Thread: T5 Oxy-Boxer
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Old January 23rd 2003, 01:54
chigger chigger is offline
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What I would like to know is weither or not the T5 crank will fit in a T4 engine? It would be a cheap stroker crank. Also if the 76mm crank uses a weird bering could it be modified to use a stock T4 bering in that location? Did the T5 come with a manual transmission? Might be a good trans if you are running a T4. Or maybe the pressure plate and flywheel are a drop in? My VW guru says the engines die at 66,000 miles. He was very specific about it apparently he does alot of warranty work. Anyway it makes the buses quite cheap. The original heads had the same problem as the T4 in a bus heads. They overheat. In the T5 the heads crack while in the T4 they drop valve seats. The heads have great looking ports a straight shot in. The valves are hugh and the chamber looks like a modified hemi chamber. The pistons however look like a set of diesel pistons with a large squish area and a deep hollow, probably to decrease compression. Overall it kinda looks like everything VW should have done to the T1 and didn't. Quite impressive.
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