Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:48:03 -0500
Reply-To: Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
Subject: Re: air cooled engine alternatives
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Probably uses the kit, which maintains the Corvair trans-axle. Could be
running 3.27, 3.55 or 3.89 gear set. I doubt if it would do 100 mph,
though. A Corvair would be turning 5000 rpm at 100 mph with the 3.55
gears. Don't think it would pull it unless it is a 180 hp turbo engine. I
have the 4 carb 140 hp engine.
Jay
Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>@gerry.vanagon.com> on 12/12/2002 06:20:28
PM
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Subject: Re: air cooled engine alternatives
How many RPMs is he pulling when he goes 100MPH?
When I do 75MPH in any of my Vanagons, the engine is turning over 4000RPMs.
Without a 5 speed, or a completely different tranny, wouldn't your top
speed
be limited by the number of RPMs the engine can turn?
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Justin M. Mayrand
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:29 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: air cooled engine alternatives
A friend of mine has a Corvair 6 in his bus - that thing flies, and will
top
100MPH, though doing so will scare you half to death. ...JMM
--
Justin M. Mayrand
1980 Westy "SuperVan"
> The Road Cow is a late bus ............... it has a Toyota engine in it.
> Search "road cow" in the archives I'm sure you'll find a link to
> pictures.
> Road Cow is currently owned by Britt Granis ................. he's been
> abusing it pretty bad pulling busses from West to East coast.
> Someone may have cloned it.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:07:34 -0700 Clay Moore <cmoore@CYBERPORT.COM>
> writes:
>> While driving a Ryder truck on I-40 west of flagstaff in late summer
>> steadily climbing a very long grade, and doing about 65 mph. Two
>> white
>> Bay window style Westfalias passed me, obviously loaded and really
>> going, they must have been doing 80. I was hoping they would pull
>> over
>> so i could find out how they were doing and take a closer look, but
>> i
>> never managed to catch them. I assumed they must have had some kind
>> of
>> engine other than the air cooled version of that era. Since there
>> are
>> inline engine alternative's for the water cooled vanagons, what
>> engine
>> alternatives are available for that era westfalias ... if any ? Or
>> were
>> they possibly running really tricked out air cooled engines ?
>>
>>
>
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