What STEAMS me about Vortex... Sorry... Rant

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

You will all see the '85 in Cincy... after 110mph it felt like the friggin 
space shuttle on reentry. ROFLMAO
 I DRANK the gas... I had to stop for gas and when I went to pull out it 
felt like the ebrake was on. Couldn't figure it out. I got out looked at it, 
looked under the car... Shrugged my shoulders and got in. I went to pull out 
of the gas station and there was this horrible crunch/grinding sound and the 
tire FELL OFF. Wheel, brake drum and all.
 I felt like Han Solo when the hyperdrive broke.

 On 5/17/05, David Utley <fahrvegnugen@cox.net> wrote: 
> 
> 
> >
> > From: Mauricio Tavares <raub@kudria.com>
> > Date: 2005/05/17 Tue PM 02:57:13 EDT
> > To: Scirocco-l <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Subject: Re: What STEAMS me about Vortex... Sorry... Rant
> >
> > Chris Bennett wrote:
> > > I quite posting there after the Jetta/Golf people got mad at me and 
> locked
> > > the forum after I mentioned that I have had my '85 Scirocco over 
> 143mph
> > > after I did my 16v swap. They were posting PICTURES at 115, and 120, 
> which
> > > makes you wonder who is the more irresponsible one?
> >
> > If it makes you feel better, I have a friend who built a 8v rabbit that
> > would do close to 150. Engine HP was not really the issue (yes, he did
> > made changes to it). The trick, he says, was to use a diesel tranny to
> > get the highest 5th gear possible (a FF tranny was use in this
> > adventure). The way they measure the speed was to know the distance
> > btween two towns and how long it took to travel between them. Was that
> > their brighest moment? Hardly. Did they take pictures? The only guy
> > int he car -- the driver -- was too busy keeping it on the road. So,
> > they relied ont he stopwatch.
> 
> That is scary! 110 is scary enough, I don't want to think about 150...
> 
> David
> 
> '83 GTI, Daily Driver...
> '87 16V, parts car
> '82 pickup, 2.0 16V, collecting dust...
> 
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