Re: A3 bottom-end into a mk2, anyone going to Puhrump, NV in Oct. for the race?

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

crossover from solid to hydraulic is beginning of model year '88, i.e. 
53-J-000-001 onwards.  My GT 1.6 has hydraulic.
Ewan Hopkins...

'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8
'87 GT 1.6



>From: Mash <type53@yahoo.com>
>To: PremoRocco85@aol.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: A3 bottom-end into a mk2, anyone going to Puhrump, NV in Oct. 
>for the race?
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Another question:  I have an 85 rocco, and it was
> > always my understanding
> > that VW started to use the hydraulic self adjusting
> > heads instead of the
> > shims (with the  disks over the valves) in 1985
>
>===your understanding is incorrect. :-(
>
>Some VWs switched to hydraulic lifters in 1985 (all
>Golfs, GTI, Jettas).
>
>Scirocco 8V continued with solid lifters up to 1988,
>when I understand that some came with hydraulic.
>
>
>
>=====
>Mark Peele
>1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
>http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
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