Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:05:02 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Yes! It's working great! All-time best MPG..
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not comparable as you can't sleep and cook in it comfortably.
slow ?
how slow do you think a stock 48 hp 1.6NA diesel vanagon is ???
'very' is fair to say !
can't tell if you are talking about a 1.6 TD in a Golf, or a more modern 1.9
tdi in a Golf......
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Westy man" <thewestyman@gmail.com>
To: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>;
<vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Yes! It's working great! All-time best MPG..
>I get 45mpg in my diesel Golf, but I would not put the engine into a
>Vanagon, I think it would be too slow.
> Zoltan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Yes! It's working great! All-time best MPG..
>
>
>>I would have to say nobody can beat the miles per dollar you're getting on
>> regular gas and 27.8 mpg.
>> A 30 mpg diesel vanagon doesn't beat that for miles per dollar.
>> nor any subaru vanagon or waterboxer vanagon.
>> hmmmm...................Maybe I won't sell this spare diesel bell housing
>> I
>> have.
>> somehow I just never hear of rabbit 1.8 engines for sale, but I also
>> don't
>> go looking for them either.
>> Very impressive.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 5:36 PM
>> Subject: Yes! It's working great! All-time best MPG..
>>
>>
>>> Just rolled in from a long day's tour of the SE corner of the Cascade
>>> range
>>> in my 84 'topless' camper with the inline four 1.8l rabbit motor.
>>> I've not done a highway trip since early spring, but I have done
>>> eminence
>>> and a few minor mods. I changed the plugs (they had about 30k miles on
>>> em
>>> and were all perfect color range, but they'd eroded away to have about
>>> 40
>>> thou. gaps) I also replaced my tranny fluid with new Redline synthetic,
>>> added a 'chin-spoiler' made from ABS garden edging, emptied the water
>>> tank
>>> (unless I am planning on camping) and cleaned or changed all the
>>> filters.
>>> I've been getting 24+ mpg around "town" if you call my local "town" (I
>>> do)
>>> though it is not city driving, by any means.
>>> I went via interstate (84)to Portland and almost up (I-5) to Olympia,
>>> headed to a bike race...But it was raining hard and even when it's dry,
>>> a
>>> bike race has enough suffering, so I bagged it. I filled up and headed
>>> east, between Mt Adams and Mt. Rainer on some small paved forest road
>>> I'd
>>> never traveled before..Then across White Pass to Yakima ("The Palm
>>> Springs
>>> of Washington" according to their sign) I got in a nice warm bike
>>> workout
>>> behind Naches, Wa. then headed for home across Satus Pass, back into
>>> the
>>> Gorge. On the one full tank I got during the trip, mostly climbing
>>> switchbacks and a little regular highway, I got my all time best so far
>>> fuel
>>> economy of 27.87mpg. The motor seemed quite happy, kinda sounds like a
>>> Mexican Taxi or a Honda Crotch-rocket motorcycle, with it's little
>>> high-winding inline four and it's magnaflow SS muffler.. It will be
>>> interesting to see what the rest of the trip mpg comes out.
>>> Exactly what a bus is supposed to do perfectly....it did.
>>> Don Hanson
>>> (I am typing this with my toes, legs and everything else
>>> crossed...hoping
>>> I
>>> didn't jinx myself by saying how good it is..)
>
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