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On 4 Mar 2002, at 9:34, The Canadian wrote: > The lack of warm-up equipment also makes for interesting problems when you > install a later engine into an early car. On the early engines the cylinder > head tin around the spark plugs is narrower since there are no warm air 'tubes' > running above and beside the valve covers. If you go to install an engine with > the later, wider tin it WILL NOT FIT into the engine cavity without modifying > either the engine tin or the body of your car! I didn't realize that the late engine tin was wider, but those extra "tubes" are part of the heater, not related to engine cooling. Checking the microfilm, I see that they started midway thru the 65 model year, at the same time that the heat control valves moved rearward from the firewall to the heat exchangers. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe