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• Re: Air intake elbow
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:31:26 -0400
  ...I think you're looking for "air intake sleeve," P/N 025129627L.
• Re: Intake question
  Historical mailing list - Brent Taylor
  Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:26:45 -0700
  ...I can report that it makes a noticeable difference at highway speeds to have this intake muffling on a Diesel. As an alternative, even...
• Re: WBX big valve heads and flow bench results
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:27:59 EDT
  ...Warnings about polishing intakes: http://www.marlinmedia.com/pvt/ZJ/tech/intake-porting.html Basic guide to basic porting http://www.sa-motorsports.com...
• Re: AFM 1.9l/2.1l help?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:22:20 EDT
  If you wanted to buy the 2.1l AFM and the 2.1l Air Intake Boot at the same time then you could get...
• Re: Nasty intake pics
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 29 May 2009 14:09:48 -0700
  ...Nasty intake pics I was expecting intake ports blocked about 80 % by dark black crud from you description, but ........sure there's a coating...
• Irregular Stove Flame
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shane
  Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:13:13 -0500
  ...The suggestion was that the air intake for that grill was blocked by some foreign matter, and that cleaning out the intake should give...
• Re: port matching intake manifolds to heads
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0500
  ...port matching intake manifolds to heads mmmm.........i'm looking at some heads I took off a 1.9, and the relief, or pocket...
• Re: intake air temps, was:Re: Oil Buzzer advice
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:13:30 -0700
  thanks Mark for sharing your observation regarding intake air temp... I have the 10Cent oil cooler on both my Syncro and Carat. When install...
• Installing inline4 firewall clearance Q
  Historical mailing list - Carolyn Kitzmann
  Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:15:07 -0500
  ...My question is how much does the intake interfere with the driverside firewall? I've seen alot of stuff saying or showing cuts made...
• Vent intake off when?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:26:09 +1200
  ...How do you turn the air intake off, so that no air is entering the ventilation system from outside the vehicle? Andrew
• Re: Carb conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:27:13 -0700
  Hi Mark, The kit for the watercooled-carb-conversion does not come with an intake manifold, as it reuses the stock VW one. On...
• Re: Reducing exhaust heat extends the life of water hoses.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Sat, 14 Jul 2001 09:35:50 -0400
  ...fresh air to the engine compartment and to the air intake manifolds are a great way to keep the intake system cool I used...
• WTB: Syncro intake boot
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:05:09 -0400
  I need a Syncro intake boot that goes between the air filter housing and the water separator. It looks like this: http://www.gowesty...
• Intake manifold gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:36:11 -0700
  Just received a new pair of air intake manifold gaskets from Vanagain (thanks Ken.) Pretty chunky gaskets I must add. Do these gaskets require...
• Re: Cooling Intake Air?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:45:12 -0400
  > With all the talk of oil temps (ok, I started it : )), I was >thinking of ways to try and keep the intake air cool...
• Re: [Syncro] Propex Furnace Install Question
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:31:12 -0500
  On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Forhan, Thomas wrote: > Air intake is a safety issue: you definitely want to get the fresh intake > air from...
• Re: port matching intake manifolds to heads
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:56:19 -0800
  ...My intake manifold > openings are smaller than the gasket openings (gasket between the intake > manifolds and the heads) which have openings that are slightly...
• Re: Exhaust & intake valve installation question-Intake scraper part #
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:09:04 -0500
  ...Exhaust & intake valve instalation question Denis, only one of my heads had the seal washers on the intake valve, but I could not find...
• Re: 82 diesel air intake elbow
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:22:37 -0400
  ...55, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote: > > Here ya go Neil. > https://shufti.blog/2020/02/23/vanagon-82-diesel-air-intake-elbow/ > > Alistair
• Duct tape over air intake
  Historical mailing list - Bill Collins
  Sat, 10 May 1997 20:30:05 -0400
  I just removed the grill on my '84 westy and found that the PO had covered what appears to be the fresh air intake...
• Air intake elbow; was Re: Clutch Chatter...
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Soiney
  Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:55:01 -0600
  Hi all I've used GE silicone to seal small cracks in air intake boots, with limited success. The stuff doesn't stick to...
• Re: Air Filter Intake Assembly
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 10 May 1997 13:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
  ...The air intake up the body panel eliminates that problem... The Syncro even claims there is a snorkle attached that allows intake air to...
• Re: Exhaust Design
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:44:38 -0800
  Scott is kinda right here...improving the exhaust without improving the intake is unlikely to be very effective. Motors are " integrated systems" not just...
• Intake gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Vince Jahn
  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:10:30 -0700
  Howdy, I just purchased a Victor Reins engine gasket set and noticed that there is both a thick and thin size intake manifold gasket...
• Re: 1.9L WBX Intake Boot
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:14:46 -0800
  ...1.9L WBX Intake Boot I need to replace the cracked intake boot on my van. Does anybody have one for sale? -John '85...
• Re: Exhaust Design
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:22:17 -0500
  ...swooping' cast > aluminum intake runners.........one nice casting. > They squeazed in a little more intake runner length by curving the intake > runners up some...
• Re: Stupid Question...... Gasket between AFM and airbox. 1.9 wbx
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:15:41 -0700
  ...fwiw, air that leaks in, downstream from the throttle plate is called 'air intake leak' , or intake manifold leak.' Air that leaks in upstream...
• Re: 2.1 L Wasserboxer Rebuild/ New air intake system
  Historical mailing list - David Katsuki
  Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:10:57 -0400
  ...Dave 87 Wolfsburg 90 Westfalia At 11:46 AM 10/22/98 -0500, Dave wrote: > Today I purchased a Clean Air Act air intake...
• Re: Strange oil deposit on s-tube from air filter box to intake
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:34:22 -0700
  ...I think it comes from the crankcase breather tower and/or the short hose leading from it to the air intake hose to be...
• Re: '87 GL passenger van parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:45:53 -0600
  Birkenfeld Jeff wrote: > engine components like >heads-rockers-intake-throttle body intake boot are up for grabs, > Do you have an Idle Stabilizer Valve...
• Re: air intake boot repair
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 6 Sep 2006 13:23:28 EDT
  ...i used it to repair a hole in the intake boot on a ford van last year, and its held up well. just make...
• Re: digifant injection
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:21:45 -0700
  things are happening fast enough, that it doesn't matter 'too much ' that each injector opening period isn't timed with the intake valve...
• Re: Fwd: air intake snorkel hose
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:13:13 -0400
  ...That said, my air intake is inside the >pillar, because it is used to cool an external oil cooler. For that >purpose, I can...
• Vanagain Rant/New Intake Boot
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:04:03 EDT
  A couple weeks ago that stinky, rotten Ken Wilford posted a special on 1.9L intake boots. I quickly ordered one and in typical...
• Re: An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions!
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:34:17 -0700
  hey Alistair I'd speculated that some kind of hybrid using a cutndown ABA lower plenum and counterflow intake might work. might...... ;) I got...
• Air intake ducting
  Historical mailing list - Robert Clemmer
  Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:45:49 -0500
  Anyone have a source for the flexible air duct that runs up the right rear pillar from the air box to the air intake...
• Re: Fwd: air intake snorkel hose
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:06:12 -0600
  "I didn't know the stock intakes went up the pillar." The metal tabs that hold the plastic snorkel device in place, are at...
• Re: 85 westi engine questions
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:00:49 +0300
  ...KEP Subaru 2.2 conversion does not need any deck lid modification if you use his air intake manifold. The stock Subaru air intake...
• turbo diesel vanagon/quantum air intake how to
  Historical mailing list - michael johnson
  Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:47:49 -0700
  Anyone done the Quantum turbo diesel into the vanagon? Curious of how others have fabricated their air filter intake setup. Any suggestions ??? Can I...
• removing intake manifold 2.1L
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:19:18 -0400
  Volks, What's the best way of getting at that front bolt that holds the intake manifold on? It's kind of obscured by...
• intake manifold hose
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:44:16 -0500
  Looking things over in the engine compartment, I noted that one of the short rubber hoses on the intake manifold has some surface cracks...
• Re: Intake air flow, improvement possible?
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:15:05 -0800
  ...The best way to minimize resistance is to have a HUGE STRAIGHT PIPE all the way from filter to intake valve, but the limitations...
• Re: Fwd: air intake snorkel hose
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:51:44 -0700
  ...Mark David Beierl wrote: > > All Vanagons as they come from the factory take intake air from the > right-side pillar vent. Syncros have a...
• Re: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Slevin
  Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:27:14 -0700
  ...just one > of the choices. > > I installed the entire 2.1 intake system ... from snorkel in the D pillar > to the intake runners and...
• Re: lifters for new engine?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:39:08 -0500
  ...It has the same profile on both the intake AND exhaust. Combined with the light weight (used lighter rockers to avoid using heavier springs...
• Re: Cold Air Intake
  Historical mailing list - Jack Reynaert
  Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:24:28 -0400
  ...Cold Air Intake With what seems to be the easiest horsepower gain, I continuously wonder and search for a good cold air/direct air...
• Re: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:02:21 -0400
  Brendan Slevin wrote: > I am wondering if I should use the 1.9 harness/FI system with the 2.1 intake > or gut the...
• Anyone have an AIR INTAKE SLEEVE??
  Historical mailing list - Chad G
  Wed, 30 May 2001 17:02:29 -0400
  I need an air intake sleeve for an 85GL ASAP!!!!!!!!! part number is 025 129 967A preferably in used condition (but with no holes...
• Re: Intake hose 87 2.1 a/t
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:42:35 -0500
  ...Mike Houlton, Maine Jeff Clayman wrote: > Hi, > > All my intake hose are bad from the air filter forward. Are there part numbers for these...
• More Pics in my Web (Sunroof, Air intake etc.)
  Historical mailing list - Jose Rivero
  Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:35:22 +0000
  Hello Installation of (Air intake system) MSDS Sticker of Tierra del Fuego (a friend brought it to me that have traveled for 3 months...
• Replacement Intake Runner needed 2.1 Digifant
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:18:59 -0500
  ...Since I spent the better part of the weekend trying to drill out my snapped bolt in the left intake runner, I thought a...
• Re: Cold Air Intake
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 29 Mar 2015 09:52:31 -0400
  ...Cold Air Intake With what seems to be the easiest horsepower gain, I continuously wonder and search for a good cold air/direct air...
• intake gasket
  Historical mailing list - BM2AM
  Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:08:26 EDT
  ...Any suggestions on what to use or what not to use on the intake to head gaskets?Should I just put on the new...
• WTB: Syncro intake Boot
  Historical mailing list - SyncroWesty
  Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:07:10 -0700
  ...the $25 the dealer wants? http://home.attbi.com/~cz137/Syncro/IntakeBoot.JPG I believe it is a Syncro only part. Located between the...
• Re: Intake air flow, improvement possible?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:04:21 -0600
  ...Intake air flow, improvement possible? Depending on the type of engine and valving and a few other points, increasing air intake does improve response...
• Re: Bostig intake hose
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 3 Aug 2014 14:08:09 -0700
  I didn't read this whole thread but it sounds like we're looking to plumb an intake? This may be silly but in...
• Re: Fiberboard "wall" at air intake snorkle missing
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:57:46 -0400
  ...to seal off the air >intake channel / vent area and has the hole in it that the intake snorkle >passes thru. > >I would assume...
• The Head is Off, Assume Cracked?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Smith
  Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:45:20 -0400
  ...The intake ports revealed an oddity. The rear (good) intake port looked about as expected, clean metal with a light oily sheen. The front...
• Re: Oil in intake air distributor (2.1L)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:28:15 -0500
  Excess oil in the air intake is usually caused by excessive blow-by from the pistons. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: JLDilworth <JLDilworth@AOL.COM...
• WTB: 1.9L WBX Intake Boot
  Historical mailing list - J. Harvey
  Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:53:25 -0800
  I need to replace the cracked intake boot on my van. Does anybody have one for sale? -John '85 Silver Sunroof '91 GTi 2...