>I am not an air cooled fan, I have a watercooled vanagon and think
>it's superior to the air heads. But in response to Ken about why
>they stopped making the air cooled engines, I think they just did
>not want to bother to improve them. How come Porche never had a
>problem with emissions, and they never had a problem with making
>Horspower. I'll tell you I wish that VW had developed a 3.0L 6
>waterboxer for the vanagon, I't would of been ideal.

Oettinger made a 3.2liter and 3.7 (180hp, 226 ft/lb) stretched
(6-cylinder) versions of the VW wasserboxer. They were very
expensive. Though they performed well, they had all of the
reliability problems of their VW design.
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut