[Vwdiesel] Air cooled gas VW's versus Diesel VW's -- ( NO debate ? Harmon.)

[H.Hagar]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: H.Hagar 
  To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:46 PM
  Subject: Air cooled gas VW's versus Diesel VW's -- ( NO debate ? Harmon.)


   It's not even remotely debatable -- air-cooled engines of any brand or type
simply don't last at all compared to water-cooled. 
 
The most efficient VW engine , dollar for dollar mile for mile is
the "Airhead"  in my opinion. The "Airhead " wins hands down.
Diesel versus Diesel ?---The "Airhead"  wins hands down . It is not
even a fair comparison.   Aircraft Gas Pratt and Whitney versus
Merlin or the one from the P 38 ?  the name ? ."Allison"?
No contest ---the Pratt wins every time.  The longest life diesel
I got here is an "Airhead" ----how about 30 years with NO 
maintenance,?. Running a Genset ?  not bad. Never a frozen block or loss of coolant.
Deutz diesels and Listers  are fine.  An "Airhead" is bigger and puts out less
HP pr cubic inch --- so there is a trade-off. 
Now now Andrew --- are you stirring up shit ?.     -- hope we get a lot
of responce to this one.    I like airheads and liquid cooled Engines.
But dollar for dollar Kilowatt year for year ---"Airheads wins". But they are more
expensive to make. Water-cooling compared to Aircooling is simple.
 
So there.      Hagar.