It seems to me that you may not be aware that VW made a Diesel engine for the Vanagon, a 1.6 .newer more powerful choices are turbo diesels-1.9. My Vanagon originally was Diesel powered, or should I say underpowered-at 50 HP that was less than my 64 Bus had. Now running a 95 Golf gasoline 115 hp.

Robert  

1982 Westfalia

----- Original Message -----
Wrom: SKPNKMBIPBARHDM
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 2:49 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Kinda-Friday has anyone built a diesel boxer?

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,

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