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Date:         Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:45:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Kw <kokopellis@ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kw <kokopellis@ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: air-cooled vanagon question
Comments: To: Puzerewski <Puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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Hi Adam, I have an Air cooled. It was slow when I bought it in 1994, it was slow after I put in a rebuilt Mark Stephen's engine. I have had no problems with MSHP but I hear they are out of biz. It is still slow. Face it, it is going to be slow with only 56 HP. No new stock engine will change that.

I drove to Reno twice this summer. I drove between 55 -65 trying to keep it around 60. I found that oil temp goes up quickly when you try to push it (65 mph). I finally had to kick back , drive slow and look at the people being pulled over for speeding when I passed them. I don't get tickets.

Acceleration is slow especially up hill. On I-80 there are some looong hills. I was in second to third a lot.

We killed our lawn this summer (Utah is second driest state in nation) and tilled it in to install xeriscape, (low water use landscape, desert). we used a friends 8 HP roto tiller to till the yard. As we were cruising to the Burningman, we kept commenting that the HP of the 2.0L Air-cooled engine was only 56 HP equivalent to 7, 8 HP roto tillers. when put in that perspective, we were happy to be moving along the earths surface at 60 MPH. Envision 7 rototillers pushing us and all of our stuff up those long hills and across the desert. Now its not soo bad is it?.

good day, Ken


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