Re: JH engine

[trnsfrma@ix.netcom.com (Shawn C. Meze)]

At 05:58 PM 2/27/97 +0100, you wrote:
>OK, so I lied...one more question.  I was picking up some spark plugs
>today and found out that I have the JH engine.  Reading your guys' 
>posts, it seems in the States the JH is good to have. 

Thats because for autox rules, its got the most HP/Torque that a Scirocco 
ever had in an 8V format. So finding a MK-I Scirocco and throwing in the JH 
is perfectly legal and also very easy to do. Theres no mods to do with the 
motor for it to work. 

>Well here it seems to suck. Looking at the guys book, it says the JH 
>has 95 PS (close to HP) and the other 1.8 8V's have 112 PS.

This should be the RD motor that came on the Golf GTi's and Jetta's. These 
were never in US model Scirocco's. If you were to install one, you would have 
to install the knock sensor to get all of the 100hp out of it. A little more 
complicated but needed to get max performance.  


>  The only difference 
>I know of is that mine has the Catalytic converter and the other ones 
>don't.  Can a Kat really 'suck' that much horsepower away?  17 HP?? 
>Jeez.  

The difference is the JH is a 8.5-1 and the RD is 10-1 compression 
respectively. 
There are other differences as well, but basically the same engine. 



Shawn
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