I have seen a few mods using carbed engines try to make it through air here
in colorado.  They usually fail or only pass after extensive tuning work.

The 1.8 has a newer injected version but it doesn�t meet the power of the
2.2 or the ease of install either.

jimt

On 3/4/05 13:41, "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU> wrote:

> i'm no subaru expert but i can say this when i lived out in montana there
> was a guy that made most of his living doing subaru swaps in bays and
> vanagons.  this is way before they became popular, back in about 1995.
> anyhow i think he was using the 1.8, the ones he used were models
> with carbs.  the 84 vanagon that i bought my spare 1.9 from received one
> of these conversions.
> 
> jonathan
> 
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Sam Walters wrote:
> 
>> On that Subaru engine:  Like the sellers Subaru, the Vanagon conversion
>> needs the 2.2 l engine also.  The 1.8 l for sale is not the correct
>> engine for the conversions that typically done on Vanagons.  These are
>> the 90 and later 2.2, 2.5, 3.3 l engines.