This bus has a 5 speed.
A gas engine would be "easy" to do but
it might be best to keep it
as a diesel.

TDI anyone?  heh heh.

On 2/13/15, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> It can easily be improved, as I recently did. Mine is a five speed which is
> a plus right there, and I drove it in NA form for 160,000 miles before
> adding a turbo early last fall. Now it is much faster, much much better on
> hills and acceleration. It gets the same mileage it ever did, and the
> conversion to turbo was not expensive.

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