Depends on the Freeway and the hill, try it on I 80 up Donner Pass

On 11/1/07 6:51 PM, "Mike" <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

>   My stock,original, low miles, '87 Westy has 2.1 and an automatic. It
> doesn't perform as poorly as you say yours does.  I guess your engine must
> be very tired, and is obviously lacking power, if it can't even maintain 45
> mph up a long freeway hill.  It sounds like it's time for a
> rebuild.......talk to Boston Bob for the real answers to your problems.
>
> Mike B.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Daniel - Shazam" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: That recent post bashing Tiico..one on Yahoo subaru too.
>
>
> Stock waterboxers....yup, can be real reliable.
> Seriously lacking in decent power in many situations however...
> Like my 85 weekender with 2.1 wbxr engine and fuel system, and auto
> trans....
> The best it can do on some freeway hills is 45 and sometimes even only
> 40.....
> And all the other ( too numerous in California ) cars are going  70 or 80 up
> that same hill.  Like it's a safety issue even.
>   You combine that with the joke head gasket system, and old tech engine
> management system, and fuel mileage that could be better......  and lots of
> things are hard to work on too, on stock waterboxer engines, like a water
> pump job with the engine in the van - a pure knuckle ripper of a job.
> Consider all that, and the search for a better engine becomes obvious.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Zeitgeist
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:14 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: That recent post bashing Tiico..one on Yahoo subaru too.
>
> My WBX is too damn reliable.  I feel cheated of my shot at vocal
> malcontentedness.  My old '87 GL was too reliable, as well.  I feel doubly
> cheated.   My anger and remorse is palpable.
>
> Just thought I'd share my story of woe and misery with my factory
> conversion...
>
> On 11/1/07, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> That made your day didn't it?
>>
>> Rob
>>