how much power do you think a mk2 needs ?

[clipperjay]

By the way are people stating BHP at flywheel or at the wheels because a Rallye or Syncro can loose upto 25% through friction from the drive shafts and rear diff box its gotta send power back along very heavy thick drive shafts to get to the wheels 

[VeeDubGTI16v]

unless you can spin the wheels in 5th you don't have enough power   
if it torque steers/understeers back off the accelerator, simples

there's 2wd track golfs pushing 400bhp out there that do fine at annihilating supercars 

[SoundillusioN]

unless you can spin the wheels in 5th you don't have enough power   
if it torque steers/understeers back off the accelerator, simples

there's 2wd track golfs pushing 400bhp out there that do fine at annihilating supercars 

This threads been going a couple of days now, I've changed my mind, 400bhp is about right for a mk2 and 4wd is preferable.    

[Sam]

Always quote BHP at fly, there was a calculator online somwhere. My mk2 has 240bhp at fly and 199 on the road

[lemski]

200bhp mk2 would do. 350bhp mk2 would be too much as a daily i feel. track toy would be fun though

[danny_p]

iirc  nige is running 149 bhp ATW   and can do the ring in 8.21    so thats a good marker   till you can do say 8.30 or at least a sub 9 with 150 bhp ATW / 175 ATF  you don't need more power

[emery1990]

Before  my car got dumbed down must of been around 150? (a 9A kr head k-jet) That felt fast for me not driving anything over 180bhp and that was a lard ass a3 quattro! Used to love it 2nd accelrating out a conrer wheels spinning  So thinking my abf with ms is going to be plenty with hopefully more torque and 20 odd bhp more  But really it's the torque that makes the need for an lsd and the drive-ability isnt it

[danny_p]

torque and weight transfer,

when your cornering load is transferd to the outside wheel so the inside wheel will spin much more easly  an LSD allows you to send torque to the outside wheel and put more power down sooner. so can make quite a large differance in lap times even on relativly low powerd cars.

on the road they make the car much better mannerd and responsive to your inputs as well as helping you put more power down more power you have the more noticable there effect

[emery1990]

Ahh right, I'll have a read about how they fit and go on, taking my engine out so may be easier with it out? Sound good

[danny_p]

take gearbox out,  undo bolts  tap it with a hammer  to wake up the dragons inside then open gearbox,  on opening the gearbox the dragons will be set free at this point they may take the contents of your wallet