At 02:29 PM 7/25/2004, David Marshall wrote: >STOCK POWER: >For get horse power, this is what sell vehicles but this isn't really what >you drive your heavy Vanagon with. The TDI does have more useable >horsepower than any stock motor in the Vanagon. See >http://www.fastforward.ca/VanagonSwap/AHU/ahu.jpg for a torque and power >chart of the TDI vs the wasserboxer engines. -------------
Just to put it in perspective, I took the AHU torque from David's chart, converted Nm to Lb Ft (boy those metric numbers look big, don't they), and plotted it every 500 RPM on top of the subaru 2.2L and 2.5L torque. http://www.weirdstuffwemake.com/automotive/vanagon/torque.jpg
Steve '86 Westy "Escape Pod" (EJ22) '73 Beetle "ain't got a name yet"
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