Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:06:55 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: AW Warning
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I concur.
The roof shapeis absolutely brilliant I think.
Goes through the air very smoothly - much more smoothy at 70 mph than a
Westy, whick 'noodles' around a bit in still air at speed.
That pointy back end gives it a slight arrow affect ...center of
pressure is moved aft a bit .
The flat area on top isn't very flat ...and has about 40 % less area
than a quite flat Westy roof ..
therefore considerable less turbulance over the top.
there's *gobs* of room up there too.
And ....mine sure is.....'strangely quiet'.
On smooth pavement at 60mph with waterboxer engine ..mine isbasically
'not much noise at all ' in the front seats.
Luv it.
Doesn't feel top heavy either..
but the construction of the interior ....gray duct tape to locate wires
under the floor ???
total hack job as you say.
Scott
On 2/10/2013 8:51 PM, miguel pacheco wrote:
> Oops, continuing....The warning here is to take a good look at what you
> have beneath that floor. The battery vent holes were a total hack job.
> Crooked with gnarly, twisted edges and filled with gobs of sealant. The
> hole, cut just behind the driver's battery box has quite a story to tell.
> They first missed and cut the floor above the beam that runs the length of
> the van. I don't know what they were using to make these cuts, but this was
> all twisted too. They pounded this down and filled with goop. I removed the
> goop and pulled up the flooring to inspect the inside of the beam cavity
> and found no rust. That's some good goop. They then moved to the inboard
> side of the beam and made another nasty, crooked cut, but fortunately they
> were on target. Then they made four more cuts, clean through the floor,
> just inboard of those, about six inches in length and covered these with
> goop. These are very uniform in that they follow the floor pattern.
> I am very disappointed and now look forward to some moderate repairs,
> although a good shop will resolve this easily. I am fortunate that NONE of
> these leaked in all these years, but I wonder and am concerned for those
> who have not looked beneath their crappy AW parquet floors. I always
> suspected that, minus the AW high roof, these conversions are a hack job....
> Miguel
>
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>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:30 PM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> A heads up to Adventurewagen owners. Sick and tired of the antiquated,
>> poorly designed AW interior inside of Fritz, I removed the cabinets and
>> flooring this week. The mystery of the day was 'rust, or no rust....' The
>> parquet flooring was held down by gobs of black polyurethane, as expected,
>> and there was zero rust on the panel which typically gets rusted up by the
>> Westy fill port and zero rust above the rocker. None of the AW water
>> system, or drains, leaked. Kind of a miracle, after all these years.78
>> Miguel
>>
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