High Mileage VW Bug Mileage

"Max Welton" > wrote in message
news
> The stock 1600 in my winter Baja gets 29-33 mpg. The exhaust and a
> compufire are the only non-stock components. 7.7:1 CR at 7500'.

I like it. http://66.225.214.60/baja/MVC-010F.JPG
Max, does it get cold enough there to warrant wrapping the heater boxes?

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:42:11 -0600, jjs > wrote:

> "Max Welton" > wrote in message
> news >
>> The stock 1600 in my winter Baja gets 29-33 mpg. The exhaust and a
>> compufire are the only non-stock components. 7.7:1 CR at 7500'.
>
> I like it. http://66.225.214.60/baja/MVC-010F.JPG
> Max, does it get cold enough there to warrant wrapping the heater boxes?

http://66.225.214.60/baja/MVC-124F.JPG

I drove it in -15ºF last year. The heat was still enough to take the edge
off. Wrapping might help though. I worry a little about trapping water and
promoting rust.

Max
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"Max Welton" > wrote

> http://66.225.214.60/baja/MVC-124F.JPG

Looks downright cozy!

> I drove it in -15ºF last year. The heat was still enough to take the edge
> off. Wrapping might help though. I worry a little about trapping water and
> promoting rust.

Yep. Rust. I wonder why nobody ever made stainless boxes. Heck, the core
pipe hardly ever wears out.

Speedy Jim > wrote in message >...
> Paul Regal wrote:
>
> > Anyone ever heard of this Carb before?
> >
> > http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/fish3.htm
>
>
> Yes. It is an ancient story (well, 70 years...)
>
> Do a GOOGLE search for: "Fish carburetor"
>
> Draw your own conclusions.
>
> Speedy Jim
> http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/

Nothing is going to make it last longer or get better milage then as
stocker as Jan said. If you try to get better milage you may run too
lean and that will kill engine life. If you make the engine more
powerful you start to lose engine life and may eat more gas.
Another reason I went T-4 in my bug. THe engine was made for a 2 ton
bus, so it not going to work hard in a bug. You can expect well over
150k miles no problem in a 1700 lb car. Also the extra power in the
light car you give you the same milage as a stock 1600 T-1. Yet you
will have twice the hp as the 1600 if you are runing a 2.0 with dual
carbs. Mild cam will surely give you double hp and a very nice high
speed driver.By the way the 2.0 is a stock engine.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:10:36 -0600, jjs > wrote:

> "Max Welton" > wrote
>
>> http://66.225.214.60/baja/MVC-124F.JPG
>
> Looks downright cozy!

Thanks for them kind words!

Max
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Hot VWs Magazine actually had articles about their "mileage motor" about
22 years ago, a rough estimate.

Their claims were somewhere in the neighborhood of 53-58mpg for a Type 1
engine.

Check out their site for more information; I believe you can still order
article reprints from them.

http://www.hotvws.com

Dude, I think you should go hug a tree and tell it all that stuff
while you're hugging it. You're tempting me to sell my Honda Civic
and go buy an old muscle car and do donuts with it on the lawn of the
first person I see with a hybrid car in their driveway. Just voicing
my opinion. I'm allowed to do that, too. :-)


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:54:10 -0800, Everbody >
wrote:

>You and everyone else can get MORE than 100 MPG on your VW's. You have
>to accept the belief that YOU can get 100 MPG instead of your car. YOU
>pay the fuel bills to move YOU, so disassociate yourself from your
>favorite, personal vehicle. If you take the train, bus, hitchike,
>carpool, then your personal MPG is really low. (Instead of MPG, I
>suggest BPM. Bucks Per Mile, because YOU have to travel, your VW doesn't
>have to travel.) If you're smuggling drugs in the heater ducts, yeah,
>your car has to travel. If YOU need to get to work, your VW can snooze
>and enjoy zero MPG while you spend chump change on government subsidized
> transportation, AMTRAK, municiple bus, train, motorized sidewalk, or
>carpool.
>
>Last time I checked, the earth isn't creating a lot of dinosaur juice to
>keep up with demand. We need that slimy stuff to lubricate stuff,
>manufacture stuff and medicate stuff. Burning it up in machines that
>move people is kind of provincial, to use a word I don't know much about
>but have an inkling that it fits here.
>
>We're DOUSED daily in energy from the sun. In fact the earth, somehow,
>stored up a lot of that energy in dinosaur poop and bogs and peat over
>millions of years.
>When my grandmother gave me $10 for my birthday it was more money than I
>had ever seen in one place. Wow! Candy, comic books and cheap toys for
>all. Then I learned that it didn't last. I'd have to deliver papers or
>do chores for neighbors for more of the good stuff. Why haven't we
>learned that on earth? Somebody or something has to work for the good
>stuff. My grandmother probably scraped and sweated for a single dollar
>in the depression but was able to give me $10 after a lifetime of toil.
>It's a gift and gifts must be acknowledged with something. Gratitude? A
>sign of maturity and thankfullness? Or should gifts be hoarded and
>fought over?
>The earth is giving us untold amounts of energy that it scraped and
>sweated to accumulate over millions of years. We've only been taking it
>for what, 100 years or so? And now we're fighting over the scraps? I say
>let's find out who's making money over those scraps and what they're
>making us pay and fool us into fighting for those scraps. Reject that
>game and look for better places to slack our thirst. We are making
>progress and fighting over scraps is not progress.
>
> -Harry in Fresno


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- Inspector Harry Callahan

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:01:21 -0500, Shag
> scribbled this interesting note:

>Dude, I think you should go hug a tree and tell it all that stuff
>while you're hugging it. You're tempting me to sell my Honda Civic
>and go buy an old muscle car and do donuts with it on the lawn of the
>first person I see with a hybrid car in their driveway. Just voicing
>my opinion. I'm allowed to do that, too. :-)

So which muscle car flavor do you tend towards???

'Stang? 'Cuda?? 'Vette??? Some other flavor????

Also, do you find that stock or some kind of after market tires give
you the best result on lawns!?:~)


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"Everbody" > wrote in message
...
> You and everyone else can get MORE than 100 MPG on your VW's. You have to
> accept the belief that YOU can get 100 MPG instead of your car. YOU pay
> the fuel bills to move YOU, so disassociate yourself from your favorite,
> personal vehicle. If you take the train, bus, hitchike, carpool, then your
> personal MPG is really low. (Instead of MPG, I suggest BPM. Bucks Per
> Mile, because YOU have to travel, your VW doesn't have to travel.) If
> you're smuggling drugs in the heater ducts, yeah, your car has to travel.
> If YOU need to get to work, your VW can snooze and enjoy zero MPG while
> you spend chump change on government subsidized transportation, AMTRAK,
> municiple bus, train, motorized sidewalk, or carpool.
>
> Last time I checked, the earth isn't creating a lot of dinosaur juice to
> keep up with demand. We need that slimy stuff to lubricate stuff,
> manufacture stuff and medicate stuff. Burning it up in machines that move
> people is kind of provincial, to use a word I don't know much about but
> have an inkling that it fits here.
>
> We're DOUSED daily in energy from the sun. In fact the earth, somehow,
> stored up a lot of that energy in dinosaur poop and bogs and peat over
> millions of years.
> When my grandmother gave me $10 for my birthday it was more money than I
> had ever seen in one place. Wow! Candy, comic books and cheap toys for
> all. Then I learned that it didn't last. I'd have to deliver papers or do
> chores for neighbors for more of the good stuff. Why haven't we learned
> that on earth? Somebody or something has to work for the good stuff. My
> grandmother probably scraped and sweated for a single dollar in the
> depression but was able to give me $10 after a lifetime of toil. It's a
> gift and gifts must be acknowledged with something. Gratitude? A sign of
> maturity and thankfullness? Or should gifts be hoarded and fought over?
> The earth is giving us untold amounts of energy that it scraped and
> sweated to accumulate over millions of years. We've only been taking it
> for what, 100 years or so? And now we're fighting over the scraps? I say
> let's find out who's making money over those scraps and what they're
> making us pay and fool us into fighting for those scraps. Reject that game
> and look for better places to slack our thirst. We are making progress and
> fighting over scraps is not progress.
>
> -Harry in Fresno

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:03:17 -0600, John Willis
> wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:01:21 -0500, Shag
> scribbled this interesting note:
>
>>Dude, I think you should go hug a tree and tell it all that stuff
>>while you're hugging it. You're tempting me to sell my Honda Civic
>>and go buy an old muscle car and do donuts with it on the lawn of the
>>first person I see with a hybrid car in their driveway. Just voicing
>>my opinion. I'm allowed to do that, too. :-)
>
>So which muscle car flavor do you tend towards???
>
>'Stang? 'Cuda?? 'Vette??? Some other flavor????

I like the old Pontiac GTOs, '67 or so with the 455 SD engine, but
some of the Plymouth/Dodges are really nice, too. I wouldn't turn
away an old Mustang or even a '68-'69ish Camaro... I'm not all that
picky.

>
>Also, do you find that stock or some kind of after market tires give
>you the best result on lawns!?:~)

I'm too old for that now, and when I wasn't I didn't have enough money
for much of anything but retreads. :-) I remember one time when I
had a set of steel-belted radials my friends used to get out of my car
to watch me spin my tires at night just to see the sparks fly off of
the steel belts. Yeah, those tires were a little bit worn out for
some reason. That was on a '74 Pontiac Lemans. Had a 400 with 350
turbo transmission in it. Looked almost exactly like this one, except
(I know this will be hard to believe, but...) I put air-shocks on the
rear of mine and had it all jacked up into the sky. :-)
http://www.avonhill.com/thumbnails/c...ac_LeMans.jpeg


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