>I contacted Clarks Corvair parts yesterday and got a very prompt reply
>that was depressing :)
>
>They said that their engine swap kits worked on 68 to 79 busses, but
>they have nothing for vanagons. I looked at their website briefly and
>they inferred that they modify their engines for such swaps, to turn in
>the other direction (the right way for VW), which I found fascinating.
>
>They don't know what VW did differently when they went to the vanagon,
>so they didn't expect that their kits would work.
>
>A giant "awww rats" from this part of the valley.
>
>John

That's pretty scarey. Not a whole lot of difference between a 79(bus) 1.8
Aircooled and an 80 (vanagon) 2.0 Aircooled. Mounting brackets?
Transmission? I would think other than modifying the length of the input
shaft from the transmission and a thousand other minor details, it would
drop right in. Of course, thinking about pulling out a 20 year old engine
(that there are lots of spares of) and putting in a 35 year old engine that
there aren't many left of... doesn't compute. And then having to change the
camshaft anyhowz... If you're gonna do a swap....

Perhaps "RoadCow" is the way you want to go.

Just my opinion,
tim o'brien

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