Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:20:30 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Just spent the morning with listmember Gary Bawden
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He is...
just an great all around good guy,
real pleasure to do biz or anything with.
he has no TDI that I know of .
he does have an AAZ pre-chamber type, fully mechanical diesel engine though.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: craig cowan
To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Just spent the morning with listmember Gary Bawden
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
