I think he's using the driveline from the big LHS cars, which places the engine longitudinally instead of transversely, as in the minivans.� Astride instead of sidesaddle, as writer Gordon Jennings once observed. No 4-cylinder was available in that configuration, as I recall.� Why he chose it is probably explained adequately in his posts, but I'd have thought the transverse (minivan engine) setup would require less space and be more Vanagon-friendly and provide a greater variety of engines, from fours to several displacements of V6.� This may just have been simpler.
�
Stephen

--- On Mon, 6/21/10, BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: V6 vanagon, with 4 speed auto tranny
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 11:07 PM

This guy has been spamming various area CL's for sometime. He had been
mostly promoting his discussion froum for his pariculat conversion.
This is the first time I saw him post an actual vehicle for sale. Glad
to see he finished one though.

I only wished he did a conversion using the 4-cylinder instead of the
6. Lots of those 6's at my local wrecking yards with dead motors. The
4-banger on the otherhand seems more robust. Have one in our '2000
Routan'. ;-)

BenT

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On Jun 21, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Dug Smith <dug@DUGBERT.COM> wrote:

> I found this while perusing Craigslist.� Not mine, and just in case
> anybody's interested.
>
> http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/1802372358.html
>
> toodle pip,
> --
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