- Taking over the project
This early aircooled Volkswagen Vanagon came to us with a partially installed Subaru 2.5l engine conversion out of a 2004 Forester. The owner and his helpers got it about halfway along and ran into issues,… Read more: Taking over the project - Securing the engine and digging into the project
The conversion kit comes with a fancy new crossmember/cradle for the engine mounts which had already been loosely installed, but some adjustments had to be made. Due to the swap being installed on an aircooled… Read more: Securing the engine and digging into the project - Adding water cooling
A big issue with adding a Subaru engine to an aircooled Vanagon is the complete and utter lack of water cooling (obviously). We did some research and opted to install a later factory water-cooled Vanagon… Read more: Adding water cooling
