

| Subject: | Re: vanagon top speed, extrapolation |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:42:37 +1200 |
>Been 95 mph in mine with the stock 2.1....... > >However I had the clutch in and a trailer on the back coming out of the >mountains in W. Va. > >Jere In 1979 I had over 100mph out of my battered 59 Panelvan, complete with stock split-case trans & 36hp. The needle swung around to the pin and stopped there with a whack. Of course it had a FULL load on board (Honda CB450 K5 buried under a year's worth of living necessities) and was coasting clutch-in down a LONG STEEP hill... boy, the service station at the bottom went past fast! It would happily cruise at 80mph with more to go (no, I didn't try for a top speed) after I put in a single-port 1600, but I hate to think what rpm it was spinning.
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