Looking for a South African forum member for help

[UrS4boy]

I am in North America (Canada to be exact). We have air and water cooled flat four- powered Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) vans also known as the T25, (or Vanagon in North America). We also got Type 2 (T3) Westfalias, like this water cooled one:



In South Africa, you got the same basic vehicle but at some point, they started to put inline Audi (or VW truck) engines (possibley the AAR?) in these vehicles. Since the flat four is pretty pathetic power-wise, upgrades are common, e.g. Subaru 2.5, Subaru SVX flat 6, VW 8V and VW16V, and, naturally Porsche flat 6 engines. However, if we could *just* get some of the bell housings that connected the five cylinder South African Audi/VW engines to the VW transaxle we could install, oh say, a 20vt AAN in the back. It has been done in South Africa already.

Anybody interested in a financial venture to purchase and ship new or used bell housings?

Dave F.

[UrS4boy]

I think the part that people are looking for is this (or the one for the four speed)

[saltinot]

Dave,

Have you tried giving the boys at Eurospec a call. They've got all sorts of things for T3 engine conversions.

See HERE

[UrS4boy]

Thanks Tom. Looks like they *might* be able to help. I see they have the four (round) headlight grill from SA.

Dave F.

[spink]

Ive always fancied one with a 20vt inside,theres already one on this forum sadly the pics seem to have disappearred

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11375

[2226]

Microbus 2.6i

Yes, they were called the Microbus here. The early top of the line model had a "Synchro" 4 wheel drive system with higher suspension travel.

A de-badged Audi 2.3 inline 5 was used and later 2.5 and 2.6 stroker engines for more torque. They suffered overheating reliability issues here because of poor cooling system maintenance under mechanically challenged owners due to leaks in the long coolant pipeline between the engine in the back and radiator in the nose . Also, more torque put strain on the front to back gearbox. I saw an early 10V 2226cc turbo engne in one once but it also battled with cooling. Another coversion was to use the Audi 2.8 V6.

I can pm you the email details of my parts contact at Audi Sandton who could possibly help and also a gearbox specialist whom might know where to find second hand housings.

[UrS4boy]

I can pm you the email details of my parts contact at Audi Sandton who could possibly help and also a gearbox specialist whom might know where to find second hand housings.

That would be perfect. Please PM me the details.

Dave F.