Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:09:55 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: bostig kit for VW Vans
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Well, how nice to read someone share about their Bostig.
It has seemed to me that there is very little online sharing in the normal
groups about people's Bostig exerience.
I guess it's mostly all kept in-house.
or there's not much to say.
So nice to see this.
re
my engine can literally log itsself and "call home"
> to Bostig via an email
Is that when you connect the engine to your computer to send an email,
or is that uploaded to cyberspace automatically by the engine system without
you even knowing it ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "craig cowan" <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: bostig kit for VW Vans
> To give you some example of how well my BOSTIG runs....I put the thing in,
> and literally put 200 test miles on it before driving it across the
> country!
> It's a piece of cake to install and work with if you know your way around
> a
> vanagon. I'm now 6000 miles into my kit and can't say enough about it. My
> first test drive was in the end of May, so that's a ton of miles in a
> short
> time period.
>
> I drive at 75mph all day long, have just about hit 100mph on the
> bonneville
> Salt Flats, and have a running average right now of 23mpg. I can buy parts
> at any FLAPS and they have them in stock and cheap (All my hoses, belts,
> engine bits, etc), and my engine can literally log itsself and "call home"
> to Bostig via an email which they can analyze and tell me if all is well.
> (Very handy when troubleshooting problems!).
>
> I've done the WBX thing. Heck i've been on this list for nearly 5 years
> now.
> I've put WBXers back together, learned their systems, and helped others in
> the process. But now I have a vanagon that every morning I can put the Key
> in, turn the key, and go. There is never a question of whether or not it
> will go. And when I want to go faster, I press the right pedal. When I
> want
> to go slower, I press the Middle Pedal. Sometimes I need to press the Left
> pedal as well. How much more simple can you get?
>
> I leave for another 3000 miles here soon (August 10th), and I look forward
> to further proving to myself that this bus is now everything I wished it
> could be (Well, its not a syncro yet....).
>
>
> As their company says, It's "Engine Voodoo".
> But I like it : )
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Craig Cowan
> '85GL turned WESTY
> BOSTIG in the back
> 3000 miles from home.
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:51 PM, aatransaxle <daryl@aatransaxle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have done 3 Bostigs and got 4 more in the lineup over the next several
>> months..
>> Sweet easy deal as far as I am concerned as long s its in a stick..Not
>> going
>> to do another automatic...Not a good fit in my PERSONAL opinion...Need
>> sevearl more gears in that tranny to make it right..But then I may be
>> spoiled or too picky or some such...YMMV...
>> TEC shop and I are in cahoots at times and have gotten together and fine
>> tuned some of the small details involved. They do a nice clean
>> professional
>> job of it..
>> Daryl of AA Transaxle
>> (425) 788-4070
>> aatransaxle.com
>> 86 Syncro Westy
>> Zetec in the trunk
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charles Nighbor" <cnighbor1@COMCAST.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:44 PM
>> Subject: bostig kit for VW Vans
>>
>>
>> <http://www.vwtecshop.com/bostig_PRO_INSTALL.html>
>> A shop in Seattle area now licensed to install, Tec shop
>> from Bostig web page the following
>> ''Some of the advantages of a BOSTIG zetec PRO INSTALLED engine kit -
>>
>> 5 Year, 50,000 mile Warranty with FREE technical support - fits ANY
>> Vanagon
>> 1984 on.
>>
>>
>> Runs multi grade fuels - including E-85 with NO changes - and you can MIX
>> the fuels.
>>
>>
>> Gas Milage in the TWENTY Miles Per Gallon Range even with a LOADED WESTY
>> CAMPER.
>>
>>
>> There are over THREE MILLION zetec engines on the road today. It's a
>> WORLD
>> engine.
>>
>>
>> Easy to Service and Repair the power pack. Parts are available & cost
>> much
>> less than Van parts.
>>
>>
>> Tune Up Services consist of Spark Plugs and Air Filter - with NO specs to
>> set !
>>
>>
>> ELIMINATES re-occurring COSTLY Vanagon issues -
>>
>>
>> NO Distributor to fail - No Cap or Rotor either
>>
>>
>> NO Coolant Leaking Head Gaskets or Expensive Coolant (uses universal
>> type)
>>
>>
>> NO Coolant Tower or Crankcase Towers to break - leaving you stranded
>>
>>
>> NO Air Flow Boxes to flutter, hesitate or stall causing unsafe
>> re-starts
>> in traffic
>>
>>
>> NO Vanagon "pinched" wire harness failures for the engine (new wiring
>> is
>> installed)
>>
>>
>> NO Driving in SECOND gear at 20 MPH over mountain passes - now you can
>> LEAD, not follow''
>>
>> What are your experiences installing a ford Escort Zetec in your VW Van.
>> My
>> friend in Seattle had one installed. It works fine now that he both
>> intact
>> exhaust to block.he is off to alaska with it. I know more when he returns
>>
>> Charles Nighbor
>>
>> Walnut creek, CA
>>
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