On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Eric Zeno wrote:

>      This is interesting.  Someone a while ago said that the Tiico head was
> different than the US inline 4 Cyl.  Obviously this is true.  All inline
> US 4 cly. engines except the diesel are non-interference engines, to the best
> of my knowledge.  I'm not sure about the newer 2.0L block.
>                                                                  Eric

Eric,
An exception to the non-interference rules are the 1.8L and 2.0L 16v
engines, 1986-1992(?) Scirocco and GTI.   10:1 compression on those, too.

However, I don't think the 16v was ever a serious consideration for Vanagon
engine conversions.  Not torquey enough (at least my Scirocco doesn't seem
to be) in the lower RPM ranges.

ian Butler / ian@bluemoon.hplx.net
'88 Scirocco 16v, '87 Syncro GL