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Subject:Re: Kinda-Friday has anyone built a diesel boxer?
From:Mike Miller
Date:Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:37:49 -0800

Aircraft engine recently released is this.

Mike

\On 11/29/02 1:57 AM, "Barry E. Muller" <bmuller@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU> wrote:

> I though about this either after a few beers _or_ early one morning on my
> way to work (no-this wasn't the same time - we have an active
> fitness-for-duty program!).
>
> Any rate, I'm sure the answer is "OF course - no!", probably due to
> excellent technical reasons such as the boxer config is meant to be as light
> as possible and wouldn't hold up to the pressuers a diesel generates.
>
> But I have to naively ask, because such an engine would probably easily fit
> under the vanagon engine lid plus other advantages from the engine-swap
> standpoint.
>
> tx,
>
> bem-stem
>