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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:49 am    Post subject: Possible engine conversion? Audi V12 TDI 493HP!!! Reply with quote

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WOW!!! Is it possible?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Might need a little of sound deadening material Shocked Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's completely possible. I heard of this guy in AZ who put a JATO engine into a '67 Chevy once...

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

....you might need to modify the decklid....
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Forget the HP what's that bad boy put out for torque??
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

somebody should do that swap with a doka singlecab

imagine, a 10 second vanagon!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

737 ft/lbs@3000rpm
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

noza wrote:
imagine, a 10 second vanagon!


Remember this?
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It has a Vanagon chassis.
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Porsche twin turbo
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

so it does.

that thing is BADASS
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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where is the fridge????? Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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where is the fridge????? Laughing


Whatever happened with this project?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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where is the fridge????? Laughing


It flew out the rear hatch along with the rest of the interior when they dropped the hammer on the test run. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's an ice chest now, laid on its back where the engine used to live.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Best video ever. Cool


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

McVanagon wrote:
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where is the fridge????? Laughing


Whatever happened with this project?
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Its getting very near completion Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Holy sheepshank!!!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zeitgeist 13 wrote:
Holy sheepshank!!!


I agree completely.

1104 Hk, 1311 NM....

The whole story here: http://www.vwbus.no/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=17552
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sick, that guy is terminal!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder what the 150-0 stop time is?
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