Interesting discussion on building a Oettinger 2500cc pistons and cylinders
wbx
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=273407

check out TC thread comments that tencelife the vw rebuilder with the 'blue
engine'

----- Original Message -----
From: "TC" <trclark@SHAW.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Boston Bob....AVP....GEX...???

> > > Good New Year's Eve Morning!
> > > With 150k miles, it doesn't seem to make sense to pull the engine and
> > > replace the gaskets or heads. So the question is what is the best
> > > replacement engine out there? I really don't want to spend big bucks
> > > on a Tiico, TDI, or Bostig conversion, so that pretty much leaves a
> > > rebuilt wasserboxer. Of course, all of the websites for the
> > > rebuilders state their's is the best (and ok, I'm leaning toward a
> > > Boston Bob engine), what's the consensus out there? What are your
> > > experiences - good and/or bad with AVP, GEX, and Boston Bob.
> > >
> >
> > right now Id say this is your best bet for a rebuilt wbx
> > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=514460
> hehe looks like its sold oh well :(
> Kind odd some of the comments I got pmail about that link
> 1) I have no biz association to the seller
> 2) I do know of the seller simply by the quality of their post on the
samaba
> 3) It be nice to see some contructive comments about the build rather than
> its red or  I cant find anything he did to improve this(bottom end), but
the
> only real way would be a
> large bearings, witch means a bigger crank, and a ton of money to
acomplish
> this
>
> last time i check the color of a rebuild has no effect on build quality
and
> I thought that rods where part of the bottom end and would not
> 'New chromoly steel I-beam connecting rods' be a better than std oem rods
> chromoly being stronger / lighter than oem ?