I disagree also. My vr6 conversion Has not had one issue after driving as my daily driver all last summer. where as the boxer was being tinkered on daily

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> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:36:46 -0500
> From: dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET
> Subject: Re: conversion -Opinions Please
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> On the Fun Bus, I had to replace the valve covers last year. They rusted out
> and the pin holes started leaking oil. The last time the valve covers were
> off was back in 1989 when VW did that re-torque the heads recall campaign.
> Now has 247,000 miles on it. I just did a NY to Florida trip last
> thanksgiving. Of course my other '87 did need head gaskets at 127k. Head
> corrosion did them. Road salt. One head was corroded so bad an exhaust stud
> fell out. Head done with engine in van. Worst part was the exhaust system. I
> know of many vans that have gone over 200k on the original engine.
> Definitely do-able.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Rob
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:43 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: conversion -Opinions Please
> 
> At  1/20/2007 01:09 PM, Dave Vickery wrote:
> 
> 
> >Conversions are justified if you want more power, not reliability.  The
> >engine might be more reliable but the conversion and related things will
> >have you tinkering on it every weekend (really) and I wonder now whether I
> >like working on my van more than going places.
> 
> I have to disagree with this statement based on my experience.
> 18,805 miles (plus, my speedo didn't work for almost a month) on my
> Subaru 2.2 conversion. The engine had 130,000 on it when I put it in.
> I had to change the head gaskets on the Subaru engine, I should have
> done that when I was putting it but I didn't. That works out to one
> weekend working on the engine since last May (8 months) and I did
> that with the engine in the van. That's a touch better reliability
> than I had with the 2.1 that came with it <g>.
> FWIW my '87 Vanagon drives like real car merging on to the freeway
> now, even merging up a hill.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
> 
> With a '91 Subaru 2.2 in an '87 Vanagon in western Washington.

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