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• Syncro vanagon Karmann conversion
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:48:10 -0700
  Syncro fans, Check this out. A mobile home syncro vanagon for sale. Has all the amenities of home. Here's the website for photo...
• Self camperizing
  Historical mailing list - Rob Wilke
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:00:42 +0100
  I'm about halfway thru a poptop conversion and I was wondering if you need to cut the luggage rack seal so the poptop...
• Re: subaru conversion
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:28:59 +1200
  >Now ask me what came to mind when my brother pulled up in his nearly new 2000 >Carrera Cabriolet. The left brain said "Wow...
• clutch pressure plate throw out bearing FS
  Historical mailing list - dawn
  Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:32:14 -0700
  ...it has less that 10k on the assembly.I blew the engine and I am now in the mist of conversion. This part is...
• 95 VW EuroVan Winnebago Conversion - $20000
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:32:47 -0700
  Not mine... http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/car/1584592.html Daniel Snow PhD Student UC Berkeley '82 Vanagon Diesel '78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped...
• Stretch Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:36:41 -0500
  Unusual conversion, a stretched Vanagon. Among the weird and unusual. http://www.evcl.com/vw/ Stan ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE...
• know a good repair shop in San Juan Capistrano, CA?
  Historical mailing list - bruce simon blake
  Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:30:34 -0900
  I'm stranded in San Juan Capistrano, and looking for a shop that can rebuild my exhaust system on my Eurospec Conversion 86 Westy...
• worth of 87 syncro
  Historical mailing list - Rob Wilke
  Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:56:59 -0600
  ...Ouch! It has a well done poptop conversion on it . No seam rust. A tranny with a 2 year warranty on it. What's...
• Karl Bloss' pop top conversion
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:07:09 -0800
  Using the "wayback machine" I was able to retrieve this: <http://web.archive.org/web/20020821130648/http://members.citynet.net/bloss/ vw/poptop/index...
• Re: South African Vanagon: Source for parts?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:28:16 -0500
  Yes, check into Overland's 5 cylinder conversion. That's essentially what it is. On Jan 4, 2004, at 10:15 PM, pete owsianowski...
• Air box WTB
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:30:49 -0700
  I need a Syncro air box for my 1987 Subaru conversion. Anyone have one they want to get rid of ??? Sean Garrett 81 Westy...
• Re: clutch housing rebuild
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:20:01 -0400
  ...It is avaliable for sale in my ebay store ,in a inline 4 conversion kit.. http://stores.ebay.com/rdsrds123
• Re: WTB: 2.1l engine core in Nor Cal/ Nor Nev
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT O UELTZEN
  Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:26:04 -0700
  ...I put in a Tiico conversion, so I have other engine parts available, too. I'm in the Sacramento area. Contact me if you...
• Re: slightVC: TDI vs hybrid (was: Re: TDI conversion thoughts)
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:33:59 +0000
  never see the inside of a dealer--hard to say that about Vanagons with a straight face. No, not really. No VW dealers will...
• bURNINGvAN 2014 pictures
  Historical mailing list - Ben
  Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:56:07 -0800
  ...Now there are a few nice looking crewcab conversions out there. But unless you are a talented fabricator, your money is better spent buying...
• Re: An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions! - 3A Comment
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:08:32 -0400
  ...Re: [VANAGON] An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions! - 3A Comment NOW you tell me.... (Not that I've seen any evidence of oil not...
• Re: Oettinger Flat 6's
  Historical mailing list - John Welsh
  Thu, 26 Jun 1997 21:40:40 +0000
  ...Himmel!!! > Go do a conversion into $US then scrape out your trousers. > > Oettinger also do a 2.5 litre conversion for 2.1l WBXs...
• Re: Engine Conversion and MPG
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:33:30 -0400
  ...I like the Subaru conversion so much that I plan on dropping one in out Westfalia when the time comes. The only impediment to...
• Need for upgraded brakes for engine conversion
  Historical mailing list - Syncronicity1
  Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:50:50 -0700
  Folks, One of the items I picked up in various engine conversion discussions is the need to upgrade brakes, or that the higher HP...
• Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cochran
  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:23:38 -0700
  ...Jim C On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Jim Akiba wrote: > Plug in conversions for the prius have been around for years...
• Dictionary ... part II
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:14:13 PDT
  ...Another US-made camper conversion. Dean Aukes: This is a conversion done in the U.S. - David Schwarze has one - he is an expert...
• Re: Engine conversion..One altermative..
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Wed, 2 May 2007 00:21:00 -0700
  ...Yet I don't assume most Vanagon owner's want a engine conversion as I did when I converted my '82 Diesel in 1995...
• Re: John Wessels Glori's Import offering Zetec & Subie engine conversions
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Thu, 4 Sep 2008 01:01:29 -0400
  ...It makes no difference that the conversion is demonstrably WAY cleaner than not only the original engine, but also the ej22 conversion which IS...
• Looking for a New or good used Tiico kit
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:55:04 -0900
  ...Personally, I would put extra money into a Subaru conversion or one of the Ford Zetec conversions. I have the Subaru 2.2 in...
• RE: 6 cyl. Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 23 Nov 1994 13:57:19 EST
  Derek Drew points out the difficulty that the Porsche conversion has for those whose Vanagons have an absurd-looking second grill and who feel...
• R134 USERS????--conversion kit
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:48:19 -0500
  I just purchased the R134a conversion kit at the local Auto Zone. One of two things happened. I either screwed up badly or the...
• Re: Going air cooled on my water cooled?
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:04:14 EST
  ...Once I inspected the thing, I discovered it was a Mark VII conversion. That was not the worst part. I opened the engine lid...
• Re: AC Conversion: R12 to R134A
  Historical mailing list - Mark & Laura Magee
  Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:10:09 -0500
  ...Does anyone know of a good article on a website > or a good list posting that covers R12 -> R134A AC > refrigerant conversion? I've...
• Re: Contact Information
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Sat, 4 Jan 2003 00:41:09 -0500
  ...There are three of us in this area doing Subaru conversions and we need Wasserboxer Vanagon/Westy owners to race and generally show off...
• Re: dont ever take your honeymoon in a vanagon camper...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:50:18 -0500
  Think of the air fare and hotels he could have been in for all the money spent on the resto and conversion! -----Original Message...
• Re: small car VW engine conversion
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:59:50 -0800
  ...small car VW engine conversion >Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:01:55 -0500 > >Shoulder belts keep you from hitting the dashboard in the...
• Re: State of the Art in Engine Swaps is....?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Fox
  Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:14:43 -0600
  ...However, one of the reasons i would never consider a vanagon engine conversion is that NONE of these engines are designed to run at...
• Re: Gas to Diesel conversion Legal in CA
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:44:57 -0700
  Mike, Easy to change status to diesel with the DMV. Conversion to diesel will cost you $4-$10k + a lot of hours of your...
• Re: 82 Air Cooled Engine Swap Choices?
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:01:22 -0800
  ...The cost of a conversion kit, should be readily availble via the net'. If you're getting a mechanic to do conversion, this will...
• Re: breadloaf EV sighting
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:44:25 -0500
  Has the time arrived? Along with where to get a good rebuilt AFM or ECU will we now be comparing conversion EV options? Forget...
• Re: Parts needed... Looking for some diesel bits or a cheap WBX in southern Ontario
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:45:18 -0700
  ...I can replace it with another waterboxer or I can > use the diesel conversion parts and engine that I had been planning to > install...
• Re: six cylinder vanagons, KENNEDY
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:28:07 EDT
  ...One of the catalysts for my long dream of a Porsche=powered Vanagon was a conversion done by the Porsche factory, which I saw...
• Re: [Re: what the vw waterboxer offers?? wasRe: 85 Westfalia beeping]
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fortino
  Wed, 30 May 2001 14:48:02 MDT
  ...multipart/alternative > --------------------------------------------- It seems that if a person is going to spend $4K to $5K on the Subie conversion and end up with a...
• Re: I4 conversion speed sensor issue
  Historical mailing list - Tom Cullen
  Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:02:55 -0700
  ...I'm converting to Subaru power, and needed the same thing. (no flames about which conversion is better, to each his own) Luckily a...
• Re: [Syncro] R12 to R134a Air Conditioning Conversion
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:09:30 -0700
  ...vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com; Syncro@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Syncro] R12 to R134a Air Conditioning Conversion Anyone done one of these? What does it entail...
• Passat 2.0L engine questions (donor car for 15 degree Vanagon conversion)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:02:23 -0400
  ...The last thing you want is to wrap up your DIY conversion and have the head gasket blow on you when you're wringing...
• Re: R12 to R134a Air Conditioning Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Robert Campbell
  Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:37:33 -0700
  ...R12 to R134a Air Conditioning Conversion What did it cost you? How many hours of labour? DId they break down the cost of the...
• Re: Photo of Fast Forward's prototype Vanagon ALH [TDI] Conversion Kit
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:39:43 -0700
  ...Photo of Fast Forward's prototype Vanagon ALH [TDI] Conversion Kit Dave, Isn't the radiator looking thingy on the left the intercooler? Should...
• Re: What else to do while I-4 conversion is being done
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:35:48 -0500
  ...What else to do while I-4 conversion is being done Doug if I were you I'd take the time to POR15 the...
• Re: Replacement AFM technology
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:31:45 -0700
  ...So then the search becomes what is the ideal vanagon engine conversion ? That's still being worked out ! I do appreciate subaru engine conversions...
• Re: Subie Conversion Mystery ll
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:33:29 -0600
  Dennis It is actually quite often in the Subie Conversion World ~ Does seem to also be Quite Problematic though ~ > On 18 Oct , 2022, at...
• Re: Auto show - kinda Westy like camper
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:36:47 -0500
  ...Auto show - kinda Westy like camper > >> > >> At the Chicago auto show Nissan had a camper conversion based on their > > Envoy small van NV 200...
• Re: Engine swap
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:16:02 -0400
  Of course there are lots of thoughts and opinions on engine conversions. One major consideration are your plans to support it. In many ways...
• Camper pricing was Re: Friday Philosophy: On Community
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:47:43 -0500
  At 02:06 PM 2/16/2013, Stuart MacMillan wrote: >right about the US conversions, but Americans seem to want all this >stuff. I...
• R&T letter about vanagon up-engines ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 25 Apr 96 21:32:30 CDT
  ...Do you know if any conversions to V-6 power or any other type of engine (excluding Porsche) have been done? If so, could...
• Re: TIICO: Tach is off
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:05:39 -0500
  ...Prior > to > > the > > conversion my tach read 4K when my speed was 70mph. Now after the > > conversion > > the tack reads 4.2K at 70mph...
• Re: Air Conditioning Question (NOT conversion related)
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:38:38 -0400
  ...Air Conditioning Question (NOT conversion related) OK all you A/C experts, here's your chance to show your stuff. The PO on my...
• Re: Poptop conversion
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:09:54 -0500
  ...Turns > > out it is a very good candidate for pop top conversion into a camper > maybe. > > Anyone done this before? How hard are those...
• Re: I want a bigger diesel turbo in it ...
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:05:53 +0100
  ...www.v6bus.de Also you can check thesamba.com forums, where I offered the gearbox conversion kit as public domain. 132kw 370Nm, test-driveable...
• Re: Soliciting VW Engine Recommendations
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:15:12 -0800
  ...I have a whole CISe vanagon engine conversion .... the conversion layout is started , then I got distracted. I will try running my 2.0...
• Re: New Kit For VW Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:02:20 -0800
  ...New Kit For VW Engine Conversion $12K? I'm in the wrong business, apparently. Chris. Wyslane z iPhone'a Dnia Jan 5, 2012 o...
• Re: bought 97 ev sell 86westie!
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:11:49 -0700
  ...Is it a difference between European and >American camping? I keep hearing on this list that Westfalia conversions >are better than the Winnebago, but...
• Conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Penberthy, Thomas
  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:45:57 -0700
  ...word=&areacode1=&areacode2=&areacode3=&state=&region=7 It's the 86 conversion by Adventure Wagon. Too much of a project. If anyone is interested...
• Re: wild van for sale...
  Historical mailing list - Pat Dooley
  Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:20:49 -0000
  ...grey int, full camper package, nothing left out. > > This conversion ( over $10,000 into conversion) was done in CA > and has a perfect service...
• Re: "windage tray" and other I4 conversion comments
  Historical mailing list - T Berk
  Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:00:40 -0800
  ...You can get one from many vendors, Potter has them, with conversion studs; <http://www.parts4vws.com> (Not Vanagon specific site, but a well...