| Wildthings |
Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:18 am |
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tencentlife wrote: Quote: Have you ever seen a WBXer engine where someone has removed all the rubber lines except those that are needed for engine movement? If so I would like to see the pics.
If that question is rhetorical then I would say you and TK ought to meet up for lunch sometime, you have a lot in common. If the question is posed sincerely then my answer is it's a fairly simple project that's already in the pipeline, albeit at low priority because it's in the category of solutions in search of a problem. But I'm not above delivering goods people only believe they need, as long as it's something that does no harm. Nothing wrong with a little bling-bling.
It could be a fairly simple project for the right person with the resources, knowledge and time, but for a typical shop to do a good one off, they would charge you about the same as they would to do a Subaru conversion. You have been around VW's and cars in general long enough to know that most people including many with lots of experience only do butcher jobs when they try and do something like this.
If you or someone else could make up a clean bolt on kit that would be a different matter, but so long as the only way to get it done for most is to pay a shop to do a one off of questionable quality I will stick by my recommendation that it would be better to go with a Suby swap. |
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| Tooharsh |
Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:50 pm |
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My experience so far on the Vanagon is reading here and looking at pics, but I agree I think the top of the engine and injectors would be quite the job. I may look into going steel for the long run through the firewall and go from there.
Thanks guys. |
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| danfromsyr |
Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:06 pm |
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one could install the metal lines from an Fuel injected aircooled type-IV engine. they have essentially the same needs & layout.
you would have to relocate/update the fuel pressure regulator.
you can see them here onBen's page (thanks benny)
http://www.benplace.com/fuel_line.htm
but they still burn down fuel injected Bay buses with bad fuel lines. it only takes one spraying seeping hose. |
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