Date:         Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:02:18 -0500
Reply-To:     "Jose R. Moscoso" <jmoscoso@UCCARIBE.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Jose R. Moscoso" <jmoscoso@UCCARIBE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wasserboxer (was: I drove it! (engine swap info)5Cyl.)
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+ACI-Saludos+ACI- to all:
My '84 Westfalia has 170k+- miles, with only recently a motor overhaul  +ACQ-2k
at 160k miles and a transmission repair at 168k.  My daily drive is about
half hour in mountain side windings roads (there are a lot of this in PR).
Weekends we travel southwest for almost 2 hours on the freeway to get to my
wife parent house, average driving speed is 60-75mph except for the climbing
strechs (almost 3 miles at 15-25 degrees slope) when speed drops to 40-50 in
third gear.  The only thing I regret is the air conditioner went dead almost
two years ago now, and I have been needing it.  Just yesterday temperatures
climbed over to the low 80's.

My wife's car is a 1996 Honda civic sedan

I rather go barefoot than change my van...  until I have enought dought to
go north and get a more recent edition.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Katsuki +ADw-dkatsuki+AEA-WORLD.STD.COM+AD4-
To: vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM +ADw-vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM+AD4-
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: Wasserboxer (was: I drove it+ACE- (engine swap info)5Cyl.)


+AD4-We have always driven our vanagons at 75-80 on the highway, with no ill
+AD4-effects (several trips back and forth across the country at those speeds
+AD4-when on interstates. )    I never run in the red range, however.
+AD4-
+AD4-Dave
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-At 10:48 AM 2/10/99 -0600, Alan Bosch wrote:
+AD4APg-Ron wrote:
+AD4APgAi-I don't think I'd want to go much faster than the 75 mph range that my
+AD4APg-Westy offer...+ACI-
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-In the recent past, I have seen volks post speed numbers similar to the
+AD4APg-above.  Not saying that any of these figures are unrealistic, but aren't
+AD4APg-you affraid of your engine digesting it self at these speeds?  Keeping one
+AD4APg-eye on the speedo and the other on the tach, I start to get nervous at
+AD4APg-65mph, as the tach approaches the limit of the solid green range, moving
+AD4APg-toward the broken green range.  It seems, at least in my bus, that sixty
is
+AD4APg-a nice, comfortable cruise speed - not taxing the engine, but perhaps
+AD4APg-slowing up traffic a bit.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-Alan Bosch
+AD4APg-'88 Wolfsburg
+AD4APg-