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Like i said, give me a call.

Are you mechanicly minded? If so then build it your self. Buying salvage? Good idea but you will have a lot of parts left over, which on the good side side could return you some money back. Go for at least a 3.2 motor but a 3.6 in my eyes is a stronger unit with more power. Be prepared for spending ...

As well as £5000 for engine and box {depending on what size you want} you will also need oil tank, oil lines, oil thermostat, oil cooler with fan assistance. You will need to make adapters for cv joints, modify the clutch master system and if you can't install yourself you will have to find someone ...

If your engine needs a good overhaule i would suggest you go for a recon unit first. Once everything is a ok then go for an lpg kit. Be prepaired to spend your money as a good unit without any replacement ancilleries will set you back £1500.00. You will need to replaces all your gaskets for inlet an...

Just go LPG.
Cut your fuel bills down for sure!

If you use the Aircooled box and still retain the standard style starter motor, you will be able to use a high torque starter which will happliy turn over the cossie engine. If you buy it from the USA you will save something in the region of £80 - £100 for a high torque starter. As for the Aircooled...

Like you said, test it yourself first and then be certain.

oh well we see what happens next week.

cheers lads

Well i can't be certain yet about the rings but what if the breather is not breathing. Would this cause enough pressure to build up in the case and then blow oil out the top of the rocker cover back into the airbox. Should everything ie oil breathers, rocker cover and all the standard 1.8gti gubbins...

Just purchased a pannel van with a 1.8gti motor. My pal has spent a lot of time working on it with the conversion and has given up due to oil being pushed through the cam cover breather. I understand that there is a baffel to stop the oil from going out the breather but when you rev it over 3000rpm ...

On a water cooled bus what would be a nice straight forwrd water cooled porsche lump n box to fit?? Then nex question is what would you be looking at costwise to acquire said lump n gearbox? Obviously i'd like to begin with a nice hefty brake conversion, vans lowered already, jus thinking bout it l...

I may be getting old as I like my heater I remember driving my beetle and freezing in winter scraping ice of the inside of the windscreen. What do you do for heating in a watercooled van with Aircooled engine Do you use eberspasher or propex I would want to run the engine on lpg Well i didn't have ...

The trouble with the 996 motor is you need to use all the electrical loom from the car for it to run. Everthing including ignition key and all the gubbins. This gets very complicated and even more expensive. Also 996 motors are less tuneable than the 964 or the 993 3.6, unless you can afford the GT3...

Your oettinger engine case has the same dimensions at the transmission end as the standard wbx motor. Porsche flat 6 Aircooled motors use the same diamension as the VW 2.0 type 4 Aircooled and wbx at the transmission point. You will need to source a clutch and possibly a spigot bearing that mates up...

What happened to the transmission from the bus you claimed the engine from? Was it an oettinger trans or just stock item? See if he still has it. You should be able to run your oettinger clutch and flywheel through a 915 trans. You will have a fairly big job fitting the box ie body modifications, dr...

Although proberly the most expensive of alternative conversions, the 3.6 porsche motor has enough power to take on anything. In stock form the early 3.6 puts out over 250 bhp which is enough for most people. For those rev heads like me, the 3.6 engine is proberly the most tuneable engine porsche hav...