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Date:         Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:32:16 -0700
Reply-To:     t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         t bill <tbil@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: engine drag
Comments: To: DSTEVENS <DSTEVENS@LAUBACH.ORG>, vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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> At 10:03 AM 10/13/98 -0700, t bill wrote: > > > >Drag will be about half of what you currently have. Just down shift > > >some more. You won't hurt it. > > >TBill > > > Evidently you haven't driven in the mountains with your Vanagon!

I've been up and down mountains all over the Rockies, including the one that has the world's highest paved road. [Hint: It's over 14000 ft, higher than Pikes peak]. so what's your point?

The > stock engine is woefully inadequate for slowing our vans down on those > long steep grades -- it will go past redline easily (no matter what gear > you put it in), No it won't. Try this: Go to top of mountain. Put vanagon in first, start down. Take foot off gas. Now, how fast are you going?

necessitating WAY TOO MUCH brake usage, resulting in RED > HOT brake rotors in a matter of minutes. BTDT (and scared the sh#t out > of my wife doing so).

Only if you let your speed get up to the point where a downshift to first would red line it. Don't do that.

> > > I can't imagine what it would be like with a Wankel with even less > engine drag!!!

No problem. You have no red line. Just let it rev.

> > Perhaps he could retrofit a parachute (a la dragster) to help with drag? > Now that I think of it, I would HIGHLY recomend the parachute just in > case he goes off the edge! ;) > What? And dash hopes of winning the Darwin award?/[And now, in the catagory of the dumb ass who let his van exceed critical speed going down a mountain...]

TBill 83.5 Westy AC, Auto, plenty of braking power (for sale)

> > Daniel Stevens > Operations Specialist >

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