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Subject:Re: 82westie 1.6 diesel upgrade
From:Jim Felder
Date:Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:37:26 -0500

I have one in a Jetta. They only sold 750 of them in the US. You might not
want one in a vanagon without some modifications. They were not made for
power but for burning clean. If you take the fat over to the vanagon in the
conversion, then you would have a clean(er) burning Vanagon, but nothing
like a TDI I'd think. But if you take off the Eco-Diesel pump and install a
standard VE turbo pump with aneroid, then you would get the full power
expected in a TD. The ecodiesel with hydraulic head is a very nice engine,
by the way.

Jim

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Joe Luther <jluther@alfons-haar.us> wrote:

> I hear they are nice, I just rarely see the Eco option, they didn't make
> them long and I've never owned one.
>
>  _____
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> From: VWBrain@aol.com [mailto:VWBrain@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:19 PM
> To: jluther@alfons-haar.us; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: 82westie 1.6 diesel upgrade
>
>
> hey guys we installed a 92 eco jetta turbo diesel into a vannie, had to do
> some fabbing but it ran great and had plenty of power.  later  mark d
>