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Subject:Re: Diesel Power
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:47:38 +1200

>>You could go the VW TDi or TD route. Or look at an alternative diesel
>>engine, but realize that you'd have to have a flywheel & adaptor
>>plate custom-fabricated.
>
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>
>Into a wasserboxer? I think you just need the flywheel and
>bellhousing (flywheel/clutch housing) from a diesel transaxle. I
>thought only the motor mount bracketing need to be customized.
>
>Am I wrong about this?

I don't know about the VW 1.9 diesel; this may well fit the van trans
& clutch. But other manufacturers' engineds won't, and if you can't
get a kit from KEP you'll have to get one custom-made. I've done this
with a 5.4 Chev engine on a Toyota 5-speed and a 3.6 Toyota V8 on an
091 VW trans.
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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