It was a Class 1 / Unlimited off-road buggy.  I can guarantee that the
amount of abuse delivered to that tranny over the course of several Baja
500's & 1000's was quite a bit more than will be delivered by a Vanagon
regardless of the driver.

It's a bit pricey though...

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: BenTbtstr8@aol.com [mailto:BenTbtstr8@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:05 PM
To: jeff@tssgi.com; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Engine Conversion Transmissions

In a message dated 1/14/03 12:54:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, jeff@TSSGI.COM
writes:

<< I'm not sure if they're available for Vanagon trannies, but I used
Hewland
 gears in a '79 VW 090 transmission hooked up to a 3.0 liter 911 engine in
my
 race car for years and never had a transmission related failure.  Worth
 looking into. >>

Jeff,

The question I would ask you is what car did you have that engine
transmission combination in? Since you said race "car", I am assuming it is
something that weighs much less than a Vanagon or worse a Westy. I plain
vanilla air-cooled bug weighs in at about 2400 lbs. (probably). A Vanagon
can
weigh in at 4200-5600 lbs. That's a huge difference that needs to be
factored
in when considering options such as this.

BenT
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