Does'nt sound boring to me. I know the feeling you are talking about going
up hill I just finished my VR6 conversion this spring and have been driving
the heck out of it. If you have pics I would love to see them. I also have a
syncro that I am planing to convert. Did you do anything to lift the
suspension?

Darren
Lowell MI

>From: Rob Infante <RobInfante@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: RobInfante@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: another boring trip to Maine and Vermont.
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:21:46 EDT
>
>Last weekend I took the syncro westy from NJ up to NH, to let it stretch
>its
>legs with the new svx engine.  It ran great!  Hans and John at  East Coast
>Vanagon did the conversion for me, and it came out looking first  class.
>Its
>really a pleasure passing people going 85 up hills.  I do  need to remember
>the
>vanagon is not a stealth vehicle, and cops won't appreciate  that speeding
>is
>a form of self-expression and liberation!  I didn't go on  anything rougher
>than some manky dirt roads, but it was still a blast, and I had  fun
>spending
>time in the woods with friends.  Its also now sporting SA  headlights, a
>rebuilt
>transaxle, schwenk springs with OMEs, SA front brakes,  projekstwo fog
>lights
>and a decoupler, so it feels like a whole new  vehicle..
>
>Where in the Whites were you off-roading?  I'll be back up there in  two
>weeks, on the north tip of Winnepesaukee.  If I can escape the family  (a
>rather
>big if, it is a family weekend) I hope to go sample the  trails.
>
>ciao
>rob

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