Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: How fast should a 1.9L go??
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:25:20 -0500
At 10:33 PM 1/24/2001, Chad wrote:
>Just wondering about how fast my van isn't.  I can get it up to 70mph on a
>good day (ie. pancake flat and no wind). Anything over 70mph puts me around
>3800-3900RPM. This is the only Vanagon I've owned and the only one I've ever
>been in. Should my van be running at those RPM's for the aforementioned
>speeds????

Spec. is 72mph = 4000 rpm for the manual.  Redline is somewhere around 96
mph but you probably won't get there too often.  Many people drive these
things at 80-85 routinely, though -- but not on big hills.  Others won't go
an inch over 65.  Anything over 60 hammers your gas mileage.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"