What STEAMS me about Vortex... Sorry... Rant

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

> 
> From: Mauricio Tavares <raub@kudria.com>
> Date: 2005/05/17 Tue PM 02:57:13 EDT
> To: Scirocco-l <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: Re: What STEAMS me about Vortex... Sorry... Rant
> 
> Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I quite posting there after the Jetta/Golf people got mad at me and locked 
> > the forum after I mentioned that I have had my '85 Scirocco over 143mph 
> > after I did my 16v swap. They were posting PICTURES at 115, and 120, which 
> > makes you wonder who is the more irresponsible one?
> 
> 	If it makes you feel better, I have a friend who built a 8v rabbit that 
> would do close to 150. Engine HP was not really the issue (yes, he did 
> made changes to it).  The trick, he says, was to use a diesel tranny to 
> get the highest 5th gear possible (a FF tranny was use in this 
> adventure).  The way they measure the speed was to know the distance 
> btween two towns and how long it took to travel between them. Was that 
> their brighest moment? Hardly.  Did they take pictures?  The only guy 
> int he car -- the driver -- was too busy keeping it on the road. So, 
> they relied ont he stopwatch.

That is scary!  110 is scary enough, I don't want to think about 150...

David

'83 GTI, Daily Driver...
'87 16V, parts car
'82 pickup, 2.0 16V, collecting dust...