Hi Ron,
Glad to hear you had a good trip, too bad sagefox had to stay home.
Look forward to reading about it on your site.
Here is my question....when you ordered your engine from Redding did
you go check it out in person? It sounds like it was all done over
the phone. My KEP adapter kit should be here any day now and I
really should start getting serious about getting an engine. I'm a
little nervous about ordering up a used motor site unseen. Sounds
like you had very good results though. Did you have anyway to verfy
the mileage, did the compression match what you were told? Is this
the part where I just need to have faith that the motor will be good
and not worry about it?
The wasserboxer is still running fine at 168 k miles with the
exception of some really noisy lifters that usually quiet down after
1/2 hour or so. Still has reasonable power and consistently getting
23 mpg except for last weekend when my distributor rotor broke in
two. I taped and wired it back together well enough to get me to the
parts house. Really strange.
The plan is to have the 2.2 motor on the shelf, the kit in hand, the
wire harness made up and do the engine swap when this engine dies.
It would be very convienient if it happend this summer before the
rainy season gets here. Don't know if I could bring myself to pull
out a running VW motor. Also don't know how long I'll be able to
stand it once I have all the stuff here ready to go. The price on
2.2 subarus has jumped to about $1500 from $1100 a few months ago
here in the Seattle area. If you or anyone else has any more advice
on wrecking yard motors I'd sure appreciate it.
P.S. I did check into the engine that was posted on this list a few
days ago.... didn't get any response.
Thanks
