At 10:03 AM 10/13/98 -0700, t bill wrote:

>Drag will be about half of what you currently have.  Just down shift

>some more.  You won't hurt it.

>TBill

Evidently you haven't driven in the mountains with your Vanagon! The stock engine is woefully inadequate for slowing our vans down on those long steep grades -- it will go past redline easily (no matter what gear you put it in), necessitating WAY TOO MUCH brake usage, resulting in RED HOT brake rotors in a matter of minutes. BTDT (and scared the sh#t out of my wife doing so).

I can't imagine what it would be like with a Wankel with even less engine drag!!!

Perhaps he could retrofit a parachute (a la dragster) to help with drag? Now that I think of it, I would HIGHLY recomend the parachute just in case he goes off the edge! ;)

Cheers,

<bold>Michael J. Sullivan

</bold><italic>Director of Catalog Design

Open Market, Inc.

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