[T2] type 2 and vanagon engines

[John Anderson]

Thanks Jamie,
 
That is still it as I recall.  And I still have the NOS '79 German box if anyone ever needs it, but again I'd have to crawl in the garage attic to decide which side it is.  Vanagon it all bolts in fine, en total, to a '78, no flywheel/tranny issues, but you got to have a way to get heat (if you want/need it) and since the Vanagon has square port heads, that means '79 heater boxes with a '72-'74 or '79 muffler or exhaust setup, or no heat with the Vanagon boxes without a lot, a lot of say aircraft silicone hose plumbing cobbled together.  You need to transfer all the shroud bits and alternator from the Bus motor to the Vanagon motor where they simply bolt on as well.  So OK and "easy" if you have both motors and can get some '79 heater boxes.  If the Bus comes with no motor at all, it is more of a PITA as you have to find Bus shroud and tin, and then unless everything is damn cheap rewards diminish quickly.
 
If you needed new heater boxes and muffler in the '78 anyway, and the Vanagon motor was cheap, no reason at all not to do it though.
 
John 
 

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 From: Jamie <jrivers at globalserve.net>
To: Tom Tarka <tommy at slackers.net>; type2 at type2.com 
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [T2] type 2 and vanagon engines
  
John Anderson wrote this recently,,,

No real issues, sort of...  As I recall, and Dolan had a www page somewhere 
I thought...

First and obvious, unless you got a '79 exhaust system, you aren't going to 
have heat without a lot of effort to plumb vanagon boxes, in point of fact 
pretty impossible/improbable without mucho work.  And to keep the vanagon 
boxes even if you rigged something down to them, would need to plug bus fan 
shroud ports.  People do run the vanagon shroud for better cooling on bigger 
T4's, perhaps one could run the alternator and modify the tin there, I've 
never looked at that closely.

etc...