Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:24:04 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: fuel management system
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wow ..
If they're good condition, I don't find wbxr engine to be unreliable at all.
they do have their quirks at times..
I've hadsay ....a 1.9 distributor with 200,000 miles on it need a new
Hall Sensor.
I can hardly call that 'unreliable'.
Sure the head gaskets don't last likeones doin engines that have 'real'
head gaskets..
but that's manageable.
If people are having trouble keeping them running right ..it's only
because the engine and fuel system are not being worked on someone
competent.
They work pretty darn good for what they are and are not a problem
much at all when properly understood and cared for.
jeez ..I work on them constantly. I had to finally break down and buy
ONE rebuilt AFM fora 1.9 from Phython last year. . Like the first one in
years and years.
And I've gotten 21 mpg on the highway with a properly maintained 1.9
wbxr engine in an 85 Westy, and that's with hitting 80 going downhill
passing big trucks even.
I do other types of engines too forsure ..
Waterboxers could have more power ........the could have a more evolved
EFI system ..
and they could have a 'real' head gasket system ..they are just a
converted air-cooled design after all...
butyou'll also never have a timing belt fail and blow up the engine either.
I would say ..just like the van itself ..they need good care and
understanding . For its era, their fuel system is not bad at all
actually, IMO. It's mainly that a lot of people don't understand them
well or know how to fix them right. And they are not that hard to fix
usually.
turbovans
On 2/14/2013 7:00 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
> Wow, $2000 for an EFI revision on an obsolete, unreliable engine that costs
> a minimum of $3000 to have rebuilt with questionable parts. Go figure, but
> I'll give them credit for trying to beat life into dead horsepower.
>
> Stuart
> Five WBX engines, no more ever again. Fool me once . . .
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> neil n
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:58 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: fuel managment system
>
> Gowesty is working on a system.
> http://www.gowesty.com/library_article.php?id=1532 Some have installed
> Megasquirt.
>
> Or just a whole different engine. ;)
>
> Neil.
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:50 PM, D.A.Simmons <dasvwdriver@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> what, if anything, are people changing to to replace the stock
>> digifant system. (85 van-o-gone)
>> Dan
>>
