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If you cant approach 100 somethings wrong with your car or your using lousy carbs! yes if the cars are drivin fast on the highway AND the engine isnt properly set up fuel wise, or the oil cooler is clogged with dirt or... many other things they will burn up. I cruise at 75 all the time and at 65K the engine is doing fine. the old shot engine in my notch cruised for an hour at 85 last year and it has CARBS! yes CARBS on my car! but they are stock ones and of course I do hate them! I also tow a boat with the square, usually at 65-70 except for the big hills and all is fine. A GOOD thing to have when driving like this is full engine instrumentation so that if something goes wrong you catch it before ruining the engine! Keith ---------- > From: scott a keck <noddaz@juno.com> > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: [T3] 70? Are you kidding?? > Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 3:49 AM > > Not kidding about 70mph. My old fasty would not quite peg the speedo on > top end. Just 3 or 4 mph short. Of course I didn't run around like > that all the time, but 70mph was never unreasonable. The reason I > mentioned this in the first place has been the fact that on more than one > occasion (twice) after leaving a Bug show I have come across an air > cooled V dub sitting next to the road. When I stop to enquire if they > need help I am told that "I was blasting down the highway when I suddenly > had this big cloud blow out behind the car." I do not know if the > crankcase was over filled or the engine (rings?) were just not sealing > well. But it seemed that the cars had been driven fast for several > miles. The cars were both T1's but are technically related to t3's. OQî4¢ basically stock. The other was mildly modified. > > I have been in a T3 that has done this but was able to figure out what > happened. Back when I was a teenager a friend of mine's mother had a 69 > (?) fasty. Being helpful as we were, we changed the oil. We looked in > the book for the amount of oil the car held and saw 5. So we added 5 > quarts. Went for a test drive and when we hit 3rd gear.... Well, I > will not go into that but it made quite a mess. And we both learned > about VW's. > > Scott > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org