You would also need an air cooled transaxle as the air and water cooled
units are not interchangeable.

Scott Walker
Augusta, GA
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brodbeck" <gull@GULL.US>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Aircooled engine in Watercooled vanagon

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Mike Noble wrote:
>
> > What is required to convert a watercooled vanagon to aircooled (assuming
the
> > running aircooled engine is available).  It seems a little too easy to
just
> > remove the watercooled engine and associated parts and put in the
aircooled
> > engine.
>
> The trick is you'll need a "complete" engine, including all the tinware
> and fuel injection parts.  Most engines are not sold this way, so you'd
> probably need a donor aircooled van to take the stuff out of.  You'll also
> need the exhaust and all the heater parts; they're different for obvious
> reasons.  There's probably other stuff I'm not thinking of, but those are
> the first obstacles you'll have to overcome.
>
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> '82 Diesel Westfalia
> '94 Honda Civic Si
>
>