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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #110 on: 21 June 2009, 16:56 »
No, buy the car and tune for £1k
possible with a 16v, hard with a vr6. you can pick up a 16v for £700 or so, where as vr's start at 900 or 1000...

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #111 on: 21 June 2009, 16:59 »
No, buy the car and tune for £1k
possible with a 16v, hard with a vr6. you can pick up a 16v for £700 or so, where as vr's start at 900 or 1000...

I paid £300 for my 1995 16v. Tt's really clean and has 99000 miles.

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #112 on: 21 June 2009, 17:01 »
No, buy the car and tune for £1k
possible with a 16v, hard with a vr6. you can pick up a 16v for £700 or so, where as vr's start at 900 or 1000...

I paid £300 for my 1995 16v. Tt's really clean and has 99000 miles.

Bargain mate!

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #113 on: 21 June 2009, 17:01 »
So if you pick up a 16v for £700, can you make it as quick as/quicker than a vr with the remaining £300?

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #114 on: 21 June 2009, 17:02 »
Thats why I got it. to good to turn down.

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #115 on: 21 June 2009, 17:04 »
So if you pick up a 16v for £700, can you make it as quick as/quicker than a vr with the remaining £300?

Never tried it myself, but from what I know, yes. Don't ask how, I've not done it but plenty of people have got lots of ponies for £300

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #116 on: 21 June 2009, 17:06 »
So if you pick up a 16v for £700, can you make it as quick as/quicker than a vr with the remaining £300?

Never tried it myself, but from what I know, yes. Don't ask how, I've not done it but plenty of people have got lots of ponies for £300

Indeed for three hundred you could get pretty damn close to vr power! There isn't such a huge gulf in performance anyway just engine size!
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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #117 on: 21 June 2009, 17:13 »
My point is the following statement isn't strictly true:

if you want some cheap fun then making something slow faster is the way forward, tuning a vr6 is very expensive.

Yes you can buy your 8v for £500, but you'll have to spend a few hundred to get to 16v level, which as stated you can get for around £700.

The same applies to the 16v and tuning that, you still have to spend a fair bit to get to vr level, which you can easily pick up for a grand.

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #118 on: 21 June 2009, 17:16 »
My point is the following statement isn't strictly true:

if you want some cheap fun then making something slow faster is the way forward, tuning a vr6 is very expensive.

Yes you can buy your 8v for £500, but you'll have to spend a few hundred to get to 16v level, which as stated you can get for around £700.

The same applies to the 16v and tuning that, you still have to spend a fair bit to get to vr level, which you can easily pick up for a grand.


Or go even further and say if you want a fast car buy a fast car not any breed of older golf!

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Re: And who said the 8v gti were slow!
« Reply #119 on: 21 June 2009, 17:16 »
:grin: very true!