Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:58:08 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weather preparations
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 01/26/13 17:20, Mike B. wrote:
> On 1/26/2013 12:28 PM, mark wrote:
>
>> My Dearly Departed Beloved Toyota Tercel wagon, 1986, bought in '88
>> used, with a *carburetor*,  in 2000 or 2001, before it died, when I
>> tuned it up, was still getting 35-36 mpg. And for some obscure reason,
>> our 2005 Jetta wagon, same size about, fuel injected, computer
>> controlled, etc, gets, if we're lucky, 31 mpg....
>
> Doesn't a Jetta have better performance (acceleration mostly) than a
> Tercel?  As the hot rodders say about their supercharged, stroked and
> bored, big V8s: "It will pass anything...except a gas station."

Well, yes - the Tercel, esp. from around then, *was* underpowered, and
you couldn't fit a larger engine.. My late wife and I agreed that when
it needed an engine rebuild, we were going to take it to a performance
shop and after the mechanics had picked themselves up off the floor and
caught their breaths from laughing so hard, we were going to have them
grind out the cylinder walls as much as they could, and put in larger
pistons....

mark

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