On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Don Hanson<dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

....

> � How about adapting a marine V-drive to a vanagon so you could use any
> engine with other way rotation?� That would open up lots of possible motor
> swaps...Honda Gold wing?� Evinrude?� Briggs and Stratton? hee hee. (serious,
> for the first one)
> � Don Hanson
>

Heh.

Marine V-drive? Like these?

http://tinyurl.com/kpckwh

http://tinyurl.com/mehkky

I'm thinking that swapping the diff around in the tranny might be less
work. Pretty sure it can be done.  :)

Reading up a little on wikipedia about the Mazda engines. Was thinking
of these, (FE or F2) though except for some of the FE's, they seem to
be mostly carb engines:

http://tinyurl.com/njvwg5

These larger I4 engines look interesting

http://tinyurl.com/nr5yt9

but likely too tall with the intake etc:

http://tinyurl.com/ln2qe8

http://tinyurl.com/kk6bhk

Of course considering the joint effort between Mazda and Ford,
well.... all this leads me to what the Bostig guys have already done
so well!  Zetec!

Neil.

-- 
Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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