One of my neighbors in Baja had one.  He towed his Baja bug beetle with it.
Seemed to work ok.   He sold it when he got into dirt bikes and bought a big
long Ford to fit the bikes into.
  Don Hanson

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> A rotary engine... intersting.  Never heard of one of those in a Vanagon
> before.
>
> Michelle Garofano <mystigal@GMAIL.COM> writes:
>
> > Greetings all!
> >
> > To you folks who have done your engine swaps and have an old (but good)
> > Vanagon engine that needs a new home, I'm in the market, as it were (I'm
> in
> > the Seattle area).  I recently purchased a 1981 Westfalia that had been
> > converted to water-cooled with a Mazda RX-7 rotary engine... which
> gobbles
> > oil like crazy & requires an elaborate ritual of maneuvers to get it to
> > start... two things I'd just rather not deal with.  I'm looking for gas
> > mileage more than power, and would appreciate advice on which engine
> (1.9L,
> > 2.1L, etc.) gets the best mileage for hauling the weight of a full-camper
> > Westy.  Since all the conversion gear is already in place for the Mazda
> > engine, I'm also looking into what else might work with my current set
> up...
> > though my recent experience (& research I've done around it) has soured
> me
> > on rotary engines in general, and I'm not interested in going deisel at
> this
> > point in time.
> >
> > Happy Travels,
> > Mish
> >
>
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
>