Date:         Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:19:53 +0100
Reply-To:     Raimund Feussner <rfeussner@GMX.DE>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Raimund Feussner <rfeussner@GMX.DE>
Subject:      Re: small car VW engine conversion
Comments: To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Hello all,

> The Vanagon is not designed for high speed driving and lacks the
additional
> safety features such as airbags and ABS brakes. If you want to make the
> weenies mad get a motorcycle.

It isnīt designed for speed, but can handle speed very well. I am driving my
vanagon with 190km/h+ and I feel quite safe and comfortable.
Besides, my european vanagon has ABS brakes!
And the kids are more impressed by a Vanagon than anything else :-)

Over 150km/h I am more frightened in a little Golf or Polo/Fox or in a
beefed up old beetle or on a motorcycle than in a vanagon.

> Hard
> acceleration is tough on the CV's and your brakes and transmission,
> especially the Syncro trans which is not the best built of VW
transmissions.

Thatīs totally correct, though.

> A affordable choice with reasonable power but not enough to shut down the
> competion is a inline four like my 95 Golf engine.

concerning safety: Frontal Collision Golf versus Vanagon? Iīll take the
Vanagon without Airbag! Better than having the inline4 on my lap...
Just my 02cents.

Raimund