Yeah... like the old adage says: "People buy horsepower and drive torque".

TDI rules! (if you can afford it)

Chris S.

----- Original Message ----
From: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:31:48 AM
Subject: Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative

Yeah... almost Friday.

My company car is a 2003 Ford Focus...
what a piece of smeg engine... makes lots of noise when you step on it
 and
when you wiiiiiiind it out to the top end of the rev range there is a
 hint
of decent power then and then red line and you have to shift.  This
is not the engine I would want to put into a 2500kg westfalia and hope
 to
get anywhere faster than what it could do with a stock engine.

Torque sells cars and engine conversions, but really torque is what is
needed to get our Vanagons going, so a Diesel engine is what our
 Vanagons
need.

The V8 gasoline Touareg has 350hp and the V10 Diesel
Touareg has 313hp - the *Diesel* will win in a 0 to 100km/h sprint as
 it
has 553ft.lbs or torque at 1800 rpm and the gasser has 324ft.lbs at
 3000
something in the rpm band.  Tourque is like a drug the more you have
the more you want.  Once you drive a Vanagon with lots of torque you
will spend the rest of your life trying to convert the unwashed.
:-)

David Marshall

http://www.hasenwerk.ca
http://www.fastforward.ca

Box 4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J
3J2

On Thu, January 10, 2008 20:22, AAG - Larry Word wrote:
> It's almost Friday - what is the consensus to date of the group
installing
> 2000 ford focus engine into Vanagons?
>
> Any ideas, links, info., articles, etc. would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks
>
> Larry
>

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