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Subject:Re: 82 diesel with an 86 gas engine
From:Per Lindgren
Date:Sun, 30 May 1999 12:11:24 +0200

Pat Dooley wrote:

> Uh, I don't follow.
> There is no Eurospec conversion involved here.  You got the parts you need
> already.  Go to the junkyard and pick up a jetta motor for 200 bucks.  It
> will have everything you need.  Just adapt the ps and ac hoses and do the
> emission details.
> How would a wbx be any easier or economical?

I guess the person who converted the van from diesel to wbx in the first
place, was probably an air cooled nut, who never have looked under the hood of
a Rabbit, and knew the similarity of the diesel and gas I-4s. I mean, there
must be a reason for stuffing the wbx into the van instead of going the easy
way.

74 PerL
88 Syncro 112i