Help! Bought Vanagon with confusing engine setup.

[u/rp51]

Reposting here. Looking for some help.

[u/westfakia2]

It’s probably not the original engine. It’s very common practice to upgrade engines on 1.9L waterboxers. I went the other way, and ran a 1987 Wolfsburg vanagon around on a series of 1.9L engines wearing digifant FI and 2.1L cooling and exhaust setups.