How much torque are you making in the turboed 2.1? IMHO that figure is kinda more important since our vans live down in the below 4000rpm range most of the time.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:19:19 -0700, John Connolly, Aircooled.Net <john@aircooled.net> wrote: > we have 4 vanagons; the 2.1L Turbo Syncro will remain as-is, the > Scooby-Power is for the other ones. > > it's been on there for around 1 1/2 years and 30k miles on a mostly stock > 2.1L (only meaningful changes are the 225/75/15s), which now has 150k miles > on it. I am aware that one of the reasons this works so well is because the > stock 2.1L Wasser is so anemic to begin with. ;-) > > I mean really; how many other 2.1L (or bigger) gasoline engines built on or > after 1986 do you know of that have LESS power then the wasserboxer does? > That list is real short for sure. This also underscores the improvement by > removing the stock RESTRICTIVE air flow meter as discussed in another > thread. Makes complete sense to me. > > John > Aircooled.Net Inc. > |
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