Well generally upgrading to a better, or more durable and long lasting, or
more powerful engine etc. is pretty standard on vanagons, more so all the
time.
Those waterboxers....well you know, some good, some bad.
What I do like about 1.9 waterboxers is that they never blow up almost.....(
I suppose 2.1's pretty much are this way too ) they get lousier and lousier
- won't run right, heads leak, exhaust cracks or whatever, hydraulic lifters
get noisy ...but they seldom blow up, like disintegrate.
Otherwise , of course, wbxr's leave a lot to be desired, especially
considering how far technology has come since vanagons came along - to where
we can get fine power and performance, good gas mileage, and reliability,
when the work is done well, of course. . 
  So then the search becomes what is the ideal vanagon engine conversion ?
That's still being worked out !  
I do appreciate subaru engine conversions though - not bad. 
Scott.................. vanagon engine conversion specialist.
www.turbovans.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
tinker man
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 2:33 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Replacement AFM technology

I wonder how much a non-deteriorating AFM replacement solution would
be worth to van owners (I saw a re-manufactured AFM for $200 at
BustDepot)?

And I didn't get an answer yet regarding what is actually replaced or
done during re-manufacturing?

CTM

On 9/23/07, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:
> Yeah, no doubt.
> For $700 you could buy a wrecked Golf or Jetta MK3 and have a nice factory
> 115 HP motor and modern Motronic engine management.
> With the VW CE2 wiring harness electrical hookup is just a couple wires.
>
> Sure, I'm simplifying somewhat but still seems like a much better long
term
> solution to keeping these old vans going.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Jake de Villiers
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:38 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Replacement AFM technology
>
> Yeah and only $700!!
>
> To eliminate another "shortcoming" of the WBX motor.
>
> Starting to make a conversion look less expensive still.   :)
>
> On 9/23/07, Paul Guzyk <paullist@guzyk.com> wrote:
> >
> > What about this solution?  has anyone tried it?
> >
> > http://www.gowesty.com/library_article.php?id=804
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>