You know, when Dixie's motor went last summer I got a medium mileage WBX
from a guy on the island who sold it to do a Subaru conversion. At the time
I thought he was crazy to spend a fair amount of time and money on a used
Subaru when he could buy a GoWesty! 2.2 for about the same money.
      However, I have been hanging out on the SubaruVanagon List for a
couple of months now, and when the present WBX goes, I'll be slipping a SOHC
four valve per cylinder 2.5 litre Subaru motor in there. There is a page on
the site with horsepower and torque graphs for the 2.1 VW, 2.2  and
2.5Subarus, and they are very convincing!  The WBX puts out 80 ft/lbs
of torque
at 3000 rpm, the 2.2 makes 120 and the 2.5 155!

      Let us know which way you go, Rob.

On 1/16/06, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I've been thinking of a conversion, don't have the money now but I
> can still think about it.
> My first thought is the Subaru conversion but yesterday I took a look
> at the Tiico site http://www.tiico.com/ .
>
> Doing a conversion with a new engine has a certain appeal to me and
> at $4500 it's not that much more than using a used Subaru engine.
>
> Has anyone done the Tiico conversion and cares to talk about it? I'm
> on the Subaruvanagon list and everybody seems happy with the Subaru
> conversion.
>
> Anyway like I said I'm thinking about it & looking for comments.
>
>
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
> '87 Wolfsburg Vanagon in western WA
>

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