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Subject:Re: alternative carburetion of FI 2.0 Liter vanagon engine???
From:John Rodgers
Date:Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:20:48 -0500

Dunno about 2.1 WBX's, but I have a buddy who had an old Omni with the
Audi engine. He cobbled together some kind of carb. that was made up
with parts from a Pasche airbrush. Claimed he got 78 miles to the
gallon. I questionsed him about that and he swore on his granmother it
was true. He sold it to some olf guy and it was totaled in an accident
about three days later

My friend says it takes a carburetor rather than FI to do this.

regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Wil Haslup wrote:

> With all the recent expense for fuel I'm seeing loads of folks walking,
> riding bikes, roller blades, scooters and my neighbor is talking about
> buying a Vespa for short hops.  Trouble with all these is winter will
> soon be here and as bad as the heat is in my air cooled Vanagon it's
> better than walking in the sub zero.
>
> I've found a number of references to patents, devices, etc. that promise
> increased fuel economy for gas engines but most are simple carburetion
> devices.  My engine is fuel injected so I'm doubtful any improvement can
> be gotten through these but am wondering about the kinds of changes
> folks have made to their fuel intake systems over the years on similar
> engines.
>
>
> --
>
> Wil
>
>
> -- http://www.charmfx.com/
>
> "If you write the word "monkey" a million times, do you start to think
> you're Shakespeare?"
> -- Steven Wright
>
>

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