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Date:         Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:48:54 -0800
Reply-To:     Todd Last <Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Todd Last <Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Redline (the speed,not the oil) (was: with all this talk
              about prices...)
Comments: To: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Is this true for all of them? I (stupidly) tried to test this on my '88 but chickened out after the tach happily sailed past the beginning of the redline.

Todd '88 Westy

mark drillock wrote:

>Yes, Vanagons have rev limiters. The ECU will turn off the fuel >injectors when max rpm is exceeded. This may not save the engine on a >steep down hill as gravity can overcome the engine not wanting to turn. > >Mark > >ian Butler wrote: > > >>On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, dave bowers wrote: >> >> >> >>>I have a 3 brand new pistons & sleeves that were given to me after the PO >>>threw a piston when driving down the Alcan (he left his 88 gl in 2nd gear, >>>driving at 70 on gravel roads. He claimed he couldn't hear the high rpms. >>>He is 6'7", so maybe he didn't look down to see them 6000 rpm either!) >>> >>> >>This brings up a question I've been loathe to test for myself: do Vanagons >>have rev limiters? Or was this guy just letting it coast down a mountain >>and letting gravity take it well over redline? >> >>ian Butler / ian@bluemoon.hplx.net >>'88 Scirocco 16v, '87 Syncro GL >> >> > > >


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