---- Original Message ----
From: warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Kinda-Friday has anyone built a diesel boxer?
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:40:38 -0800

>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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Hi Robert,
Let me ask a common question that would probably interest many on the
List.  What were the reaction of the authorities when they learned
that the engine is not diesel anymore, and did you have to do
anything to make it official?
Zoltan