ryan congrats enjoy your new ride i drive mine every day just like a car because i can got a question on the 1600 rear main seals yesterday i noticed a puddle under my trac checked it and noticed oil driping from the rear of the engine do theyhave a rope seal or a full circle sealSound like I will be getting the red snow trac. Will be trying to finalize the sale today and shipper picking it up Saturday. Should have it in a couple of weeks.
I was looking at another snow trac in Palmer a few weeks ago, but it sold right before I called the owner (an Alaskan state trooper). The owner of that snow trac drove 20 miles, got his car stuck, walked through waist deep snow, and shoveled this one out to look at it for me. He say I owe him a beer. I think more than one is in order.
He told me the machine is in was in amazing condition and that I should buy it...you are supposed to listen to the police...right.
I'll let you all know if it works out.
Ryan
Snow trac delivery delayed until Tuesday morning. The anxiety is killing me. The shipper says he has had a blast loading and unloading it from various trucks. I am getting kinda irradiated that he is having fun with it and I'm sitting here waiting. I will post pics when I see it.
Ryan
i bet it works ok for him he wont get high gear on a hill in soft snow i bet it pulls pretty good for the yerrain though.Do you have an initial impression of how the 1600 VW will perform in the Snow Trac at altitude?
3 leyyers noxAh Leadville, US capital of low birth weight babies (it's true!) and gasping internal combustion engines. At ~10,100' above sea level, it's tough on man and machine. Anyway, it's a real neat town that has a snowcat feel to it. I used to visit as often as I could.
His 1600 VW engine will run like a 1200 of similar condition at sea level. Gasoline, diesel, n/a, turbo, efi, etc., you can't get around the fact that there are on average about 1/3 less oxygen molecules there than at sea level. Turbo would be a real boost to cramming more oxygen into the combustion chamber, but a turbo in Leadville will still have ~1/3 less hp than at sea level.
I agree with dds, we should all have EFI. The mass airflow sensor measures the amount of incoming air and automatically adjusts the amount of fuel. With the 'ol carburetor, well it's pretty messy isn't it with jetting and all that crap to achieve only a rough approximation of ideal stoichiometry for a narrow set of altitude, rpm, and load conditions.