Search messages and discussions

Search preserved mailing-list messages and current email and website contributions. Current posts are searchable before weekly archival. Recovery gaps remain possible. Words are matched together; try fewer terms if needed.

Page 9+: 60 results shown for MPH.

Source-balanced relevance: matches from both collections are interleaved, with source dates breaking ties. Restoration time is not the original posting date.

• Re: T-3 Transaxle Needed: 82 Diesel Westy
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:31:59 -0500
  ...How fast will your Westy D go now, will it run easily at 70 MPH. Volks drive very fast down here in Texas, 70...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 1 Sep 2017 07:02:21 -0400
  ...Stephen Mobile > On Sep 1, 2017, at 12:55 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > > Around 4650 at 85 mph. The occasional accidental...
• Re: Technique For Removing Speedo needle?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:55:57 -0700
  ...if the road has mile markers, then 60 MPH is 1 mile per minute and one can then calibrate as Mike suggests in his...
• Re: Less than 60 mph??? Really?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Wed, 10 May 2000 14:24:50 -0700
  ...My '87 Westfalia engine spins around 4000 rpm at an indicated 75 mph. This is with 70-series tires (going forward, with tail wind...
• Re: Tire Size for 84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 20 May 2008 13:54:30 -0700
  ...It will claim I'm going 0 >> mph >> when I'm going 5 mph, and when I'm driving 70 mph it will read...
• fuel efficiency and gas mileage (was Re: How much fuel efficiency gained by shedding 300 lbs?
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:29:39 -0700
  ...When my Boston Bob engine was newly installed, Bob told me to keep it at 50 mph (I think - maybe 55, but I don...
• Re: Cooling issues?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:38:37 -0700
  ...I was noticing that with the > accelerator in the same position running 60 mph it was about 112f and 65 > mph 119f? Could the...
• Re: EV at 100 mph?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:08:36 -0700
  Who took the EV to 100 mph? I own a 93 MV and you would be RED LINING to get to 100mph, i'll...
• Re: Synchro Power?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:56:33 -0800
  Justin, With my 90 Westy Syncro fully loaded (not including the water tank) I am reduced to about 25 mph up sustained hills. With...
• Re: Traffic solution (Friday)
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:24:58 -0700
  ...It just so happens that maximum fuel >efficiency is also around 35 MPH, so I jumped to the logical conclusion >that we could solve...
• Re: Wheels, Tires and thePhysics, true speed
  Historical mailing list - t bill
  Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:02:06 -0800
  > If your speedo is showing an INDICATED 70 MPH, your TRUE speed is 66 MPH. > Time your, van and see for yourself. Just did...
• Re: Here's one to rack your brains
  Historical mailing list - Scott Grillo
  Thu, 11 May 2000 19:46:59 -0400
  70!?!?! I had my '90 Auto Carat set at 80 mph cruise all the way across Wyoming and Nebraska. No problems (except gas mileage...
• Re: 130 mph in a vanagon, what MPG?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:37:29 -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: Diesel Westy Gearing Swaps- reply #2
  Historical mailing list - Todd Hill
  Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:31:09 EST
  ...The aircooled engine trans with a 4.57 ring and pinion gets 85.77 mph for same tire and engine rpm. If you slap...
• Re: Double cab for sale/engine longevity
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:37:36 -0700
  ...I will >> leave it up to the reader to calculate power required at wheels to >> overcome drag at 112 mph (49.9 m/s...
• Re: strange bucking problem w/ '84 vanagon wbx
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:34:13 -0700
  > last week i was driving back from a 2 hr trip with my '84 vanagon...was on > the interstate, prolly going 75 mph, no...
• Re: Silly idea?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:14:55 -0800
  Stock DK tranny and 195/75/14 tires in 4th at 3500 is 65.6 mph Stock DZ tranny and 195/75/14 tires...
• Re: Air Cooled Transmission value
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:59:44 -0700
  ...allows cruising at 65 mph instead of screaming its guts out at 58 mph. in the stock set up, you get to 52 mph...
• Re: Hoping to buy a hauler, single or double cab.
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 12 Oct 94 14:04:22 PDT
  ...With a 50 MPH limit, its possible > that the impact speed between the two vehicles was over 100 MPH... Some friends and I were...
• Re: Spark Coil Failure
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:30:03 -0400
  Assuming stock size tires and original gears, 68 mph = 3800 engine rpm. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com...
• 30 mph only
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:42:16 -0700
  ...fill up and could not get it going faster than 30 mph. I could not tell him what it may be, but I promised...
• Re: Bus top speed, not about spelling!
  Historical mailing list - Sami Dakhlia
  Sun, 10 Dec 1995 15:46:05 -0600 (CST)
  ...I know it > ain't a rocket and I'm thinking it's somewhere around 70-75 mph. > Close, way off, or what? Personal...
• Re: '89 Westy - Canadian?
  Historical mailing list - Kelly Bauman
  Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:58:09 -0800
  ...Retrieving and stowing the cord is no problem on my bus. >oh, and CDN models will have the KPH readout bigger than the mph...
• Re: 120 MPh, 99 Eurovan, Winnebago
  Historical mailing list - Mark Gajewski
  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:01:23 -0400
  >European cars are designed to cruise comfortably at >100-110 mph. Drove those speeds in my non-camper van in >Europe when I picked...
• Re: Alternate Air Cleaner
  Historical mailing list - Samuel L. Walters
  Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:13:53 -0500
  ...Now it will gain a few mph up those. A couple of other hills where it would drop a few mph, it now holds...
• Re: 82 Diesel fuh sale
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:38:46 -0800
  The truth will out...This diesel HONKS! Egad! 30+ MPH on the FLATS! And that's the GOOD part. He left CA because the...
• Re: Theme song for Tii: "Good Vibrations"
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:00:37 -0500
  ...In fourth (I have a .457 SA five) I can go from ~25 to 80 mph...and have one more gear... AND NO VIBRATIONS...
• Re: RPM vs MPH
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:31:49 -0600
  ...TACHOMETER Walker's Bentley's RPM SPEED SPEED (in 4th gear) (in MPH) (in MPH) 2000* 32.7 36.0 2200 36.0 39...
• Re: everybody knows them to be high maintenance
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:45:30 -0500
  ...55 MPH is around 2800 RPM in fifth. I rarely have to shift from fifth, at 55 MPH, unless traffic speed drops below 35...
• Re: 75 MPH - unusual?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:24:03 +1200
  >We hit 70-75 mph on our way to FL every year and hardly feel it, it's >actually legal on a few interstates...
• Re: Speedometer is off
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:08:08 -0400
  ...We found it was off by 5 mph at lower speeds and off by 7 mph at higher speeds. So, I assume that I...
• Re: GoWesty 2.4L Engine
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:49:01 -0700
  ...that I was not to go over >55 MPH for quite awhile. Doesn't GoWesty have break-in instructions? http://gowesty.com/library_article...
• Homemade head temp gauge?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:56:19 -0700
  ...Eug, '71 Hey- the bus is running pretty well, 65 mph @ 11% throttle, 70 mph @ 17% throttle, all at about 190 degrees oil temp...
• Re: what kind of gas milage do you see at 75 MPH
  Historical mailing list - Mary Beth and Chris Geiser
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:49:22 -0600
  ...I never calculated it, but cruising the superslab at 80 - 85 mph > wherever possible it definately drops to the "it sucks" level. > > Rich I...
• Re: NOVC Comment on fuel economy, drag and velocity
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:43:19 -0800
  ...Southbound I5 between San Juan Capistrano and Oceanside trips lightly along at 80+ mph. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus...
• WTB: Syncro Speedo
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:22:47 -0800
  Anyone got a MPH syncro speedo for sale? Working or not. Cheers, Jeff
• My 615 mile Trip report
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:12:45 EDT
  ...I was getting 25*** on I40 from Morganton to Durham while doing 70 mph to 83 mph I also kept the RPMs between 3700...
• Re: air cooled 4th gear pick up
  Historical mailing list - Jennifer Christensen
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:28:57 -0400
  ...shifting into 4th at 45 mph is too low. Try > shifting at around 50/55 mph. The aircooled engines need the air to cool...
• Re: Bouncy Speedometer
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:09:24 -0600
  ...A sudden 10 mph drop and then jump to 10 or more mph higher and then back to normal and then again and again...
• Re: Double cab for sale/engine longevity
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:12:20 +1200
  ...112 mph is very impressive I >enjoy going very fast also but the forces that are put on a vanagon at this >speed are...
• Re: 5 SPEED TRANS'
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:44:42 -0500
  ...At 4000 RPM the speed is 80 MPH (vs 73.3 MPH with a stock 091) with 205/70/14 tires. I also have...
• Re: VANAGON GEARING
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:52:21 -0500
  ...RPM > > with a road speed of 60 MPH. > > > > My Vanagon currently runs around 50-52 MPH at > > 3,000 engine RPM. > > > > Thanks > > > > JB 88...
• Re: S. Africa conversion done!
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:36:53 EDT
  ...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: Fuel consumption in different gears - how does the energy / fuel, work?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:36:20 -0700
  Given the anomalies with the reported 65 mph data that part should probably be disregarded. The disparity of the reported engine rpm at 65...
• Passed Emissions-Failed Safety Inspection
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Fri, 16 May 2003 13:10:56 -0400
  ...15 MPH HC ppm: Limit 155 / Reading 155 CO% : Limit 1.31 / Reading 0.75 NO ppm: Limit 2167 / Reading 1408 25 MPH HC...
• Re: don't use cruise control in the rain?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:52:40 -0400
  ...I glancd down at the speedometer (infrequently enough) and suddenly saw that it was reading 30 mph, instead of the 60 mph I thought...
• Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
  Historical mailing list - Eric Unrau
  Sun, 12 May 2002 21:25:54 -0700
  ...Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example >Are you all serious??? My 1989 speedometer has BOTH the MPH and KPH printed >clearly...
• Re: Porsche's SUV
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:27:17 -0500
  There's what the world needs -- a 5,000 lb 450 hp ute that runs 168 mph. Wonder how many people it's going...
• Failed CA Smog
  Historical mailing list - wognacious
  Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:07:18 -0700
  ...Passed the 15 mph failed the 25 mph HC and CO HC max is 103 I measured 190 CO max is 1.10 I...
• Re: Speedometer Calibration
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:57:50 -0500
  ...When I did my Jetta, I pre-loaded the spring > slightly (I guessed about 10 mph) and sure enough, it read 10 mph slow...
• Braking Distance
  Historical mailing list - David Boan
  Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:41:41 +0000
  ...At 30 mph the braking distance would be 45' and at 40 mph it would be 80'. Some charts have slightly different numbers. For...
• First long trip in 82 diesel - coolant temp?
  Historical mailing list - Jon Sykes
  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:04:54 -0500
  ...A couple of long hills had to be done in 2nd gear at about 20 mph and one off road section simply had to...
• Re: Aircooled ?s here for my 81 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:19:08 -0500
  I just roadtested my 81.............3300 rpms at 60 mph. ------------------ Well its no damn wonder that I'm getting 140K out of my Aircooled...
• Re: KMH / MPH speedometer face available?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:57:44 +0200
  ...this is for a 2.1 liter 1987 Vanagon, and has the MPH scale in large numbers around the outside, and the Km/h...
• DIESEL VANAGON QUESTIONS
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 1 Apr 95 21:16:32 EST
  ...Serious headwinds could cause you to drop to 50 mph easily. We have reached 73 mph a few times, on serious downhills... On the...
• Re: Engine cutting out
  Historical mailing list - George Hahn
  Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:51:47 -0700
  ...Usually occurs when I've had a long run at high speed (75+ mph) and then had to slow down to about 50 mph...
• Re: Vent not blowing air
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:46:23 -0600
  ...Whenever I drive at > highway speeds (between 50 and 62 MPH), I notice that the fresh air vents > don't blow air when they...
• Re: Subiegon/Vanaru Gas Mileage
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:19:09 -0600
  ...17 or 18 > I try to cruise at about the same speed on the highway (71 or 72 > mph), but accelerate much faster with...
• Re: cruising speed and MPG
  Historical mailing list - trooz
  Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:30:55 -0700
  I can get 20 mpg but I have to drive right around 3,000 rpms, about 55 mph with Yokohama Super Van 356 185R14s...
• Re: [Vwdiesel] top speed 82 Rabbit 1.6 NA
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:01:21 -0700
  ...I top out at 72 mph indicated on level ground. The only smoke I ever > see is a little bit of white smoke at...