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Date:         Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:53:17 -0300
Reply-To:     Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
Subject:      Re: new guy
Comments: To: "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <CANEuo0hULvP0Mss4CXEY7bZh6=wUKktqJwv7eVkyn4i74zPUWw@mail.gmail.com>
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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. >>


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