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Subject:Re: 3.3L MOTOR FOR VANAGON.....I JUST GOT THE SVX
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:15:47 +1200

>Transmission life and times.
>
>The 094 in my vanagon doesn't know how many horsepower the motor can
>deliver, it just dumbly passes torque from the source to the load.  If I
>whiz along at 85 on the superslab, the transmission doesn't know that, it
>just handles the load.  If it takes 75BHP to do that the transmission
>doesn't know that, it just passes it on.

I don't believe the 094 is any stronger than the 091. Mine sure
didn't last long. No trafficlight GPs, either.
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut