The Wanderer

[SuperBuickGuy]

Would save space to have some auxiliary little gas motor run the orig compressor and cooling fan, and feed off the normal gasoline tank...there's room where the pass-side battery goes (which could move) but there'd be some drive challenges to be connecting off the side and switching between normal engine running for on the road, and the aux for when parked.

Plus side is, it'd run 'til the fuel supply quit w/o having to worry, and avoid the whole total secondary system.

I love my wife dearly, and she is a mechanical engineer... however, a cord, gas and switches would make her mad and me miserable. I'm all for the simplest way, even when it's the most complex because I have to satisfy something that bleeds a week a month without dying.

So what you are telling me is your wife has you working on a new project to keep you out of trouble? I like it! I look forward to seeing how it unfolds.

Or, I came up with a clever way of buying a LS motor and a Corvette and also got to build the overland rig of my dreams.... or you can believe it just happened.

[malc]

I drive a 454 dualie crew 4x4... NINE mpg!

You could'nt drive that one day here in Europe with our gas prices......you'd go bankrupt...😠😠😠

There's another price increase on gas today....😲😲

[DanStokes]

How much IS petrol there these days? We're griping with gas at $2.12US/US gallon (something like $0.53/l) but of course it fluctuates a bit from day to day and from station to station. Yesterday I saw it at $2.12 at Costco and $2.26 st a regular station (maybe Sunoco).

Dan

[malc]

Gasolina 95 octane is 1.26Euros a litre and 98 1.38
a litre.
A US gallon is 3.785 litres.
So 95 is 4.78$ and 98 5.28$ per US gal.

If'n my 'rithmatic is right......

[DanStokes]

Dang! Time for a Vespa.

Dan

[Russell]

Or, I came up with a clever way of buying a LS motor and a Corvette and also got to build the overland rig of my dreams.... or you can believe it just happened.

Got, get, or both?

Either way, as usual I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle

Why not pull the turbo 6 out and stick it in the vette?

[SuperBuickGuy]

Got, get, or both?

Either way, as usual I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle

Why not pull the turbo 6 out and stick it in the vette?

Because then Beagle would be less annoyed. Can't let Beagle be less annoyed. Seriously though, can you imagine the grief I'd get with that little motor in the long Corvette engine bay? Won't matter it's faster because driving with a paper bag over your head (even with holes) slows you down.

[Russell]

When did you start caring what other thought?

I want a C4 or C5 with a turbo 4.8 LS engine. I am getting pretty good at this high jack / tangent thing

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'll take what-I-already-own-therefore-not-having-to-argue-with-my-wife for $100 Russell.

[STINEY]

Aw man, you Ninja-edited me. I was game too.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Aw man, you Ninja-edited me. I was game too.

ya gotta wake up pretty early to pull one over on ole Stiney. So, didjagetahallpasstofinishyourjeep?

[Huskinhano]

That reminds me of the Suburban my neighbor use to have. His was a dark charcoal metallic. I don't remember what year it was but it was a non turbo version. Yours looks like a turbo version. His suffered too from Redneck wiring from the PO. I think the only good thing about the truck was that it had a rebuilt motor. I don't know what happened with it, I think he wrecked it. He was partially blind by this time.

[SuperBuickGuy]

I do like them, it's my 2nd Suburban diesel and my .... ummmm.... 4th square diesel that I've owned.... there have been a few.

[STINEY]

ya gotta wake up pretty early to pull one over on ole Stiney. So, didjagetahallpasstofinishyourjeep?

Yep. It came rolled up in a tube and somehow I need to make the porch on the paper materialize on the house. I'm thinking an application of money and Mennonite Friends can assist with that transmorgification.

Kind of similar to a deck, eh?

[DanStokes]

Looks good, Stiney - though I'm sorry it gets in the way of car projects.

Dan