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Subject:Re: Vanagon Conversion Kits for around $2500
From:Mark Upton
Date:Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:15:53 -0500

I have the same kit, minus the wire harness from a diesel Vanagon for
$600.00
-----Original Message-----
From: Raimund Feussner <rfeussner@GMX.DE>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Conversion Kits for around $2500

>Mounting parts and other stuff is okay, but why use an adapter?
>
>All 4-cyl. engines have the same bolt pattern for the transmission. So why
>not use the bellhousing of a diesel vanagon. You can bolt the new 4-cyl.
>engine right onto the bellhousing, no matter if it is manual or automatic
>...
>
>Raimund
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <KENWILFY@AOL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:19 PM
>Subject: Vanagon Conversion Kits for around $2500
>
>
>> Is there serious interest in a kit to put the 4-cylinder Golf/Jetta
engine
>> into the Vanagon for around $2500.  The kit would include the mounting
>parts,
>> the flywheel, adapter plate (manual or auto), oil pan, pickup tube,
>coolant
>> hoses, and a few other things to make the conversion as stock as
possible.
>> All of the parts except the adapter plates would be VW original stuff.
>> Let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wilford
>> http://www.vanagain.com
>> John 3:16
>> Phone: (856)-765-1583
>> Shop:   (856)-327-0027
>> Fax:     (856)-327-2242
>>
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