werd! :)

Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.367.5503
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA

>From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Tiico Engine Questions
>Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 23:03:50 -0700
>
>I would like to add a few comments too..
>
>One point I would like to make is that the conversion motor, in particular
>the inline four or five, is simply what VW should have been installing in
>the Vanagon from day one.
>
>Then we would only have tires and torque wrenches to talk about. There
>wouldn't have been an air-cooled burner or a wasserleaker. List life might
>be boring.
>
>The never ending reports of leaking and stalling can take their toll on
>even
>the toughest of mechanics and members .
>
>The point, as I said I was making, is that a better motor was available,
>the
>technology was there, but VW did'nt apply it to the Vanagon. All those
>wasted years.
>
>The best designed Volkswagen of the time, maybe of all time,  got the worst
>designed engine.
>
>As Chris De Long said, the VW inline 4 has been around almost thirty years
>and it has a phenomenal track record.The rabbit motor is a  proven design
>that continues to serve beyond all expectations.
>
>Especially my expectations, because my previous ride, a '64 Bus, went thru
>3
>new motors and not one of them made it past 48,000 miles.
>
>So , the Vanagon with it's conversion has been something for me to sing
>about for seven years. Before that, I could'nt sing.
>
>And not because I'm making any money on it, but saving money. The engine
>now
>has 140,000 miles on it. If it blew tomorrow I wouldn't be disappointed.
>When did I get this service from anything air-cooled before this?
>
>I don't know about you, but after I take a long hard look at a beautifully
>restored spit window bus - the repressed memories all come back to haunt
>me.
>It was that bad.
>
>The only good part was that I was able to start a lot of adventures.
>
>With the Vanagon I can now  finish them.
>
>Sorry to step on your esoteric sensibilities and appreciation for VW art,
>truly the Type Two is the world's best best square art form, but the old
>bus
>simply can't hold up like the Vanagon can. Personal experience.
>
>
>Get all your little things wrong fixed in a month. Then it will seem like a
>new car.
>If you let all the little things add up, the car seems like junk. Any car .
>
>Fix the horn, the dash lights, the cracked windshield, the broken door
>handle. The blown transmission.
>
>No wonder the wife wants a minivan.
>
>Since I have been driving this converted Vanagon now going on 8 years,  I
>can say that it really is the best used car you can buy for the money that
>has a stove, sink, faucet, fridge and beds.
>
>These things never go out of style.
>
>But the engine it keeps on rolling-
>
>Robert K
>
>1982 Westfalia
>Seattle
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
>Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Tiico Engine Questions
>Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 21:15:05 -0700
>
>just a reminder...I did do an informal engine conversion survey earlier
>this
>year.
>
>See what people say about various I4 engine swaps at:
>
>http://www.members.shaw.ca/bilbo/survey.html
>
>
>Alistair
>
>
>--
>'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
>albell@uvic.ca
>http://members.shaw.ca/albell
>
>
>
>
>on 8/5/03 5:53 pm, Mike Collum wrote:
>
> >> tiico is taking a bad rap from a few customers,  their are us
> > customers who
> >> are 100% satisified.  how many kits sold and may be 10-15 oil problems
> >> maybe.  thoes who do not have tiico seen to knock it down pretty
> > Quick.
> >> Peter is 100 percent their for you if you contact him, however it seem
> > a few
> >> people cry to the list and rant on and on about something that really
> > doesn
> >> not exist.  may be I am just a lucky customer.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > Are you saying that the kit you received was truly "Plug and Play"?
> > That you didn't have to go to the store for something or to some
> > fabricator to get something made in order to finalize the job?
> >
> > Or ... are you saying that in spite of a few hassles that you're 100%
> > satisfied with the "End result"?
> >
> > Inquiring minds want to know.
> >
> > Mike
>
>
>Robert
>1982 Westfalia 1987 Wolfsburg
>
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