Date:         Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:54:01 -0700
Reply-To:     Larry Hamm <ldhamm@XMISSION.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Larry Hamm <ldhamm@XMISSION.COM>
Subject:      Re: Wasserboxer  (was: I drove it! (engine swap info)5Cyl.)
Comments: To: Dave <dave@V-DUB.MUSA.COM>
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Dave wrote:
>
> I don't see what the fuss is, my Vanagon has plenty of power for a VW
> bus.  I think the wasserboxer is a great engine for the Vanagon, it
> cruses fine all day near the redline and doesn't complain.  I drove mine
> from Boulder, CO to St. Louis, MO only stopping for gas, that was about
> 13 hours at apx. 70 to 90mph.  I think it was about 940 miles, what ever
> it was I had no problems what so ever, except I don't have cruse
> control.

Dave,
Next time point your Vanagon west out of Boulder. Head up I-70, then
turn off to Steamboat Springs.
Leave Steamboat on US-40, go to Granby, then take 34 through Rocky Mtn.
National Park (when it opens in the spring) then back to Boulder. Did I
mention to convert it to a Westy first, then load it with all the extra
gear you might need, and be sure to make the trip during the height of
tourist season? I wonder how you would feel about an engine swap then,
especially if your heads had just begun leaking?
Hell, I could do Boulder to St. Louis with a skateboard and a kite on
the right day, no stops for gas!
To each his own...
Larry
'82 diesel-->Jetta Westy
Park City, UT