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• Re: Tip and Tricks: Smoke Signals
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:19:34 -0700
  ...Owsianowski < pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought that meant VW would be producing a new retro style camper van > with a hybrid motor! > > > -- > Pete...
• Re: Iceland
  Historical mailing list - Geneva Saint-Amour
  Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:25:54 +0000
  ...metric or ? ) of tiny dirt roads upon which >> these folks drive a bizarre hybrid of a family SUV with extended fender >> flares and WIDE...
• Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:13:58 -0400
  ...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: Electric vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:22:51 -0600
  ...whether hybrid like the Prius or all electric, have both heat and a.c. In my Prius the a.c. is driven by its...
• Re: Engine Rebuild or Conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:21:15 -0800
  ...You'll be paying Lou down the block or any other mechanic $60+ per hour to sort through an undocumented hybrid set up every...
• Re: Hydrogen cars. Was: Re: waterboxer pinging
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:44:39 -0400
  ...is strictly electric, that is, the compressor is driven by its own electric motor (unlike the Honda hybrids, where the A.C. is engine...
• Re: Breakthrough for TDI conversions!
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:07:50 -0700
  Is there one installed in Vanagon that we could see and drive? Confirm the power output? Right now it's just "claims" Leon 85...
• Re: Rear bumper/Re: Parts ordering experience
  Historical mailing list - K & K
  Sat, 5 Oct 1996 17:24:30 -0400
  ...I do >wonder what other hybrid parts I'll find. > >As for Camelback VW, I was excited when I found they offered an Internet...
• Re: Green Vanagons Was: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:34:48 -0700
  ...buying a new hybrid/electric. No, I haven't crunched numbers, but from the standpoint of reducing the amount I drive by half, the...
• Re: tdi
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:59:15 +1200
  ...It is the TDI with a >mechanical (hybrid) pump. Supposedly virtually identical torque, >power, etc. Hopefully much simpler to install because of non >electronic...
• Re: Oil.. Where's it go?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:52:02 -0700
  ...84 5sp w/ABA hybrid inline motor...93 jetta block with crossflow 8 valve head and Digifant..no cat exhaust. I've driven this...
• Re: Increasing fuel economy/decreasing con$umption
  Historical mailing list - pickle vanagon
  Fri, 23 May 2008 12:47:21 -0400
  ...a drive-through window > if > you don't have to, and if you do, turn off the engine like it was a hybrid. > Jim...
• Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
  Historical mailing list - Dylan Spurgin
  Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:13:50 -0500
  ...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: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:13:21 +1300
  ...A single high-torque low-revving induction motor (printed circuit design for lightness?) would be ideal for conversion using the stock driveline, and of...
• Re: cylinder index (funny Friday hijinx)
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Fri, 2 Aug 2002 07:33:10 -0700
  ...t you sell your Vanagon > and buy one of those Honda hybrids. Oh wait, that's > why you're a hypocrite, you should be...
• Re: About them Norcold refrigerators
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:52:41 -0700
  ...You really need to plan on 4 hours >drive time to get batteries even close to fully charged. > >Dennis I stand corrected. I had...
• Re: Diesels on NPR this morning
  Historical mailing list - John
  Wed, 12 May 2004 16:28:39 GMT
  ...The following is a from a Swedish website New diesel cars are more detrimental to the environment and to health than new petrol-driven...
• 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: They said it couldn't be done....
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:42:08 -0500
  ...resistance, AC would have to be driven by > separate > > > > > electric motor (latter would be like most hybrids and EVs on the > road now, > > > > > factory...
• Re: clutch...
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:58:21 -0600
  ...I did mine in the driveway last December, and got it swapped and bled in an hour working with a helper. Greg Quoting Grungy...
• NO VANAGON CONTENT. trains, transmissions & diesels was: Diesel Fanatacism
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Tue, 19 May 1998 09:15:25 EDT
  In a message dated 98-05-19 02:08:10 EDT, austins@IX.NETCOM.COM writes: << Isn't this ('hybrid') system just what railroad...
• Re: small car VW engine conversion
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:02:19 -0500
  ...I like to see the mechanic face when you break down 5000 miles from home when he sees a hybrid van; you better do...
• Re: 80 Westy & Emmissions (+hybrid question)
  Historical mailing list - John Klun
  Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:53:07 -0600
  ...the motor > had been driven hard (and hot). Piston skirts scored, cam had worn grooves, > cracked cylinder heads, and a baked in grime inside...
• Re: Electric Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:34:37 -0800
  ...For that kind of use...........a short drive, then a park while charging time, followed by a short drive again, an EV is perfect...
• Re: Anyone ever use standard awning rails on a vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Glenn
  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:58:52 -0500
  ...The hybrid system I described, the third option, results in a rolled-up awning of about four inches in diameter hanging on the side...
• Re: VW inline four-bangers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:33:38 -0700
  ...and.........soon as they started having hybrids..........I thought soon all vehicles will be gas or diesel electric hybrids. and of course the newest...
• Re: Casfor Clunkers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:26:18 -0700
  ...Obama .........I have absolutely ZERO interest in driving a hybrid or modern car like that. I'd feel like I was 'just along for...
• Re: Breakthrough for TDI conversions!
  Historical mailing list - Cookson, Noel
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:35:10 -0500
  ...This company has developed a hybrid injection system that is similar to the one used on the 1.9 TD (AAZ-code) engines. Claims...
• Transmission Gurus?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:37:31 -0800
  ...hybrid inline motor. When I have this gearbox totally apart I'd really be keen on modifying it to somehow give me better drive...
• Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
  Historical mailing list - anthony kimmons
  Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:16:28 -0500
  ...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: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:54:55 +1300
  ...Such a motor could be used to drive or generate power. If I remember correctly, these motors can be extremely short and very wide...
• 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: Anybody using a 2.0 gas engine in a vanagon conversion
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:27:56 -0700
  ...I have not driven this one, > obviously, but I have driven others and they seem strong and quiet. They > also seem perfectly dimensioned to...
• 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: serial hybrid conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:49:09 -0500
  ...as mentioned in my previous mail, some of the efficiency gain is from removing the existing drive train....because you lose some power in...
• Re: Air Engine... the ultimate Vanagon Engine Conversion!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:33:47 -0700
  ...Interestingly, I was just reading that in China they can't get people to buy hybrid cars very much. Toyota was only able to...
• Re: On cars (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:20:19 +1300
  ...Heavy truck, that is. >Speaking of electric motors...My friend was gathering info (for his >wife) on the Hybrid vehicles. Ford Escape hybrid was...
• Re: New westfalia concept bus computer generated
  Historical mailing list - two-tone brown
  Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:44:46 -0800
  ...or batteries... (how cool would a hybrid multi-euro-van-agon be)... how about 4 little distributed/independant fuel cell / electric motors, one at...
• Re: Oil.. Where's it go?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:58:34 -0700
  ...w/ABA hybrid inline motor...93 jetta block with crossflow 8 valve head and Digifant..no cat exhaust. I've driven this van for...
• More info on 5-cylinder conversion and TDD conversions from Overland Parts
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:42:27 -0400
  ...These are actually called TDD (Turbo Direct Injection Diesel) by the folks at Overland because they are actually a hybrid of the TDI engine...
• Re: They said it couldn't be done....
  Historical mailing list - James
  Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:12:30 -0400
  ...resistance, AC would have to be driven by separate > > > electric motor (latter would be like most hybrids and EVs on the road now, > > > factory...
• Re: Synchronauts: Alert: Son of Synchro Lurks! MB/VW Hybrid
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Niksch
  Thu, 10 Jul 97 14:54:51 UT
  ...Son of Synchro Lurks! MB/VW Hybrid > Date: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 10:50 PM > > 4WD Volks, > To see the Son of Synchro, look...
• HEV conversion
  Historical mailing list - Tom Moritz
  Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:19:37 -0700
  ...The other day I was browsing through some literature about the Honda Insight, Honda's hybrid electric vehicle. The internal combustion engine alone makes...
• Re: Rolling resistance
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:08:42 -0400
  ...This fact contributes (there are other factors) to the substantially lower gas mileage that almost all vehicles except hybrids get in this driving mode...
• Re: Iceland
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:01:56 -0500
  ...metric or ? ) of tiny dirt roads upon which these folks drive a bizarre hybrid of a family SUV with extended fender flares and WIDE...
• Re: Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:19:39 -0500
  ...Talley - 2011 > >> Apr 1, 2011 – Talley, Eugene, "Hybrid Air Conditioning Systems Overview" > >> (2011). Presentations. ... Belt Driven A/C Systems ... “new” Prius is the > >> 2004...
• Re: Diesels on NPR this morning
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Wed, 12 May 2004 12:50:46 -0400
  ...Diesel cars have improved considerably over the last ten years, but exhaust emission control technology in petrol-driven cars has developed faster. This is...
• Re: 2.0L I4 Opportunities
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 14 May 2013 08:46:53 -0700
  ...Let me contribute my own thoughts and experience, pretty long response I currently have in my 84 van a hybrid 2.0 ABA block...
• Re: And now for something Completely Different
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:37:57 -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: Casfor Clunkers
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:50:50 -0400
  ...Buy some plates and insurance and I would still be > ahead..Drive it down to the DMV or where ever and make about $3k...
• Re: vanagon off-road capable?
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:25:09 -0700
  >>Well I think there is a BIG difference between the off road ability of the 2 >>wheel drive Vanagon and loaf. >> >>Certainly good tires...
• Re: Ever added up your receipts?
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:41:13 -0500
  ...Now the > heads leak (150k miles) and a Subaru engine donor is parked in my driveway. > The fun never stops. > > > > If he were to...
• 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
  ...So you get your fuel economy, and an actual car that is fun to drive to boot! I would much rather drive a Jetta...
• Re: better gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - zaranski
  Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:42:00 -0500
  ...hybrid pulls upto the old aircooled bus with all the save the >environment stickers on it comes to mind here. Whoever says they drive...
• 2.3L WBX build, install, test drive, and confounding questions... (pretty darn long)
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:52:39 -0700
  ...A mellow drive to Santa Cruz over hwy 17 shows it running strong, and willing to get up hills with enough power in 4th...
• Re: '72 engine
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 23 Sep 94 8:45:39 PDT
  ...I don't know about > lengthwise mods, but you will need a full (vanagon size) side behind the > driver. I've gone the other...
• Re: Vanagon/Westaflia hybrid?
  Historical mailing list - T.
  Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:35:06 -0700
  ...have had a side table, >a rear facing jumpseat behind the driver and a rear >cabinet with a large side door. > >--- "T." <midgard@DRAGON...
• Re: Global Warming My Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:13:18 -0500
  ...Once thing I think we can safely say today is to drive less and carry more folks when you do. An aging vanagon is...
• Re: More on TR 16x7 steelies
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:39:18 -0800
  ...David Marshall VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider http://www.hasenwerk.ca On Wed, December 24, 2008 07:02, Mike S wrote: > > At...