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posted on April 21st, 2005 at 01:50 PM
I am going the suby option for a variety of reasons, one of the important ones was the fact the vehicle does not have to be cut up in any way. Just a
few holes drilled.
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posted on April 21st, 2005 at 06:54 PM
why not get the porsche engine thats on ebay at the moment.
bolts straight on to a 2 litre box?
oh yeah, it's $6k
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posted on April 23rd, 2005 at 10:45 AM
Quote:
Originally
posted by MikeM
The EJ is a better all around solution as you don't have to cut up the kombi. I'm a big fan of preserving VWs. Bay windows are the Splits of
tommorow. If we cut them all up in 20 years time on the forum there will be people asking why some idiot cut up that mint 76 bus to put an ancient 25
year old clapped out 2000 model V6 in it.
If they were all cranky about a V6, they'd be just as cranky about an EJ.
I think they'd refer to them as a "period modification". There are heaps of buggies and buses from the 80s with corvair motors and V8s and such and
people love em. As long as the conversion's done well, most people wouldn't care. Besides, the rate everything's going there be replace panels for
every part of the bay window by then, you could just reverse it all to air-cooled if you wanted.
I reckon it's like this;
v6 - lots of towing, big torque. But this means a heavily modded gbox with taller ratios.
EJ22 - value for dollars, but less power.
I think there'd be parts easily available for both motors in most places, but if you live out the back of bourke the V6 might win coz mechanics know
dunnydores (commodores) better.
