I've heard it said several times that the conversion to the Rabbit
engine is fairly simple if one has a diesel vanagon, and virtually
impossible otherwise.  I'm wondering about how hard it is if one
has a diesel donor and a gas model as the transplant recipient.
Is the diesel body substantially different in the engine compartment
area?  Could someone please explain the problem?

I'd love to put my efforts into finding a dead diesel vanagon so
that I could convert my gas westy somewhere down the line.

        Gary

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Gary Shea                                       shea@xmission.com
Salt Lake City                      http://www.xmission.com/~shea