Ben, dude,
just put down the magazines and stop what you're doing. Sometimes friends
need to do an "intervention" when we see our other friends going down the
path of addiction.

It starts with a little notion, maybe from reading an article or maybe from
eating anchovie pizza before going to bed (in my case, I decided I need to
cut an Audi 4000cs quattro in half, cut 32 cm out of the wheelbase, graft on
the back of an Audi Coupe GT, add a 5kt motor, fender flares, and then I
would have a homemade Sport Q. Thankfully, I don't have the time or
resources--right now). Then you start to think about your project instead of
working, and your productivity suffers. Then you start searching the
classifieds, ebay and the junkyards. Then you start accumulating parts.
Before you know it, you have dropped some serious coin and your neighors
think you are a lunatic. And assuming the project actually works out, all
you'll have to show for it is a pushrod boxer engine with holes in the
pistons because you cranked up the boost too far.

We have seen this sickness afflict many friends on the list (don't want to
mention any names here, but an SVX ENGINE AND A PORSCHE TRANNY PROJECT comes
to mind, Andrew). Dude, just use your Passat/Audi mafia wheel source and get
a 1.8T I4 engine cheap and put it in your diesel/GTI van.

On the other hand, maybe you should just do it, cause it would be cool and
I'd like to see it.

Daniel Snow
PhD Student
UC Berkeley

'82 Vanagon Diesel
'78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped
'01 Xootr Scooter

>From: Ben T <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: ever heard of a turbo aircooled type 4 engined vanagon?
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:12:15 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/12/01 1:56:34 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes:
>
><< No, but turboed Type 4 engines aren't unknown. >>
>
>  Yeah, I've seen them. But the Callaway installation looks factory on the
>Vanagon.
>
>BenT

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