If you need a heart transplant why get a baboon heart
when you can get a real thing?(human heart) Volkswagen
baby!!

Phil

--- Marshall <mjruskin@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> Hi Volks:
>
> My question is, other than possible height issues
> (too tall for the engine
> lid) - why are American engines not used more widely
> in swaps?
>
> American engines have so much power, and are so
> cheap. Big engines for $350
> available in every state and community.
>
> I know that Kennedy Engineering makes transmition
> adapter plates for them -
> so at least they can be linked into the drivetrain.
>
> Parts are available everywhere. And if the lid needs
> to have a mod to it to
> cover the engine - that's so easy to accomplish, and
> you could just make the
> mattress thinner over that area.
>
> Comments?
>
> Marshall Ruskin
> 84 Westy - (BTW: It's amazing how well a bottle of
> gas-line anti-freeze can
> cure bucking/no-start  problems in spring)
> I

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