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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Mr Blue on 09 May 2009, 23:44
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hello all
Ive had a few mk2 gti's now and have noticed on the digi's that the ones that come with 140mph clocks (as standard) are way more pokey than the ones that come with 120mph clocks.
Does anyone know why this is. The diffrence is power is noticable. Has anyone noticed?
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placebo :wink:
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:laugh: lost you on that one
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you believe they are quicker as the clocks are fooling you into thinking they are
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no not at all. :smiley: Ive had a few now and can notice a diffrence in power from both. I picked one up the other week and only noticed that it had 140mph clocks today when I cleaned it (drove it home at night with no dash bulbs) :grin: Just wondered why they did diffrent clocks. Must be something.
Any engine, gearbox or flywheel diffrence?
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no not at all. :smiley: Ive had a few now and can notice a diffrence in power from both. I picked one up the other week and only noticed that it had 140mph clocks today when I cleaned it (drove it home at night with no dash bulbs) :grin: Just wondered why they did diffrent clocks. Must be something.
Any engine, gearbox or flywheel diffrence?
all digi mk2 gti's sold on the UK market had PB engine codes. cant be too sure on whether they had the same g/boxes, but i would have thought so.
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I think the change in clocks was when they went to 90-spec?
Could easily be wrong.
I'd go for placebo effect, too, unless there was a shorter gearbox fitted to some cars (cue an ETKA gimp).
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my 87 gti 8v on k jet came with 140mph clocks as standard
and my 89 digi 8v came with 120
if thats any help
also my 87 is faster!
but thats mainly because the 89 was stupidly low and had a blown headgasket :laugh:
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eraly mk2's are faster than late ones manily due to a massive weight differance. the 1st few years they had bugger all sound deadening sinstalled just carpets, after 86 they got heavyer 90 speck is heavyer again thanks to side inpact bars and more soundproofing again
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90 spec has side impact bars? Doh, I'm driving round in a death trap!
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pick up a pre and post 90 door. 90 spec golf ate a lot of pies in the factory
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both my late 90 (H plate digi) and my early 89 (F reg digi small bumper failed project) had 120mph clocks.
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the 1st few years they had bugger all sound deadening sinstalled just carpets, after 86 they got heavyer
I'm not sure about that, my 84 mk2 has just as much sound deadening as the 88 model did. It has the foam backed rubber stuff and also the grey sand filled (?) mats under the carpets and up against the bulkhead.
That said, the 84 one does feel a fair bit lighter and more nimble than the 88 one was :laugh:
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the 1st few years they had bugger all sound deadening sinstalled just carpets, after 86 they got heavyer
I'm not sure about that, my 84 mk2 has just as much sound deadening as the 88 model did. It has the foam backed rubber stuff and also the grey sand filled (?) mats under the carpets and up against the bulkhead.
That said, the 84 one does feel a fair bit lighter and more nimble than the 88 one was :laugh:
i like the mk3 in your sig pic :smiley:
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i was working on a B plate mk2 GTi it's almost completly stock and had to lift the carpet was much suprised when hunting round the car as i found no sound proofing or any trace of it ever been there , wasent done by a previous owner as it's still on it's first owner :shocked: and not done 100K yet. but hell dose it shift for what it is
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Just had did an inspection/ dig around.
the mk2 with the 140mph clocks has white injectors.
With the 120 ones they are green.
The last mk2 gti digifant i broke (was a minter! :cool:) had 140 mph clocks and had white injectors too. The previous one was 120 and had green.
I know i sound like a right dumb ass with this post but these are my findings if they help. :grin: