Re: [non-Scirocco] VR6 & VW [VR6 Dead]

["Aaron D. Patton" <apatton1@airmail.net>]

The VR6 is most definitely not dead, in the U.S. at least.  Both the Jetta
GLS and GLX and the Golf GTI will get the VR6.

Aaron
'79 Scirocco S - FOR SALE (in Dallas, Texas)
'93 Corrado SLC
----- Original Message -----
From: Lauri Pettai <lauri.pettai@netexpress.ee>
To: Aaron D. Patton <apatton1@airmail.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; Mark
A Peele <scirocco.gtx@juno.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [non-Scirocco] VR6 & VW [VR6 Dead]


>>There was a big discussion about this some time back when I quoted a
>>magazine article some time back that said the Power Beetle would get a
>200hp
>>VR6.  At the time there were many people on the list who said that the VR6
>>was dead and being replaced with the 1.8 T4 and the V5.  While this may be
>>partially true in the case of the Beetle (1.8 T4 in Beetle GLX {I think})
>it
>
>
>This is true, that VR6 is a dead engine. Because it's weak (!?) Engine with
>capacity of almost 3 litres should pu out a lot more than the VR6 engine
>does!
>For example 2.8 VR6 US ver 178 HP 2.9 VR6 Euro ver 190 HP BMW 2.5i Euro
>192HP (!).
>Simple! Now they only fit VR6 to VW Saharan (van) in Europe and for other
>cars a new and a lot more powerful (this is good, man) V6 engine is coming
>out! The only good point for VR6 was it's size and that was also the place
>where they lost the power. With better V angle (more than 15 degrees) its
>easier to squeese more HP's out of engine. And there are less cooling
>problems also!
>
>This is the info I squeesed out of a local VW dealer when I was checking
new
>VW Bora (It's Jetta IV for you in US).
>
> Lauri!
>VW Scirocco 1.8 GTX Kamei X1 bodykit
>http://www.ttu.ee/~laurts/scirocco
>Finally added nothing new to my site!
>
>
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