Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:19:42 -0700
Reply-To:     t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: TDI, TD and 2.0L , and Rotary conversions
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM, "ErikO@ebyte.com" <ErikO@EBYTE.COM>
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> how a car runs and how it should run. For instance, Mazda Rotary
> engines. If I announced on the list that I was going to install a RX7
> engine in my van everyone would be screaming "no low end torque",
> "that's a high RPM engine".

Having been an owner and racer (took lst in 3 different clubs in '84)
of an RX-7, let me say that engine has torque ALL OVER the RPM range!
In normal driving you don't have to take it over 2000 RPM.

 I've met a guy in Columbus that installed
> rotary's in just about everything he owned, a bus, Vanagon, Ghia. I
rode
> in the Vanagon and it was nice. You tell him his van is slow, if you
can
> catch up to him.

A rotary in the vanagon!  Does it fit?  NEAT!  Who can do it?  MPG
would suffer tho...

TBill


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