At 3:12 AM -0500 3/29/00, James Shinosky wrote: >Would love to see the Vanagon gas range being stretched a bit... I too, have fanasized about building a Westy ER. The diesel is an incremental step towards this. A 25 gallon fuel tank is available, but is a PITA, IMHO. Any reason why mods could not be made to a 2WD vanagon to fit a syncro fuel tank in as an auxilary tank? That would double the fuel range right off the bat. That would give the diesel "Westy ER" a cruising range of 800 miles or more, plus an additional 150 miles for each jerry can on the roof. Is the space above the tranny available for this in a 2WD vanagon? I know you'd need to do some substantial body work (butchery) to transfer things like the syncro fuel filler and door and stuff, but is such an idea worth even arm-chair fantasy? T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tobin Copley Bowen Island, BC, Canada tobin.copley@ubc.ca '82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky") '97 son Russell ============= '99 daughter Margaret /_| |__| |__|:| clatter 1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi O|. .| clatter! 1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT 7,400 km ~-()-==----()-~ Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango) http://www.sfu.ca/~tcopley/vw/ |
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