It would all depend on if you were oriented towards horsepower or torque.
Plenty of horsepower can be had from the 8v 2.0l. AFAIK, the Tiico kit is
only one that that offers an upgrade with their kit. This isnt to say that
you need the Tiico upgrade kit. All kinds of things can be changed and
manipulated to gain more power out of the gas 2.0l engine.

If you are looking for torque then the TDI is the best bet. This can also be
chipped, IC'd and lots of other goodies to gain more torque/hp.

It all comes down to two things.

What are you going to be using the van for.

and

Speed costs money; how fast do you want to go?

Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.522.5503
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA

>From: shawn feller <rsfeller@CARBONCOW.COM>
>Reply-To: shawn feller <rsfeller@CARBONCOW.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: engine conversion question...
>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:22:41 -0400
>
>I'm not considering a conversion but have been reading many kits and
>options. Everyone talks about how much torque is in the slow 1.9L and
>2.1L Vw engines and there are many reasons to want a better (bigger)
>engine. How can a VW jetta 2.0 engine be a solution? Our 2000 Vw jetta
>engine is a high revving noisy powerless solution. There is no low end
>torque and it doesn't even boogie until you get over 3000rpm.
>
>Are the conversion engines geared, camed, injected and managed different
>to the Vanagon's needs?
>
>Shawn Feller
>www.carboncow.com <http://www.carboncow.com/>
>
>
>
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