>| A customer is asking me about doing the conversion on his '85 Vanagon from the
>| 1.9 liter engine to the 2.1 using a rebuild from AVP.  They told him something
>| about how they somehow change a 1.9 to a 2.1 when they rebuild it (I have
>| never heard of this before).  If anyone is familiar with this and could give
>| me some advice on the subject (like is it an easy swap, does the 1.9 fuel
>| injection stuff work, etc.)  I would really appreciate it.

        The bentley says that all the bottom end stuff on the 1.9 has been
superceded to the 2.1 parts when rebuilding. Since the heads are also the same
on the 2.1 and the 1.9, I would think you could just exachange the pcs. If
they are just going to give you a 2.1L engine in a 2.1 case, you might
check Jim Thompson's site on swaping the engines. I don't know if the digijet
system will work on the slightly larger displacement engine so I cannot help
on what you are going to need to do with the fuel injection. I also cannot
help on the quesiton of whether there are external differences between a 2.1L
case and a 1.9L case which you might need to look into if you get the 2.1L
case and expect to just be able to substitute it for the 1.9L engine...

dave