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Subject:Re: Vanagon Acceleration Times
From:Mike Miller
Date:Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:22:31 -0700

Braggart!

On 10/6/02 9:50 PM, "Frank Grunthaner" <FrankGRUN@AOL.COM> wrote:

> Well, for the hell of it, I did a few time trials with my 14 year old
> daughter doing the time measurements. This is just in response to the
> postings last week of 0-60 mph times by the air-cooled addicts. By way of
> reminder, My Westfalia is an 1982 former diesel, running a 1.8L 8V Digifant
> II engine from a 1990 GTi with the original DZ transmission and 215/75x15
> Yokohama Geolander AT+ tires. The numbers include 300 pounds of passenger and
> driver, 26.3 gallons of fuel (just filled up), portapotty and regular camping
> hardware ready to go. Speedometer calibrated. Shift points at 6500 rpm. Using
> AMS Digifant II chip and 91 octane fuel. Average of four runs (two in each
> direction) on the 210 Freeway in the Pasadena, CA area. Anyway average was
> 20.2 seconds. Longest run was 21.4, shortest was 18.9. 60 mph in my system
> corresponds to just about 6000 rpm in third.
>
> Frank Grunthaner
>