Duh.  I never said use a VW tranny.  I said:

"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."

Damn!  This is painfull.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Ben T
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:28 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Engine Conversion Transmissions

In a message dated 1/14/03 2:45:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, jeff@TSSGI.COM
writes:

<< Perhaps you missed my point... the gear assembly in the transmission had
 been replaced with a Hewland gear assembly.  Hewland is well known for
their
 strength and reliability. >>

Having a VW case doesn't make it a VW tranny.

BenT