Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:05:48 -0700
Reply-To: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Subject: Re: Eurospec Conversion MORE INFO!!!!Part2
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At 7:48 PM 7/29/98, John Rogers wrote:
>Hey Kyle, I for one appreciate your behind the scenes story on this
>intriguing engine swap,for that dude to imply that your offer to
>personally answer e-mail questions was commercially motivated was out of
>line.I thank you on behalf of other quasi-lurkers tuning in to this
>story.
As "that dude", I resent the fact that somehow I'm being cast as
a villain for pointing out what can/may happen when discussions of
interest disappear to p-mail...AND I explicitly labeled my statement
as opinion...( IMHO = In my Humble Opinion ).
To think that Kyle or any other vendor/service provider who posts to
the vanagon list isn't "commercially motivated" is just plain silly!
It's probably equally silly for vendors to shy away from posting to
the list factual information about the products/parts they sell
when said products/parts are new or, as yet, unknown...to avoid
being publicly excoriated for "commercial activity". It's possible
that Kyle has become overly sensitive to criticism of commercial
postings, or perception thereof, as a result of the Ratio Rockers
and ECU Chip Kit discussion earlier this spring (Which, given the
price, seems like a cheap power add-on, compared to the Eurospec
transplant)...
What's weird is that I was actually trying to do him and Eurospec a
favor by pointing out (obviously using the wrong tone of words)that
it was important for factual information surrounding the Eurospec
conversion to be posted - in detail - to the list. The ensuing
discussion will bring out more information from other quarters, as
it already has, and enrichen all of us.
Following is engine specs for the 4cyl engines currently available
for the New Beetle (the 2.0 specs are the same for the Golf/Jetta/
Passat with the exception of torque peak being at 3200rpm). I invite
anyone who has a copy of the EuroCar article on the conversion
to fill in the Eurospec column with factual information:
Current Volkswagen Eurospec Vanagon
Gas TDI ('89+)
Type 2.0I, 1.9I, 2.0L 2.1L
4-cylinder, 4-cylinder, 4-cylinder, 4-cylinder,
in-line in-line in-line opposed
Bore in. 3.25 3.13 B.BB 3.70
Stroke in. 3.65 3.76 S.SS 2.99
Disp in3 121.1/1984 cm3 115.7/1896 cm3 III.i 129/2109 cm3
Comp Ratio 10.0 : 1 19.5 : 1 ?????? 9.0:1
HP(SAE)@rpm 115 @ 5200 90 @ 4000 HPHP@ rrrr 90 @ 4800
(85 kW @ 5200) (66 kW @ 4000)
Max.torque, 122 @ 2600 149 @ 1900 TTT@ rrrr 117.3@ 3200
lbs-ft @ rpm (165 Nm @ 2600) (202 Nm @ 1900)
Fuel RegularUnl'ded Diesel RegularUnl'ded
OLTECO Ari Ollikainen
P.O. BOX 3688 Networking Technology and Architecture
Stanford, CA Ari@OLTECO.com
94309-3688 415.517.3519
