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Subject:Re: engine swaps (long)
From:Larry Hamm
Date:Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:57:50 -0600

Jerry Granito wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/12/99 11:45:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bjwilbur@1STCONNECT.COM writes:
>
> << thoughts about the engine swap options >>
>
> But you left one out........the corvair flat 6......has anyone ever done one
> of these in a vanagon?
> (I will now don my Nomex suit in preparation for the flames!)

Corvair engines are a little hard to come by. They also rotate
"backwards", so you need to flip the R&P, or reverse the direction of
rotation of the crank. Maybe you could use an Audi trans???
Larry