5spd tranny geared wierd ('84 )

[pbureau@attbi.com (pbureau@attbi.com)]

Tranny #  Final   1st   2nd  3rd   4th  5th
          Drive
FN (81>)   3.89   3.45  1.94 1.29  0.97  0.76
91         3.89   3.45  1.94 1.29  0.91  0.71

So basically the FN an 9a are closely related 
the 4th-5th gears are different, and your 5th is longer
than my 9a, I am considering getting a comversion to a 
0.75 or 0.80 myself (lots of highway)

ATS - Patrick Bureau
> The JH is a solid lifter motor.  As far as the tranny, climb under the car
> and get the code off of the bottom of the housing and then go to the gears
> section of scirocco.org to find the gearing.  It's possible the origianl may
> have self machined and someone used a different tranny style in as a
> replacement.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Schofield" <schofiel@telusplanet.net>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 4:03 PM
> Subject: 5spd tranny geared wierd ('84 )
> 
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > As some of you know I just bought a '84 rocco. I just put
> > it on the road last thursday. Drove it a little friday and then
> > took it to a muffler shop. (it had no muffler, and i got the
> > cat replaced with a resonator).
> >
> > Anyways.. I drove it around today city/highway for about
> > an hour or two. It's geared really wierd. I used to own a 84
> > Jetta GLI and i like the way it shifted. My new rocco's tranny
> > is really bugging me. In 4th gear at about 2800-2900  i'm going 100kph,
> > in 5th gear at 2800 i'm going 120kph, at ~3150 i'm going 140kph, and
> > the engine stops moving at around ~3500-4000. (160kph).
> > 1st and 2nd gear are pretty close but 3rd is a little wide and 4th and
> > 5th
> > are very wide.
> >
> > If i understand correctly the sweet spot is around 5500rpm. The way
> > things are geared, i only really hit that if in 1st and 2nd, and 3rd if
> > i let it
> > goto 100. Downshifting on the highway from 5th to 4th is almost like
> > doing nothing at all. They are really close together.
> >
> >
> > My old GLI with a JH engine easily hit 180kph in 5th gear.. the Scirocco
> > struggles to get to 160. It's not a big deal since i don't ever drive
> > that fast
> > on the highways, but it's a little disconcerting considering the
> > scirocco is
> > lighter and "sportier".
> >
> > Is this possible on of those "Wide" geared transmissions? It's bugging
> > the
> > hell out of me. What sort of recourse do i have to fix it? What sort of
> > cost
> > would it be?
> >
> > Also.. the JH has solid lifter cams?
> >
> >
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