whats faster??

[sijunior]

MKIII 8v is a shopping trolley, 115bhp and 0-60 in 9.8 sec, how can you call that quick

[marcus123]

 

exactly, the actual figures are worse than that 0-60 in about 10.1 secs


Bodhi must be joking, the mk3 8v is slow as sh!t

[Bodhi]

Yes but once you get it going quickly it's remarkably easy to keep it going quickly, say for instance on a windy B-road or fast flowing A-road. There are more measures of how quick a car is than it's 0-60 time you know. It's only on a very long straight that the 8v starts to feel underpowered, I remember a presumably heavily modified Nova SRi (it was one of the Crail Raceway poss?) barely managing to overtake on a long straight on the way out f St Andrews. He never could lose me through the twisty stuff that followed. Now I just wish I'd had the valver at that point now - I could have annihalated him down the next long straight instead of merely keeping up with him (it was downhill all that weight the Mk3 Golfs carry comes in handy sometimes )

[jte]

It's been interesting driving the two actually, the valver seems just as quick as the 8v up to about 4000rpm. However at that point where the 8v would start moaning and demanding another gear, the 16v takes off like a whippet with an arse full of dynamite. I don't know if mine's had some sort of replacement air filter, but at this point it also starts sounding like a TVR I still maintain the 8v is a fast car if driven properly, just the 16v is REALLY fast I was stunned the first time I slotted third at 50mph and nailed the throttle all the way to the redline. 100mph has never come up THAT quickly before......

This is a similar experience i had when i changed from a mk 3 16v to a VR6, except it's much better below 4,000rpm as well.

You should have a go in a VR6 Bodhi, i think you'd like it and you'd be surprised by the increase in performance over the 16v.

[marcus123]

vr6' torque is fookin astonishing compared to the mk2 16valver,

and the v6 soundtrack with a k&n filter, wonderful

[golfvr6]

Once you've driven a 16v or vr6 , its easy to see why people don't rate the 8v.

[marcus123]

when i had my 8valver i was looking at buying a vr6,

test drove a real nice one and the performance jus blew me a way,

torque everywhere in the rev range