Date:         Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:36:52 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill Kasper <dragonlist@UBS.UCSC.EDU>
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From:         Bill Kasper <dragonlist@UBS.UCSC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Supercharged Westy Vanagon
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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those numbers i just gave were for imperial gallons (4.55 l/gal).

for us gallons (3.79 l/gal), it's the following:

1.9L TDI:--21.4 to 29.4 mpg (24.8 mpg avg.)
V6 TDI: --- 18.1 to 23.5 mpg (20.5 mpg avg.)

still a similar difference, lower numbers.

bill
felton, ca
just say anglocentricity isn't my middle name

On Aug 21, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:

> --- David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA> wrote:
>
>> Of course, I know Malcolm knows this already...
>
> of course.....
>
> I also have high hopes that the new Subaru Diesel will be a bolt on  

> to the existing subaru adapter
> plate.  As I understand it! its vanagon adaptability is a function  
> of whether the subaru diesel
> uses fiber-optics or wires,  wires can be adapted, fiber optics  
> can't (so easily) be adapted to
> the vanagon.  Anyone have any updated information??
>
> I prefer diesel, but I'm following the Zetec conversion.   Bernd  
> Jäger (Germany) reports the
> following l/100 Kms:
> 1.9L TDI:--8 to 11 ltr/100 kms.
> V6 TDI: ---10 to 13 ltr/100 kms
>
> for more infor:  http://www.syncro-bernd-jaeger.de/ENGLISH/index.html
>
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