RANT: 1.8T in Scirocco 16V

["Shannon Fenton" <sfenton@amazon.com>]

Kelly who is a personal friend of mine is who you are thinking of and who is
also on this list. I beg to differ with your comment "That guy here who has
that
1.8T Scirocco is a poseur though...he had momentum do everything. Momentum
charges $14k US for the conversion. Sounds like another one of those "more
money than brains" kind of swaps."

How many 1.8T swaps have you done? So Im assuming if one does not want to be
a poseur you must have enough skill to put in a 1.8T into Scirocco while in
your garage. Geez, I guess you and I must be poseurs. Ohh I forgot, you have
a 8V turbo rabbit so thats real close to a 1.8T. Does it put out over 300hp
to the wheels? I guess that doesnt really mean anything without a quaife.
And to my knowledge the basic swap was not 14K.

Kelly has had that car a number of years and for those years he did all the
work himself. Hes not new to VWs and the 1.8T is a recent thing.

Sorry to be a prick but your post sounds allot like one of those "has more
time than brains posts"

Shannon Fenton


In a message dated 5/1/01 11:40:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
mkii@nycap.rr.com writes:



150hp?
with a few mods you easily have it over 200hp.



This is true,..and it seems like a decent swap if you can get the engine
itself at a good price and do the work yourself. That guy here who has that
1.8T Scirocco is a poseur though...he had momentum do everything. Momentum
charges $14k US for the conversion. Sounds like another one of those "more
money than brains" kind of swaps. The car doesn't even have a quaife.

b
ut it is allot of work. chassis re-enforcement,


What reincforcement is it you speak of? That is usually only an issue with
installing a VR6, but that is because the VR6 mounts up totally different
and
was never meant to fit in an A1.

possible need for a new trany shortly after the swap,

Not if it's properly built to begin with...the trans should last quite a
while. There are 10 second drag Rabbits running O2O gearboxes.

exhaust customization, new

differential, etc......



The exhaust was a given, but big deal... a Quaife goes with the territory.

I
think in the long run you would be better off with building a 2L
block/1.8H combo.



While that is the best way to go for most, it is also the most common route.
Some of us like to be a little different and think outside the box.

U
nless you have 8-11 grand to blow.


Yeah....riiiiight.

Mike
http://www.geocities.com/vwmikel - trust me, a replacement is on the way!
'84-Arkay Turbo Rabbit GTI
'84-Rabbit GTI - future DCI drag car
'77-Rabbit - project
'80-Scirocco S - (um... to be:1.9L crossflow, turbo, 6 speed, widebody?)


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