>Are the diesel engines from the early '80s based
>  > on a Type 4 gas engine?

No, they are Golf engines. VW never produced an aircooled diesel,
though a prototype diesel Beetle engine WAS made in the 60s, and
someone in the States has made a replica, converting a gas Bug engine
to diesel.

You COULD try converting a Type 4 engine to diesel, but it'd be abig
job, and with a 3-mainbearing crank I doubt it would last very long
(flexing under compression loads) would chew-out the center bearing.

>Are there other things besides the fuel injection
>  > that would need to be retrofitted into another car to make this work?

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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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