[Re: TDI - power?]

[juliemac57@hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

Please stop cathy. You'll talk these guys into chnging the gas rocc's to 
diesel! Sheesh


>From: Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net>
>To: Kareem <6keb1@qlink.queensu.ca>
>CC: Scirocco-L <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: [Re: TDI - power?]
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:30:46 -0400
>
>Kareem <6keb1@qlink.queensu.ca> wrote:
>nice...very nice low rpm torque numbers...kicks a 8v and 16v's
>butt out of the box in that respect. Now if they could only make some
>advancements on the 'sound tuning' of diesels, I'd be
>interested ;-)
>
>Kareem
>
>You know my opinion on this topic, but as for sound tuning, I actually LIKE
>the sound of a diesel engine. I think it would be a really fun engine in a
>light chassis, and quiet on the highway, cruising rpm around 2000 at 
>highway
>speeds, as opposed to going deaf with a 4K and 16V setup. They are faster 
>than
>the new 2L 8V's for sure out of the box, I did some 1/8th mile runs against 
>2L
>NewBeetles, and was always faster.(the 1.8T's blew me off the map tho!)
>Cathy
>80 diesel Rabbit (slowest)  - about a minute in the quarter mile
>87 turbodiesel Jetta (slow) - 19.9 sec
>99 NewBeetle    (fun)       - 17.9 sec (faster now)
>87 2L 16V Rocco (funner)    - 15.2 sec (faster now, if it ever gets back
>together)
>
>
>
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'81 16v-2Y (FronkenDad)
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