Personally if I was going for a rebuild I would shoot for a 2.1l. Better
main bearings, of course more power. There are plenty of cores around from
all the subie conversions.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of B
Feddish
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:12 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: OK, Really time for the rebuild, final thoughts...

So my mechanic was getting serious about my 1.9 rebuild in September when he
decided to have a heart attack followed by triple bypass surgery. He's going
to be out for awhile. Through very diplomatic talks with the shop he went to
work for and him personally I have retrieved my AMC heads, gasket set and my
extra 1.9 which has now been disassembled and cleaned up.  I was going to
take it to http://www.evwparts.com/ down in MD as I can get there in about 3
hours and am very familiar with the area. He says he can rebuild and install
a 1.9 for $3K total. That sounds like a great price and having these AMC
heads from Ken I can probably get a more reliable engine since I'm sure he
just machines the old ones as standard practice.

Any thoughts, suggestions, etc. before I contact him and make arraignments?
That price seems really reasonable to me.

Thanks,
Bryan