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Subject:Re: Some Engine Conversions (fomerly "TO WATERBOXER OR NOT"??)
From:David Marshall
Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:15:40 -0800

When are we going to see a kit - as soon as I get a customer who wants to
install a VR6 at our shop - the adapter plates arn't the problem, it just
designing a good motor mount system that won't vibrate the van to pieces
and is ecomomic to make - the VR6 should proove interesting!  The eventual
plan for our Westfalia is to prototype a VR6 kit (yes, the deck lid will
have to be modified!) and after it is refined send it to market - this
process took almost two years with the inline four kit and it is still an
ongoing process to some degree!  Just to settle some of the "exhausting"
questions out there - we will have an exhaust system that uses the stock
Vanagon muffler and cat by the late spring / early summer that will work
with our kit (yahoo!).  Lots of experimentation to do with deciding on
which exhuast manifold to use as there are so many choices out there.  The
88 thru 92 Golf / Jetta "PF" looks like the canidate though!

So lots of tricks up my sleave, just a little too cold to work on them at
this moment!

At 06:29 AM 12/01/2000 EST, Jerry Granito wrote:
><<<- Get a VR6 you'll have more fun and save money.>>>
>
>So David....when we gonna see that VR6 kit?!!!

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