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--- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote: > I love Bill Mahr, but this seems unlikely, simply > because I think we now import > more than 1/2 of our oil. It's possible, though, if > we consider that not all of > our import oil comes from the Middle East Yeah, I think that's the big qualification to his statement... > I feel bad that my own type 3s don't do any better > on gas mileage than they do Which brings me to another question... Jake Raby talks of averaging 35mpg on his Type IV engine recently... What follows are generalities that make me think maybe I should eventually get a Type III that someone's already taken the FI off (knowing it's heresy to do so myself :) ) and drop in a Type IV: If people usually get 100,000 miles out of their TypeIII engine at 25mpg, it would eat 4000 gallons of gas over its lifetime. That's $6500 at $1.60 a gallon. Assuming you can get 200,000 miles out of a Type IV engine (Raby says it's rare you even need an align bore after 200K), the Type IV at 35mpg would eat 5714 gallons of gas. That's 1714 gallons extra to go double the miles, or $2742 more. Talk about saving gasoline! ===== -------------------------------------------- 1971 FI AT Squareback http://www.tiserves.com/VW/ vw_variant71@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org