OT: Vanagon Engine Drop on Sunday, Any NW guys want to help? or supervise? Options

[KELTY360]

Dropping a waterboxer on Sunday if anyone wants to swing by. Refreshments to be arranged if anybody is interested. I'm on the border of Renton and Newcastle.

[Bleyseng]

For a engine swap/upgrade I like the Ford Focus engines as they drop in, 130HP EFI, and you can turbo em. You can buy a crate motor from Ford too brand new....Subies have had their head problems too over the years....

[Tom_T]

For a engine swap/upgrade I like the Ford Focus engines as they drop in, 130HP EFI, and you can turbo em. You can buy a crate motor from Ford too brand new....Subies have had their head problems too over the years....

And here I thought you were the die hard aircooled fan! ... well now I'm truly disappointed! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

... yeah, I've had my "head problems" over the years too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

Oh, you meant engine head - that too.

On our first long XC trip - when the van was new & kids were little, my wife was driving while I snoozed in the back, & she dropped it into 1st on the grade on I-40 outside of Kingman AZ & over-revved it, bending the valves! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Of course that was a Saturday, so we spent the next 5 days of our 2 week trip back to IN-AR-OK in lovely Kingman awaiting a new set of valves/heads to arrive & get installed (don't recall the VW shop on the main drag, but they did a good job).

Then threw a rod through the top of the case at around 120k between Zzzzyx & Daggett on I-10 coming home from the same trip - complete new 2.1 w/b & old case to scrap!

And more recently had some fried valves down in San Diego moving our daughter stuff to/from college - for a top end in 2005 at 180k +or so.

I guess we just never got to the coolant waterfall from the heads/gaskets stage though because of those rebuilds! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)