whats your average revs on your 8 Valver?

[Overseer]

sure your mate hasn't got a valver? those figures are spookily like mine..

outside that.. he could have a diff box _or_ vw could have changed them between years.

[Bazzer]

Whoa there people... THink I've just looked at mine doing a proper 80, and it's more like 4k on the ol' rev-o-meter.....

WTF was I thinking?! I think it was cos I was guessing it was gonna be about that, based on my 70mph antics..... These mk3s sure are NOT built for speed!!!!

HTH... 

[bampotman]

Aha! Now were getting somewhere. Maybe the Colour Concepts are mapped differently or the later model GTI's are to get more torque out of them. I thought there were no differences engine wise between the CC' s and the normail 8v gti's.

[Bazzer]

I don't think there are any differences tbh mate, but I'll go along with it and start to be eliteist so I can turn my nose up at a 16v!!! LMAO!!

[bampotman]

Yeah I like that. There a bit special! CC's rule

[GTI EDITION (aka LTD)]

The average revs on my 8 Valver are 6,000 

Seriously though , I can't be sure sure as I'm running 18s  (215/35 zr18) so the speedo is a couple of mph out 

[Bazzer]

Yeah I like that. There a bit special! CC's rule

Any pics of yours then? 

[bampotman]

I'm working on them at the moment and should have them up in a couple of days.

[mr wong]

Right, I also drive a 96N Colour Concept so today on the motorway I made a point of noting my revs at 80 MPH.

I was sitting between 3000-3500, mainly about 3400, defo under the 3500 mark! Does that throw a spanner into things or sound about right???

[bampotman]

Your joking! Right thats it, i've had enough. I got a new job where I won't be commuting 500 miles a week so my car is back to being a social car. I'm gonna chalk this up to some previous owner screwing with the gear ratio. Thanks for you help everyone. I can finally stop driving my car at 70 a put my foot down. Who cares about mpg's!!!