Re: tranny manipulation

[scirocco.gtx@juno.com (Mark A Peele)]

I will quote Potterman:

"I have had taller 5th's in most of my cars & it is a give & take 
change.  If you go for something really tall then you car will be 
gutlees in 5th below 3500 or so ( unless you have a 2.2 16v Turbo :-) 
Some people like this (shawn ? ) I personally don't.  There are many 
different ratio's out there from .71 - .75 -.76 -.80 - .85(euro/mex). 
The close ratio's boxes had .89's or .91's.   I had a .76 in my rocco 
for a while & it was nice for crusing but gutless below 3500-4000.  I 
changed it to a .80 & love it.  I'm not sure what you have for a 
motor or tranny but it depens on HP & final drive ratio for which 5th 
would be good for you.  If your doing 4k-4.5k @80-80 sounds like you 
have a 9A trans wth a 3.67 final & a .89 5th.  A .75 would drop it 
around 500 (maybe a little more) & a .80 would be 300-400 but would 
give you a little more kick in 5th still.  The kits run in the $200 
range new but you can search junkyards for tranny's.  The mid 80's 
base A2's had the .75's in them.  The .80's are exclusive to the 4cly
A3 cars so that may be a little harder to find.  The early A1's had 
the .71's & the .76's which are pretty plentyful in the junkyard's.  
It can be done with the trans in the car with the correct tools but 
it is eaiser with the trans out IMHO.  

HTH
Potterman
Michael Potter
VIRTUAL WORLD PARTS
http://www.parts4vws.com
sales@parts4vws.com"

Mark . . .   (THINK VW)
Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
http://home.t-online.de/home/SCIROCCO2/mark.htm

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:06:35 -0800 Riley McDowall <mcm@intergate.bc.ca>
writes:
>At 1:20 pm -0500 20/10/98, Aaron D. Patton wrote:
>>My bad.  The .80 kit is for the 16V trans.
>
>Ok, thanks to whoever posted the Autotech URL... I noticed that they 
>called
>their .80 fifth gear set a "Factory" item.  So where can I get a .80 
>set?
>I'm not interested in anything taller than .80 because I don't want to
>trade 5th gear power for lower cruising rpms, and I also have a 
>feeling
>that I'd get the highest top speed with the .80.  I know this thread 
>has
>gone around before, but what the hell, this IS the scirocco-L :)
>
>TIA!
>
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