The engine lid may very well be higher in SA, but they're now putting in 2.6
liter 5 cylinder engines in with 100kW of power and 200Nm of torque - the
inline 4 is used for SA engines that were wasserboxers - (no ones going to
put in an inline-4 2.0 liter to replace a 2.6 liter 5 cylinder are they?)
The tiico does not need a raised engine lid. What it needs is certification
for california smog - and people who can afford to buy it.

>From: =David-M= <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
>
> > The comment is not invalid -
> > Yeah the
> >bus in SA has some differences but no one has ever posted that those
> >differences have limited their ability to put in any given engine or
> >transmission.
> >
>INCORRECT. There was some discussion that the engine lid in the SA
>Vanagon was higher (and who knows what else is different). Thus because
>an engine will fit in a SA Vanagon does NOT necessarily mean it will fit
>in a US Vanagon.
>Does the SA Vanagon have EXACTLY THE SAME emission controls as the US
>Vanagon? If not, is it not possible those may conflict with an SA
>engine?

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