rubberdubber
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1600 TP, usually sit between 60-70mph, tho the closer to 70 the more oil and fuel used!!! :x
crede999 said:you can only go as fast as the speed limit , !!!
i go 60 to 65 and learnt when that loon in the outside lane whose doing 90mph is just getting out of his car when i pull in the services ,so why bother you dont hardly make any time up and the i thought the whole point of owning a vdub was to take life a little easier !!
getting off me soapbox now and going for a bath lol
regards
chris
I have fitted an oil temp gauge the VDO dipstick sender type,alex4057 said:I find speed depends on a multitide of factors, but most importantly what time of the year it is,
Winter i can cruise at 80mph all day long,
but in the summer i find a comfy 65mph tends to mean when i want to boot it i still have enough head room as it were to be able to,
I ignore pretty much every gauge in the van apart from the Oil Temp, that is what controls my average speed
I can't recommend fitting a decent Oil Temp Gauge and a properly fitted sender highly enough, 99% of the time if a VW engine fails it's due to excessive time at too high a temperature.
Oil starts to break down and degrade if you get it too hot and Oil is the key in an aircooled engine :mrgreen:
Westy Richardson said:1600 tp with Weber 40 IDF's, og Bosch 009, Bugpack header/quite pack exhaust and a set of Scat high ratio rockers. 2 litre box is on the list for this year
six said:Trikky2 : what spec engine you running now?? and gear box?
Trikky2 said:With a stock bay 65-70 mph on motorways - all day. Vehicle is perfectly happy even in Spain in summer etc.
They were designed to do this. If yours gets too hot then theres something wrong with it.
I have covered over 130,000 miles in the (long) time I have owned mine.
3 years ago I fitted a modified engine because I found the stock engine had become dangerously slow on steeper inclines on motorways. Not because the van was any slower than it used to be but because modern traffic, including huge trucks, are now so much faster and just don't expect to come up behind a vehicle chugging up a steep motorway incline at 50 mph. Only after fitting the modified engine did I fit an oil temperature gauge.
The old engine is now powering a friends Karmann Ghia.
With the new engine overall mpg improved from 23-25 to 25-28.
Oh and I don't know how fast it can go because when I floor it the speedo goes right round against the stop :lol:
monkeyvanwestybike said:sweet! a stock motor that will do 70 all day in the height of summer and go 50 mph up steep inclines
monkeyvanwestybike said:i want one!
Trikky2 said:monkeyvanwestybike said:sweet! a stock motor that will do 70 all day in the height of summer and go 50 mph up steep inclines
"steep inclines" - "steep motorway inclines" - theres a difference :lol:
monkeyvanwestybike said:i want one!
Then get one. If its stock, not overloaded, and in good condition it will be fine. See owners manual for confirmation. Like I said - if it wont do it then theres something wrong with it. :lol:
monkeyvanwestybike said::lol: :lol: I have a vege 1600 , 34pict3 carb , blue coil ,standard vacuum advance distributor
comlete set of tinware all seals in place regular services i change the 30w grade oil every 3000 miles it does not burn much as the motor has done only 5000 miles ,i dont think theres anything wrong with that motor
The van will run all day in summer at 55-60 mph 95c any more than that and it will get too hot for my liking,
110 c which is too hot! :shock:
and if you had a oil temp gauge on your original stock motor it would have read 110c aswell
me thinks!
Trikky2 said:monkeyvanwestybike said::lol: :lol: I have a vege 1600 , 34pict3 carb , blue coil ,standard vacuum advance distributor
comlete set of tinware all seals in place regular services i change the 30w grade oil every 3000 miles it does not burn much as the motor has done only 5000 miles ,i dont think theres anything wrong with that motor
The van will run all day in summer at 55-60 mph 95c any more than that and it will get too hot for my liking,
110 c which is too hot! :shock:
and if you had a oil temp gauge on your original stock motor it would have read 110c aswell
me thinks!
110 c ? -Yes, absolutely, it would.
However..... 110 is fine. I only fitted a gauge because I run a modified engine and only worry if it goes much above 120.
The millions of air cooled engines sold and used all over the world (including tropical and desert climates) never had oil temp gauges fitted.
It was not uncommon for these vehicles to spend hours ploughing through soft sand, flat out in 3rd gear in the desert heat.
Its only now they have become toys, rather than working vehicles, that the issue ever comes up.
Guages + misconception = paranoia
Don't let the old wives tales and pedants put you off or make you fearful of using your vehicle the way it was intended. I have been in the trade/into aircoolds since the 1960s. I was involved with them when they were new. I have owned one in particular for 37 years and worked for VW themselves in technical and research and planning for 15 years, so I do know what I am talking about.
faux said:I think the problem is that there are fewer and fewer people who know how to look after and service these engines properly as VW intended. And when we skimp on this or do a bad job there is a knock on effect. Also some of the replacement parts aren't as efficient as VW had planned.
I am happy to plod on at 55mph (without a temp guage) and try my best to find the right people to service it......painful in the wallet at times. The main thing I feel is that I don't compare my bus to my modern (Skoda Fabia VRS) car and treat it with a bit of love and care.
All of the people who I know who have had blown engines are the ones who drive them like they stole them and who service them themselves because "they are easy to work on" and "an idiot could do that".
Drive them and service them as VW intended.
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