Porsche transaxles have been installed in vanagons of course.
It's one of the few transaxles that 'turns the right way'  ( i.e. you can't
take a say, subaru transaxle and turn it around and put it in the rear of a
vanagon ) .

So perhaps a porsche waterboxer engine and trans together in a vanagon !
And IF there is an automatic AWD porsche rear-mounted transaxle, that isn't
controlled electronically...................I'd sure be interested in one of
those.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Andrew Grebneff
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: porsche engine conversions

>You would use the porsche heater boxes.
>You could also put in a watercooled porsche engine.
>I don't know the year - early 2000's maybe  ...porsche went to all
>watercooled engines - not sure when the change is, but all 911's, Boxsters,
>and now the new sports model - they're all water cooled.

I believe that Porschewasserboxers don't fit Porscheluftboxer
transmissions at all. That means an adaptor plate to fit a VW trans,
which will then blow. Or a kit to fit it to an aircooled Porsche
trans.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
, Opinions stated are mine, not of the University of Otago
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads