So basically you reduced the ground clearance by 6"?  Poor
squirrels, shrews and other low lying animals!  What about the angle
of the gearbox and it's correct oiling?  Did you offer any protection
for road debris?  Lowing the engine by an inch or two I can see, but
6"  Every 15 degree that I saw mounted under the cover was at a
great loss of ground clearance.  If you stick to asphalt roads in the
summer time this may be OK, but something that I wouldn't do.

About the only thing one can do with an ABA to make a *minimal* bump in
the engine cover at 15 degrees is replace the cylinder head with one from
a 1.8L Digifant II and then transfer all the goodies over to the new head
and intake manifold.  Quite the surgery job and if you have an OBD-2
ABA engine you need to transfer over the throttle valve which means some
aluminium welding and the like...

David Marshall

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On Thu, November 8, 2007
05:46, Ken Wilford wrote:
> We did this mod for a customer.
Basically you have to lower the engine
> by about 6 inches to get
it to fit.  We did this by welding steel "L"
> plates
onto the engine carrier bars.
> Here is how we did it:
>
We then installed some liquid filled mounts from a Jetta onto the
bottom
> of the alloy engine mounts.  Then install your "L
shaped brackets to the
> bottom.  Now use the jack that has been
supporting your motor this whole
> time and lower the engine to
the desired height.  Make some tack welds.
> Support the engine
again and remove the carrier bars.  Weld stuff up
> right.
Replace carrier bars and you should be good to go.
>
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>> Is it possible to put an ABA 2.0L at 15 degrees in a Westy
without
>> modifying the lid?
>> Best regards.
>> Gilles Turmel