VANAGON archives -- February 2003, week 3 (#735)

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:12:00 -0800 Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA> Subject: Re: VW V-8 engine - Moved to Friday Topic Comments: To: Ian X <whatsinaname920@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030221185533.42238.qmail@web14305.mail.yahoo.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

on 21/2/03 10:55 am, Ian X wrote:

> ya I was thinking the old v-8 juice ad myself, it'd be > pretty cool, but as it is, the vangon doesn't exactly > sip gas. It seems a lightly loaded larger engine would > get nearly the same mpg as a highly stressed small > engine. I seem to recall the little 1500# lola's I > used to mess with (ford 2.1 liter 4cyl)were getting > about 6 mpg on the track.

Frank G. has posted comments about this a few times! Some of his thoughts are here on my website.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/engine-rpm-swap.html

Alistair -- '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94 albell@uvic.ca http://members.shaw.ca/albell

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