Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 00:57:49 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon Acceleration Times
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Good going Frank!
If I turned my air cooled 6500 rpms it would definitely be a one time
test. The rest of the time would be invested in sweeping up sharp broken
engine parts from the roadway.
I'm still sitting on that forged steel counter weighted Type IV
crankshaft.
I took it to the crankshaft shop and the guy declared it perfectly
straight, 10/10 perfect on the mains and rods. He also ran it on his
balancer and couldn't add or take a gram off.
Now I just got to figure if I'm going to plug it into an engine or sell
it off.
I've got my Type IV engine inventory up to five now so I guess I can feel
safe taking a road trip.
I'm considering having some Vanagon heads ceramic coated in the right
spots, ceramic coating some piston tops and building an engine with a
windage tray, notched rods, sodium filled exhaust valves.
All that seems like a waste when you look at the throttle body bore on an
83 Injected Air Cooled ............... figure I'll explore a later model
injection system with more air flow capacity on the intake side.
Alternate would be big Webber Carbs with some head porting.
With all that done the cheapest ten year old Hundai would still out run
me.
It would really be a great engine to put on a 75cfm air compressor or in
a light aircraft.
I've got a 78 Combi coming my way with the already Type IV engine that
weighs about 2800 pounds or less and that might be some sport but with a
5300 pound Westy, high performance just doesn't fit in the same sentence.
Just think how fast you could run if you stripped all that Westy stuff
off and got down below 3000 pounds.
Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 00:50:02 EDT Frank Grunthaner <FrankGRUN@AOL.COM>
writes:
> Well, for the hell of it, I did a few time trials with my 14 year
> old
> daughter doing the time measurements. This is just in response to
> the
> postings last week of 0-60 mph times by the air-cooled addicts. By
> way of
> reminder, My Westfalia is an 1982 former diesel, running a 1.8L 8V
> Digifant
> II engine from a 1990 GTi with the original DZ transmission and
> 215/75x15
> Yokohama Geolander AT+ tires. The numbers include 300 pounds of
> passenger and
> driver, 26.3 gallons of fuel (just filled up), portapotty and
> regular camping
> hardware ready to go. Speedometer calibrated. Shift points at 6500
> rpm. Using
> AMS Digifant II chip and 91 octane fuel. Average of four runs (two
> in each
> direction) on the 210 Freeway in the Pasadena, CA area. Anyway
> average was
> 20.2 seconds. Longest run was 21.4, shortest was 18.9. 60 mph in my
> system
> corresponds to just about 6000 rpm in third.
>
> Frank Grunthaner
>
>
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