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                          Correspondence                      Date:   6/11/96
                                                              Time:   3:11 PM
Subject:  Diesel Vanagon/Westi                    Ref:  

Saw both Gerry's and Cetin's post regarding diesel vanagons.

Summary of my experiences regarding performance and milage - my van is a plain
7 passenger model, and has very consistantly gotten 30+ mpg, in town ,  on
trips, loaded to the max with more stuff and family than any of you might
rationaly believe, or unloaded just running around town as well as any/all 
combinations of the above.

The only time I had soot deposits was when the original engine was reaching
"end life" and blowby from the cylinders to the crankcase was forcing oil and
soot out.  A longblock took care of that.

Although I have had the van up to 65-70, I'm  not comfortable with prolonged
running at those revs/output power levels from this small powerplant.