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Re: Factory Turbo Scirocco




Well my father told me of a factory turbo scirocco that was an 
extremely limited edition thing but it was on a 1977 or 78 scirooco 
he thinks(he saw it new at one of the dealerships) .  It came to a 
dealership in southern Ontario somewhere and 
the last he saw of it was in Collingwood.  So that might be what the 
turbo system was from in that car but apparently this scirocco went 
through 3 motors in the 5 years that he knew where it was.
Ben



> Hey volks this is apparently an article from VW&Porsche before it
> became EC, October 1988, pg. 48 "Mirror Images": "..a 1985 Scirocco,
> which had been modified after its arrival in the U.S. with a factory
> authorized Legend turbo system.  A little known, limited edition model,
> the Turbo Scirocco sold for a very short  time, and Legend, itself, went
> out of business soon after production was discontinued."  The article
> continues that the the owner, Adam Winer paid "...$9800 for the car he
> drove off the lot that day" and the turbo was a "..Warner-Ishi RHB 52
> turbocharger..."
> 
> 	Sounds interesting.  I actually saved another tidbit of info about this
> spinoff that talks briefly about hp...
> 	"The cars I had seen were tested at 160hp@4500rpm.  They had
> intercoolers but no fuel enrichment.  The ones without intercoolers had
> 130hp and 6psi of boost.  I think the cars were 1984 1.8L 8V.  There was
> another company trying to impress VW at the time, but their turbo system
> had 4psi of boost, was reliable, but slow".
> 
> 	Cool stuff!  Anyone else have any input?
> 
> jason
> 87 16V
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Ben Beacock                        bbeacock@uoguelph.ca
'81 Scirocco-S modified (soon to be 16V)
'78 Rabbit Stock car (for sale)
'81 Scirocco-S 1.8L (new stock car)
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