Engine swap in a Diesle Vanagon

[stevestromberg]

What is the bolt in swap for a watercooled inline VW motor. Steve

[Derek May]

Check out the options:

new 2.0 L kit, bolt in solution, but expensive -- I think its a 2.0L Jetta engine. Its the same engine that "Caravelle's" (Vanogon by another name) have in South Africa.
http://www.tiico.com/prod04.htm

Various adaptors from Kennedy Engineering, including a subaru engine adapter:
http://www.kennedyeng.com/

More info on subaru swap:
http://www.mcn.org/b/roadcow/convert.html


Here is a guy who put a chevy V6 in a Baywindow bus -- guys, check out the spare tire up front -- ingenious!
http://home.earthlink.net/~dmh012/v6vwp.htm

How about a GTI engine? With a Diesel, you can swap the oilpan and a few other key components to lay a rabbit engine on its side back there. Check this out:
http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/GTIbus.htm

Or Better yet, a VR6 engine:
http://volksweb.relitech.com/../helmut/ ... 6-engi.htm

But this is probably the links page that has all the stuff you want to know:
http://www.volkswagen.org/vanagon/engineswap.htm

Goodluck.

[Brutus]

I think you're already set up for the inline 4 water cooled physically - just the electrics and fuel stuff.

Course, if I had unlimited time and money (who does) I'd swap in the TDI and have the ultimate van (IMHO). Good luck!

[Bobtail]

There's also this company which does just that TDI 4 and 5 cyls
http://www.syncro-bernd-jaeger.de/TDI-U ... umbau.html

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