Slow to rev and 4000 rpm max under load - Ideas to cure?

[nealtovsen@yahoo.com (Neal Tovsen)]

I know you said you had it checked, but that
description sounds just like when my timing belt
slipped a tooth...

Neal

--- Andy Holmes <sciroccoinj@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi chaps
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> My car has a problem
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> Basically she revs very slowly and runs out at 4000
> - 4200 under load. Just kinda dies as if its hit a
> jelly wall!!
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> The engine just went back in after a 3 month rebuild
> with a lightened flywheel and gas flowed head and
> new head gasket etc. I was expecting a faster pick
> up not a slower one!
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> Now - the timing appears spot on and i have had that
> professionally checked. The mixture has been
> adjusted to correct. I have spark, i have air, i
> have fuel, i have compression - 15 bar for each
> cylinder. She idles beautifully but i think im
> getting combustion gases in my water as the pressure
> in the cooling system is vast!!
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> and it will rev to 6800 when at a standstill!!!!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> My thoughts are
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> 1) Main and or lift pump and or fuel filter
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> 2) Vacuum loss
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> 3) Timing
> 
> Car is 91 Scirocco 1.8 running k-jet (CIS) no cat,
> flowed and skimmed head, 3kg flywheel, stock cam
> (G-grind)
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> Andy Holmes
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> 91 Scirocco Scala Inj
> 83 Jetta 2.1
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