Jay,

There's plenty of room in the engine compartment. It's the short
wheelbase that makes shortened VW vans a handful. They make great
wheelie machines though.

BenT

On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@gmail.com> wrote:

> hey BenT..
> i was looking at that a while back and the first thing that came to
> mind is , there is not enough room between the axels to put in a
> vanagon drive train...  maybe a tranny and engine from a golf or
> jetta... or somthing totally different??
>