Maybe you should go turbo Diesel or trade yours to someone that wants a
Diesel. Upgrading to gasoline is one project. Requires the vapor recovery
system and all the related stuff. The Subaru is another project and so is
the transmission. Best bet is to get some donor vehicles to use for parts
and models.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jamie Auch
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Convert manual into an automatic?

Hello,
I just recently adopted an '82 diesel westy.  I absolutely love camping in
my vanagon but the power of a 1.6 NA scares me traveling
with my family. I am considering a Subaru conversion and realize that I
would have to change the gearing in the transmission.  The
one flaw to my VW addiction is that my with cannot drive a manual
car.(Should I say that I don't let her ;0)  I would love to
install an automatic transmission with the Subaru engine.  How daunting a
task is this (tranny)?

Jamie Auch