If I were to do a 2 wheel drive engine swap, I would remove the
engine   and trans. from a front drive 3.8 buick, and make it fit
in the rear of a Vanagon. I've looked in to this a bit, and the only
major problem, I've found so far is the engine cover needs to be
moved forward. PArts are cheap, anyone can work on it, plenty of
power, MPG would be about the same as the buick It came out of.
Doing this in the Syncro brings am entire new set of problems,
that's why my SS (Summer Syncro) is getting  an inline VW 4.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Sudhir Desai wrote:

> if i could do my engine swap all over again, i would definately get a
> porsche 944 4-cylinder engine... then i would spend about 4grand on a
> beefed up 901-1 tranny with taller gears(has lower ratio??) to cruise
> doing 70 at 3 grand. and 80 at 3500.
>
> thats my $.02 worth
>
> Sudhir H. Desai          1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6
> desa4622@kettering.edu         sudhir_desai@geocities.com
> ICQ# 17014903 & 8255956  http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1889
>
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