VANAGON archives -- February 2004, week 4 (#200)

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:13:20 -0800 Reply-To: "S.Harrison" <diverseimaging@EARTHLINK.NET> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: "S.Harrison" <diverseimaging@EARTHLINK.NET> Subject: Those of you saving your pennies for a Jake Raby aircooled motor take note .. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Saw this on a VW message board, and while I would have liked to spend many thousands of dollars on a 2.0l Type IV motor, it looks like that check won't be made out to Jake Raby for his much-lauded engines. AVP and Boston Bob ... the pickings get slimmer.

To put this in context, it was in answer to a thread asking why Vanagons are so underpowered. Here ya go, don't shoot the messenger:

"Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:24 pm

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The engineers were high. worst TIV ever made. Worst gearing ever made. They are way too heavy for a stock 2.0 aircooled engine.

I finally got to the point where we don't do them anymore.. Too much liability _________________ Jake Raby Raby's Aircooled Technology

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