Date:         Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:17:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject:      Re: 75 MPH - unusual?
Comments: To: BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM
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Don't they have a 12 step program that will out poor Ben?  That medication
he speaks of wouldn't happen to be those mushrooms with the purple rings on
the stems would it?

DM&FS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Tan" <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: 75 MPH - unusual?


> Although I cruise at 75mph all day long, I rarely have a chance to open up
my
> 2.1 WBX to it's top speed of 523.8 mph. It sucks (pun intended) because I
> can't get more than 89.783 mpg when I go any speed above 426.79 mph. I
know
> that the reason I can probably go this fast is because I have Porsche
Fuchs
> alloys with ZR rated tires on it. That gave be at least 100 mph or so. My
van
> is not a Westy and the middle seat has been taken out. That gave me at
> another 76 mph in weight savings. I am currently considering taking out
the
> engine and trans for an even more significant weight savings as well as
> improved gas mileage. I just have to find a hill long enough and going the
> same direction I need to. I thought about increasing the gravitational
pull
> of the earth to increase my acceleration. However, I found out that it is
> easier to pump up my tires to 200 psi instead.
>
> Even my 16" Syncro can manage 70mph all day (as long as there are no
hills)
> with it's fire breathing 1.6 liters of turbocharged mayhem <ahem...>
>
> I thank my engineer Mike Miller the computational data. It's Miller time.
>
> Oops! Time for my medication.
>
> BenT