Don't knock the solution, in the confines of the layout VW chose to stay with (horizontally opposed) those bits are a major design improvement over the steel ring on the T4.  First the steel ring bits rust, and even rust through, and so will the ones on a Subagon/Vanaru in the same climates if it makes it as long as say a '75 bus.  Next they really were a design improvement as Bosch found out that their previous small steel ring system proved to have insufficient fuel reserve as engine displacements and operating rpms grew (I'm not talking VW vans here so much), whereas those nice plastic bits do.  I've actually backfitted them to a high output megasquirted 2.4 liter T4 for this very reason in the past though out of these exact reliability concerns eventually just bought some good old cheap aluminum fuel rail stock and went to proper O-ringed injectors doing away with the ever ready to fail from age stub tubes on the injectors.  No reason we couldn't do so on a regular
 waterboxer or keep the stock injectors and put barbed fittings into the rail.  Does anyone know if the plastic ones are still even available, they were 7-8 years ago when I last looked.  The bulkhead fitting worries me more though on most vans.

  John

Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
  Well, they do, kinda.

A Subaru motor comes with steel fuel lines on the motor, doing away with yet
another cheesy WBX design "solution". :)

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