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• Re: Hybrid Engine Conversion (LVC, but it is nearly Friday!)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:24:42 -0400
  159 foot/pounds of torque is 50% more than the stock engine in a Vanagon. However an RX8 only weighs in at about 3000...
• Re: Scale Model Busses
  Historical mailing list - Scot Douglas
  Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:40:33 -0400
  ...The engine was just molded into the chassis and not entirely impressive, so I started doing a bus / Ferrari F-40 hybrid kit. The...
• Re: SALTWATER FUEL-wood burning vehicles of ww2
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:58:51 -0500
  ...200HP hybrids are not the answer. In order to stretch the life expectancy of those eneergy reserves people are going to have to get...
• Re: Vanagons as electric vehicles and other stuff....
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Tue, 6 May 2008 08:29:27 -0700
  ...Might do OK as a hybrid. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL
• Re: This B.C. company wants to electrify your Porsche, your mini van and your school bus | Globalnews.ca
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Sat, 30 Apr 2022 11:44:19 -0700
  ...Building new vehicles has environmental costs, too, so he is right > about that. > > I wonder, would converting an old hybrid be cheaper than converting...
• Re: Casfor Clunkers
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:50:50 -0400
  ...some hulk out of a field, trade it on a new hybrid >> and get $4,500 for it. �The old car has to have...
• Re: vanagon off-road capable?
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:25:09 -0700
  ...Ideas anyone? -Otmar- 72(front),73(rear),76,78,82,87(parts) Stretched bus 82 A3 GTI Westfalia, turning into a hybrid electric stretch...
• Re: Ever added up your receipts?
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:41:13 -0500
  ...new bumpers, H4 vision kit, regeared/built trans, AAZ TD with hybrid turbo, tank, seals and sending unit, small car rear disc, and about...
• Re: Electric Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:54:09 +0000
  ...Diesel, hybrids, etc were all rolled out as production cars in those early years. The only newer idea I can see would be the...
• Re: Smart Car..Wow.. NVC
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:22:11 +0000
  ...Maybe plug in hybrids are more frugal but they are ten years away (battery costs). Electric cars (battery), E85 (gets less mpg in most...
• Re: Anti-Freeze opinions
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Sun, 2 Apr 2017 10:11:47 -0400
  ...It is an organic hybrid that mixes with both types. I can buy G12+ for about the same price as G11. More importantly is...
• Re: [TDI-conversion] Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Breakthrough for TDI conversions!
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:47:35 -0700
  ...pump and dont give it to you.) > > If it is a hybrid pump, the best way to do this from my research, then it...
• Load vs fuel consumption..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:25:18 -0700
  ...100lbs...so For those who might be considering one of these "hybrid" ABA/1.8 liter motors, like the one that I stuck together...
• Re: '72 engine
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 23 Sep 94 8:45:39 PDT
  ...1000 > mile rebuild would be just broken in, and probably less work adapting 2000 > motor intact than making a hybrid. The main reason is...
• Re: Vanagon/Westaflia hybrid?
  Historical mailing list - T.
  Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:35:06 -0700
  Yes, I am thinking you're right. It is a 1984 GL model. It is that 2-tone brown & cream color combo with the...
• Re: Cash for Clunkers Tally
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:05:46 -0400
  ...And for all the folks that bought hybrids, you think those batteries were grown in a garden? The mines that produce the raw materials...
• This just HAS to be a new question...
  Historical mailing list - Kyle Davis
  Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:10:59 -0700
  ...on a prius or an insight, or even a ford escape hybrid engine into this solution, or suggest that that would even work. I...
• Re: An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions!
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:38:54 -0700
  ...com> wrote: > > > hey Alistair I'd speculated that some kind of hybrid using a cutndown > > ABA lower plenum and counterflow intake might work. > > > > might...
• Re: More on TR 16x7 steelies
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:39:18 -0800
  ...There is a guy on Samba selling hybrid >>nuts >>needed to properly match the diameter of the smaller ball with the >>larger diameter lug...
• Re: VW car names ...
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:49:06 -0800
  ...that are actually 200 years old --or more --- like Outback or hybrid Outlander -- the latter being an excellent scifi trilogy from cs lewis -- of...
• Re: Thoughts on Larry, the list, and State Your Ages!
  Historical mailing list - The corruptor
  Mon, 10 May 2004 23:41:37 -0400
  ...i will call hime an hybrid... fir the first time i did a complete paint job, with good tools, good paint,,,my now bright...
• Re: And now for something Completely Different
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:33:38 -0400
  ...I drive a 86 GL myself. >I was wondering how hard it would be to hybridize a vanagon. Add a little >helper motor/generator...
• Re: Patching a water tank?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:13:26 -0700
  ...I know that the hybrid cement works on the material that the VW grille is made of, I don't know about the water...
• 81 Westfalia Blues
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:15:15 -0700
  ...Could live with a hybrid. So, whadya think?
• Re: Floormats for Diesel Vanagon -- OH YES!
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:23:41 -0500
  ...Fuel proof, flame proof, even light armor proof, and obviously super strong, these mats are a hybrid of woven fiber threads bonded in space...
• Re: Vacuum leak?
  Historical mailing list - Charles McGehee
  Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:11:42 -0700
  ...check your exhaust carefully.You got guts to be traveling is such a >hybrid ,way out there .Once again,wish I was there. >Roger
• Re: Anyone out there have an AAP 5 speed transmission (other than me)?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:14:16 -0700
  I have a 5sp manual in my gas inline van...84 with a hybrid ABA/8valve head I don't know which one it...
• Re: (NVC) New "Pontiac GTO" released in US
  Historical mailing list - Road Trip
  Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:49:04 -0800
  ...My second car was a hybrid. Vega GT with a chevy V8. Those 440 Mag 70 chargers never knew what hit em. Third car...
• Re: Which is the best coolant to use? Part IV (last one!) :)
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:06:27 -0600
  ...Chrysler used conventional green IAT coolant until 2001, when they adopted G-05�, a hybrid coolant. Ford followed suit in 2002, dropping the green...
• Re: Portable Air Conditioner aka hybrid electric vehicle continued - live and learn
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:06:05 -0400
  ...Portable Air Conditioner aka hybrid electric vehicle continued - live and learn > Well, > I had high hopes for this idea of a "poor mans AC...
• FYI===> Coolant Colors - what do they mean??
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:05:58 +0000
  ...Chrysler used conventional green IAT coolant until 2001, when they adopted G-05�, a hybrid coolant. Ford followed suit in 2002, dropping the green...
• More Conversion motor rap.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:58:22 -0700
  ...But, a Turbo diesel in a van would probably be somewhere in the same performance envelope as a 2.2 or a Tiico hybrid...
• Re: Friday, update on Prius electronics rant
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:50:14 -0500
  ---- Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Well, now you know for next time, and there likely will be a next time. > > These hybrid vehicles...
• Re: Ford Galaxy Friday
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:58:51 -0500
  ...So why would manufacturers develop a vehicle that may not even be allowed? As hybrid technology goes down in cost I think that will...
• Re: Removing interior heat (was window tint physics)
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Sun, 9 Mar 2003 16:24:23 -0500
  ...convert it to electricity to run the electric motors in our hybrid vans! Yes, paint-on solar cells, that's what I'm talking...
• Re: Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:27:01 -0400
  ...14 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote: > > > >> Maybe the information is in here: > >> > >> Hybrid Air Conditioning Systems Overview - OpenSIUC - Southern ... > >> opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/**viewcontent...
• Re: Diesels on NPR this morning
  Historical mailing list - P. Stanhope
  Tue, 11 May 2004 20:05:16 -0700
  ...With biodiesel, they even smell > better than gas exhaust. > They are far superior to any hybrid car as well. > More space, similar > mileage with...
• Re: The Price We Pay For Being "Cool"
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:41:37 -0800
  ...if it were equipped with an engine more powerful e.g. hybrid/gas or diesel. There just isn't a viable alternative made yet...
• Re: VW says it (yawn) again...the bus
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:13:12 -0800
  ...a Hybrid might but here is some FoodForThought on Batt'Life ~ My Wife is a > Realtor & drives a 2008 Ford Escape > > Hybrid that We...
• Re: Needed: DoubleCab Air Conditioning In Uganda
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 30 May 2011 10:27:27 -0700
  This is exactly where hybrids excel..... And why (I think) that more trucks are getting hybrid engines just for this reason.... Really which there...
• Re: Are My Curtains on Correct?
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:43:28 -0700
  ...http://www.evcl.com/vw 1 914 EV, 1 Insight Hybrid
• Re: Mini Trip Report / Tucson to Death Valley
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:44:51 -0500
  ...Why don't they make hybrid vanagons??!!? On the other hand, I hit snow and sleet and salt on my tour, while you got...
• Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:10:11 -0400
  ...Diesel/Hybrid = not powerfull/can not show off/can not drag race-street race/don't make enough noise-trembling sound/look wimpy/not...
• Re: They said it couldn't be done....
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:42:08 -0500
  ...I see cars moving to higher and higher voltage systems anyway, hybrid or not, to handle all the demands of "modern" cars. Just another...
• Re: Extra socket in tail lamps
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 5 Jul 2023 09:04:03 -0400
  ...I tried to explain differences in tail lights. >>> >>> >>> To make a hybrid and use the empty spots would need some wiring at connector and...
• Re: Diesel schmiesel...i'm thinking of going electric
  Historical mailing list - rpc
  Mon, 26 May 2008 20:36:11 -0700
  ...I believe Toyota is subsidizing some of the hybrid expense also. Having tax payers foot the bill would help too, which is not too...
• Re: Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:30:33 -0500
  ...14 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote: > > > > > >> Maybe the information is in here: > > >> > > >> Hybrid Air Conditioning Systems Overview - OpenSIUC - Southern ... > > >> opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/**viewcontent...
• Re: Unreadable posts (was also: Vanagon List Archives: A TechnicalProblem)
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:13:28 -0300
  ...or a move to something new and hybrid like Discuss). If and when Jim decides he would rather be camping. Steve Williams wrote on...
• Re: Solar for VANGONS?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:37:43 -0700
  ...long time until some bigger more powerful corporation came back with hybrids...and now full electric cars are back again.. We shall see how...
• Re: tdi
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:59:15 +1200
  ...It is the TDI with a >mechanical (hybrid) pump. Supposedly virtually identical torque, >power, etc. Hopefully much simpler to install because of non >electronic...
• Re: Re-Visiting Electric Vehicle talk - event on Sunday.
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:34:49 -0700
  ...sedan), a >Tesla Roadster, Toyota RAV4EV, among other electrics and >electric-hybrids. a few conversion projects as well. >http://events.pluginday.org/p/salsa...
• Re: About them Norcold refrigerators
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:32:17 -0700
  ...http://www.evcl.com/vw 1 914 EV, 1 Insight Hybrid
• Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:49:01 -0700
  ...air...not to mention your 2nd car > > should be a electric > > > hybrid...is it??? > > > > > > Am I to understand that Kevin is making light of...
• Re: How much fuel efficiency gained by shedding 300 lbs?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:32:45 -0400
  ...Since Vanagons are not normally hybrids, you don't really get anything back when you go back down the hills. All that said, I...
• Re: Anybody using a 2.0 gas engine in a vanagon conversion
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:27:56 -0700
  ...also share lots of parts My Gas inline 92/93 Jetta hybrid shares almost every single part with Vanagons interchangeably...Hoses and stuff excluded...
• Re: Oil Weight Reccomendation
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:56:43 EDT
  ...The wasserboxer, being a bit of hybrid, can use the 30 weight (especially in hotter climates), but 20w50 is preferred. 10w30 is too thin...
• Re: westfalia conversion van idea (MVC)
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:05:11 -0400
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > >On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Andrew Fox wrote: > >> The result would hopefully be a hybrid that has shares the >> excellent...
• Re: Roadhaus - Warning / Impostor
  Historical mailing list - Woody B
  Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:48:22 -0700
  ...Board Waste Treatment and Water > Recycling, Solar Microwave, Laser Guided Weaponry, hybrid engine (Bio > Diesel, Gas, Electric or Water powered) or any of the...
• Re: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:49:09 -0500
  Andrew Grebneff wrote: > The good thing about a separate motor and charging system is that the > engine can be positioned in any location, in...
• Re: Electric Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:34:37 -0800
  ...In fairness though...........i believe the battery pack in the Pirus Hybrid, while not comparable to a pure electric car...........i think those are...