How bout a 944 turbo motor in a Vanagon, since we're talking big motors?
Some of my buddies from PCA racing were making 375 rwhp with those motors.
I have one sitting all wrapped up in my shop, right now...Hmmm..
  Don Hanson

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski <pnoceanwesty@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hey, Craig:  I agree with you.  My 19 year-old son has a '91 Volvo 740 with
> the turbo and it has run like a champ for the year and two months he has
> had
> it.  It just passed 200,000 miles andnever failed to start even last winter
> when it was -14 degree below zero for a week.  We have joked about putting
> one in a Vanagon, never thought somebody actually did it!  It seems like
> the
> 230 block is too long for the Vanagon engine bay?
>
>
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
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>
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:33 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I tend to disagree,
> > The volvo 240s are some of my favorite non-vanagon cars,
> >
>