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• Re: Repowering madness, is this workable?
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sat, 28 Nov 1998 13:00:07 +0100
  ...I >know it would no longer be able to go 129 mph as it can in the A6. I also >know the 0 - 60...
• Re: Suitable range for tach?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 1 May 2011 22:38:41 -0400
  ...A 4,000 rpm tach makes as much sense as a 70 mph speedometer. The 85 mph Speedo's are bad enough. Dennis -----Original...
• Re: Oil Temp
  Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:56:42 -0400
  ...When you engine blows the oil out while driving 80 mph. (IMHO) Answer 3: No kidding! Answer to Answer 1: Lower the oil level...
• Spark Coil Failure
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:54:55 -0500
  ...This was highway driving at 70+ mph. My Westy is Air Cooled and 70 mph and 3300 should be my readings. I was getting...
• Re: Mystery Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Tyrone & Marilyn Greene
  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 08:42:19 -0400
  ...It also sat nose down. > > The mystery part is that the vanagon was going over 70 mph up hill. Every > time a car moved...
• Re: Porsche's SUV
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:05:54 -0500
  I've never been lucky enough to get over to Germany and experience the Autobahn but I'm told that 140 mph speeds aren...
• Re: RPM?MPH
  Historical mailing list - Allen Hill
  Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:06:50 -0600
  ...RPM?MPH That's a higher speed than my '84--at 4,000 rpm I'm reading 60 or close to it. The relationship...
• Re: 75 MPH - unusual?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:57:47 -0700
  ...Is it that unusual for a Vanagon > Westfalia to cruise at 75 MPH? I do it all the time in my '85. Stock > motor...
• Re: fastest vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Brian Steel
  Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:19:02 -0400
  So far I've hit 105 MPH indicated with about 1/3 of the throttle left. The speedo reads about 10% low ever since...
• Re: 5 speed tranny question?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:34:38 -0500
  The stock Vanagon engine will not push the van to 70 mph at 3,000 rpm. Not enough torque. You will go from wearing...
• Re: Was failed now passed CA smog test
  Historical mailing list - Tim Olmstead
  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:45:49 -0800
  ...15 MPH MAX 131 AVE 43 MEAS 48 MAX 0.87 AVE 0.16 MEAS 0.03 MAX 1085 AVE 406 MEAS 399 25...
• Re: HELP-- 45 MPH @ WOT ???
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:52:55 -0400
  TJ, For grins and giggles, ascertain if the throttle position sensor is activating at WOT. I would check it at the ECU connector. Ken...
• Re: Ackworth, Tires, and Oil
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 19 Nov 1994 17:40:51 -0400 (EDT)
  Hell Ackworth sounds like one of those places that if you sneeze or fart while driving thru at 30 mph you might miss it...
• Auto Trans/Towing
  Historical mailing list - Robert A Pal
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 11:05:32 -0500
  ...6....."if care with automatic transmission must be towed with front wheels lifted because of extensive damage.....if towing speed will exceed 30 mph...
• Re: oil pressure question
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 12 Sep 94 9:07:46 PDT
  ...Steady 60 mph cruise 275 F Pulling hills in 3rd @ 48 mph 250 F (oil temp goes through the roof) Pulling hills in 4th...
• Re: Highway Driving Vanagon Style?
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:30:09 -0500
  Robin, What do you mean by "power starved VDubs" ? I recently took a trip MN-CA at the legal limit of 75 mph, except...
• Re: Why am I hear? (free H.P. for syncros)
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:30:59 -0400
  ...One long up hills, I have noticed that I was maintaining about 3-5 MPH faster than normal, (43 MPH). I reinstall the water...
• Re: I want a bigger diesel turbo in it ...
  Historical mailing list - Johann Koenig
  Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:16:18 -0800
  ...But it still goes very slow, barely making it to 70 mph. > I think about 2.5 diesel turbo would be acceptable. I have...
• Re: EMISSIONS -- I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:19:04 -0700
  ...On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Linda Bartnik wrote: > ASM 2 TAILPIPE EMISSIONS INSPECTION > > 15 MPH: > Limit Reading Result > HC ppm 157 138 PASS > CO...
• Re: 85 GL High Peg
  Historical mailing list - marcus
  Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:09:09 -0700
  ...standard trans tac reads 3800 at 65mph and 4050 at 70 mph.The 1.9 I don't know as VW gave me a...
• Re: gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Neal
  Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:05:09 -0700
  ...18.5 at 75 mph/4000+ rpm: tail winds, 4000 feet, 60 degrees, out 22.5 at 55 mph/3000+ rpm: head winds, 5000...
• Re: TOP SPEED
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:45:42 -0600
  I've got a late model 100 mph speedometer on my 83 Westy air cooled and I must say, I've never been able...
• Re: [subaruvanagon] Re: 3.3 verses 4.3 verses 1.9???
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:22:11 -0700
  ...Assuming we are traveling at >70 mph (washington state speed limit on highway 90) and hit the eastside of >the cascades. I would like...
• Planning to go five speed? 483 vs 457...48(Some what long...)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:51:30 EST
  ...Fifth goes from 35 to @80+ Fourth gear goes from 25 mph to @70 mph Third goes from creeping to @45+ mph Second goes...
• Re: What can go wrong..... (followup and short trip report)
  Historical mailing list - Doug Toomey
  Tue, 1 Aug 2017 05:23:55 -0700
  ...a vw bus & god didn't intend for them to 90 mph.... it >> could tho :-) >> >> Rob >> vwrobb@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jul 31, 2017 6...
• Re: How hard can you push a Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:04:41 -0500
  ...Max speed about 55 > mph, min speed about 20 mph up hills. I consider it dumb luck that the > van made it. ----------------------- clip This...
• Re: dangerous incompetent driving a 201 MPH Vanagon!
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:30:33 -0500
  ...3rd wreck was me drivng the 91 GL at 70+mph at nite and obliging a suicidal deer. 60 mph is now too fast...
• Re: How much fuel efficiency gained by shedding 300 lbs?
  Historical mailing list - Randy Bergum
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:05:59 -0700
  ...mph > > E = M(55 X 55) 3025M > > E = M(65 X 65) 4225M > > E = M(75 X 75) 5625M (that's 9X @ 25 mph...
• Re: What is rpm @ 70 mph?
  Historical mailing list - mark keller
  Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:55:19 -0400
  > In order to keep him >from over-reving the engine, it would be helpful if he knew the rpms at 70 >mph, which is...
• Re: 75 MPH - unusual?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:28:48 -0700
  ...Is it that unusual for a Vanagon > Westfalia to cruise at 75 MPH? I do it all the time in my '85. Stock > motor...
• Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:20:51 -0700
  ...130 mph in a vanagon > > At 120mph (just a little slower) you are doing a mile every 30 seconds. > That means the 1/10...
• speedo
  Historical mailing list - Darrel Combs
  Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:59:02 -0400
  I am in need of an 100 mph with odometer speedo head for my 88 vanagon.Anyone have one that I may purchase?? Darrel...
• Re: Anyone used Cooper SRM II LT 185R14C tires?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 7 Jan 2003 01:13:50 -0500
  Ah. I had them backwards. Q rated tires are good to 99mph. S are good to 114 mph. C'est la vie.
• Re: [Syncro] 10K update-2.3 H.O. WBX from Unique Imports
  Historical mailing list - Jim Davis
  Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:34:53 EDT
  ...Runs around 3600 RPMS at 72 MPH. <snip> It got only around 17-18 mpg. This was cured by advancing the timing. <snip> Now...
• Re: top speed?
  Historical mailing list - Rodrigo Bonilla Soto (Direcspicer)
  Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:54:52 -0600
  ...That shows as ~71 mph on my speedo, which reads high. I think it is really ~65 mph. So running at the top o...
• Re: What dumb thing do you repeatedly do with your Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:51:42 -0500
  ...After a few miles at maybe 40 mph, I suddenly realized what I'd done. There were two of us involved, so we one...
• Re: Porsche's SUV
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:35:13 +1300
  >For you mathematicians out there you need to calculate the expotential >tire diameter growth at 168 mph along with the fact that the specific...
• Re: So what's the most efficient speed to cruise at?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 19 May 2019 15:18:07 +0000
  ...When I travel around 60 MPH I get 21 MPG, it drops to 17 MPG at 70 MPH. Note, I have a well tuned...
• Re: Heart vs. Head
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:18:42 -0500
  ...I downshift like you do, and also drive around 45 mph. On an 8% grade in Great Basin National Park, I downshifted to second...
• Re: Still lousy gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 2 May 2012 15:44:12 -0700
  ...I had to climb one hill at 35 mph in 2nd for about 5 miles ..hated doing that ...just wouldn't pull 3rd. 'normal...
• Re: 130 mph in a vanagon, what MPG?
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:49:46 -0500
  ...130 mph in a vanagon, what MPG? > > It takes about 50 hp to push a Vanagon at 65 mph, or so I've read...
• Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 12 May 2002 17:58:12 -0400
  At 05:23 PM 5/12/2002, developtrust wrote: >Are you all serious??? My 1989 speedometer has BOTH the MPH and KPH printed >clearly...
• Re: friday...whats the FASTEST youve driven in your vanagon????
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:00:24 -0800
  95'ish mph, down hill out of the Appalachians towing a trailer with the clutch IN. 90 GL 2.1wbx Jere -----Original Message----- From...
• Mileage ?
  Historical mailing list - Robie Pierce digest please
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:48:07 -0500
  ...Getting 19 MPG for 70 mph Highway use. How does this mpg stack up to norm? Thanks, Robie (forever seeking one R armrest)
• Heroes needed to collect data points
  Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
  Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:33:57 -0600
  ...Actual speeds from 40 to 80 mph must be accurately known. this conversion chart would show the target indicated speedometer mph for each actual...
• Syncro vibration woes, seeking inout
  Historical mailing list - Karl M
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:55:44 -0500
  ...It grows from almost nothing at 10 mph to a peak at 55 mph, then smoothes at 60 onward. I've pulled the driveshaft...
• Re: Odometer/Speedometer OoC
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:28:06 -0400
  ...I drove so the GPS indicated 60 MPH, and noted what the speedo read. Back home, you need to take it out of the...
• Speed
  Historical mailing list - Don Williams
  Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:18:15 -0800
  Westfalia ---85 1.9 stock waterboxer 195 MPH top speed. I live in Bellingham and can make it to Seattle (90 miles away) in...
• Re: Air cooled head temps. Help!
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:04:35 -0700
  Glad you're making it home anyway. :) I still recommend trying the hills at 25 mph in second gear; the motor can do that...
• Re: S. Africa conversion done!
  Historical mailing list - Peter B.
  Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:27:20 -0700
  ...I was driving up to Lake Tahoe > doing 65 - 70 MPH with juice to spare. Passing on the flat on the > freeway from 70...
• Re: Cruise control in manual '84 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:26:44 +1200
  ...anywhere from >seven to ten mph and sometimes it goes over the set speed >by about five mph before settling back to the set...
• Coffesions of a speeder what kind of gas milage do you see at 75 MPH
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Berchin
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:22:47 -0800
  ...Then again, on the trip back, I was on my own doing 75-80 and saw 18.8 mph, if I recall correctly. I...
• Re: vanagon top speed, extrapolation
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Sat, 4 Sep 2004 00:37:13 -0700
  Been 95 mph in mine with the stock 2.1....... However I had the clutch in and a trailer on the back coming out...
• Re: Gas Mileage
  Historical mailing list - Dana Showers
  Fri, 21 May 2004 11:59:30 -0400
  ...high speed (70 - 75 mph, vs 55 mph) greater tire flex due to relatively underinflated tires for given psig at high altitude. it would...
• Air cooled vanagon trip report
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:24:25 -0400
  ...limit may be a bit off from stock?) Typical highway driving speeds: -60-65 mph (faster in hills to keep rpms closer to 4k...
• Re: What is the biggest & heaviest thing you've carried INSIDEyourvan?
  Historical mailing list - andrewbell
  Tue, 8 May 2001 17:31:26 -0500
  ...Maybe 75 MPH ... CTONLINE@webtv.net wrote: > An 84 GL with 2000 lbs, in it doing 80 mph, getting 18 mpg ? > > Ah, Ha, Ha...
• Re: strange bucking problem w/ '84 vanagon wbx
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:22:44 -0800
  ...Now I don't push the van over 65 mph & the problem rarely occurs, not to mention the much better gas mileage. I have...
• RE: Baywindow tire size/speedo error
  Historical mailing list - Morris H. Arthur
  Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:52:29 -0500
  ...After replacing it ('errrr, that's about 0 mph..."), my indicated speed was 10 mph too high at cruising speeds. I wouldn't be...
• What a new Air flow meter might do for you...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Fri, 5 Mar 1999 04:23:46 PST
  ...to 35 mph with no engine strain, RPMs were @1700, while on flat ground, then get back up to 60 mph. All gears will...
• Re: Synthetic oil and engine performance
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:46:02 -0600
  ...Formerly with regular oil it was 70 > MPH when > set at 4000 rpm. Interesting results and I thought you all might be > interested. > > William...