Re: what sooped up sciroccos are like?

[Eric L Ellis <elf16v@juno.com>]

One word...FUN! Fun as hell to be exact.

Eric (now in a euphoric state and ready to get back on the road)
Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun.


On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Jorel <jorel140@yahoo.com>
writes:
> I've never seriously modified a scirocco for
> performance gains. I worked on a '73 charger and a '73
> RS camaro. These were always bolt on mods for more
> horse power. I never beefed up the suspensions. I just
> wanted more power, and I got that. Sometimes the gains
> were not as dramatic as I would like. It seemed a give
> and take thing: you took somthing and lost somthing
> else. Now I wonder what it would be like to jump from
> the stock hp of my '87 16v to about 170 hp? I believe
> the stock hp is about 121. So were talking a jump of
> about 50 hp. I know others have done it, and I would
> like to know what that was like when you started it up
> and took it for a ride? Do you get any problems with
> torque steer?  I've never seen a modified scirocco,
> much less been in one. Interesting to see how they
> would react to more power. The camaro I had seemed to
> become skittish with more power. You had to watch
> where you had the wheels pointed when you gave it the
> gas. Under hard accelleration, it had a marked
> tendency to go kind of sideways down the road as the
> rear wheels tried to pass the front wheels. 
> 
> Jorel Jackson
> 
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