Re: [T3] 70? Are you kidding??

["Bill Niles" <beel@avicom.net>]

To echo a previous post....

Does this include an early 1500 with a single carb?

I don't think I could get it above 80 - 85 without a hill or good tail
wind.

Bill

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> From: Keith Park <TopNotchResto@worldnet.att.net>
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] 70? Are you kidding??
> Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 9:43 AM
> 
> 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
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> > From: scott a keck <noddaz@juno.com>
> > To: type3@vwtype3.org
> > Subject: [T3] 70? Are you kidding??
> > Date: Wed}ØÏÎMay 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. 
One
> > was 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 
> > 
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