>Hell VW even licensed Subaru to use a
>flat four motor in their range of vehicles.  Typically the Japanese
>perfected the flat motor and left the German engineers floundering in their
>wake.

Ray

VW doesn't have any rights to boxer engines, any more than do DKW,
BMW, Ferrari or Porsche. Or Daimler for straight-fours. You can't
patent/copyright an engine layout. Subaru's early FF engines
(~900-1200cm3), like VW boxers, had 3 main bearings, but that was in
the saving search for space, not copying VW. Hmmm.... come to think
of it, didn't ALL pushrod Subaru boxers have 3 mains?

Anyone know whether or not the EA/ER engines were based on the later
pushrod 1.8 (adding OHC heads)? Were they 3/4 or 5/7 main designs?

Glad to hear the ER27 hasn't given you any problems... may it keep on so.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut