High Mileage VW Bug Mileage

http://66.225.214.60/baja/MVC-124F.JPG I drove it in -15ºF last year. The heat was still enough to take the edge off. Wrapping might help though. I worry a little about trapping water and promoting rust.

Max

"Max Welton" wrote

Looks downright cozy!

Yep. Rust. I wonder why nobody ever made stainless boxes. Heck, the core pipe hardly ever wears out.

Nothing is going to make it last longer or get better milage then as stocker as Jan said. If you try to get better milage you may run too lean and that will kill engine life. If you make the engine more powerful you start to lose engine life and may eat more gas. Another reason I went T-4 in my bug. THe engine was made for a 2 ton bus, so it not going to work hard in a bug. You can expect well over

150k miles no problem in a 1700 lb car. Also the extra power in the light car you give you the same milage as a stock 1600 T-1. Yet you will have twice the hp as the 1600 if you are runing a 2.0 with dual carbs. Mild cam will surely give you double hp and a very nice high speed driver.By the way the 2.0 is a stock engine.

Thanks for them kind words!

Max

Hot VWs Magazine actually had articles about their "mileage motor" about

22 years ago, a rough estimate.

Their claims were somewhere in the neighborhood of 53-58mpg for a Type 1 engine.

Check out their site for more information; I believe you can still order article reprints from them.

Dude, I think you should go hug a tree and tell it all that stuff while you're hugging it. You're tempting me to sell my Honda Civic and go buy an old muscle car and do donuts with it on the lawn of the first person I see with a hybrid car in their driveway. Just voicing my opinion. I'm allowed to do that, too. :-)

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:01:21 -0500, Shag scribbled this interesting note:

So which muscle car flavor do you tend towards???

'Stang? 'Cuda?? 'Vette??? Some other flavor????

Also, do you find that stock or some kind of after market tires give you the best result on lawns!?:~)

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

Switch to decaf.

I like the old Pontiac GTOs, '67 or so with the 455 SD engine, but some of the Plymouth/Dodges are really nice, too. I wouldn't turn away an old Mustang or even a '68-'69ish Camaro... I'm not all that picky.

I'm too old for that now, and when I wasn't I didn't have enough money for much of anything but retreads. :-) I remember one time when I had a set of steel-belted radials my friends used to get out of my car to watch me spin my tires at night just to see the sparks fly off of the steel belts. Yeah, those tires were a little bit worn out for some reason. That was on a '74 Pontiac Lemans. Had a 400 with 350 turbo transmission in it. Looked almost exactly like this one, except (I know this will be hard to believe, but...) I put air-shocks on the rear of mine and had it all jacked up into the sky. :-)

I saw in the latest Coker Tire catalog that they're reproducing the old dirt track tires now :)

nate

You and everyone else can get MORE than 100 MPG on your VW's. You have to accept the belief that YOU can get 100 MPG instead of your car. YOU pay the fuel bills to move YOU, so disassociate yourself from your favorite, personal vehicle. If you take the train, bus, hitchike, carpool, then your personal MPG is really low. (Instead of MPG, I suggest BPM. Bucks Per Mile, because YOU have to travel, your VW doesn't have to travel.) If you're smuggling drugs in the heater ducts, yeah, your car has to travel. If YOU need to get to work, your VW can snooze and enjoy zero MPG while you spend chump change on government subsidized transportation, AMTRAK, municiple bus, train, motorized sidewalk, or carpool.

Last time I checked, the earth isn't creating a lot of dinosaur juice to keep up with demand. We need that slimy stuff to lubricate stuff, manufacture stuff and medicate stuff. Burning it up in machines that move people is kind of provincial, to use a word I don't know much about but have an inkling that it fits here.

We're DOUSED daily in energy from the sun. In fact the earth, somehow, stored up a lot of that energy in dinosaur poop and bogs and peat over millions of years. When my grandmother gave me $10 for my birthday it was more money than I had ever seen in one place. Wow! Candy, comic books and cheap toys for all. Then I learned that it didn't last. I'd have to deliver papers or do chores for neighbors for more of the good stuff. Why haven't we learned that on earth? Somebody or something has to work for the good stuff. My grandmother probably scraped and sweated for a single dollar in the depression but was able to give me $10 after a lifetime of toil. It's a gift and gifts must be acknowledged with something. Gratitude? A sign of maturity and thankfullness? Or should gifts be hoarded and fought over? The earth is giving us untold amounts of energy that it scraped and sweated to accumulate over millions of years. We've only been taking it for what, 100 years or so? And now we're fighting over the scraps? I say let's find out who's making money over those scraps and what they're making us pay and fool us into fighting for those scraps. Reject that game and look for better places to slack our thirst. We are making progress and fighting over scraps is not progress.

-Harry in Fresno

One too many psilocybin mushrooms...

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'64 sunroof Beetle '55 semaphore Beetle

Snippity Snip Snip 8<

I backed into one of those once.....................

LOL

the guy called my insurance company and told them I hit his "PONTYAK LEMMONS".............they shared that with me.

LOL

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MUADIB®

one small step for man,..... One giant leap for attorneys.

There's a kind of tree here in the D.R. that has inch long torns all over it, maybe that's the right tree. Or pringamosa, which causes a severe rash just by touching the leaves.

Karls

Switch to reality, pal. Anybody die or get horribly maimed in the latest oil wars from your part of the country? If you think this gravy train will run forever you're a fool.

-Harry > Switch to decaf.

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................Nobody in this newsgroup wants to be your 'pal'.

ESADMF

please have your perscription refilled before you bore us all to death...surely you don't want our deaths on your hands do you?

wow....getting more frequent...i agree with Tim.....especially that last part

I still just think he should hug a tree. This one: