Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:16:44 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: new guy
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I have a customer with the 1.6 turbo motor. It goes OK although 70 really seems to be an upper limit and it takes time to get it there. They have travelled cross country and they love the fuel economy. For myself I would rather pay more for fuel, enjoy the quieter ride and have AC and power steering. I'm spoiled.
Dennis
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Roy Nicholl
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 9:53 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: new guy
Ken,
You put a turbo on that 1.6 … actually on the JX version of the 1.6 and it was just fine - some might argue better than the higher-revving 1.9TD(i) engines - in a fully loaded westy.
I would like to try and put the 2.5l TDi from the 1996 - 2005 LT into a Westy.
Roy
> On 27-Aug-2016, at 15:58, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
> I grew up with VW diesels. My first car was a sweet 82 Diesel Caddy
> (Rabbit Pickup). After that I owned diesel Rabbits, Golfs, Jetta
> pretty much exclusively until mid 20s. I bought my first Vanagon
> which was an 85 1.9l waterboxer but I really wanted a 1.6l diesel
> Vanagon. They were rare even back in the late 90s. After working on
> Vanagons and driving them daily for about 3 or 4 years a customer came
> by with a diesel Westy with a recently rebuilt engine. I was excited!
> Now I was finally going to get my favorite engine in a Vanagon. I
> just had to drive it down my street to realize that while the 1.6l was
> great in a small, light car, it stunk in a large, heavy, van. It was
> scary to pull out into traffic at the end my street and there really
> is no traffic here. I thought maybe it was just that van, but since
> then I have owned a few and worked on several here at the shop. I
> have one customer who bought his new and keeps it pristine and treats it really nice. The 1.6l powerplant is just too weak in the van.
> You can't keep up with modern highway traffic (65-70 mph), the engine
> is being pushed to it's limits all the time so they don't have the
> long life they have in the cars. I would never recommend a 1.6l
> diesel Vanagon to any person. If you want to do a conversion and put
> a TDI in there, that is a whole other story. There are circumstances
> where that might make sense and you have the power comparable to the waterboxer with more torque.
>
> It's just my opinion but I really wanted to like them and instead I
> came to almost hate them.
>
> Ken
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016, 2:12 PM Karl Mullendore
> <tdiguru@westyventures.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In a heartbeat. Although preferably the factory JX turbodiesel that
>> should have been sold here. Great success in Europe, but I guess the
>> US buyers weren't quite 'ready' for diesels. The beauty is that every
>> inline gas/diesel 4-cyl VW engine from 1974-1999 will bolt in when
>> the original 1.6NA expires, which is hastened most times by heavy
>> right feet and impatient drivers.
>>