Can you please explain the math for me on how this could possibly be so?  The transmission takes the rpms of the engine and gears it down to less revolutions.  If you have the same transmission, the rpms of the engine can't possibly change for the same speed.

Matt
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Keezer 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:27 PM
  Subject: Re: Tight valves!

  The problem prone WBX valve adjust issue is one more good reason to be kind 
  to yourself and transplant a better powerplant.I went thru a week of 
  adjusting the valves on a friends Vanagon after replacing the heads. First 
  they were too tight, then too loose, and finally after 1/2 turn, they were 
  quiet. But, it won't pass emissions at idle. A valve is probably out of 
  adjustment. 

  I have a 2.0 Golf engine from a 95 Golf in my 82 Westfalia and you don't 
  have to go thru all this valve nonsense when you change the head, which is 
  easier, BTW. 

  Reliability, power an economy is what this engine is all about. Not the kind 
  of power that will transform your vanagon into a hotrod, but there is more 
  than you have now in your WBX. 
  Merging into traffic is effortless, not so on every WBX I have driven. 

  And, the 2.0 I-4 turns out higher mph for the same rpms as a WBX. 
  In either the manual or shift. 

  For example, in both the 85 Automatic Westy and 87 manual Westy currently 
  available to me, 70 mph is 4000 rpm=I was surprised to find that the manual 
  has the same rpm as the auto. 
  For the I-4 2.0 powered manual shift Westy-70 mph is 3600 rpm. 
  And at 4000 rpm-80 mph. 10 more mph for the same rpm.   

  Robert 
  1982 Westfalia 2.0 Golf lll engine 
  Seattle 

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