Re: Impulse+my opinions (long impulse!)

[redepisa@juno.com (Renato D Piereck)]

I agree with you, European Car has forgotten the daily Watercooled VW
driver. Instead of showing car made by real people on real budgets they
show the newest $50000 Corrado VR6 that does 300mph and 0-60 in one
second.... come on. I'd like to see articles about people who mix and
match parts from different suppliers, like we all do. The Air cooled VW
magazines do exactly what I am talking about, showing awesome home made
cars. Anyway, it would be nice to have a mag like that for Watercooled
VWs too.

:)

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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997 23:07:49 -0400 (EDT) Vw16valve@aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 97-04-09 20:35:30 EDT, you write:
>
><< Nope Jeremy, if you're gonna go all out, slap a VR6 in there.  No 
>turbo
> lag and kicks asphalt! :) >>
>
>If you put a VR6 (and the added weight) in a Scirocco, you end up with
>greasy, skinned knuckles, and a car that isn't much different from a 
>Corrado
>in the first place.  Also, the G60 is a supercharger, not a turbo, and 
>there
>is no turbo lag.  This swap seems much more manageable, and the 
>results make
>for a better balanced car....Chris?  
>
>BTW is everybody as sick as I am of reading EC's "new article" about 
>how
>Ron's Parts shoehorned a nitrous VR6 with JATO rocket assist into a 
>Polo or
>Fox?  Come on!  How about an article on balancing a car's handling 
>like
>performance alignments or low buck tips for maximizing hp & torque 
>like
>advancing timing instead of spotlighting the newest tuner, who for a 
>million
>dollars and 3.5 inches of your manflesh will transform your car 
>into....screw
>it!  If I had that coin, I'd buy an M3!  Come on!  Sure, they have a 
>Scirocco
>"project car"....where the hell is it?  You might see it again if the
>advertiser-favored articles ever slow down.   What was the first thing 
>they
>did to it for their feature installment?  Well, after patting 
>themselves on
>the back for the "find" the owner made (they looked in the paper), 
>they send
>the car out to be fully repainted (well there goes the budget).  
>    The new issue highlights the GTi racing series which is open to 
>'75 to
>'84 rabbits, and the best part is that you can't spend too much on the 
>car or
>the officals take your car and sell the parts!  This series will be a 
>huge
>success, and will probably spread to all regions of North America 
>because of
>it's affordability and reasonableness of rules...so what does EC do 
>for the
>pictorial section of the article?  Show a zillion pictures of the 
>Moospeed
>pace car which happens to cost around 22 grand.  How about an frigging 
>actual
>race rabbit you schmucks?  I can get this kind of bullpuckey from Hot 
>Rod
>magazine.  VW is the people's car, EC should wake up and realize not 
>everyone
>has a truckload of VR6 engines and A3 bodies, along with a couple of 
>months
>off work to wrench.          
>   
>
>Jim    
>1987 Scirocco 16valve (paid $300...yea, I LOOKED)
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