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Subject:Re: How fast should a 1.9L go??
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:08:31 -0700

I was doin' between 85 and 90 last weekend down I-10 between Phoenix and the
California state line.  Think I still had a bit of pedal travel left, too.

This in my '84 7 pass.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike miller" <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: How fast should a 1.9L go??

> I've seen 85 on my 85 Westy with 160k on it.  I don't want to know how
fast
> my son has driven it.  No, really, I don't.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul M. Hillbish <Sersote@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:13 PM
> Subject: Re: How fast should a 1.9L go??
>
>
> > In a message dated 1/24/01 11:37:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > groch@WORLDCHAT.COM writes:
> >
> > <<  I can get it up to 70mph on a
> >  good day (ie. pancake flat and no wind).  >>
> >
> > You can get up to 70!?!?!? I can do that on a downhill on a highway with
> the
> > pedal floored. 60 on a flat area tops.
> >
> > --Paul--
> >