You'll be competing for those 2.0 heads with the Type4 and 914 guys. The latter are a fanatical sort with deeper pockets than the typical Vanagon fan. Here in the San Francisco area, we call air-cooled Vanagons 'parts vans'. If you had to hire a shop to rebuild your engine, the labor cost exceeds the value of the complete running vehicle.;-(

Whilst Vanagons in general are worth less than the value of their dismembered parts, it had been my experience that the air-cooled T3's arrived at that point much sooner than their water-cooled counterparts.

BenT

On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:40 PM, "Joe Luther" <jluther@alfons-haar.us> wrote:

> No, but I have big veins and there's a plasma center nearby.  Actually, I'm
> getting a lot of spares with the van, I hope they address some of the needs.
> It only has 84k and the engine going in will have 60k and be resealed.  Once
> I find another head, I'll have a second engine with 84k in reserve.  I hope
> that's a good start.... 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BenT Syncro [mailto:syncro@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:51 PM
> To: David Beierl
> Cc: Joe Luther; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: New to list and to Vanagons
> 
> Welcome to the list, Joe. Did you bring your checkbook?;-)
> 
> 
> BenT