Date:         Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:23:07 -0800
Reply-To:     Phil Stanhope <surfmobile007@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Phil Stanhope <surfmobile007@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: new Tiico diesel
Comments: To: William Seward <trotxart@COMCAST.NET>, tiico@yahoogroups.com
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I dont know what ken thinks but that 1.9 TD is a thing
of beauty, untill you look at the price and i doubt
the seven grand (shipped) is all you will be spending.
I  wouldnt dare run a TD with a stock 4speed on the
highway, so ad on another $3500 for Tiico 5-speed
gearbox, now we are approaching 10 grand. If you had 5
grand in your van before buying this diesel motor the
total investment would be around $15,000. Thats all to
close to the cost of a used Dodge/Mercedes Sprinter
which will outperform the converted vanagon on all
fronts except looks.......sorry Peter, I think ill
save my money for one of those.

Phil 84' Vanagon, Tiico'ed in 2002


--- William Seward <trotxart@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> Ken,
>
> What do you think of the Tiico diesel conversion?
>
> http://tiico.com/Diesel%20conversion%20page.htm
>
> Would you attempt the installation and for how much?
>
> I spoke to a gentleman on the phone there and he
> said they had about
> a dozen on the road with no problems.  When I asked
> about emissions
> test passing he said he couldn't see why not.  I am
> aware that are a
> number of Tiico gas conversions that are sitting in
> driveways with
> emissions problems (maybe they are all in Calif.)
> and what about the
> ECU mystery box.
>
> Bill Seward
> Alexandria, VA
>



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