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Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:53 am

This thread has taken a very strange turn...

Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:56 am

Whole new meaning to that "dropping a dime on somebody" expression.

Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:23 pm

syncroid wrote:

Insyncro, curious if you have perhaps collected dyno charts from your various installations. Such uniform and unbiased info from a single dyno would be quite the reference!

I have charts on most gasser conversons.

Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:09 pm

"did a vehicle fly along the mountains"
FZ

Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:26 pm

insyncro wrote: syncroid wrote:

Insyncro, curious if you have perhaps collected dyno charts from your various installations. Such uniform and unbiased info from a single dyno would be quite the reference!

I have charts on most gasser conversons.

Would love to see those.
Are you willing to share openly on the forum or perhaps by PM?

Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:55 am

syncroid wrote: insyncro wrote: syncroid wrote:

Insyncro, curious if you have perhaps collected dyno charts from your various installations. Such uniform and unbiased info from a single dyno would be quite the reference!

I have charts on most gasser conversons.

Would love to see those.
Are you willing to share openly on the forum or perhaps by PM?

Not for this thread.
Althogh I have plenty of waterboxer sheets too.

They are available in other forums like the subaru conversion yahoo group.

Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:48 am

Now you all have me rethinking a Subaru or Zetec/Bostig. The Vanistan may be the better way to go, and cost seems similar to me.

I am so glad I have choices.

Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:35 am

Here's the new logo:

There's a run of stickers in the works.

And not a dime in sight.

Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:37 am

Looks great Chris :!:

Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:56 am

Thanks bud.

The line graphic is a tracing of the skyline looking west from my house, with Cerro Pedernal, a mountain made famous by Georgia O'Keefe. Step out the shop door, look right and this is what you see:

Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:08 am

tencentlife wrote: Here's the new logo:

There's a run of stickers in the works.
And not a dime in sight.
Do let me know when the sticker's available. But I'm keeping my dime in place, regardless.

Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:09 am

Looks sweet.

Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:48 am

tencentlife wrote: Here's the new logo:

Cool logo. I really like the mountain outline.

Is "Vanistan" a contraction of "Vanagon" and "Artisan"?

Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:52 am

presslab wrote: tencentlife wrote: Here's the new logo:

Cool logo. I really like the mountain outline.

Is "Vanistan" a contraction of "Vanagon" and "Artisan"?
I'm not sure if that's accurate, but -stan (think countries) means "People". So, Afghanistan is "Afghan People", Kazakhstan means "Kazakh People", etc.

I like that thinking of Vanistan - Van People. :)

Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:24 am

That is a pleasing thought, Marius, but it's not the people, it denotes the place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-st%C3%A2n

Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:58 pm

tencentlife wrote: That is a pleasing thought, Marius, but it's not the people, it denotes the place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-st%C3%A2n
Well, there you go. I'm really tempted to add Vanistan to the list of "proposed names" in the wikipedia article. :)

Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:54 pm

Are you "moving to Montana soon . . ." ?

Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:28 pm

tencentlife wrote: Thanks bud.

The line graphic is a tracing of the skyline looking west from my house, with Cerro Pedernal, a mountain made famous by Georgia O'Keefe. Step out the shop door, look right and this is what you see:

Believe you me, I knew that.
I might do the same with the Catskills as a backdrop with my site and blog logo.
My decal guy from the track is amazing.

Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:23 pm

Chris-
It looks like someone was painting landscapes in your yard! The painting below hangs in my house. It came from my grandfather, an art historian who lived in Sante Fe for a while. The artist is Helen Blumenschein, daughter of Ernest (contemporary of O'Keefe, one of the so-called "Taos Seven"). This was probably painted in the late 40's or early 50's. Thought you might appreciate the view...

Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:52 pm

so how many days driving it ? how many times have you been out to wipe down the road dust off the engine ? :)

sending you a PM...