Re: what sooped up sciroccos are like?

["Noah Godwin" <pchandyman@intrex.net>]

Torque-steer will be your eventual worst enemy in the really high HP
scirocco.

At least that's the case with mine. I probably have around 180hp and the
torque-steer is very noticeable. I bet it would be worse with a naturally
aspirated engine, since the power delivery is a bit delayed on the turbo.

-Noah
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric L Ellis" <elf16v@juno.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: what sooped up sciroccos are like?


> One word...FUN! Fun as hell to be exact.
>
> Eric (now in a euphoric state and ready to get back on the road)
> Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Jorel <jorel140@yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > I've never seriously modified a scirocco for
> > performance gains. I worked on a '73 charger and a '73
> > RS camaro. These were always bolt on mods for more
> > horse power. I never beefed up the suspensions. I just
> > wanted more power, and I got that. Sometimes the gains
> > were not as dramatic as I would like. It seemed a give
> > and take thing: you took somthing and lost somthing
> > else. Now I wonder what it would be like to jump from
> > the stock hp of my '87 16v to about 170 hp? I believe
> > the stock hp is about 121. So were talking a jump of
> > about 50 hp. I know others have done it, and I would
> > like to know what that was like when you started it up
> > and took it for a ride? Do you get any problems with
> > torque steer?  I've never seen a modified scirocco,
> > much less been in one. Interesting to see how they
> > would react to more power. The camaro I had seemed to
> > become skittish with more power. You had to watch
> > where you had the wheels pointed when you gave it the
> > gas. Under hard accelleration, it had a marked
> > tendency to go kind of sideways down the road as the
> > rear wheels tried to pass the front wheels.
> >
> > Jorel Jackson
> >
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