John,

There's a factory carbureted Vanagon in a junkyard around Montgomery,
AL.  You could get the manifold and all needed parts that would suit
your needs.  Contact me off list and I'll give you the name of the
place.

On 3/6/09, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> I've seen mention of this a time or two, and wondered of any advantages.
> No experience to compare, so wondering what others have done, and what
> was the outcome. I have a project in mind, and FI is of no advantage in
> the application. I've got a basket case engine I'm sot of interested in
> building up as a test bed for a new kind of carburetor that may
> adequately compete with FI, of maybe even better it. Part of an ongoing
> mileage quest. The idea is not so much to make the newest and greatest
> and most efficient new car, but to make old cars more efficient -
> because if fuel ramps up again, there is going to be a lot of old cars
> resurrected from the bone yards because the new ones are going to cost
> so much as we switch over to electric or green or both.
>
> Anyone notice that fuel prices are climbing again - not so fast, but
> rising none the less. Makes me nervous.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 Gl Driver
>

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