>  I'll never understand what it is diesel people have against ECU's.
> They'll build a highly idiosyncratic hybrid engine out of parts from
> three
> different designs instead of just using the dang electronic TDI pump
> and ECU
> that VW made just for that purpose. Presumably it's all in the name of
> "reliability through simplicity", but it doesn't seem to work all that
> well.
> Very strange.
>

For me and most diesel folks it would be the wiring harness and
instrumentation that would have to be added to the vanagon to use the
full TDI setup.

Jim