[T3] Max rpm

[Adriel Rowley]

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> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:57:55 -0700
> From: bfye at canyonville.net
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Max rpm
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> I used to have a singlecab dp 1600 that lived at 4200 on the freeway.
> pedal to the floor, 4.37r&p and 64mph. it could do that all day,
> everyday. personal experience says only be there IF you have to be
> though. had it had a 4.125 trans it would have been slower off the line
> but the 64mph would have been easier on the engine. it never over heated,
> or complained, but i like lower rpm on long drives...
>
That is some good information! Makes me glad on the Mercedes I have a 2.88 differential rather than the 2.47 that came on all the years prior. I sit about 3,000R.P.M. going 80M.P.H. in the desert and about 2,500 around town.

Vater has a 1964 1200c.c. Beetle. He would drive no more than 45M.P.H. to keep the R.P.M. down so he wouldn't have to rebuild the engine for a long time; think over 100,000 miles without anything rebuilt before he parked it. I can tell you it wasn't always fun to go on the freeway! I remember going for 75 mile road trip (El Cajon to rural Vista) as a child and thinking it was a long trip, because it was! l.o.l.


Thank you so very much!
Adriel

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1971 Sunroof Squareback with F.I. 
1985 Mercedes-Benz 300TD-T - Dog Wgn
Master's Student, A.S.U., living in north central Mesa, AZ