RE: [T3] '70 square tuning

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 25 May 2007 at 21:15, Keith Park wrote:

> You really miss out on some valuable advantages without some kind of
> Vacuum advance. 

Once you have the mechanical advance, the only advantage of the 
vacuum advance is as a fuel economy improver. When this stuff was 
gaining popularity, gas cost $0.25 per gallon (I once paid as little 
as $0.15 per gallon in 1968) so few people thought that fuel economy 
was a worthy goal. Plus, the market for the Holley Bugspray was the 
high performance crowd, who were probably the least likely to be 
interested in fuel economy.

Part of today's gas price problem today is the leftover impression 
from those days that gas should rightfully be plentiful and cheap. 
Our children and grandchildren will wonder what we were thinking.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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