Look at the Bostic Zetec conversion at Bostig.com
Love mine and for about $5000 cash outlay, it was an easy choice for me and
wouldn't go back.
Yes, you can put a 2.2 Q motor in there, but those I have talked to thru the
years say its OK, but not great for some reason in a van. The 2 guys I
talked to were lukewarm about it.
 I have a QuantumSyncroWagon and love it. Its an Audi Quattro with a VW body
on it basically.
Daryl of AA Transaxle
(425) 788-4070
aatransaxle.com
86 Syncro Westy
Zetec in the trunk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Bertarelli" <abertarelli@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:22 PM
Subject: Strange vanagon engine pondering, audi 5cyl

> Fello van addicts,
>
> I love this community and the list, i have lurched here for years, and
> i have turned to this forum more than once for advice in solving my
> vans many quirks.  My poor syncro has been sitting and waiting for an
> engine conversion for ever.  I always get close to doing it, but every
> time i have enough money to do a conversion on her, life problems
> creep up, the money gets used and the van sits, and the wife gets
> frustrated with my obsession of keeping her and one day having my
> dream van.  I am a big dreamer, and have put to many hours thinking
> about which conversion to do, and spent to many hours in the salvage
> yards dreaming.  I finally narrowed myself down and am about to pull
> the trigger on a bostig deposit, when something on craigslist caught
> my eye.  Someone local to me is selling a 86 vw quantum syncro with a
> audi  2.2 5cyl in it.  It got me thinking about this conversion again.
> I once had an audi given to me as a donor for my syncro.  After the
> audi 80 sat forever i finally gave it away because the physical parts
> for this conversion where very expensive, and after dreaming about it
> forever i finally decided to limp the boxer along.  Long story short,
> i saw this quantum syncro and thought to myself what if.  I wonder if
> vw used the same tranny in the quantum syncro as the vanagon syncro.
> Or if the bell housing mounts are the same.  If so, it might be
> possible to pick that engine out of the quantum with the bell housing
> and stick it in the vanagon.  I would only be missing the motor mount
> which you can get.  So I ask the list for wisdom, would this quantums
> audi powerplant mount up to my vanagon tranny.  If the quantum had
> been converted to this 5cyl the bell housing adapter might fit and all
> i would need to find is the engine mounting bar and mounts.  It is a
> crazy thought but it is in my area cheap and again i am a big dreamer.
> What do my fellow vanagon friends think.
> Adrian