and...
• Timing
  Historical mailing list - Peter Zendzian
  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:46:23 -1000
  ...I have an 83.5 Vanagon with 1.9 water-cooled engine code "DH". According to the Bentley manual, (my engine code is not...
• open your eyes
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:05:19 -0500 (EST)
  ...Valient efforts by a few to keep them alive thru engine transplants generally get short shrift from their peers. Over the last couple of...
• Head gasket FIX!!!
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Sat, 12 Jul 97 20:29:00 -0500
  ...Hey, sounds like Vanagon engine compartments. What air flow? VW has on water cooled cars put in either an afterrun fan thermo switch OR...
• Syncro exhaust (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:19:39 -0400
  ...We are currently prototyping for the water-cooled models, including Syncro. Air cooled Vanagon systems should follow within two months of this. We expect...
• Re: Syncro Doka on eBay - VIN?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:22:36 -0800
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• Re: Newbie WANTS an H2O Westfalia
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 30 Jun 1997 01:15:22 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Mid year In 83 VW introduced the "wasserboxer" flat four watercooled engine. This 1.9 liter, 82 HP engine powered all USA Vanagons from...
• Re: !985 Vanagon radiator leak.
  Historical mailing list - Marion Lathem
  Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:02:19 -0500
  ...I have it now, and have already spent $600 for an engine, that came really dear... so a radiator now is just not possible...
• Re: Cool modified DOKA
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:10:07 -0700
  ...I saw an 88 Volvo 740 turbo with water cooled bearings in a junk yard today - perhaps your engine would like a mild boost...
• Re: digijet timing
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:29:05 -0500
  ...10) this is only for water cooled, air cooled will have to stay near the stock setting, maybe cheat a few degrees of advance...
• Re: buses in movies
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:43:04 -0800 (PST)
  ...further descriptions), and this red > Mexican VW Bus, complete with water cooled engine (cause it had this great > big radiator grill up front!), decides...
• Re: Syncro in York, PA
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mancuso
  Wed, 7 May 97 09:10:08 -0400
  ...However, they hate water cooled VWs, so they may be willing to part with it for less. They also have a Split camper, but...
• How do you replace the electical switch on the bottom of the lock cylinder?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:23:41 -0800
  ...6Z3 Internet http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization
• Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:03:53 -0500
  ...http://theautobahnsociety.com/Engine_main.htm I offer this quote: "There is a better way... in fact VW had the right idea and was...
• Porsche water cooling (was Re: longivity of coversion engines)
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:03:40 -0800
  ...Porsche had problems with emissions, particularly cold-start emissions, because air-cooled engines run "loose" before everything expands to its proper tolerance. New air...
• Re: Westy Winter Camping Suggestions..
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:15:12 -0400
  ...Westy Winter Camping Suggestions.. > I've often wondered why turbo's engines don't have a pump to circulate the > oil through the turbo...
• Re: Florida lemons
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 24 Aug 94 6:30:24 PDT
  ...mounted engine and front wheel drive. Now why did they have to go and do that? If they had put a water cooled inline...
• '83 Westfalia or not
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 Nov 1995 12:19:35 -0500
  ...I've told them to go either air-cooled Vanagon or post '86 because of the bigger engine and power steering. But more than...
• Re: 85 Vanagon - should I buy
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:05:09 -0700
  ---Art McGinn <amcginn@ARACHNID.MICROWEB.COM> wrote: > > I personally would run, not walk, from a water cooled engine since they > have a terrible history...
• vanagon syndrome plus poor gass economy
  Historical mailing list - Ellen Robey
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:08:40 -0400
  ...She's an 86, 2.1 water cooled. so, i am experiencing the intermittent loss of power while driving, she occasionaly dies coming to...
• Re: Golf Syncro ? ? ?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 29 Nov 1996 06:50:30 +0000
  ...It was a Europe only model, which came with different floorpan and (usually) a 2.0 16v engine with supercharger. You may have seen...
• Re: Last Word in Head Gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Dan Fleming
  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:02:29 -0800
  ...Let's face it, VW got into the water-cooled arena late. My grandpa uesd to look at his 49 chevy pickup (expected engine...
• Re: Mazda RX-7 oil cooler into the Vanagon 1.9 turbodiesel
  Historical mailing list - karl
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:03:12 -0400
  ...the engine oil! The turbodiesel oil temps climb rapidly when driving the Syncro loaded down over mountain passes..... Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: EMZ <vw4x4...
• Re: won't start
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:08:27 -0600
  ...6) close throttle 7) Have fire extinguisher handy and ready 8) start engine If it starts and runs for a few seconds, you have...
• Re: Dual Webbers on a 2.1 water cooler
  Historical mailing list - Bergin, Richard
  Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:57:50 -0700
  ...Mechanic (a) I have never done a water cooler conversion, but the air-cooled engines in vans, bugs and older porches have seen a...
• Re: amusing, perhaps intriguing ECU auction
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:39:50 -0800
  ...sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to the large quantity of email...
• FS: 2 w/c Vanagon L's
  Historical mailing list - Marcus Elia
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:32:44 -0500
  ...blue/white (non-factory paint): -about 170 000 km -lots of oil caked on bottom of engine -some coolant hoses replaced with non-spec...
• Re: regarding head gasket failures on water cooled engs....
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:55:10 -0700
  Larry, the WBX engine doesn't require re-torque of the head bolts due to it's design. BTW, that engine I did probably...
• Off topic - Aircraft Engine
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:03:21 -0500
  ...This engine had spark plugs at both ends, and you could shut down one bank of plugs and save fuel. It was water cooled...
• Early Instrument Cluster Difference Questions + PICS
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:36:07 -0700
  ...Just compiling info for any other people converting an air cooled to water cooled. Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil...
• Re: "boxer" motors
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:46:42 -0600
  ...Stan Wilder On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:59:35 -0800 mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> writes: > Naw, only one water cooled boxer engine...
• Re: I need intercooler fan ideas!
  Historical mailing list - Don in Phoenix
  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:39:29 -0700
  ...How about a water-cooled motorcycle radiator fan? They need to be small (not much room on a motorcycle) and they do move quite...
• Re: What does my battery light mean?
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:54:36 -0700
  ...the > engine", but that sounds pretty typical of every VW > I've ever owned. Though my experience is limited to > water-cooled models in...
• Re: Hella H4 xenon blue 100/80w bulbs
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:19:54 -0800
  ...http://www.fastforward.ca Email sales@fastforward.ca - Engine Conversions and Accessories for classic water-cooled Volkswagens - Electrical harness fabrication and customization Due to...
• Oil pressure explain!
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:32:28 -0500
  ...Heads are water cooled (because it's where the hottest point of the engine is and they don't really need oil, oil is...
• Re: Engine Conversions
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:45:57 -0800
  ...On 3/3/08, Peter Young <pyjme@aol.com> wrote: > All of this talk about engine conversion options - Tiico, Jetta engines, > inline 4's...