Date:         Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:17:54 -0800
Reply-To:     Warren Chapman <warren8@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Warren Chapman <warren8@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      "Gene Berg Declines" Thread (from 10/28)
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I am considering the purchase of a nice'90 van a 2.1L with rod through
the top of the block, so (with rebuilding thoughts in mind) called Gene
Berg about prices on counterbalanced crank and balancing of  the
rotating assembly.

I spoke with Clyde Berg (Gene's son) but also got the unfortunate
response,  "We don't do any work on wasserboxer engines" and don't stock
the counterweights anymore."

HOWEVER.......I lobbied him some and told him he was missing out on a
big market and if he wanted proof to just run a search on the
vanagon.com archives on "horsepower increase"  and see how just a hint
of THOSE "HPI" WORDS always brought a huge response.

He seemed interested and said that GB was "CONSIDERING THE VANAGON
MARKET" again.  Seemed that he might even check out our site and
archives.

Perhaps with some positive response and an orgainized lobby with the
power this list can generate, this respected aftermarket performance
tuner will see the opportunity and would actually do some R&D resulting
in some worthwhile performance/durability enhancements to the
wasserboxer engine.

Anyone interested to organize this effort.  (Maybe I will).  Please post
your comments and suggestions.

Warren C.
'89 Syncro Westy