Hi, Asad, If gas prices are doing anthing like what they are here, you might want to keep the Diesel - and run it on used cooking oil... :)
What kind of Diesel? Air cooled? VW? Sounds like a one-off kind of conversion. If it's liquid cooled, where did they hide the radiator? I'm looking for a VW Jetta TDI myself, this summer...62 MPG. Worth it unless Diesel get to twice the price of gas, but you can always make your own fuel, if it gets bad. As far as 'original' DP aircooled engines go, I would look for anything prior to the fuel injection era, '75 or newer - the older heads have bigger valves. Found out the hard way, trying to get a bit more performance out of my son's '75 Bug. Chuck Kuecker asad ishaque wrote: > Hello volks, > > I am in the process of rescuing yet another vinatge VW from the evil > clutches of local scrappers. This time a 64 Split bus! This would however be > sent over to another city for a resto and mild mods. > > The bus comes with a Diesel slapped in its behind which has to go. I > have eyed a Dual port 1600 which came off a Bay window bus at the scrap yard. > Its series is AF and its M240 option badged. From what I understand it came > with dished pistons and was designed to run on low grade gasoline due to the > lower compression ratio. > > What are your comments on an AF series engine?? any pros and cons?? > Worthy buy or should I wait for something better? > > The new owner plans to totally rebuild the engine and use it as a > weekend ride. Now when he replaces the sleeve/piston set he would lose the > dished setup. Would that not result in a 'non-M-240' setup?? Or does the > M-240 have more differences?? > > Please shed some light on this. In an ideal world which 1600 dual port > series is the best buy in terms of performance? > > Thanks for all thoughts, > > Asad > Karachi, Pakistan. > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
