As most of you know, I have just finished my conversion and ....as I
have stated, I am mostly very happy.... except for how LOW the header
and muffler hang down.

Now with KEP's shortened oil pan soon to arrive, this will be my next
project on the way to getting my skid plate re-installed.

I have posted a photo in the "Files" section which shows my converted
van next to my other (stock) Syncro. Here's the link.



The next photo shows what's going on. The engine in the Syncro sits
2 inches lower in the chassis than on a 2wd van. KEP's header was
designed for 2wd vans. Therefore, the WHOLE HEADER AND MUFFLER
SYSTEM hangs down 2" lower on Syncro. Not the direction we want to
go.

This photo shows how there's 2" of clearance left between the
muffler and the VW heat shield which would allow the muffler to be
raised up to create more clearance.

http:/www.egroups.com/files/subaruvanagon/Syncro_Muffler_clearance.jpg

Compare the first photo with one taken from Ron Bernstein's site of
his 2wd van with KEP cat and muffler installed.



Spoke with Hobert this AM about this problem and he's just beginning
to work on a solution. Go Hobert!!

In the meantime, I'm looking for a (more)immediate solution. Anyone
else tackling this problem, let me know. I'm starting to discuss a
fix with some muffler shops and custom header fabricators.

Warren C.

I received this virus twice in the last 24 hours. Thank God I just
installed Norton Antivirus about a week ago, which alerted me to the
danger. Norton AV could not fix it but "Quaranteened" the file. The
next time it arrived I deleted the email immediately.

Thanks to Norton AV or I would have opened this file to who knows
what distruction.

Warren C.

--- In subaruvanagon@..., David Beierl <DBEIERL@I...> wrote:

Folks, some of you (you know who you are) are getting this just to

know

what I'm up to. For the rest...

For those lists where this is grossly off-topic, I humbly

apologize. In

fact it's grossly off-topic on all these lists, but some of them

are having

a good bit of trouble with this, and I hope the others will be able

to

avoid it.

I'm talking about a recent virus/worm/Trojan program known

technically as

W95.hybris.gen, also as Snowhite [sic]. It tends to arrive in an

email

addressed from [saving your reverence] <hahaha@s...>. *This

Address

Is A Fake.*

I have become rather concerned about this one over the last several

weeks;

I'm right now engaged in trying to help several people around the

country

recover from it; I've received at least a dozen copies during this

time.

It has been around since 25 September, and it has an astonishing

technical

ability to adapt itself which in my humble opinion makes it

exceedingly

dangerous, even though it has not created *much* actual damage to

date. I

say much -- I know of at least two instances where people's systems

have

been quickly rendered unusable, and more where the infection has

been

difficult to eradicate. It is technically by far the most advanced

such

program yet written, and its comparatively benign behavior until

now is no

indicator of its potential. It also appears to have advanced

methods of

discovering addresses to send itself to, and may make a concerted

effort to

prevent itself being removed from an infected system.

A dedicated computer professional has purchased the domain name
(sexyfun.net) where the email allegedly originates from, and has

set up a

website there at in order to help people

recover

from this virus, and to avoid infection, and, he hopes, to

eradicate it

from the planet. He (she?) is of the opinion (which I share) that

it is

important for us all to cooperate if we don't want this to be

around for a

very long time. Happy99 lasted a year, and technically it was a
firecracker to W95.hybris.gen's ICBM. I won't waste any more time
describing W95.hybris.gen because the website has or has links to

pretty

much everything that is known about the beast.

I urge you to visit the site, plan on spending an hour or more

learning

about it, protect yourselves sensibly, and assist others in any way
possible. As our beloved Coast Guard puts it "Mariners are

requested to

maintain a sharp lookout, render assistance as needed, and report

all

sightings to the nearest Coast Guard unit."

I will do whatever I can to help anyone understand and use the

information

available at www.sexyfun.net/ (which continues to be updated as

more

information becomes available about the program).

Thanks for your attention, and please think about this carefully.
Best Regards,
David Beierl
401 274-5827 East Coast -- 8am to midnight ok.

David Beierl - dbeierl@a...

Hey Ron,

Why do you have to add a quart of oil to your engine every 100
miles. Is it caused by the new oil pan?

Thanks,

Sudeep

Hello,

I took a break fom working on my conversion for the last few weeks.
So far all the wiring look s fine and I think I am getting the
correct error codes but I still have not tried to take it in to to
pass smog. Even though the engine is purring like a kitten, I am
still overheating.

I am pretty sure I am not getting any coolant to flow to the engine.
I have looked back at previous emails and pressurized the engine per
the instructions given to previous emailers. I even went as far as to
have my VW mechanic come over to make sure i was doing it properly.
But still know coolant flow to the engine.

Any suggestions? If I do not put in a resistor in will the gauge
continue to climb?

If there quite a few bends in my copper tubing will this inhibit
coolant frm flowing to the engine. This is what my mechanic thinks
but my set up looks similar to Ron's.

Thanks for the input. If this gets fized then it's off to the smog
station.

Sudeep

Folks, some of you (you know who you are) are getting this just to know what I'm up to. For the rest...

For those lists where this is grossly off-topic, I humbly apologize. In fact it's grossly off-topic on all these lists, but some of them are having a good bit of trouble with this, and I hope the others will be able to avoid it.

I'm talking about a recent virus/worm/Trojan program known technically as W95.hybris.gen, also as Snowhite [sic]. It tends to arrive in an email addressed from [saving your reverence] <hahaha@...>. *This Address Is A Fake.*

I have become rather concerned about this one over the last several weeks; I'm right now engaged in trying to help several people around the country recover from it; I've received at least a dozen copies during this time.

It has been around since 25 September, and it has an astonishing technical ability to adapt itself which in my humble opinion makes it exceedingly dangerous, even though it has not created *much* actual damage to date. I say much -- I know of at least two instances where people's systems have been quickly rendered unusable, and more where the infection has been difficult to eradicate. It is technically by far the most advanced such program yet written, and its comparatively benign behavior until now is no indicator of its potential. It also appears to have advanced methods of discovering addresses to send itself to, and may make a concerted effort to prevent itself being removed from an infected system.

A dedicated computer professional has purchased the domain name (sexyfun.net) where the email allegedly originates from, and has set up a website there at in order to help people recover from this virus, and to avoid infection, and, he hopes, to eradicate it from the planet. He (she?) is of the opinion (which I share) that it is important for us all to cooperate if we don't want this to be around for a very long time. Happy99 lasted a year, and technically it was a firecracker to W95.hybris.gen's ICBM. I won't waste any more time describing W95.hybris.gen because the website has or has links to pretty much everything that is known about the beast.

I urge you to visit the site, plan on spending an hour or more learning about it, protect yourselves sensibly, and assist others in any way possible. As our beloved Coast Guard puts it "Mariners are requested to maintain a sharp lookout, render assistance as needed, and report all sightings to the nearest Coast Guard unit."

I will do whatever I can to help anyone understand and use the information available at www.sexyfun.net/ (which continues to be updated as more information becomes available about the program).

Thanks for your attention, and please think about this carefully.
Best Regards,
David Beierl
401 274-5827 East Coast -- 8am to midnight ok.

David Beierl - dbeierl@...

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Would you be willing to accept a low mileage used tranny from Japan? There
are a lot of importers in CA that sell engine and trans for about $500.

Jim

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I have been following the list for a while, I currently have 1.9TD
Westy. My daily ride, a 95 Legacy,is having some transmission
problems. In your searches for a Legacy engines, does anyone know of
good source for 95 Legacy 5-speeds? A source in the Midwest would be a
big help!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,

Greg

david wilhite wrote:

The van has now moved on it's own (Subaru) power. The first time it
has moved since August. The neighbors actually came out and cheered.

David,
Congrats on the drive, and welcome to the SV family! Glad to hear you
were able to get it up and running. Do your cheeks still hurt from
grinning?
Larry

Ron Bloomquist wrote:

Hi Susan, Hobert, David, Jim and the rest of the gang,

I finally got around to installing the KEP oil pan last Saturday. It
mounted up just fine.

Ron, you dog you! I guess you know we're all green with envy!! My spare
pan has been patiently sitting in a corner of my garage for several
months, just waiting for KEP to say the word. This makes it MUCH harder
to be patient! I think it'll work in my plane, too!
Larry

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----- Original Message -----

From: Ed McKinley

To: subaruvanagon@...

Sent: 1/16/01 12:34:24 PM

Subject: Re: [subaruvanagon] Progress Report - Two laps

You have no muffler installed and the engine is quiet???What am I

missing here?

?

> david wilhite wrote:

> >

> p.s. Can't believe how quiet the engine is even though I have no

> exhaust on it yet (only the Legacy header pipes).

>

>

?

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:

subaruvanagon-unsubscribe@...

?

?

?

?

You have no muffler installed and the engine is quiet? What am I
missing here?

David,

I had a lot of troubles bleeding my '83 westy w/ 90 subie engine.
Everything got better once I installed the bypass. On mine I have a
small plastic bleed screw on the top of the rear heater. The front
heater seemed to bleed OK once I had the bypass in.







--- In subaruvanagon@..., "david wilhite" <dnmwilhite@e...>
wrote:

The van has now moved on it's own (Subaru) power. The first time

it

has moved since August. The neighbors actually came out and

cheered.

I wonder if they are happy for me or if they are happy

the 'Beautiful VW' is off

the jack stands in the driveway? I took a couple of laps around

the

neighborhood and parked it, because it was beginning to get hot.



I am assuming that I have air pockets in the heaters. I was
getting no heat from the heaters and the radiator was cool to the

touch.

On Saturday, I was getting a little heat out of the front heater;

none out of

the back heater and the radiator got nice and warm. The

temperature

never did get hot (no boiled water on heads) while I let it idle.

I

also have not placed a bypass in the heater lines yet because the

valve for the

front heater is gone and water always flows through. That was the

previous

owners way of trying to stop the VW engine from overheating. Looks
like I'll to have to do that now in order to get the thermostat to

open because

of the air.



Hopefully, tomorrow I will be able to install a bypass and go

through

the bleeding procedure again. It looks as though getting the air

out of

the heaters is going to be a pain. If anybody has a good method on

this,

please let me know.



p.s. Can't believe how quiet the engine is even though I have no

exhaust on

it yet (only the Legacy header pipes).



David Wilhite

dnmwilhite@e...

2001 KLR650

Subaruvanagon in progress

Anyway, I saw the recent (and past) posts about a putting Subie in air
cooled van and was curious if you H20 owners were in our place, would you
look into an air cooled replacement, such as a Porsche 6 or Corvair 6,
rather than install all the plumbing? Also, I saw an australian website
that mentions mounting the radiator in the engine compartment and using
an air snorkle from the side vent - any comments.

911 conversions are quite "common" in the States, and apparently work well.
911 engines are reliable. But the bigger ones (over 2.7 liters) will unduly
stress your trans. Fit a Porsche 915 or G50 trans.

Corvair? Why bother?

I know someone who has had pushrod Subaru 1.8s in Bays, running a radiator
on each side of the engine compartment, set-up in series, and reports good
results. It's gut having der radiator out of sight. I sold him a
decamperized engineless 75 Bay, once fitted with a Toyota V8, which he's
recamperizing, derusting and fitting a turbo 1.8 Subie pushrod to, with
this radiator setup.

Or else bite the bullet and convert to stock watercooled Vanagon plumbing.
But take advantage of the opportunity to avoid including air traps. In your
place this is what I'd do, and use a Subaru engine, preferably a 3.3 six,
as I'm doing.

Staying aircooled means no decent heater, and dusty air from what attempts
to pass as one.


Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
VW & mollusc nut
1984 VW Caravelle (currently SVX engine; waiting for a Porsche trans)
1985 Mitsubishi Galant Sigma 2.0 (FWD), for sale
1986 CE80 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel (extaxi)
1989 CE96 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel wagon
1989 CT170 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (taxi)

Just posted this to another listee:
I personaly would never do it even though did something really
involved-converting regular Vanagon to Westy with cheap camper parts from
junkyard, too much work!Not worth it.!
In case of air-cooled to water cooled there is plenty of work!And just
restoring old 20 years old drivetrain like tranny, cv shafts, wheel bearings,
etc will be plenty.Cutting front for radiator,buying new one,installing
pipes, fan,wiring, grill, etc,etc,etc. Very expensive!Front heater, heater
controls and tubing, AC radiator and the rest of system, electric wiring mods

My advice is wait and find later model Westy(85 and up) with blown
engine and get it fast...Just my opinion
Leon


JOHN REYNOLDS wrote:

Thanks Susan. Sorry about that. Bad assumption.
Im looking forward to hearing when you guys are ready for more pans..
-steve



----Original Message Follows----
From: "KEP" <kennedy@...>
Reply-To: subaruvanagon@...
To: <subaruvanagon@...>
Subject: Re: [subaruvanagon] Failed emissions inspection!
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:11:32 -0800

Hobert does not have a wife. We are working on cutting down the labor time
of the oil pan. We have about 10 here already that we are committed to do.
I will post a message when we are ready to accept more cores for conversion.
There are 3 "prototypes" out there - Ron Bloomquist in one of them. They
are looking good, we just have to get a system going so they are not so time
consuming, we are doing them "in house" as the local welding shop took 5
hours and did not do the job right. (Sigh).

Susan
Kennedy Engineered Products
38830 17th St. East
Palmdale, CA 93550

(661) 272-1147

Hello all,
I am just poking around, though I just rebuilt and installed an air
cooled motor in my 81 Westy, I am already bracing for the an engine swap
- If I had known how slow this vechicle is and that I wouldn't have had
the re-build done for the x-country trip, I would have saved my bucks for
a more sensible powerplant.

Anyway, I saw the recent (and past) posts about a putting Subie in air
cooled van and was curious if you H20 owners were in our place, would you
look into an air cooled replacement, such as a Porsche 6 or Corvair 6,
rather than install all the plumbing? Also, I saw an australian website
that mentions mounting the radiator in the engine compartment and using
an air snorkle from the side vent - any comments.

Thanks
John

KEP wrote:

Hobert does not have a wife. We are working on cutting down the labor time
of the oil pan. We have about 10 here already that we are committed to do.

Susan, is one of those for me?
Larry Johnson

I will post a message when we are ready to accept more cores for conversion.
There are 3 "prototypes" out there - Ron Bloomquist in one of them. They
are looking good, we just have to get a system going so they are not so time
consuming, we are doing them "in house" as the local welding shop took 5
hours and did not do the job right. (Sigh).

Susan
Kennedy Engineered Products
38830 17th St. East
Palmdale, CA 93550

(661) 272-1147