Autocross tips and tricks...

[sad_rocc at yahoo.com (Dan Smith)]

A friend of mine flowed a paper and a gauze (K&N type) filter and the gauze actually flowed slightly WORSE than the paper. My guess is the oil provides a bit more resistance. Stick with paper. Along those lines, don't take out your air filter. The 1/1000th of a second you may possibly gain will promptly disappear as your engine fills with crap. Try practicing instead, it's free and will gain you a a ton more than those other mods. (not meant to be harsh). 
 
As for the TB, I would imagine they're designed that way for a reason. You may get better air flow, but you won't have additional fuel being fed in to go with that air. Try an A2 TB or if you really want, a Weber. Again, there's so much other, better stuff you can do.... Remove all seats but the drivers, a pretty quick and easy thing to do, and you'll probably get way more results than the other mods. Also, put the minimum amount of gas needed in your tank and if that's around 1/2 a tank, throw in a bottle of octane booster. Run Seafoam through your whole system and some Marvel Mystery oil to clean out debris. 
 
HTH,
Dan
 
Rhett Farnum <rocco_crossing@hotmail.com> wrote:
I would go for the K&N or Airhog ASAP!! They do help! I have never heard of 
the screw in the TB before though it might be something to try.



Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (DEAD!!) :-( Now what to do???
Buy a GTI!! Got an '83 for that too!!





>From: "Bryan Rankin" 
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org, vwautox@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Autocross tips and tricks...
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:18:53 -0400
>
>
>I was at an autocross yesterday, and a guy with an Integra seen the brown 
>beast and was very excited, said he used to have an 81 like mine, but he 
>had a 1.9 Callaway Turbo swapped into it. He was telling me how I could be 
>gaining more power for autocross.
>
> He showed me that if i put a screw in the throttle linkage where the 
>small butterfly is attached to the big butterfly, you could open both at 
>once, getting more flow...this seems like a pretty good idea, but isn't it 
>the same thing as putting it full throttle, or would it be slightly quicker 
>than full throttle?
>
>
> He also told me that I should take me airfilter out for autocrossing 
>because I would get ALOT more air flow, and there isn't a huge risk running 
>without an airfilter for autocross because there should be very little 
>debris. I'm very skeptical of that, and I did not try it...
>
>I didn't have anything to put in the linkage of the tb, so I was unable to 
>try that as well.
>
>
>What do you guys think?
>
>Bryan
>Fort McMurray, AB
>81 Volkswagen Scirocco
>
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