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Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:01 pm

if you had fuel injection
& now your swapping it out for carbs
then your going backwards

Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:24 pm

vw76westy wrote: back on page 1 i said

Quote: i had the needle hit the vdo on my way to palm springs
about 2 weeks ago

forget the pic I did a short video on my phone
to prove i was on a flat road & for more than just a second
i just need to figure out how to download it

now here it is

here is a old thread on it
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4...viewresult

Dude you are a nut!

On another note, Im coming out to San Diego in Jan!

Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:59 pm

87 mph on I-5 near cougar WA. The road was nearly flat with no wind. the bus ran fine for the rest of the trip to Rife lake but when I got home it sucked a valve :cry: .

I now have a 2.0l with a weber progessive and hydro lifters :twisted: . I dont doubt that it is way faster then the old 1700.

Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:49 pm

vw76westy wrote: back on page 1 i said

Quote: i had the needle hit the vdo on my way to palm springs
about 2 weeks ago

forget the pic I did a short video on my phone
to prove i was on a flat road & for more than just a second
i just need to figure out how to download it

now here it is

here is a old thread on it
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4...viewresult

Have you ever double checked your speed with a GPS? Seems like if you're doing 100 and all the other cars are doing 80, you should be going by them WAY faster than that. I'm thinking the speedo is getting really optimistic past 70.

Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:05 pm

i had my 68 up to 70 (according to the speedometer) on the flat highway. she was trying a little too hard and i felt really bad after doing it and haven't done it since :(

Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:47 pm

Esher127 wrote:
Have you ever double checked your speed with a GPS? Seems like if you're doing 100 and all the other cars are doing 80, you should be going by them WAY faster than that. I'm thinking the speedo is getting really optimistic past 70.

Yeah I always told people I could go 70... Finally I checked it with a GPS, and found out that 70 really meant 55mph. Felt bad. Oh well.

Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:33 am

vw76westy wrote: Quote: Keep frying your heads! My toy is sky rocketing in value! Keep it within specs or become part of those who own a bus for a short time.

i have had this bus for 11 years now ,i bought it for $400(in 1998)
i have put 75k miles on it
& im now on my 3rd engine & 2nd tranny
the first one lasted 50k
the second lasted 10k
& im now on the 3rd That's why you keep it within spec. If you had done so to begin with you would not be on your third engine

Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:45 pm

all 3 have been built to stock original spec

i think 50k on my first engine was a very respectable life span
if you saw how i pushed it for its entire 50k life

i think the reason the 2nd engine did not last was a combination
of cheap brazilan pistons
advanced timing (this is only speculation,& not confirmed, i do keep timing 28@3000but i think it was advanced at the time )
larger than stock tires
combined with a lead foot
on a bad day....................

i am content with 50k the way i push the limits

Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:22 pm

I just realised. My bus was shipped in a shipping container from up top to down bottom. How fast do those trains go on the open stretches? I'm guessing that was the fastest it ever went ;)

Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:24 pm

Jett likes to go about 75 on his trailer right behind the F250. Hopefully we will have sustainable freeway speeds after the restore is complete.

Happy New Year Everybody

Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:26 am

I had my old 71 up to 74 once. Totally stock. Engine leaked like a sieve and was guttless. Not sure how many miles were on it. Probably a lot. It was just the engine that said, "No more!" at that speed. I probably could have gotten a touch more out of it but, eh. Why lock it up. It was quite stable at that speed. Sold but not forgotten.

She was always more of my crusty trail runner rather than a speed demon :lol:

Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:22 pm

VW76westy That video was insane, I hope your speedometer is off because if not velma is going to a mechanioc to get tightend up, I wanna go that fast with her. :)

Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:27 pm

The longest sustained high speed driving I did was one night in eastern Montana when the deer were out everywhere and moving. Pretty scary conditions, so at first I was going pretty slow. At some point a semi caught up and passed me, and I decided just to tailgate him. Got buffed around all over the place, but I kept tight behind him so that no deer was likely to jump in between us. We both fueled at the same place so I was on his tail again after a fuel stop. Probably ran close to 400 miles at around 80 mph.

Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:21 am

I woke up one time and the camper was doing 80+mph on a downhill.
tp

edit:
Mike Murphy was driving.
I was in the bed.

Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:56 pm

:D

Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:22 pm

^^^^^i can do that with my makita too :wink:

Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:28 pm

we've done 90 mph in the stock+/- 1977 FI 2.0 and 95 mph in the 1971 1600 dual port (dual carbs and headers) for a short burst. At that speed in a bus it gets spooky.

Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:29 pm

johnlynch47 wrote: VW76westy That video was insane, I hope your speedometer is off because if not velma is going to a mechanioc to get tightend up, I wanna go that fast with her. :)

According to his tachometer, he hit an actual 93 mph at 4990 rpm.
ColinAnActual 65@3810

Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:10 pm

SGKent wrote: we've done 90 mph in the stock+/- 1977 FI 2.0 and 95 mph in the 1971 1600 dual port (dual carbs and headers) for a short burst. At that speed in a bus it gets spooky.

i pushed my 71 westy to 90 on I 84 heading to a show. your right, a bus gets real spooky at that speed. a lowered, correctly set up bus however is a whole 'nother ball of wax

when pushing a bus that fast, does anyone else ever think about the solid front rotor's (or drums :shock: ) screaming for mercy when you slow back down?

Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:15 pm

skills@eurocarsplus wrote: SGKent wrote: we've done 90 mph in the stock+/- 1977 FI 2.0 and 95 mph in the 1971 1600 dual port (dual carbs and headers) for a short burst. At that speed in a bus it gets spooky.

i pushed my 71 westy to 90 on I 84 heading to a show. your right, a bus gets real spooky at that speed. a lowered, correctly set up bus however is a whole 'nother ball of wax

when pushing a bus that fast, does anyone else ever think about the solid front rotor's (or drums :shock: ) screaming for mercy when you slow back down?

no but I do think about how much energy is stored in the tires going round. Tried to stop a CJ7 once at about 110 MPH with big tires down a long grade in an emergency when two cars decided to stop and talk rather than complete a turn out, and even with 2 feet on the brakes and big disks in front with a booster it wasn't easy. Back to buses - they get twitchy at high speed and if you think lowering and all that crap will make you safe then you need a reality pill.