Date:         Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:07:52 -0800
Reply-To:     Road Camper <vanagonlover@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Road Camper <vanagonlover@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Subaru conversion
Comments: To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM
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Its not about speed my friends, its about
acceleration and hills.
steve
ticketless since 1995

>From: Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Subaru conversion
>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:23:03 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/29/01 12:56:09 AM, korkwood@SURFREE.COM writes:
>
><< Those who have Subaru engine will be staying
>
>with traffic, moving at an average 80mph now days and passing when needed.
>Why
>
>bother with gaining mere 10-15 hp when you can have extra 40! It is worth
>extra
>
>effort! >>
>
>All this talk of the inadequacies of a stock 2.1L makes me wonder why I was
>ever issued a ticket by a PA state cop for going 91 MPH in one.  Instead of
>congratulating me for having the fastest Vanagon of the day, he wrote me up
>for exactly whatever his radar gun had displayed.  Perhaps having 180 Kmi.
>on
>its clock made the van loose enough that it has gained gobs of power.  Or,
>perhaps I am hallucinating.  If so, why do I have this receipt for a fine
>of
>$293, why do I have a letter from the PA DOT demanding my license for 30
>days
>and, worst of all, why does my wife get so bitchy whenever I go over 75
>MPH?
>
>These rocket powered vans remind me of the time I was at an ice rink where
>I
>ran into my kid brother.  He has played hockey since his conception, so he
>is
>pretty good on the ice.  I, on the other, have been on skates perhaps a
>half
>dozen miserable times in my life.  At one point, I managed to breeze past
>him
>and as I did, I said in a voice loud enough for all to hear,"Hey!  I am
>even
>faster than you!"  The smartass punk replied in an equally loud voice,
>"But,
>I can stop!"
>
>Still, I have not dismissed the Subaru Solution, but considering the weak
>solutions I have seen to some very real problems all I can say at this
>point
>is: if you plan to get into a pissing contest with someone, make sure your
>fly is first unzipped.
>
>Rich

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