Re: Back on track (back on road more accurate)

[Kevin <aventari@cts.com>]

How'd you burn your pistons?? Ouch. The VW bottom ends are supposedly very
strong being designed as a deisel engine first. It must've detonated pretty
bad. 

At 09:48 PM 10/24/98 +0200, you wrote:
>After burning some pistons and bending the crank on my motor I
>found a "new" motor. This time it's from an Audi 80, still 1,6l
>but higher compression. 8,2:1 instead of 7,2:1. My turbo
>survived even that alot of the piston passed it on it's way thru
>the exhaust system. 
>Wow what a difference that higher compression is, much more
>power and tourque in low and mid. Guess what is left now is dial
>in the timing and start playing with different cams to make it
>real wild. This cam I use now show no rpm band where the power
>starts, just increases proportional all way up.
>Nice to have the car running after 5 weeks standing, and a
>sinter clutch was added to. Not to bad around time after some
>minutes of driving but slightly hars when cold.
>
>
>
>Roland Johansson
>Scirocco 1,6l TIC -82
>Http://hem.passagen.se/toker
>
>
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