re
They went back to the board
and came out with the 996 motor with real head gaskets and water
passages...

my understanding is that the first Boxsters had a water-oil problem ...
head sealing ..
something like that.

ooops, friday is over !

and 'sorry' I'm back  after a new hip job ..
just like a clutch or head job on a vanagon ..
but this on a human body.     .

aloha !
Scott
www.turbovans.coms
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Was Can you run without coolant...Now How Badly Can You Abuse a
WBX? (Very long)

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > "Rubber Headgaskets"?   What were they thinking when they built that?
>> >
>>
>> I t Even the base model Vanagon is heavily instrumented
>> compared to (say) an 82 Oldsmobile with nothing but a TEMP idiot light
>> that
>> really ought to read THAR SHE BLOWS. A coolant level sensor is
>> essentially
>> UNHEARD OF for  domestic cars of that vintage, but VW engineers clearly
>> felt
>> it was necessary for catching problems BEFORE they cripple the vehicle.
>
>
>  You ever try to ruin Detroit Iron?  It takes some serious abuse to make
> one of those go belly up.....  I bet about 50% of all the Dodge and
> Valiant
> slant six motors ever built are still running somewhere...I had some
> friends
> in Jackson Hole who had one on an open trailer with a huge sawblade on the
> end of the crank....no radiator....They used it to freehand cut 1/4-round
> log cabin chinking....Ran it like that for years...hour or two at a time,
> till it got red hot..then they would let it cool down and crank it back up
> again...
>
>   Unlike the Vanagon engine that I read about all the time....going
> "Ker....Blooey!" cause the blinking light didn't come on and the temp went
> high enough to snap a couple of the cylinder seals....   Porsche gave that
> crap up right quick with their 993 half and half motor...air cooled with
> the
> same style water pumper head as the vangon.....They went back to the board
> and came out with the 996 motor with real head gaskets and water
> passages...
>
>>
>
>
>>
>>
>> >  Does anyone know why they never brought the South African inline motor
>> to
>> > world wide production for the vanagon?
>>
>>
>> I believe the SA inline powered Transporter was developed BECAUSE there
>> was
>> no longer world-wide production of the Transporter and the wasserboxer
>> was
>> NLA. VWSA probably looked at the T4 and said "Nah... I think we'll just
>> update the T3" and gave it a new engine, bigger side windows, and a new
>> dashboard.
>>
>> --
>> John Bange
>>