The answer to this is how big is your hammer and wallet?

Practical "common" motor would have to be the 2.0L TDI from
the Passat and the upcoming 2009 Jetta / Golf / Tiguan

The R5
and V6 TDIs will fit back there do.

With a lot of cutting /
work / work / work / bucket of money I am sure you could out a V10 TDI
back there...

David Marshall

http://www.hasenwerk.ca
http://www.fastforward.ca

Box
4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J 3J2

On Thu, January 10, 2008
22:18, John Rodgers wrote:
> Well,
>
> What IS
the most torquey engine conversion out there for the V-gons?
>
> Inquiring minds and all that ............
>
> John
Rodgers
> Chelsea, AL
>
> David Marshall
wrote:
>> Yeah... almost Friday.
>>
>> My
company car is a 2003 Ford Focus...
>> what a piece of smeg
engine... makes lots of noise when you step on it
>> and
>> when you wiiiiiiind it out to the top end of the rev range
there is a
>> hint
>> of decent power then and then
red line and you have to shift.  This
>> is not the engine I
would want to put into a 2500kg westfalia and hope
>> to
>> get anywhere faster than what it could do with a stock
engine.
>>
>> Torque sells cars and engine
conversions, but really torque is what is
>> needed to get our
Vanagons going, so a Diesel engine is what our
>> Vanagons
>> need.
>>
>> The V8 gasoline Touareg has
350hp and the V10 Diesel
>> Touareg has 313hp - the *Diesel*
will win in a 0 to 100km/h sprint as it
>> has 553ft.lbs or
torque at 1800 rpm and the gasser has 324ft.lbs at 3000
>>
something in the rpm band.  Tourque is like a drug the more you have
>> the more you want.  Once you drive a Vanagon with lots of
torque you
>> will spend the rest of your life trying to
convert the unwashed.
>> :-)
>>
>> David
Marshall
>>
>> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>>
http://www.fastforward.ca
>>
>> Box 4153, Quesnel
BC, Canada V2J
>> 3J2
>>
>> On Thu,
January 10, 2008 20:22, AAG - Larry Word wrote:
>>
>>> It's almost Friday - what is the consensus to date of the
group
>>>
>> installing
>>
>>> 2000 ford focus engine into Vanagons?
>>>
>>> Any ideas, links, info., articles, etc. would be
appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>