Date:         Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:40:54 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lid Clearance
Comments: To: al_knoll@PACBELL.NET
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You guys work way to hard.
Just install 17" wheels all around and drop the motor 4 inches.
It will raise the van enough that you can look at womens breasts driving
SUVs again at stop lights.
It will enhance your van to having the same rollover potential of an SUV
and raise your top speed by 20 mph so you can get a full 6 rolls when you
leave the highway.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:26:43 -0800 pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
writes:
> In a former life I was the owner of the shortest lived AUDI
> conversion in
> history.  28 days 1600 miles blooie cracked piston.  We learn.  If
> one
> visits the local purveyor of steam table food one notices these
> little
> stainless dishes that sit in the steam table.  If one looks closely
> just
> past the overdone broccoli one notices that these critters are
> squarish and
> have a lip on em, kinda like BenT up at the sides.  Using a laser
> aligned
> piece of scrap cardboard make a mockup or mockba of your engine
> cover.  Cut
> out the areas where additional clearance is needed making sure the
> hole
> matches the dimensions of the pan you stole at the truckstop where
> the serve
> the well done broccoli.  Put the pan in the hole so it doesn't fall
> through
> on the motor and stans old cat and viola ... a nice little
> stainless
> clearance thingy that doubles as a broccoli dish.  Naw, Mike you put
> the
> thing in upside down.  Make it so the pan is a bump not a dip.
> Transfer the
> design from the laser aligned cardboard to your spare engine cover.
> You DO
> have spare, right?  If not I'm sure JordanVW can sell you one.  Now
> cut out
> the hole in the spare to match the hole in the cardboard.  Place the
> pan in
> the hole with the lip on the engine side so if there was any
> broccoli left
> it would fall on the cat.  Use some of that duck tape or goose tape
> or Gun
> Tape to hold it in place while you make sure it clears.  Attach
> using your
> favorite fasteners, dzus for those who just gotta have a new way in,
> screws
> for those who think they might have to take it off.  Pop rivets for
> the
> brave.  Duck tape for the stingy.  If after you pop rivet it in, you
> notice
> that the vertical clearance isn't quite enough you can just undo it
> and put
> the lip on the cabin side of the cover.  Paint to match.
> Pinstriping and
>  a likeness of Britney or Connie Chunk is of course optional for
> the fetish prone.
>
> p
>
>

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