Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:25:57 -0400
Reply-To: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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From: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: V6 vanagon, with 4 speed auto tranny
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To be fair regarding the zetec....
Idaho in my case was substituted with Iowa.
In the middle of Iowa I killed a serpentine belt (I knew it was coming as i
had rusty pulleys on a junkyard engine). Luckily I carried a spare and was
easily able to fix it along the roadside. Well anyway, Never wanting to
travel without a spare, I imediately found the small mom and pop auto parts
store which sold farm equipment as well (Ever hear of Anita Iowa? Wasn't
even on my map!).....
and surprise surprise..... they had the part in hand!
The zetec engine is wonderfully roadside friendly.
Parts are wildly cheap and available everywhere (as well as in junkyards).
I know some of the Audi engines this would not at all be the case......
-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the back
shopping for a syncro to do it all again!
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
> That Audi 2.8L V6 engine is what we have in our A6 w/ over 190K miles
> on it & nary a problem the whole time.
> I would put it in my vannie if the A6 didn't run so well.
>
> YMMV,
>
> Mr. BZ-the wife would be pissed however
>
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
>
> IIRC when Jim Akiba was explaining why he settled on the Zetec for
>> their
>> conversions, he had eliminated a number of engines based on (among
>> other
>> things) availability, initial cost, cost of parts/service,
>> availability of
>> parts (if you got stuck in Idaho on a Saturday afternoon, for
>> instance) and
>> so on.
>> There are a lot of factors to consider in picking a conversion; I
>> could put
>> my hands on a GM drivetrain much more readily and inexpensively than
>> I could
>> an Audi drivetrain.
>> It might be just that he has some familiarity with that engine,
>> though he's
>> certainly not the first guy to consider a Buick 6- I've seen it come
>> up
>> several times. I believe Neil was discussing it before he went with
>> his I4
>> (if that's the same Neil).
>>
>> I'm more interested in seeing if he pulls off the configuration than
>> I am in
>> which drivetrain he's using.
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Mark Dearing
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6:42 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: V6 vanagon, with 4 speed auto tranny
>>
>> In a message dated 6/23/2010 9:23:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jleftbrane@gmail.com writes:
>>
>> think he addressed that in on his yahoo site... says its worse for
>> some reason
>> On 23-Jun-10, at 6:07 AM, Mark Dearing wrote:
>>
>> anybody have any links to the audi 2.8L V6 in a vannie?? It would
>>> seem to
>>> be a much better engine than a chrysler. later mark d
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> well I personally don't give a damn what he thinks . I do know I
>> have seen
>> the audi 2.8L v6 with over 300K on them, never seen a chrysler make
>> it that
>> far since the old good slant 6
>>
>
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