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Subject:Re: Engine Conversion MPG - We don't need no stink'n TDI
From:Robert Fisher
Date:Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:27:25 -0700

Great, another re-badged import.

: )

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Akiba" <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Engine Conversion MPG - We don't need no stink'n TDI

> Ha, but that's not right. I'm a hybrid... Japanese father, German mother
>
> Akiba/Egelhoff
>
> So Japanese/German engine assembled in the US maybe?
>
> Jim Akiba
>
>
> On 7/18/07, BJ Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:
>> Sure, the American engine just hops out on the first chance they get.
>> Pretty
>> unreliable. Try a Japanese engine. Probably more reliable and lighter.
>>
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>> Of
>> Jim Akiba
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:47 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Engine Conversion MPG - We don't need no stink'n TDI
>>
>> We don't need wbxs, subies, or zetecs...
>>
>> Now's a great time to showcase Bostig's newest conversion. Here's a
>> video of the prototype:
>>
>> http://www.bostig.com/files/bostig_bio-fueled_vanagon.wmv
>> (7mb)
>> chief engineer assigned to the project: Fred F.
>>
>> Let me know if anyone wants in on the first install group.
>>
>> Jim Akiba
>>