>I think you miss my point. A type 1 aircooled in a Beetle would go for
>this sort of distance too, (my 74 has done 300,000km which is 180,000
>miles and is still going fine). My point was that if you put that same
>engine into a Van it doesn't last well at all. I'm concerned that we
>don't really know how well the I4s or Subarus are going to go in an
>application for which they were never intended. It's promising that
>there is one report of an I4 doing 100,000, but for me at least, the
>jury is still out until I hear some more evidence of these engines doing
>well in the long term.

The Subaru engines in question are not small low-powered engines.
They also rev high and are designed to do so all day utterly
reliably; treat a low-revving US V8 or Bug engine, with their
primitive metallurgy, this way and it'll soon blow.
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Andrew Grebneff
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<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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