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Subject:Re: Boxster motor in Vanagon
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:56:37 +1200

>Has anyone installed a Boxter motor in a vanagon.......it seems the right
>candidate ( other than cost) for a transplant into
>the Van.......no turbo hardware, flat 6 could fit neatly under decklid,
>plenty of torque, maybe even add the Boster trans and
>switch the ring and pinion to the other side.......I know I saw that some
>German salvage yard guys installed a water cooled 911 motor into a
>van....never really saw the finished product.........the svx....too tight,
>i4's...hmm, i5'sHMM!

A Boxster engine would certainly fit. Less power than an SVX, though,
far too expensive and less exclusive. It would bolt straight to the
VW trans, but you'd need a KEP adaptor flywheel, a clutch and
possibly starter.
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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