Date:         Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:54:10 -0500
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 130mph in a vanagon
In-Reply-To:  <BDDA376A.5D52%wetwesty@tactical-bus.info>
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I have taken my 3.4Lv6 block to about 7000rpm (valves started to do
wierd things so I backed off... but it can be done) using the 7000rpm
msd rev limiter.

Oh, and the van was incredably(incredibly?) stable at the higher
speeds, even with 27.5x8 BFGoodrich All-Terrain`s.


On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:20:58 -0700, jimt <wetwesty@tactical-bus.info> wrote:
> On 12/6/04 9:29 AM, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > At 05:35 AM 12/6/2004, you wrote:
> >> look at the pics eric D took of his speedo/tach while in motion:
> >>
> >> http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1642504&page=2
> >>
> >> ps, his van is subaru wrx sti powered..
> >> chris
> >
> > Sure looks to me like the needle is resting on the peg. Take a look at the
> > shadows cast from the dash lighting. The poster claimed it went all the way
> > around and PAST the peg, but anyone who 's ever taken a speedo apart knows
> > that's not possible. Even if it was, what do you think the odds are that
> > you'd end up snapping a picture while the needle was EXACTLY where it would
> > also be if you were driving 0 mph? Someone is telling a fish story there.
> >
> > John Bange
> > '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
> >
> > 
> Take that tach reading and do the tranny math.  Definitely a fishy tale.
> Especially as anyone that has taken their vans into the higher ranges of the
> speedo also knows the error in the speedo in those ranges as well.
> 
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