Whoo-hoo! The Wonderbus's new engine has landed

TOO SWEET

:D

Jan

I'll toss the new engine onto the stand tomorrow and shoot a few pix. To me, it is a wonderful revelation to see a clean new factory engine. I dunno if it will be of much interest to the more experienced fellows here.

But taking requests, anyway: anything particular you want I should take a picture of?

PS -- the case has a tapped hole for the thermostat.

Sounds great

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Inge,

...Gareth

Oh, well now, /Inge/ . . . She's shy, needs coaxing. She's gonna cost you.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:40:55 -0700, "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" :

She's gonna cost you

...forget it, yer not getting my cats eye shooter marble,,,,, =-)

...Gareth

Shucks.

Did US Customs nail you on sales tax? I bought my engine years ago at that dealership when they still were selling Beetles. Was way cool looking at all the aircooled parts in the back while getting my engine. And yes, they are nice. Nothing like a new factory built engine.

--Dan E

Nah, the customs bull just looked at the engine for a few moments, blinked slowly and waved us through. Pretty nice dealership.

A side note: Mexicans are under the impression that everything in Mexico is shoddy compared to what we rich USA folk have. And by the same token, we view Mexican goods as being poor-quality. When I explained that we can't easily get engines this good in the US, the Tijuana-born guy that was helping me brightened up considerably. "We've always heard that everything is better in American," he said. "This is nice to hear."

So...a Mexican engine is better than one of Jake's models? Hmmmm...

Seriously, you're comparing apples and oranges. If you could have gotten a factory original engine in the US, for the same cost, wouldn't you have done so?

My Spanish is rotten and the fellows I was talking to had fairly limited English. I didn't want to get into discussing high-end hand-built engines. What I was trying to communicate with them was that they were very lucky in Mexico, in that they could go to the VW dealership and buy a factory-new 1600 engine, while in the US, VW can't be bothered providing such a thing, and that American Type 1 and 2 owners generally have to buy poorly-built stuff like that which GEX and VW Paradise sell.

Naturally, you can always find a high-quality item in just about any country if price is no object.

Well, duh. That was my point. You can't.

Who said anything about Raby? Since Raby by his own admission is pretty much out of the Type 1 business he is pretty irrelevent here. I have one of the Mexican engines (w/ hydraulic lifters) and they are a very good engine if you are looking for a 1600. If you wanted something else but bought one, then you'd probably think it sucked.

You can buy five or ten Mexican engines for the cost of a Raby. I'll bet Jake will tell you that you get a lot for your money with a Mexican engine. If a person wants stock, what's the problem?

its simple...downshift too early....even a high dollar "kewl" rev limiter can't help with a mechanical over-rev...

------------------- Chris Perdue

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!"

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engines he sent me an e-mail stating that they were

Search stuff like STF and probably even RAMVA and

So what's the alternative to a new stock engine if we aren't supposed to buy them from Mexico?

Good point :)

jan

Owning a RAT engine myself, I think this comparison is silly and I agree with John. I think it's great that Mike got a factory new engine in a time when ACVWs have zero dealership support in the US. Mike's resourcefulness in acquiring what he now has should be a lesson to all in the border states.

But if you want a better than factory, more than mild, new engine and have a spare $7K or so, you know who to call...

This comparison is silly.. I'm out..