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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Was the diesel also air-cooled or was it water cooled as in the Vanagon? And if it was water cooled, was it a boxer?
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That's the same EA827 inline-4 as in the Vanagon, yet not so extremely slanted down. AFAIK the only experience with air-cooled Diesel engines in any Brazilian Volkswagen happened in the '70s when Agrale (a local manufacturer of tractors and commercial vehicles) tested some of its Hatz-licensed inline-2 engines into Beetles and Kombis, even planning to release it as a crate-engine before Diesel conversions for cars were mostly outlawed around '76. But it also required the engine compartment to be raised in order to accomodate that engine, just like it was done on South African Vanagons with the inline-5 Audi engine.