Yeah, that would work well. I haven't seen that in SA yet. The popular
conversion here is the Ford 3L Big Six. The converted buses are mostly
used as towing vehicles but very heavy on fuel.
Alan C
On 31-May-19 07:15 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Alan C wrote on 5/30/19 9:53 PM:
Very impressive. Clearly the fastest splitty on the planet. I
remember there were very quick Volksie buses with Corvair flat 6
engines (Volksvairs) some years ago but nothing like that. However,
they did manage to shoehorn the 6 into the engine compartment so the
buses still looked quite conventional.
These days the common swap seems to be to drop Subaru motors into the
Vanagons (the later style VW bus). A friend has one and says it has
twice the power and gets better gas mileage.
Alan C
On 31-May-19 03:56 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
When I was in college I worked for a summer at the Boardwalk in
Santa Cruz. A 12 year old had a job picking up trash on the beach,
and told me about his (father's) VW bus that would do 120MPH, in the
quarter mile. My reaction was to think "yeah, I was 12 once too".
This is the successor to that bus, his father took the original with
him when he moved to Nevada.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157708846575623
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