16v has more power when motor is cold?

[sad_rocc@veedub.com (Dan Smith)]

Ah, the 0-50 time is probably what I saw. Well, now I have a more reasonable goal to shoot for. Guess I missed the boat on the whole warm-up thing. My bad.

Dan

At 03:38 PM 11/22/2002, Dan Smith wrote:
>Oddly enough, the old manual I had for my rocc said that 'Letting the car

>warm up does nothing and is merely a waste of gas.' It surprised me and
I 
>usually let the car warm up about a minute or so anyways (until the 
>defoggers start doing their thing and I can grasp the steering wheel 
>without my hands freezing to it) so take it as you will.

There's a huge difference between "letting your car idle to warm up" and

"driving moderately when cold".  No one here is talking about letting the

car idle for a half hour in front of the house -- they're talking about 
very little throttle and very little revs until normal temperature.

That said, my limit is 1/3 throttle and 3000rpm on any of my cars until oil

hits 80'C.



>P.S.- I'm not really sure how you define hotrodding, but I never go 
>hotrodding around in my car. The closest I get is seeing how close I can

>get to the estimated 4.9sec 0-60 time VW used to claim. I think that was

>their claim anyways, I can't remember.

0-60 in 4.9?  Yeah, maybe if you dropped a turbo nitrous 2.2L 16V Scirocco

off a cliff.  :)
Their claim to 60 was 8.0 or 8.1.  They did have an ad about 0-50 in 
5-point-something, though...

Jason


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