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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