Date:         Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:23:39 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How do you when your springs need to be replaced?
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

>
> my personal 87 Wolfsburg..
> drives like a perfectly nice riding and handling sport car....
> very quiet inside too ...sweet van.
>

  Bull****!
 Scott, come on, Mr...You are exaggerating like crazy there.  Impossible to
make a 2 ton vehicle that is over 6 feet tall and shaped like a shoebox into
a "Nice riding and handling sport car"  except in your mind, or on your
computer screen on the internet.  And at a power to weight of approximately
(being generous here) 40lbs per hp....It ain't never gonna be a sport car...

  You might make one handle just fine, maybe even like a big fat passenger
car,  way better than the numbers say they should...but at best, they'll
never be any kind of high performance road machine....without major
modifications such as dropping maybe 1500lbs, lowering the center of gravity
a couple of FEET...adding tons of tire contact patch and huge HP
increase...  That would not be a Vanagon any longer, but it would be a
half-a**ed sports car, maybe.

  They are amazing vehicles that do handle much better than you might
think....but nobody but a dreamer could ever say they 'drive like a
perfectly nice riding and handling sport car' (and not laugh themselves
silly after saying that)