on 21/2/03 10:55 am, Ian X wrote:

> ya I was thinking the old v-8 juice ad myself, it'd be
> pretty cool, but as it is, the vangon doesn't exactly
> sip gas. It seems a lightly loaded larger engine would
> get nearly the same mpg as a highly stressed small
> engine. I seem to recall the little 1500# lola's I
> used to mess with (ford 2.1 liter 4cyl)were getting
> about 6 mpg on the track.

Frank G. has posted comments about this a few times! Some of his thoughts
are here on my website.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/engine-rpm-swap.html

Alistair
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'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
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