At 9:58 AM -0500 7/1/01, John Rodgers wrote: > >On the vanagon perhaps some type of small gated turbocharger might be >available. I have seen somewhere a picture of a turbo'd WBX, but I don't >remember where. I have also seen turbo's available that a good >automotive craftsman could adapt. I'd like to see that picture. Was it intercooled, too? >If a gated turbo could be installed to keep the atmospheric pressure at >sea-level where-ever you are ... be it at the beach or Leadville, CO on >a hot day, you would really have something. > At the very least it would be a plumbing nightmare given the WBX exhaust manifold design. A supercharger installation would be a lot simpler.... Having lived and gone to high school within a few blocks of Paxton, maker of superchargers for automotive and aeronautical applications, I have some personal experience with supercharging 36 and 40HP VWs.
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