spouse trouble was (engine swap)

[rick@brubakerbox.com (Rick Alexander)]

The 16v in Rolling Roc spoiled me too. I don't care to drive the Cabbie any
more. Worse yet my wife has decided that she would rather drive my car than
hers. She is not a car nut but very tolerant. Last week I took her to the
show in Englishtown, NJ. That she wanted to go to a show was sort of a mile
stone around here. For those of you who don't know, Englishtown is a drag
strip that holds car shows. As a matter of fact Waterfest will be there this
year. Anyway my wife was enthralled with the drags. I even had a problem
getting her out of the bleachers to go back to the swaps. She seemed to
enjoy the day so I'm thinking I'm a hero for a week or so. I was dead wrong!
Today she announced that she intends to try drag racing with MY CAR! This is
NOT going to happen as my car is for auto crossing and track days. Maybe
I'll set up her Cabbie for drags and get my car back. Wish me luck.

Rick Alexander
http://www.brubakerbox.com
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http://clubs.hemmings.com/vwsrus/

----- Original Message -----
From: "ATS - Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@attbi.com>
To: <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "_Scirocco Mailing List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: RE: [tehc] engine swap


> I know I could mod the shit out of mine, but it has over 170K on it and
need
> a complete rebuild and would prove more expensive ( and that is relative)
> than swapping it for a newer fresher engine. just an engine rebuild kit
for
> the 8v costs 300+ $, this is in the air right now, just thinking out loud.
> (Gawd I hate that I bought  my 88, I used o be just happy with 90HP with
my
> 8v , the 16v just spoiled me, now I hate the 8v low power...hehe
>
> PAtrick
>
> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: Dan Bubb [mailto:jdbubb@ix.netcom.com]
> =>Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:02 AM
> =>To: ATS - Patrick Bureau
> =>Cc: _Scirocco Mailing List
> =>Subject: Re: [tehc] engine swap
> =>
> =>
> =>Well, it isn't CIS or any variation of it. I guess Motronic.
> =>Stock it'll get you 115 HP. About what your 1.8 8V would get with real
> =>minor mods.
> =>Not worth the effort unless you intend to do a bunch of mods to it and
> =>in that case why not just do the mods to the engine you have?
> =>just my $.02.
> =>Dan
> =>
> =>ATS - Patrick Bureau wrote:
> =>>
> =>> OKay I found an engine, 98 Jetta 2.0L Crossflow (8v) is that a
> =>monotronic
> =>> engine or CIS/CISE?
> =>> i was quote 550$ for a complete engine, is that a fair price,
> =>and what HP
> =>> should I expect out of it (only 37K on engine)
> =>>
> =>> ==========================================
> =>> ATS - Patrick Bureau
> =>> 1985 8v "ATS GTX" Prowler Orange Scirocco
> =>> 1988 16v "ATS 16V" Tornado Red Scirocco
> =>> 1998 Jeep Cherokee 4.0L
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