I had a look at the W8 engine in a Passat yesterday. Man is that thing ever
shoehorned in there. The cooling fan is literally less than 2.5 inches from
the pulleys and serpentine belts. The battery lives up under the leaf-guard
plastic where I'd assume the wiper motors are (Not that you can see
anything in there). The shiny aluminum intake manifold top pretty much
fills out the exact proportions of the underside of the hood. It sure
sounded purdy idling and reving.
Whomever is the first to successfully transplant one of these into a
vanagon will be my idol until someone gets a W12 into one.
Have a good Friday and weekend, everyone.