At 09:59 AM 5/18/2001, Terry Kay wrote:
>Did you know , or are you aware that Chevrolet, installed VW flat 4's
>into their Vega's in the late 70's?

You mean inline fours, right?

The Dodge/Plymouth Omni/Horizon used a VW block when it came out in
'78.  Horrible car, all sorts of classic problems including shaking the
alternator off its mounts and other stuff too awful to mention (well...left
inner CV joint, new distributor every 50k miles, ECU uncovered and mounted
in the induction stream so it got wet and quit working, carburetor froze in
winter and the engine would race out of control on starting, carburetor
float mounting ears *wore through* from vibration, car preferred to travel
back-to-front, all plastic trim including steering wheel shrank 10% in
length, statistically worst repair record of any car on the road at the
time, at least in sufficient numbers for CU to take notice.  Excellent
paint, and the first car I'd had that I could drive for eight hours without
a cramp in my foot).  Anyway...

...wait for it...

A lot of the engine problems went away when they switched to a Renault
block!  (But it was still a horrible car.)

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"