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vdubyah73 · Post by **vdubyah73** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:07 pm

Stay a while and say hi! You wouldn't have registered if you weren't interested in a new site. So lets hear from ya.

Bill

Post by **Amskeptic** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:07 pm

vdubyah73 wrote:Stay a while and say hi! You wouldn't have registered if you weren't interested in a new site. So lets hear from ya.

Bill

It's feeling pretty new to me here. Can you hear the crickets?
I will try to stop by once-a-day as I continue the cross-country trek.
This is a good time to see what people might like of yet-another-forum.
I would love to put together a group of trouble shooting flow-charts for the typical no-starts/overheats/poor mpg/etc that are clear and easy to use. Ideas?
Colin

Hotpants · Post by **Hotpants** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:26 pm

Thanks Colin. Can we get a baseline as to what people are getting for their mpg now?

I'll see what I get this week and report back.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:51 pm

Hotpants wrote:Thanks Colin. Can we get a baseline as to what people are getting for their mpg now?

I'll see what I get this week and report back.

I can only speak authoritatively on what I am getting right now with a stock '73 dual carb bus. I am averaging 18 mpg mostly 70 mph highway driving with light tan plugs. State roads mellower driving I can sometimes hit 20 mpg.

Most earlier single carb buses get a good 23 mpg when running well, and the late FI buses usually get 17-20 mpg.

Since we all drive differently, a note of how you drive and what your plugs last looked like might help.
Colin

dingo · Post by **dingo** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:57 pm

good job on the site guys.

Look forward to further reports from the front lines of Skepticdom.

Flow charts are a good thing, indeed.

steve74baywin · Post by **steve74baywin** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:08 am

Hotpants wrote:Thanks Colin. Can we get a baseline as to what people are getting for their mpg now?

I'll see what I get this week and report back.

I just came back from HCBF in my 78 Westy, I averaged 19 to 20 mpg doing 70 mph.

antisamba · Post by **antisamba** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:10 am

I only ever went to the samba to read topics about making my bays run better but I never posted, NOW I feel home, I feel I can post here like we are all family!

vdubyah73 · Post by **vdubyah73** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:23 am

Thesamba is still a good resource you will see me there.

Bill

Shaman · Post by **Shaman** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:34 am

My name is Aaron, Im sure Ill see some familiar "faces"...

Post by **Amskeptic** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:45 am

Shaman wrote:My name is Aaron, Im sure Ill see some familiar "faces"...

I am actually seeing the familiar faces one visit at a time, almost 100 people over the past 3 years of itinerant travels. If you spend 12 hours straight working on someone's pride and joy, you feel a kinship that makes conversations social and technical. That doesn't go over too good in some parts of the world

Onwards I say : )
Colin

Post by **Amskeptic** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:51 am

vdubyah73 wrote:Thesamba is still a good resource you will see me there.

Bill

It clearly is the current center of the VW Galaxy. It deserves every accolade that comes its way.
Sometimes galaxies collide. It is beautiful to watch from afar but it is a little hot at the scene.

With the bar set so high, this forum needs to find it's own excellence. I think it can be done. We are at the beginning and I hope that you founding participants can look back and remember the wobbly first days with amusement.
Colin

lovemybus · Post by **lovemybus** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:35 pm

Nice looking website. Wish you the best of luck.

Elwood · Post by **Elwood** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:34 pm

Hello All, and congradulations to Sluggo and Colin for this colorfull site.
I have a really good feeling, like Covelo, that it will be a positive one.

I will be asking questions and hope they can be answered with out redicule of my spelling or grammer. I will try really hard to not get so in a hurry with enthusiasium. Maybe!

Yippie for the "Arctic Circle" forum, or is it one?

Yippie for Hambone on here! He is so funny and down to earth.

And Im "39" again 8) I keep getting younger! gotta love this site!
Whats up with that ? Drop outs or double regs? You guys are doing a great job.

bedubs veedub · Post by **bedubs veedub** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:57 pm

greetings!

im glad that this forum is here! thanks to sluggo and colin for the wealth of information you make available to the masses. you are true pillars in the volkswagen community!

respect to the gurus

brianandsarah

Birdibus · Post by **Birdibus** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:10 pm

Aha! there it is... my teeny, tiny Mac made avatar. PCs have the advantage with that particular task, or else I have something new to learn.

Hi Elwood. $\:D/$

This should be interesting... let's rock. =D>

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