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My baby got a mileage best of 26mpg thanks to Brian's carb tuning skills and jetting down the carbs. Power all over the place...quickly passing cars in 5th gear while going UPHILL! > > Toby Erkson Let me tell you... if the GEX engine in my car wasn't struggling, Toby would have blasted up the mountains while still getting descent MPG. That car is fun to drive... I broke the rear wheels loose running to the grocery store in it without even trying. The combination of the bigger exhaust system and the new dual springs let it rev really quick without floating the valves!!! The GEX piece of poop is definately down on power (yeah, that's a surpise... NOT!) and it is starting to breath liquids :-( but, there is an up side, my new crank is in my possesion, i now have some monster heads, the case is here and the pistons/cylinders/ring along with the cam are gathered. so, i am going from a 74x90.5 to an 82x90NPR engine this summer in my purple notch! Those of you in the NW that didn't go to Sac/Bor this last weekend have another VW chance coming up this weekend... Woodburn is on Saturday, and since i have been attending, i have gotten to see the show grow and grow... it is definitely worth the drive to attend. See ya all there, and Greg Merritt: the pics look great and your car almost makes me want a stocker... almost ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org