Hi - I want to get a vanagon and like the round head light style. I found one which has a "new" (24k miles) GEX aircooled engine. I don't know much about air cooled engines so just curious how this will do? I do a lot of trips out to the Utah desert in the summer - will this be a problem? Plus, I live up a canyon in Colorado (not too hot but steep).
Will not be a daily driver but will be driven quite a bit. Thanks!
GEX motors are the worst. I think it is best to stay clear of that one, or buy with the intention of a motor failure shortly thereafter. They make the worst motors.........very few folks have had any reliability out of them
Contrary to widespread experiences, GEX engines are not all bad. It's the
99% of them that are just plain crap and give the rest a bad reputation. Nuff said?I put a GEX aircooled in my 71 bus 9 years ago and it is still running strong.
3 months I sold the bus to a kid who lives 40 miles north of here and I have seen it back in town three or four times. After hearing of a lot of bad experiences I wouldn't buy aanother one, but hope you lucked out and got one of the good ones. No one is perfect. Not even GEX can mess everything up every time. Good luck. TimK11
The parts to build an engine cost more than what they charge for the whole deal... If you take that into account you get a pretty good deal if you buy from them!
So how many GEXs does a guy have to buy to get a good one? Isn't it like saying that playing slot machines is a good deal because $1000 can be had for a quarter?
True, but go to a casino and see how many people are lined up to put their quarters in. Not only that, the casinos here on the Gulf Coast now have $50 and $100 slot machines. Scares me. Timk11
What I was saying is that what is paid for, is what is bought... No matter if its engines or if its a can of soup...
They sell complete engines for less than the parts that comprise on of mine!
...hell I think their complete engines are less that the cylinders alone (nickies) that comprise one of yours....but then I bet they haven't broken their dyno as often as you either =-)))))
...Gareth
Hell for the cost of one set of Nickies you could buy 2-3 of their longblocks in stock size!
Yeah, breaking the dyno is expensive. Last time it cost me 6,000 to repair it.
yes, but your engines are built by you, and your reputation precedes you. if i could have afforded to have you build an engine for my 914, i'd have done that instead of buying a bug :)
I understood, Jake. I have this image of a GEX engine being just a case with random used and cheap new parts poured in. The joke is they stamp their cases so that they know which core swaps to throw into the dumpster.
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