Author Topic: looking to buy a golf gti...?  (Read 2815 times)

mowgli

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Re: looking to buy a golf gti...?
« Reply #10 on: 20 December 2004, 16:04 »
No worries, any time.

The power to weight is the thing to look at I reckon:

16v Mk3 = (150 hp/1110 Kg)*1000
= 135, which is a good number to have.  To put it in perspective a 325 BMW E36 is 140.

Now a remapped ECU in the 16v should give in excess of 170, but, if we tranpose 170 into the above we get: 153!!

I'm sure that I have read that the 16v's were detuned to give the VR6 a distinct power advantage over the 16v engine.

Nice motors the GSi's, handling is a lot better than the std Vectra apparently, lovely seats too.  Don't know if you looked but the Anniversary seats are a bit on the loud side.