In a message dated 10/15/06 2:55:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jamie@KOOKYMATHTEACHER.COM writes:

> 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
>

sell the diesel westy and buy a gas one with an auto trans..

there are lots of people out there who are looking for diesel westys..why go
thru all the hassle?   a diesel nut would gladly buy yours and just take the
proceeds and buy a nice automtic waterboxer westy and put a subaru motor in
it..   nobody will care if you pitch a waterboxer motor.

chris