Hello Folks,

I realize the bigger brother of the Vanagon has it's engine in the wrong
place but don't know where else to turn for this info.
Postings in the Brickyard Forums remained unanswered concerning the ACTUAL
weight of the empty van. The transport
company I am contracting with wants to know the empty weight. The LT35 in
question is the one posted on this list about
a month ago. I'm needing to ge it shipped from So.California some 400miles
north to San Francisco.

Anyway, I am also trying to locate a source for parts who are willing
to ship to the US. Maybe from the Kingdom of Canadia?

I was at a local VW repair shop called Tassi's yesterday and spotted a Volvo
740 being repaired. It was getting new injectors
installed in it's inline-6 VW turbodiesel engine. I'm planning on picking up
one of these engines and swapping out the 4-cyl.
gas engine in my LT now. For those who are curious, the early LT's like my
76, had Audi engines such as those found in the
 early Porsche 924's. The difference is they are tuned for torque vs.
speed. The engines were woefully underpowered for the
924's let alone in the huge (and heavy) LT trucks. Sometime in the early
80's VW put a 6-cyl version of the venerable 1.9td
engines into the LT's. Shortly thereafter, Volvo acquired some of the
engines for use in their 740 cars.

For me this is coming full circle. Those engines never found their way
into any VW's sent to the US to the best of my knowledge.
However, they are not that rare in Volvo cars. I will acquire one for
swapping into the chassis it was originally designed for. Who
knows, maybe it will find it's way behind the back end of some Vanagon
(albeit with some cutting of sheetmetal).=)

TIA,

BenT