Hi Barry,

It might delight you to know that Diesel boxermotors have been made in
Germany in their thousands for decades.

They were made by the Deutz company.  They came in two, four and
six-cylinder configurations and were used in many applications, from trucks
and buses to heavy construction plant and stationary industrial use.

The big bonus for VW fans is that the engines were air cooled, with finned
cylinders that were very reminiscent of a VW air cooled motor.

Alas, Deutz no longer make boxermotors but some air-cooled in-line motors
are still made for some purposes.

The Deutz web site is in German and English:

http://www.deutz.de/

Best regards,

Tony

('84 Vanagon Reimo, soon to be replaced by '90 Vanagon CL 1.6 TD)

---------- Original Message ----------

Date:    Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:57:14 -0500
From:    "Barry E. Muller" <bmuller@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU>
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,

bem-stem

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