Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:10:53 -0400
Reply-To: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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From: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Just spent the morning with listmember Gary Bawden
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Gary sure is a fun guy! Our paths crossed in Sparks Nevada last summer and
he sure wasn't sporting a TDI at that time.
Congrats on the upgrade Gary!
-Craig
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> YAY !
> if that fuel leak got stopped or at least slowed down ..
> awesome dude !
> Please DO share about that ..what/how you did etc.
>
> yes, we stayed with stock 85 waterboxer 4 speed gearing.
> that's a freshly reubilt trans.
> Sure , 5 speeds are great to have, 3 ratios from 35mph to top speed..
> where with 4 speed there are only two ratios in that speed band to play
> with.
> that's where the 5 speed really shins.
> and 'half a granny' for 1st comes in handy now and then.
> Normally you drive a 5 speed like a 4 speed with a slightly tall 1st.
>
> I like that ..'make anything for anything.'
> that's what we all need.
>
> that boy is puttin' some miles on that thing.
> Changes the oil a lot too I think.
>
> That's great ya' all got to hang out and 'diesel out' to your heart's
> content !
>
> scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:06 PM
> Subject: Just spent the morning with listmember Gary Bawden
>
>
> Listmember Gary Bawden is touring the country in his gas-to-TDI conversion
>> done by Scott, which I got to see and drive this morning. Wow, what a
>> package and what a nice job by Scott. I took lots of pictures. The car is
>> waterboxer-quiet or quieter, and stronger than the waterboxer just a bit.
>> He
>> was running power steering, too. He left the 85 4-speed gearbox in there
>> and
>> it seemed fine to me on the highway. I bet he'd like to have my five speed
>> in there, though.
>>
>> Anyway, very impressive job and very nice rig.
>>
>> Gary had just left Unca Joel's neck of the woods after meeting with him
>> and
>> John Rogers yesterday. We met up in a public picnic area near Decatur, not
>> far from me, and not long after we pulled in, here came a TDI jetta
>> checking
>> out our vans. The driver turned out to be a TDI-conversion listmember
>> Nathan
>> Smith who is living on a sailboat a stone's throw from where we stood.
>> Nathan has his dad's 82 NA diesel vanagon and a later westy he is
>> outfitting
>> with porsche transmission, TDI conversion, and porsche brakes front and
>> rear. The porsche stuff came off of a 911 turbo wreck. Nathan is a
>> mechanical engineer who works at the Toyota V8 plant in Huntsville and has
>> access to anything to make anything.
>>
>> The shop talk got so thick at one point that the fish quit biting. The
>> fisherfolk left and we had the place to ourselves.
>>
>> I was able to stop a small fuel leak on Gary's injector with my scant but
>> diesel-specific onboard tool set.
>>
>> Gary is now off to the northeast before returning home to Nevada. I'm sure
>> you'll hear more about it from him.
>>
>> A very enjoyable morning.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
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