scootas Learner Dubber
5 posts · joined Sep 2007 ·
doe anyne have any info on this conversion?? Has anybody done on of these before? i would be grateful for some help
v6 holden into 89\'kombi
11CAB If ya got it....Baja it
4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
I've only seen a Ford Capri V6 into the Square shaped kombi's. It was a south african conversion and had a specially made bellhousing that bolted to the gearbox so there was no need for adaptor plates, and the ford clutch and pressure plate can be used.
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scootas Learner Dubber
5 posts · joined Sep 2007 ·
11CAB wrote:I've only seen a Ford Capri V6 into the Square shaped kombi's. It was a south african conversion and had a specially made bellhousing that bolted to the gearbox so there was no need for adaptor plates, and the ford clutch and pressure plate can be used.
thanks for that ive got vn v6 & a 89 transporter with a harmonic balacer bolt that had come loose & now ruined thread now & connot remove bolt from crank with out nearly braking crank......moves back & forth freelly slightly then locks up
LukeV85 P Master
154 posts · joined Sep 2007 ·
I have heard its been done and it goes hard from what im told. Ill speak the the guy who did the conversion and ill let u knowscootas wrote:doe anyne have any info on this conversion?? Has anybody done on of these before? i would be grateful for some help
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vwtyp2 Son of Jim - Creator of Good
2,504 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·
I've had one in a Bay Kombi
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scootas Learner Dubber
5 posts · joined Sep 2007 ·
hi hey sorry no reply til now whole family has been crook... just signed on again today and found your reply .... photo is very interesting am interested in talking to you more about your conversion.. have you got more photos especially closer up?? i am a mechanic / Boilermaker and have done other conversions before but not on a Kombi... i own a 89" transporter which is my work vecihle and would like to do this conversion by myself..
greedy53 Bishop of Volkswagenism
3,062 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·
call bugs and busses they do all sorts of conversions in penrith nsw and they run a mean drag bug
they do v6 subaro etc
they do v6 subaro etc
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Twokombies Seriously Crusin Dubber
193 posts · joined Jul 2005 ·
Indian Automotive in Penrith knows about this sort of thing as well.
There was a bloke on another forum www.vanagon.com who lived in NZ and he had done it. All I can remeber is he said it went like stink, but understeered like nothing he had ever known.
There was a bloke on another forum www.vanagon.com who lived in NZ and he had done it. All I can remeber is he said it went like stink, but understeered like nothing he had ever known.
Iwish4aSynchro Wolfsburg Wizard
639 posts · joined Aug 2006 ·
Trying to picture block and box.
Would there not be some kind of drive issue here.
Manual or Auto?
Go the subi option, closest thing to a WBX engine and minimal mods needed to complete fitout.
Would there not be some kind of drive issue here.
Manual or Auto?
Go the subi option, closest thing to a WBX engine and minimal mods needed to complete fitout.
Keep the steering and the propulsion seperate . Still a Kombi...
It's all good, until it's bad, i suppose
It's all good, until it's bad, i suppose
vwtyp2 Son of Jim - Creator of Good
2,504 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·
don't know much about fitting the V6 into a T3.
My T3 had an EJ20t encine.
My T3 had an EJ20t encine.
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Iwish4aSynchro Wolfsburg Wizard
639 posts · joined Aug 2006 ·
Neat fit; modify the frewall or what is the firewall? How much clearence on the underside of things
I still say if VW or someone in Oz could manufacture a 2.5+ltr WBX motor for same cost as 2 - 3.3ltr subi option i would go the WBX i would go that way, but as subi costs much less and is as close as it gets it makes sense.
I was morally against heart transplant VW2Subi but it makes sense. you can buy a whole subi for the price of a re produced WBX engine.
If my T3Syncro engine(when i start it for the first time) is up the shit i aint rebuilding the VW block.
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I still say if VW or someone in Oz could manufacture a 2.5+ltr WBX motor for same cost as 2 - 3.3ltr subi option i would go the WBX i would go that way, but as subi costs much less and is as close as it gets it makes sense.
I was morally against heart transplant VW2Subi but it makes sense. you can buy a whole subi for the price of a re produced WBX engine.
If my T3Syncro engine(when i start it for the first time) is up the shit i aint rebuilding the VW block.
[ Edited on 15-9-2007 by Iwish4aSynchro ]
Keep the steering and the propulsion seperate . Still a Kombi...
It's all good, until it's bad, i suppose
It's all good, until it's bad, i suppose
scootas Learner Dubber
5 posts · joined Sep 2007 ·
looks heaps better than a heavy v6! and it has a turbo... just how good does it go? thanks for the photo..
scootas Learner Dubber
5 posts · joined Sep 2007 ·
can you give me a photo of the underneath with good lighting/ much appreciated😁
vwtyp2 Son of Jim - Creator of Good
2,504 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·
sorry buddy, have sold the car.
here's some pics for you thought.
here's some pics for you thought.
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