Hello everyone!

        I'm back after a long hiatus.  I almost lost my loyalty to vanagons,
but now I'm investigating the feasibility of HOT RODDING A VANAGON!  Like
most of us, I'm tired of the sluggish accleration, power and handling of my
vanagon and I am investigating how to put some V6-V8 engine in it, possibly
even adding forced induction.  Of course the only problem is the
engine/transmission/drivetrain location, ugg..

        I almost began to think of selling the van to buy a mustang 5.0,
there's hotrodding right out of the box.  But now its time to consider other
methods.... (money is still a problem....im going to grad school, bye bye
money!)

        What have I missed in the past year or so?  Has anyone heard of/done
a nice powerful engine swap, and has anyone done any suspension
modifications?  Lowering ride height, disk rotor improvement??

Thanks alot for any help.

Drive Safely..