[T3] cracked block

[Keith Park]

It does sound like a 2L might just be too much fun for a winter car
But rest assured, Id walk 10 miles thru a Blizzard before I drove an
aircooled in the salt! And the RX7 has too little traction to get back in
the garage if I even back it out in the snow!  :-)

So a 2L A3 thru 99 would bolt up?  Hmmm, you got me thinkin anyway.
There are other things involved, the exhaust manifold gasket has leaked for
several years and it's the original clutch at 167K, so there are some swap
plusses.

And if I get something else and give it to the kid down the road, an engine
upgrade would be something he'd be on board for,

Keith


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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Hal
Sullivan
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 4:20 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] cracked block

On 12/27/2013 08:03 AM, Keith Park wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas, although this is a winter car for me so keeping
things
> as simple as possible is my goal, do the A3 blocks have all the same
mounts
> on them for the bracketry?  I really don't want to get into changing heads
> anyway...
>
Understood that it's your winter car, just trying to give an extra 
option that might've been overlooked in case your patch-over-the-hole 
doesn't pan out.  Still, I'd think that spending a weekend thrashing out 
an engine swap would be preferable to exposing one of the air-cooled 
beasties (or the RX7) to the winter salt. :-)

All the bracketry mounts I've needed have been there, along with some 
"extra" ones that an A1-chassis car doesn't need .. everything for the 
A2 should bolt up as well.  And honestly, changing heads isn't as big a 
job as it is on some engines, I've done them on these cars in an 
afternoon with the engine installed.

Fingers crossed for the patch.
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