Date:         Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:27:46 -0800
Reply-To:     Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: For Aircooled crowd only...Revs to MPH + crusing spd
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Go to http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2024533#2024533 near
the bottom of the thread there is a description. Only works on the flats of
course...

And my comments reflected more a philosophy than anything really empirical.
But it makes sense when you are running an underpowered vehicle of that age
that babying it will make it last longer than running the edge. And the fact
that they were never designed for speed in the first place should make one
cautious. I suspect that the the reason the road behind aircooled buses is
littered with blown heads is that folks have forgotten this point, and try
to drive like everyone else. And the fact that VW foolishly never installed
temp gauges on their AC buses. That's an absolute must, IMO.

Nathaniel

On 1/25/07 10:44 AM, "Burdett, Jean-Pierre" <jp.burdett@SPOTWAVE.COM> wrote:

> So any aircooled guys out there who got the answer on what is the revs
> at certain speeds please share it. I could not find anything definitive
> on the archives...
>
> And from what Nathan said going over 105Kmh is just asking for trouble
> regardless of head temp? I did a search on that and could not find much
> for the aircooled crowd.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
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