Found Pictures of My Old Vigor

"Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition" (realasabass) 08/02/2017 at 23:30 • Filed to: None

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The 5 cyl was a very nice engine. Yes it was a manual and yes it was fully optioned. If you don’t know about these cars they were a 2.5 5cyl that was transversely mounted. It was FWD, but handled really well on the back roads. This ones clear coat was pretty much gone when I got it, but mechanically really sound. Everything worked except the early 90's JDM leather lol. The seats were in horrific shape. I only had to fix one thing that wasn’t a maintenance item in the two years I had it, a distributor. I only replaced it because it leaked oil onto the exhaust, not because it stopped working. I could not take it with me when I moved and had to sell it.

victor > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 08/03/2017 at 00:27

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Yeah, but same vintage legend was waaaay cooler

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 08/12/2017 at 13:30

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I have an irrational love of anything with a 5-cylinder engine. I wasn’t into Japanese cars until recently, but the Germans kept me satiated for years.

Pretty soon we’ll be getting to the point where I can import a South African VW T3 with a 5-cylinder engine, thus combining two of my favorite things:

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 08/12/2017 at 13:47

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The Vigor lived on as the 2.5RL for a few years. The engine was very smooth and much better than the V6 in the Legend.

I remember reading good things about those buses in the VW mags back in the 90's. The Audi engine made them seem so crazy, like the one guy you always heard of that put a “Porshhh” in his bus. Here in the PNW you see some very nice Westfalia’s, most with Subaru swaps.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 08/12/2017 at 14:02

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When I worked at a local VW dealer I actually got to drive an early Vanagon with a 3.0l Porsche engine in it. I was driving a stock 1983.5 Vanagon with that killer 1.9l engine with all of 82HP, so I had a good point of reference. The 911-powered one had me laughing like a maniac, and I don’t know if I’ve had so much fun behind the wheel of any car.

It was the sheer craziness and unbalanced nature of the thing that turned me into a grinning idiot. If the brakes and suspension had been at all modified it might not have been so fun, but the nose pointing up under acceleration and diving for the ground during braking it was just beyond silly, especially considering how quickly this thing accelerated. Vanagons are just not supposed to behave like that, but I wouldn’t hesitate to do this kind of conversion on a vehicle I owned (although probably with bigger brakes and tightened suspension).

Textured Soy Protein > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 09/05/2017 at 16:08

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Not exactly. The original TL replaced the Vigor and had both I5 and V6 options.