Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:24:49 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject: Re: Van Died @ 70 MPH. Why? (Jetta conversion)
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You could use some flexible rain gutter downpipe to create an air ram to
force cooling air from down below up into the lid. Some turbulence there
would keep it quite a bit cooler. Probably more effective than making the
box larger.
While I understand the dismay at having the van quit on the freeway, You
seem to be putting a lot of thought and potential effort into this project
based on an extremely intermittent (once) electrical gremlin. Problem is
that you could pour bunches of bux and time into it and still not now
whether you fixed it. The real killer is after you've made that investment
and you're happily driving down the road and it happens again! Don't ask
how I know about this.
Karl Wolz
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|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of neil n
|Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 7:58 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Van Died @ 70 MPH. Why? (Jetta conversion)
|
|Yes lots to change, but it may be that I have to change some
|things to get everything the way it "should be". Like I'm
|still not happy with the exhaust. Have to figure out why the
|cat cracked loose. It was fine for many thousand miles.
|
|yah tilting the motor to 50* is a fair amount of work. Still.
|VAG figured it out. I'm sure it wasn't just to keep the engine
|under the lid that they did the Diesel the way they did. e.g.
|they wouldn't have tubbed the engine lid. But what the heck.
|I learned a lot doing my swap this way, and it's been really
|reliable up til that last event.
|In hindsight though, things like the "tubbing" the engine
|cover just don't seem right. On hot days, all I can see is all
|that heat billowing up into that box, staying there, and
|adversely affecting things beyond the scope for which they
|were designed.
|
|We'll see. Thankfully I had the KEP adaptor drilled for 50*
|mount (thank your Mark Drillock) so that much is ready to go.
|
|Making the box wider on the engine lid is not much work.
|
|Neil.
|
|On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
|<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
|> I suppose this hot fuel hose theory could ..
|> apply, or be a factor ..
|> I wouldn't invest huge amount of energy in it though .
|> just practical things.
|>
|> the engine mounting angle is not a major factor ..
|> and it would be a lot of work to re-do the whole installation.
|>
|> new exhaust, lots of stuff to change.
|
|
|--
|Neil n
|
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