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New to List, needing a little info
Oh, my God, you're at the UOG!!! I Graduated from Centennial CVI in 96. My Jetta was the Eye and Ear sore of Guelph for three years from 98 to 2001. It was bought by Jay Ewing and stripped for parts for his king of the hill competitions. That's when I had the Monster Audi that Guelph also hated forever. (see pics below). My Fiance works at Ultra on Stone Road. Actually I'm going to be coming home in a week for the wedding, sadly not driving. New Mexico is a long way.
Well anyway, the GTI is a Mk2 and the struts themselves wouldn't bolt up to the Rocco 2 hubs because the bolts on the Rocco are closer together by a half an inch. Besides, I'm better off selling the Koni / Eibach combination complete and getting something proper. To make do for right now though, I do have some other parts from three other cars. I just don't know what the spring rates are. It looks like the Golf 8V that I have apart is stiffer then what I've got on now. For the rear I don't have to do an alignment so I might check them out, but it might make it worse.
Rave Racer
'81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L 8V Digifant 2
'89 Jetta 1.8L 16V GTX gone but not forgotten
'87 Audi 4000 Quattro Sedan
http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
'72 Triumph GT6
http://www.triumphowners.com/uploaded/34/50-50-111014_20raveracer-gt6-1.jpg
'83 Toyota Tercel (yoda) ...is no more
http://spaces.msn.com/raveracer77/photos/
----- Original Message -----
From: C Boyko
To: julie@menloparkrandd.com
Cc: raveracer77@yahoo.ca ; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 01:25 PM
Subject: Re: New to List, needing a little info
Yeah, welcome, us girls seem to be the official greeters, eh Jules? And any
MkI is good with me. Now as for your springs? If you are intending to go to
a 16V, stick with a 16V spring set. That being said, anything stock that's
original will probably be way too tired out for your tastes! (and will that
GTI set work? That's A2 chassis, no??)
Cathy, on a break from the "shining", car show for both of them!
1987 16V, 1979 8V, neither are concourse winners, more go than show,
depending on their "moods". :)
On 2:42:28 pm 06/24/06 julie@menloparkrandd.com wrote:
> Hey, welcome to the list! A MKI no matter the shape is always
> welcome. And don't let the MKII guys get you down :) I might have a
> few spares that might help in the future. (I'll know for sure soon).
> Good luck!
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> ew to the Rocco list but not new to Dubs or lists. I'm on Vortex and
> the yahoo list as well, and was on the Triumphs list at AutoX when I
> had my GT6 and you might also remember about four years ago some ice
> racing pics posted from the Audifans list when I had my quat. But I'm
> here now and that's what matters. First I'd like to say it was a
> complete fluke that I found a MK1 'rocco in Southern New Mexico but I'm
> glad I saved it. It's an 81 in rough shape, bad paint, a leaky
> aftermarket pop up roof, and a poorly swapped 91 1.8L 8V Digifant 2. My
> first non CIS VAG car ever. I also have saved a 88 GTI 16V from going
> to the wreckers after a T-bone.... So there's hope yet. I'm less show
> and more go kind of tuner so I'm not worried about the paint accept to
> clean up the rust and get rid of the horrible hole in my roof. The
> intermediate project is still to rip out the 1.8 16V and put it
> complete into the Rocco because I know it runs. The ultimate finish is
> to build up a 2.0 ABA block with 16V head and 85 to 89 Turbo deisel
> tranny or 4K tranny, and then look into Turbo. I had good experiences
> with my 89 Jetta GTX 16V when I blew the original tranny and had the TD
> > tranny put in.
> > So that's me in a few lines, I've shed much blood on Dubs in my
> > past and intend to shed more then a few more liters in the future. My
> > first question to this list is based on my suspension. The car came
> > with Rocco 2 hubs on the front with the 10.1 discs and drums on the
> > rear but the thing is it also had all the suspension from that Mk2. I
> > swapped the rear discs off of the GTI already so I'm good there for
> > now, but the suspension is driving me nuts. Does anyone know the spring
> > rates or where I can find them for:
> > 1. Stock 88 GTI 16V
> > 2. unknown Rocco 2, probably stock
> > 3. Stock 91 GTI 8V
> > 4. Eibach / Koni yellows set up from 88 GTI
> >
> > I have access to all of these suspension parts and don't know if I
> > can use any of it. While bleeding my brakes last night I discovered
> > that I can flex my rear springs by hand. I've never seen a rear spring
> > that soft before, is that normal?
> > Any other suggestions for a budget rocco running on luck and pixie
> > dust?
> > Rave Racer
> > '81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L 8V Digifant 2
> > '89 Jetta 1.8L 16V GTX gone but not forgotten
> > '87 Audi 4000 Quattro Sedan
> > http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
> > '72 Triumph GT6
> > http://www.triumphowners.com/uploaded/34/50-50-111014_20raveracer-g
> > t6-1.jpg
> > '83 Toyota Tercel (yoda) ...because it was free
> >
> > http://spaces.msn.com/raveracer77/photos/
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