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Hi From South africa
vic5318 - April 12th, 2015 at 09:26 PM

Hi Guys!

Just popping in to say hello and i'm enjoying your forum. I am from south africa and a vanagon, "microbus/caravelle T3" fan.

Will be looking for a T3 soon again and do a Alfa Romeo 4cyl twincam engine conversion out a early 80's gtv.
Cant wait to be part of the Family again.

Vic

Bizarre - April 12th, 2015 at 10:22 PM

G'day Vic
Welcome to AVD.
I have a Caravelle as well.
I use to have a Suth Efricun air cooled T3 a few years back

adlbeetle66 - April 13th, 2015 at 07:56 AM

:tu: Welcome!!
:smilegrin:

vic5318 - April 14th, 2015 at 06:39 AM

Thanks guys:tu:
Enjoy reading what you guys are up to and your experiences with T3's. love the suby conversions you do that side of the world. They are extremely difficult here as finding poeple to do wiring and o.e ecu's are basicly impossible.
I know about a couple ej25 conversions being done,but mostly aftermarket ecu's wich never works 100% with the suby.

Golf 2.0 conversions are as common as bread here,and they install them upright. Seems to last longer that way.

I have decided to use the alfa twincam,as it will be one of two that we know of. Not most feul efficient,but strong and sounds soooo good. There are a few alfa v6 busses running,one of them a bay bus with 24v 3.0v6. Goes like stink!

wombatventures - April 16th, 2015 at 07:14 AM

Welcome Vic.
Show us some pics of the conversion when you can. Sounds cool.

vic5318 - May 8th, 2015 at 03:07 AM

Hi,I Will post a pic or two from the conversion done years ago by a guy i knew.
Not much detail,but one gets the idea.

He did it in a verry rough way just to test. My conversion wilk be muuuch neater:no:

vic5318 - May 8th, 2015 at 03:54 AM

Alfa 2.0 dohc in 1.9wc microbus "vanagon"