Open freeway with nothing to look at except the speedo, I'm good for 4000rpm
- about 78 mph with a taller fourth gear and stock size tires.  I get right
at 20 mpg, maybe as poor as 19 with 2.1L in my '85 Westy.

More interesting interstates, I tend to slow down a bit, but not much.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Jake de Villiers
|Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:53 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Cruising Speed
|
|My grey van with 1.9 loves 58mph indicated and Dixie used to agree (more or
|less)  but since she's been re-powered and re-geared we've been bombing
|along at 75 - 80 mph.  Gas mileage has been lousy though, so I'm trying to
|keep it under 70...
|
|On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@yahoo.com>
|wrote:
|
|> I'm just curious.  At what speed do most of you drive on the freeway? On
|> flat road, that is...I'm in a 1.9 and  usually keep it around 60mph.
|>
|
|
|
|--
|Jake
|
|1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
|1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
|
|Crescent Beach, BC
|
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