changing to a long ratio box - do I or don't I?

[ewanhopkins@hotmail.com (Ewan Hopkins)]

I posted last week that I had the opportunity of a MKIII golf GTI box. It 
turns out that it's in fact not a GTI box but in fact an ATH code box,  more 
an equivalent to the scirocco 4+E - the gear ratios are very similar but 
with a 3.67 final drive, like my current 9A close-ratio box, instead of 3.89 
on the 4+E.
The question now is, does anyone have practical experience of running an 8v 
2.0L 3A/AAD audi engine/4-branch manifold/free-flow exhaust/no cat/k&n  with 
one of these boxes, or one with similar gear ratios 
(FD=3.67,1=3.45,2=1.94,3=1.29,4=.91,5=.75).  I'm guessing at around 
125-130BHP with good low torque for my setup: stock is 115bhp with cat. I 
quite like the idea of the tall 5th but I'm not sure how much driveability 
will suffer. Note that this is a daily driver and not a drag/autox machine. 
The golf box was originally intended to go in my 1.6 carb which has a 
terminally ill 4+E but I could just swap in the close ratio box from the 2L 
and use the new box in its place.
Any opinion would be useful.

TIA,

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

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