[tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?

  • From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:37:40 -0700 (PDT)

On the floor level flat ground, factory manual says 56mph top speed.  It will 
cruise ok at 50, will be a strain to cruise at 55.  As to entering Dallas 
freeways:  well first, I wouldn't get on a Dallas freeway in my panel van, and 
if you do you better have a long break in traffic to enter.

--- On Wed, 9/9/09, James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 8:50 AM


So with a split case tranny, which is what it came with originally, I won't be 
going faster than 50 mph?
I don't think I'll want to be going faster than 60 but I am concerned with 
entering/exiting the highway going that slow in Dallas.
So stock = 50mph max?

--- On Tue, 9/8/09, atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?
> To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 10:15 PM
> A single port can easily do more
> than 50 in a splittie.  Sounds like a tranny swap might
> be likely, from the experts.  I can cruise at 65, if
> needed.  I choose to go a little slower, stopping is my
> biggest concern.  
> I'm running a 1600 single port.  So it
> wouldn't look totally OG, but it could give you some
> acceleration. 
> Jeff
> sent via iPhone
> 
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:51 PM, "Denis" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> The Zone is no normal
> animal, with all his tricked 
> out suspension, brakes and steering, but I can do 70 easy,
> but as my Dad once 
> said, if you come up against a watermelon at that speed,
> you're gonna 
> lose.
> 
>   ----- Original Message
> ----- 
>   From: 
>   sammie
> smith 
>   To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>   Sent: Tuesday,
> September 08, 2009 9:46 
>   PM
>   Subject: [tcb] Re:
> What size engine for 
>   the '59?
>   
> 
>   
>     
>     
>       
>         Well, it depends on what you want to do
> Paul.  The Baja is 
>         about as non-stock as you can get a VW and will
> cruise all day long at 
>         3,700-3,800 rpm effortlesly with its 2000cc engine
> which is about 80mph 
>         with its tires and gearing.  And in response
> to Denis; your e-mail 
>         got me curious so I counted the states that the
> Baja has been in; 16; 
>         and driven to, in, and from all of them.
>          
>         But; in a stock suspension split window bus,
> regardless of engine 
>         and tranny, about 65 is a max top speed to be
> safe.  Those things 
>         get awfully squirlly at much faster than that.
> 
> --- On Tue, 
>         9/8/09, singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
>         wrote:
> 
>         
> From: 
>           singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: 
>           What size engine for the '59?
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 
>           Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 9:24 PM
> 
> 
>           James ,I run a 1641 in my
> single cab,dual 
>           kadrons,110 engle cam .I don't believe in
> high compression street 
>           engines , and no reduction gears , 3600 is about
> what I run all day 
>           long.70,75,even 80mph is not a problem,but not recommended.It,s 
>duel 
>           port. Sammie says stock lol, Sammie I had to ans
> were for you.
> Paul 
>           Smith 
> 
>   2009 Zone Tour 1999-2009 ,10 years of 
>           Trucking
>   
> H.B.B 
> T.C.B 
> Transporters at the Point 
>           6  October 9,10,and 11, 2009"Love
> all,trust a few,Do wrong to 
>           none"
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 9/8/09, James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
>           wrote:
> 
> > From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
>           Subject: [tcb] What size engine for the '59?
> > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: 
>           Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7:46 PM
> > I just
> > got off the 
>           phone with Ronnie in AZ. I ordered my belly pans
> > and bumpers 
>           and we discussed the kind of engine I'd be
> > putting in the Bus. 
>           I told him I'd like to stay as close
> > to stock as possible. I 
>           plan on using the split case tranny
> > and was thinking of 
>           rebuilding the engine that came with it
> > (not 
>           original).
> > He said that a 36 horse with counter weighted crank 
>           and
> > increased compression ratio could be a nice runner.
> 3600 
>           RPM
> > all day long.
> > The one in there now is a single 
>           port but that's all I
> > know about it. Even though I have a 
>           "Slow Moving
> > Vehicle" magnetic sticker for the back, the 
>           thought of
> > only going 50mph scares me.
> > 
>           Thoughts?
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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