"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/10/2015 at 21:45 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
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Wow - that must be one of the new prototype 4-cylinder engines going in the next Boxster and Cayman. Funny how it looks just like an old wasserboxer - I bet that really saved on tooling costs, and with the potential Diesel lawsuits VW can use every penny they can get. With Porsche tuning it might even break 100 HP!
Dunnik
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/10/2015 at 23:45 |
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Vanporsche?
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Dunnik
10/10/2015 at 23:59 |
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Sweet! That looks like a lot of fun.
Back in the ‘80s I worked at my local VW dealer delivering parts and had a few friends back in the shop. I drove a Vanagon at the time, as did several of the mechanics. One of them had an early air-cooled model powered by a flat-six out of a 911; I want to say it was a 3.0. We went for a drive and it was one of the most hilarious vehicles I’d ever been in. Sure, he upgraded the motor, but hadn’t changed the brakes or suspension. Under full throttle it pointed the nose skyward, and under braking all you could see was asphalt; if there wasn’t all that weight in the back I would have expected it to nose over.
The other odd Vanagon I drove at that time was a Westfalia Diesel. You take a 48 HP engine that can’t get a 2,000 lb Rabbit out of its own way and put it in a vehicle twice as heavy? Acceleration was glacial at best. That car was rated at 29 city/29 highway, and based on my experience it was because you have to drive it flat-out full-throttle everywhere...
McMike
> Dunnik
10/11/2015 at 15:02 |
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Do you know what that T1 bus is?
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McMike
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/11/2015 at 15:09 |
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LOL@ Porsche. That’s a 1.9l stock engine.