Re: 16v conversion not worth it? Scirocco too slow?

[Mash <type53@yahoo.com>]

>  <<He tried to tell me that I wouldn't 
> feel enough of a difference to make the whole thing
> worth it.  I told him 
> everything I knew (90hp@5500rpm vs. 134hp@5800rpm;
> 100ftlbs@3000rpm 
> vs.133ftlbs@4400 rpm)  but he still wouldn't go
> along with me.  He said my 
> quarter mile times would still suck and any good
> ricer would still smoke me>>
> 
> Tell him to send me over some of dat shit he is
> smokin.  A honda Si will 
> smoke you,

I doubt if a Civic Si would smoke a 2.0 16V Scirocco.

A 1999 Civic Si is 0-60 7.2 quater 15.7, a 2.0 16V
should do close to that or better 0-60, and even
better on the quarter . . .


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Mark Peele
1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
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