Parts car might be an Wolfsburg

[drew at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew)]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 11:53, Rick Kellner wrote:
> As he described it to me, the floor plan change incorporated more
> reinforcements which added the estimated 150 lbs. 

I guess by the time you add up the weight of all the differences (some
of them will be pretty subtle) then you may hit 150 lbs.  Some of the
differences (some of these may not apply for late-model 84's)

larger fuel tank,
transfer pump and associated plumbing,
larger wing,
larger CV's,
...?

There's definitely not 100 or more pounds of extra steel in the floor of
the 84.5 and up though.  I've cut that chunk of floor section out of an
A2 Jetta, and including the extra floorpan from the trunk it still
doesn't have 100lbs of steel in the whole piece.

On this thread, the early 84's should also be desirable SCCA cars, as
they are the same as the 83 only the close ratio gearbox is a 4K instead
of a 2H.

Drew

> Rick.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew [mailto:drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:48 AM
> To: Rick Kellner
> Cc: scirocco
> Subject: RE: Parts car might be an Wolfsburg
> 
> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 11:30, Rick Kellner wrote:
> 
> > The individual in our local club that was looking over the car does a
> > lot of SCCA racing where everything is checked and scrutinized.  He
> said
> > (again in his opinion) that the 83 Wolfsburg chassis is the one of
> > choice because of the 1.8l, the 2H and the fact that it weighs less
> than
> > the 84 1/2 and above.  He said that when the floor plan changed in mid
> > 84 it added 150 lbs.  I found that very interesting because part of
> the
> > change incorporated the space (and weight) saver spare.  Was the space
> > saver spare a federal requirement?  I think my alloy spare weighs less
> > than my steel space saver spare too.
> 
> The change to the floorpan (including the space-saver spare) allowed for
> the use of the 53L fuel tank.  The larger fuel tank alone can't account
> for an extra 150lbs of weight - even including the in-tank lift pump,
> and the extra 10L of fuel... :)
> 
> Drew
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