Re: Exhaust Problem/HP??

["Nigel Heron" <nigelh@connectmmic.net>]

Brad Sheridan wrote:

> >
> > This may be seen as blasphemy....but;  Bently isn't ALWAYS right.
>
>  You're right, that IS Blasphemy :). Maybe if it was only Bentley I'd seen
> it in, I'd buy that it could be wrong. But I've seen these figures in many
> places. The only places I've seen 90 hp figures for 85 up JH engines was
> articles by people who didn't know what they're talking about, and generic
> repair manuals.
>
>    The great VW&P VW engine mod chart(Oct. 90 issue) lists the JH engines
> split into two sections, the 83-84 making 90hp, and the 85 up making 94hp.
> This was hashed over in the newsgroup a few years ago, I don't know if
> anyone ever came up with a conclusive difference, but one possibilty that I
> recall being mentioned was the pre 85s had a full size spare, while the 85
> and laters had a half size. Possibly the exhaust was routed differently?
> I remember from when I bought my Techtonics downpipe that Techtonics has
> different systems for the scirocco II, with the split somewhere around the
> 84 1/2 time that the half size spare was introduced, so I think its sounds
> quite possible that there are two different routings for the exhaust
> depending on the spare tire size.
>
>   Ok, Mike Potter, I'm sure YOU know whether or not there really are any
> differences, and probably exactly what they are. Feel free to quit lurking
> just long enough to answer this one;)
>
> Brad
>
> --

don't the 85+ cars have air shrouded injectors? maybe that's the difference?
they also have a transfer pump in the bigger gas tanks.

Nigel Heron
86 Scirocco 8v. (anyways, my bentley says : 94hp@5500rpm and 102lbs-ft@3000rpm)

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