Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:57:22 EDT
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From: Chuck Mathis <CMathis227@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tight valves!
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In this case the Golf powered Westy is an '82 so it was either air cooled or
diesel. Given the expense involved with adding a coolant system to an air
cooled van my assumption is that Robert traded his anemic diesel for the Golf
I4. The reason he is seeing a difference in RPM between a WBX and his Westy
is the I4 is running through a diesel tranny -- the gear ratios are different.
Chuck
'85 Wolfsburg Westy - 'Roland the Road Buffalo'
In a message dated 6/14/01 7:36:46 PM, mattsim@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes:
<< Can you please explain the math for me on how this could possibly be so?
The transmission takes the rpms of the engine and gears it down to less
revolutions. If you have the same transmission, the rpms of the engine can't
possibly change for the same speed.
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Keezer
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: Tight valves!
The problem prone WBX valve adjust issue is one more good reason to be kind
to yourself and transplant a better powerplant.I went thru a week of
adjusting the valves on a friends Vanagon after replacing the heads. First
they were too tight, then too loose, and finally after 1/2 turn, they were
quiet. But, it won't pass emissions at idle. A valve is probably out of
adjustment.
I have a 2.0 Golf engine from a 95 Golf in my 82 Westfalia and you don't
have to go thru all this valve nonsense when you change the head, which is
easier, BTW.
Reliability, power an economy is what this engine is all about. Not the
kind
of power that will transform your vanagon into a hotrod, but there is more
than you have now in your WBX.
Merging into traffic is effortless, not so on every WBX I have driven.
And, the 2.0 I-4 turns out higher mph for the same rpms as a WBX.
In either the manual or shift.
For example, in both the 85 Automatic Westy and 87 manual Westy currently
available to me, 70 mph is 4000 rpm=I was surprised to find that the manual
has the same rpm as the auto.
For the I-4 2.0 powered manual shift Westy-70 mph is 3600 rpm.
And at 4000 rpm-80 mph. 10 more mph for the same rpm.
Robert
1982 Westfalia 2.0 Golf lll engine
Seattle
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