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Re: US scirocco - in Hugary (Lithuania)
Hi,
I also have US Scirocco, and everyone in Lithuania are jealous about my back lamps.
BTW how much they cost?
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:10:02PM +0200, Lauri Pettai wrote:
> I know a US spec Scirocco owner in Estonia too. He also speaks
> Estonian. We rode with his Scirocco around Estonia some month
> ago. Damn that thing is soft and slow. Now I see why you change
> all those springs and shocks as soon as you buy a Scirocco in US.
>
> It has 1.8 8v GTI engine wich gaves out only 70kW/95Hp as opposed
> to European 82kW/112Hp. My Scirocco is now officially 98kW/134Hp
> as I dynoed it yesterday. What the fun is to dyno your car if it costs
> only 3$ for 2 runs! :)
>
> Now I can say that installing a new full Supersprint exhaust gives you
> 4,5kW/6Hp. Now I need to rebuild my engine to gain the original 102kW
> 139Hp that should be there. I have serious valve problems in my engine
> and it makes an awful noise every time I drive it, but still it works.
>
> > I have seen a US roc in Budapest
> > It was from Pittsburg and I started to talk with the driver in English.
> > Some sentences later he asked me whether I speak hungarian :-)
> > I invited him to the scirocco meeting. He was wondering there is such a
> thing
>
> Lauri!
> '84 1.8 16v Scirocco GTX Kamei X1 Bodykit (VIN025736)
> http://www.ttu.ee/~laurts/scirocco
> Now confirmed 134Hp under the hood! :)
>
>
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