Bj�rn wrote:

> At 10:58 AM 15/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Following is excerpt from company profile for VW Industrial engines that
> >I found in Thomas Registerm 1998 ed.  For all of you who talking about
> >swapping engines, this may be of help.
> >
> >
> >Volkswagen Of America Inc., Industrial Engine Div.,450 Barclay Blvd
> >Lincolnshire, IL  60069-3608 (50M+)   (847)-634-5290
> >Fax: (847) 634-5205
> >
> >Don Thompson
> >93 EV
> >
> >
> Thanks for the info. I phoned them and found that these engines are not
> certified for road applications and therefore it is probably not worthwhile
> putting them into any car.

Bjorn, Volks, TDI Wannabe's:I think these motors are basically the same motors.
One of those is the one that "Baja" Bob Bellance put in his Diesel Westy last
summer and has been touring Baja ever since. As I understand it, due to all
factors: marketing, unknowns in "endorsing" this engine swapping and of course
their legal liability, VW Industrial will not be interested in selling you one.

The same thing is happening with Subaru engines in the Experimental Aircraft
industry. People are wanting to buy new, out of the crate Subaru engines for
their homebuilt aircraft and Subaru has been using all sorts of tactics to keep
from selling the engines directly. They feel they don't need the business and
can't afford the legal liability in our letigious society.
Somehow Bob Bellanca got one of the swirl-combustion engines, I believed he
told me he secured it from a local dealers in marine generators, as these
engines are used in marine electrical generators.
So don't think those aren't the same engines, I'll postulate they are the
-exact- same engines, though truly not road certified (who cares?), just
getting one for a purpose which they are not marketing toward may be
challenging and require some work due to corporate reluctance to expose
themselves unnecessarily to lawsuits.
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Shalom
Mark B. Magee
82 Diesel Westy
87GL
96 Suzuki 4WD Sport
Kemah TX USA
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