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Subject:Re: Air-cooled to Water-cooled
From:Tony Moore
Date:Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:22:53 -0500

There's a guy with a web page who installed a water cooled toyota motor
into a breadloaf westy. It's painted like a cow, pretty wild. I can't
remember the url but he goes into some detail of the transplant on his
page.

Hope this helps,

tony

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> From: Frayed1003@aol.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list <vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu>
> Subject: Air-cooled to Water-cooled
> Date: Thursday, February 27, 1997 1:11 PM
> 
> I was just curious if anyone has ever turned an air cooled vanagon into a
> water-cooled one.  I never hear much on the subject so I imagine it is
either
> next to impossible or very expensive.  I have an 81 Westy and I am always
> thinking about this.  It is one of those things I would probably never
do,
> but that doesn't stop me wondering about this.  The talk about installing
>  suburu engines in the vanagon is what really sparked my curiosity.  I am
new
> to the list and vanagons, so forgive me if this is a dumb question.