Re: drag strip times

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

I'd advise a comression test; after running NOS you might have damaged your 
engine?

From: kda33volks@rsvlonline.net (Keith Davenport)
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: drag strip times
>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:17:37 -0700
>
>Okay Everyone,
>
>My happy car is an 8v not a 16v and with some of the mods that I have done
>including a ram air scoop that is non-restrictive should allow the car to 
>be
>faster than 16.753 I have cams and exhaust along with intake mods. So is 
>the
>car stumbling on itself and I don't know or what? Oh yeah the NOS is now
>gone had to trade it for tires. So I do not have it and I didn't get to use
>it at the strip to see if the car would respond a little better.
>
>Keith 84 Rocco
>----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Davenport <kda33volks@rsvlonline.net>
>Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 10:29 PM
>Subject: Re: drag strip times
>
>
> > Wow,
> >
> > And I bitch out the ass and thru a fit due to the fact my car ran a 
>16.753
> > 1/4 mile at a whooping weight of 2200lbs. I feel this car of mine is
>capable
> > of running low 16's but something is not right here my car is an 8v and
>the
> > speed was 83mph
> >
> > Keith 84 Rocco
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Riley McDowall <roog@home.com>
> > To: aventari <aventari@cts.com>
> > Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 10:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: drag strip times
> >
> >
> > > At 6:27 pm -0700 20/7/99, aventari wrote:
> > > >if you have a well running 16v w/ gutted cat and ram air, low 15's
>should
> > > >be pretty damn easy, at at least 88 mph.
> > > >Your car has a mechanical problem i'd almost guaruntee. is it
>misfiring?
> > > >how does it run when you first start it up in the morning?
> > >
> > > Not IME at all.  Last weekend in Seattle there was a major VW 
>drag/show
> > > event and the only cars running low 15s were VR6 Corrados.  The lowest
> > > straight-up 16v time I saw this year was a 15.6, run by an A2 GTI (2L)
>16v
> > > with headwork, cams, and a Garrett chip.  I ran a 15.801 last year 
>with
>my
> > > 2L 16v (~145hp), although that was with big rims.  Judging by my dyno
> > > sheet, I probably would have run at least a 15.6 this year but I got 
>to
> > the
> > > track to late to get tech'ed... :P :P
> > >
> > > See you guys at WF!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Chris DeLong
'80 16V Rag
'65 Bus (ugly, but good for campin' W/toaster oven)
'82 GLI
'80 'Vert
'80 PU (slammed to the curb)
'61 17 Window




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