Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:08:51 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
Subject: Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
In-Reply-To: <47870A4E.8050904@charter.net>
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That's a great question. The answer needs to be qualified though. It's
also tough to say because all of the highest claimed numbers for
conversions besides ours are not measured, but guestimated or factory
crank numbers in their original applications... not to say they are
way off, who knows, you don't know till you know.
If you want the answer to "what is the most torquey engine conversion
that won't destroy the rest of the driveline in a vanagon" then the
answer is the turbo zetec, because the area under it's torque curve is
the largest of any conversion without exceeding peak handling
capabilities of the driveline. The safest approach is to fill out the
curve under the peak torque limits of the driveline across the
powerband. The R-TDI that David has has a way higher peak, but it
completely stops at it's rev limit, which is just past the middle of
the zetec powerband like other diesels, so even the area under his
r-tdi torque curve will likely be less than that of the turbo zetec.
Who likes calculus and wants to reach a definitive answer... of course
we would need to actually measure the torque he's making so we could
actually compare to our measured numbers to calculate the number under
the curve.
Jim Akiba
On 1/11/08, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> Well,
>
> What IS the most torquey engine conversion out there for the V-gons?
>
> Inquiring minds and all that ............
>
> John Rodgers
> Chelsea, AL
>
> David Marshall wrote:
> > Yeah... almost Friday.
> >
> > My company car is a 2003 Ford Focus...
> > what a piece of smeg engine... makes lots of noise when you step on it and
> > when you wiiiiiiind it out to the top end of the rev range there is a hint
> > of decent power then and then red line and you have to shift. This
> > is not the engine I would want to put into a 2500kg westfalia and hope to
> > get anywhere faster than what it could do with a stock engine.
> >
> > Torque sells cars and engine conversions, but really torque is what is
> > needed to get our Vanagons going, so a Diesel engine is what our Vanagons
> > need.
> >
> > The V8 gasoline Touareg has 350hp and the V10 Diesel
> > Touareg has 313hp - the *Diesel* will win in a 0 to 100km/h sprint as it
> > has 553ft.lbs or torque at 1800 rpm and the gasser has 324ft.lbs at 3000
> > something in the rpm band. Tourque is like a drug the more you have
> > the more you want. Once you drive a Vanagon with lots of torque you
> > will spend the rest of your life trying to convert the unwashed.
> > :-)
> >
> > David Marshall
> >
> > http://www.hasenwerk.ca
> > http://www.fastforward.ca
> >
> > Box 4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J
> > 3J2
> >
> > On Thu, January 10, 2008 20:22, AAG - Larry Word wrote:
> >
> >> It's almost Friday - what is the consensus to date of the group
> >>
> > installing
> >
> >> 2000 ford focus engine into Vanagons?
> >>
> >> Any ideas, links, info., articles, etc. would be appreciated!
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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