Re: Synchro Scirocco

[Jim Buck <vwpride@mixi.net>]

Yea, it was silver, right?  With a big ole wing on top?  That was mutated!  Saw it
on Speedvision.

Jim

Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:

> I saw a 10v 5cyl Turbo Quattro Scirocco once. It was schweet! They raced it up
> Mt. Washington. It was NOT a roadworthy (read: road legal or comfortable) car,
> and they basically cut the whole bottom out of the car, including the firewall,
> and just refabricated it. The 5-cylinder engine doesn't really fit in the
> engine bay (that's why they had to modify the firewall), and they just welded
> in the subframes from a 4000 Quattro. The engine was from a 5000 Turbo. Pretty
> cool stuff! The exhaust came straight off the manifold, through the firewall,
> through where the passenger's seat would be if there was one, and out the back,
> through the rear hatch, with exhaust diameter of probably 4" all the way back.
> That thing accelerated so fast it was scary. It was the fastest car in a
> straight line at Mt. Washington. They were going for the record, but didn't
> make it. (Frank Sprongl did, of course, in his Audi S2)
>     Basically, it requires refabrication of the whole car. This one was just
> Scirocco sheetmetal. Everything else was made from scratch.
>     -Josiah
>     '83 Scirocco (for parts)
>     '84 GTi (temporarily dead- needs fuel pump?)
>     '86 Scirocco 8v (broken frame)
>     '87 QSW (daily driver)
>     http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah
>
> Brandon Dove wrote:
>
> > Can anybody give me the low down on why no one has built a synchro
> > Scirocco? Is it simply that there is far too much modification necessary
> > to fit the synchro drivetrain etc. in a Scirocco? Thanks
> >
> > -Brandon Dove
> > 89 8v Scirocco
> >
> >
>
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