Autocross tips and tricks...

[rocco_crossing at hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

Dan, that is the first time I have EVER heard of the guaze type filters 
being worse. Everyone I have talked to has seen improvement, and I am almost 
sure I have sean dyno prinouts proving some minor gains from the filter 
alone.



Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (DEAD!!) :-(  Now what to do???
Buy a GTI!! Got an '83 for that too!!





>From: Dan Smith <sad_rocc@yahoo.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: Autocross tips and tricks...
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
>A friend of mine flowed a paper and a gauze (K&N type) filter and the gauze 
>actually flowed slightly WORSE than the paper. My guess is the oil provides 
>a bit more resistance. Stick with paper. Along those lines, don't take out 
>your air filter. The 1/1000th of a second you may possibly gain will 
>promptly disappear as your engine fills with crap. Try practicing instead, 
>it's free and will gain you a a ton more than those other mods. (not meant 
>to be harsh).
>
>As for the TB, I would imagine they're designed that way for a reason. You 
>may get better air flow, but you won't have additional fuel being fed in to 
>go with that air. Try an A2 TB or if you really want, a Weber. Again, 
>there's so much other, better stuff you can do.... Remove all seats but the 
>drivers, a pretty quick and easy thing to do, and you'll probably get way 
>more results than the other mods. Also, put the minimum amount of gas 
>needed in your tank and if that's around 1/2 a tank, throw in a bottle of 
>octane booster. Run Seafoam through your whole system and some Marvel 
>Mystery oil to clean out debris.
>
>HTH,
>Dan
>
>Rhett Farnum <rocco_crossing@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I would go for the K&N or Airhog ASAP!! They do help! I have never heard of
>the screw in the TB before though it might be something to try.
>
>
>
>Peace Out,
>Rhett
>Rocco_crossing
>'83 Rocco (DEAD!!) :-( Now what to do???
>Buy a GTI!! Got an '83 for that too!!
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Bryan Rankin"
> >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org, vwautox@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Autocross tips and tricks...
> >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:18:53 -0400
> >
> >
> >I was at an autocross yesterday, and a guy with an Integra seen the brown
> >beast and was very excited, said he used to have an 81 like mine, but he
> >had a 1.9 Callaway Turbo swapped into it. He was telling me how I could 
>be
> >gaining more power for autocross.
> >
> > He showed me that if i put a screw in the throttle linkage where the
> >small butterfly is attached to the big butterfly, you could open both at
> >once, getting more flow...this seems like a pretty good idea, but isn't 
>it
> >the same thing as putting it full throttle, or would it be slightly 
>quicker
> >than full throttle?
> >
> >
> > He also told me that I should take me airfilter out for autocrossing
> >because I would get ALOT more air flow, and there isn't a huge risk 
>running
> >without an airfilter for autocross because there should be very little
> >debris. I'm very skeptical of that, and I did not try it...
> >
> >I didn't have anything to put in the linkage of the tb, so I was unable 
>to
> >try that as well.
> >
> >
> >What do you guys think?
> >
> >Bryan
> >Fort McMurray, AB
> >81 Volkswagen Scirocco
> >
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