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Subject:Re: 82 Diesel Vanagon Engine Replacement - I'm looking at the 1.9 NA
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Sat, 27 Apr 2002 20:04:33 +1200

>  >From:    Jon Sykes <jon.sykes@PS.GE.COM>
>>Anyone else done this conversion?  This is a 75 HP engine - a decent
>improvement over the stock 48.

Does VW put the chambers in the diesel piston crowns or the heads? If
in the heads, you will have massive overcompression using 1.6 heads
on the 1.9.
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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