[EMAIL PROTECTED] says of watercooled Bus conversions: > its more work then you think,
Oh trust me, I know exactly how much work it is because I'm doing one. Right now it runs but it ain't presentable. The radiator sits on a little frame I made from black-iron pipe with steel tabs welded to it in various strategic places; these tabs hold the frame to the Bus chassis and the radiator to the frame. Mounted to the radiator tabs is a Ford pickup radiator. There's five inches between the back of the radiator and the front of the Bus. I haven't decided how to hide the radiator--build a fake spare tire or make a Mexican-style black fiberglass shroud? Decisions, decisions. The Mexican-style shroud's pretty cool, though. Moving the fluid to the engine are two stainless pipes the same outside diameter as the inside diameter of my radiator hoses. Solves the problem of trying to adapt the hose to the radiator hoses. These run right inside the frame rails. There's the engine out of a Taurus back there. It has 135hp. Recommend not nailing the gas; easy acceleration is fine but just romping on it will do bad things to your clutch. It's sitting on a Kennedy adapter plate. You need an electric fuel pump to feed the beast. I got one from a FLAPS. It's a Bendix. I just asked for a fuel injection pump for a car that doesn't have the pump in the gas tank, and they fixed me up. Not sure what it was supposed to go on. I did the return by fiddling with the gas-filler connector on the tank. The exhaust system isn't done yet, but I'm doing what the gentleman who did the Vortec conversion did--cat under one battery box, muffler under the other, pipes looped around the engine. -- --jmowreader [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE send any e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To email the admin for list help only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands send any e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donations help keep the list going. http://www.type2.com/donate.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------
