Well here she is. The only pics I got to take on our trip before it got disastrous. Great little bus. It sleeps two people perfectly.

Here's all the specs on the motor.

The motor is a Type 4, 1980 Vanagon. 2 liter, standard pistons, bore and stroke.

44 IDF Weber carbs, 32mm venturis, main jets 130, idle jets rca 200.

Valve sizes are 34.9 and 44.4 mm with standard valve springs.

Crowler cam specs are Intake: Duration 260 deg., lift 373,
Exhaust: Duration 268 deg., lift 385.
8.5:1 compression
The heads are fly cut and ported.
Electric fuel pump, 3-psi pressure to regulator, 2-psi to carbs.
Extractor exhaust system, single muffler.
Standard 009 distributor and single point ignition.





My wife and the "Loaf" as she unofficially dubbed it

very clean looking

Nice

Very Nice

Very cool! Congrats!

wow, that's a clean bus. hope you get it home soon.

Well as bad as yesterday was today is getting better by the minute. A good friend of mine who is a Division Chief for the fire dept in Loveland Colorado just called me and said he is going to go get the bus and stash it safe in his shop. Thats 7 hours closer to Texas. Great! Even better the guy that sold it to me called and told me to ship the head back to him when I get it off and he will pay to have it fixed. From what he says these heads are one of a kind... and he wants to get it fixed at the same machine shop that they were made at. Apparently they took stock heads and ported them out to make these bigger valves fit them. From what my seller said one head got some sort of special procedure that melds or presses the seats with the head to make them pretty much one with each other. the other head did not get this special thing done and we think thats the head that failed. I dont know much about machining though. Any thoughts on this? Opinions?

Hire a transporter,and get it shipped here...then start working out the problems.

Nice looking bus!! I hope the engine head problems get fixed with ease.

Nice bus Brad Let me know if you need a trailer to pick it up I got a hot shot friend I do buissness with.