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Date:         Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:20:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: FW: 90 Carat Auto TDI Conversion: MPG ect.
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This is a great thread, it really thinks globaly I really agree with all the idems. speed limits do save lives.. roads are built around a speed.

why the heck is out near utah 70mph? lame..

Joe -----Original Message----- From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM> Sent: Oct 11, 2005 10:20 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: FW: 90 Carat Auto TDI Conversion: MPG ect.

Mark,

At 20 mpg I get 320 per 16 gallon tank. Diesel will get about 380 miles.

It costs $43.00 to fill with gas. Diesel gets about 26-30 per gallon. It costs $49.00 to fill.

Diesel gets up to 48 miles more per tankful, so the six dollars spent for the same amount is like 24 mpg for the extra 6 dollars.

If you drive conservatively with the WBX or inline-four engine properly tuned with good compression, you can see up to 24 mpg at steady speeds of 55 mpg or less. With the five -speed trans I get 21 mpg city /hwy mix up to 65 mph and stop and go traffic. Out on a slow country drive it's 24 mpg .

The US had a 55 mph Fuel Conservation Act speed limit in the 80's.

When economy was tossed in favor of power, the 55 limit was doomed.

Bringing back 55 or 60 is going to save a lot of fuel. Especially for the non-aerodynamic vehicles with large displacement engines , and there are a lot of those. It will also save lives. Truckers drive speeds in excess of 80 mph, motorists are almost all going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.

This is wasting fuel, and endangering motorists. 5,000 truckers die every year by current statistics. Drive I-40 interstate for a personal understanding .In my inline -4 Westfalia 80 was too slow for the trucks going 90.

We need to 1. Slow down 2. Send free bicycles to China 3.Good day

Robert

1982 Westfalia

--- Mark Magee <markbmagee@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

> Volks, > I am considering using a Fast Forward kit and > salvage later model TDI engine > to drop in my 90 Carat w/automatic. > Fast Forward shows on there site a similar > conversion; late model Vanagon > automatic with 1.9TDI dropped in and the owner > has reported 30-32MPG. > Anyone on the list done this: wasserboxer 2.1L > w/auto to 1.9TDI? > If so what are your mpg figures city/hwy? > If this conversion gets anything above 25MPG > overall w/current gas/diesel > prices the conversion pays itself off very > rapidly against what I’m seeing > mpg-wise with the wasserboxer. > > > > > Mark B. Magee > Kemah TX USA > 90 Carat 95K “Das Boot” > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am just a Pilgrim Passing through this world, > doing His work as He directs > me. > > Christian B. Anymouse >

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