Let's start a retrospective thread

[sailingfc at dslextreme.com (DY Wong)]

Do agains:
84' engine swap (but anything would be better than the 1457cc 78' engine).
Dupont Imron for repainting. Painted on Champagne Edition II striping when
repainting. (easier to care for and no uneven fading and peeling like the
factory decals) Lightened flywheel.
H4/H1 headlights and relays.
Drake port and polish.
Drake re-curved distributor.
Conversion to points-less ignition system.
Quaife differential.
Upper and lower front stress bars.
Air oil cooler.
Lot's of other small stuff.

Don't agains:
Rear stress bar.
Not much else on the don'ts since I tried to do the homework on stuff before
purchasing.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
95 Passat GLX
Second Owner


-----Original Message-----
From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:35 AM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Let's start a retrospective thread


Yeah, to steal the term from another thread, retrospective it is. 

Like what have you done that was good, or a waste of time/money? 
I'll start: 
Engine swaps for more displacement: Very good!
I was discussing with the boy this morning that the only VeeDub in the
driveway with the original engine was the bug. So for my 8V? Going from the
stock 1.6 to the high compression 1.8 with a few nice bolt ons: Hp increase
from 66.6 to 97.7. Yeah, that was worth it. And I'd say the same for the 2L
16V, but that was also a case of non running to running, not like I had a
good engine taken out.

Styling? Euro bumpers: SO worth it, saves weight too. 
Lighting: Getting rid of the sealed beams... SO worth it..... So let's hear
it then, the list is WAY too slow.....what would you do again, and what
would you not bother with or avoid like the plague....

Cathy


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