At 07:37 PM 5/14/2012, Jon Durham wrote:
>As best I can tell, to get more horses, there is a 2.1 WB, a 2.2 WB, a
>Subaru, and a Ford engine to replace my 1.9L engine in my 85 Vanagon.

Plus various four-inline gasoline and diesel VW engines, not just one
Subaru but at least three including a 6-cyl, theoretically at least
an Oettinger 6-cyl WBX.

If you get the Bostig (Ford) conversion, they very much prefer you to
do the install yourself.  And of course they have both a normally
aspirated and turbocharged version.

I believe Sudhir put a 283 Chevy in his, but it proved to be a bit
much for the transmission.  And when the '79s first came out, Porsche
put one of their 6-cyl engines in one and used it to take engineers
to conferences with minimum transit time.  Plus the South Africans
were selling them with a five-inline engine instead of the WBX.

For Subaru stuff, suggest you join the subaruvanagon Yahoo group,
read some archives and hang around there for a while.  It's a tightly
focused group.

Yours,
David