Almost every VW dealer that I know of is also a Subaru dealer. Is this some
kind of conspiracy? I thought I read somewhere that VW has some % ownership
of Subaru. :)

Frank Miller

At 12:35 PM 3/18/99 EST, you wrote:
>The subaru conversion is different than either the 5-cylinder conversion or
>the Eurospec conversion in two important ways.  One it is not a VW
powerplant.
>I am not super prejudiced about this but it is nice to keep the van all VW if
>you possibly can.  Makes it a little easier when ordering parts and
working on
>the vehicle you get to see familiar VW parts.  The other thing is that the
>5-cylinder motor in the Vanagon as well as the 4-cylinder are stock setups on
>Vanagons in South Africa as we speak.  They are proven applications of these
>motors that have been proven to work well with the van, last long, and
provide
>adequate power.  The subaru conversion cannot say this.  Nuff said.
>Ken Wilford
>Van-Again
>John 3:16
>