Mk2 on 5th Gear last night.

[kells]

funny guy that tim 

[T_J_G]

I think the BHP estiamte was well OTT TBH honest.

Lovely car though..

[Wayne]

Just had a reply on ED38 from TSR.

The car was running a rev limit of 8200 which would be madness if the engine wasn't built to take it. Any well set up mk2 on k-jet with a 1.9 and cams will make 180 bhp. We have set up for the golf championship cars running standard engines and a standard exhaust manifold that made 176bhp.
It is a bit of a shame we wanted to do a 2.0 but we were pushed on time we would have then got close to 200bhp and the torque would have been up. Unfortunatley it's a characteristic of 16v's with cams top end power. 

[mattyass]

It was an awesome beast.

Nuff said!

[Jay]

Lovely car, I think they were over estimating the BHP on it though. They never rolling roaded it so they can't tell for sure how much BHP it had, it's just a guestimate.

Just had a reply on ED38 from TSR.

The car was running a rev limit of 8200 which would be madness if the engine wasn't built to take it. Any well set up mk2 on k-jet with a 1.9 and cams will make 180 bhp. We have set up for the golf championship cars running standard engines and a standard exhaust manifold that made 176bhp.
It is a bit of a shame we wanted to do a 2.0 but we were pushed on time we would have then got close to 200bhp and the torque would have been up. Unfortunatley it's a characteristic of 16v's with cams top end power. 

Use a 2.0 16V from a MK3? People do those conversions in a weekend, not a month.

[danny_p]

176  from a standard engine  so the 37 hp comes from where ?   twiddeling about with the k jet ?

[sharpie]

176  from a standard engine  so the 37 hp comes from where ?   twiddeling about with the k jet ?

it was bored out to a 1.9, got hot cams and rev'd to 8k

[Horney]

176  from a standard engine  so the 37 hp comes from where ?   twiddeling about with the k jet ?

it was bored out to a 1.9, got hot cams and rev'd to 8k

ANd our survey said. Urgh errrrrrrr.

He quoted the bit about the golf champ cars not the Fifth Gear motor.

nick

[sharpie]

176  from a standard engine  so the 37 hp comes from where ?   twiddeling about with the k jet ?

it was bored out to a 1.9, got hot cams and rev'd to 8k

ANd our survey said. Urgh errrrrrrr.

He quoted the bit about the golf champ cars not the Fifth Gear motor.

nick

you can see when tiff's driving it, it goes well past the original redline to about 8k... tell me that's on a standard 1.8 with standard cams.

[Horney]

176  from a standard engine  so the 37 hp comes from where ?   twiddeling about with the k jet ?

it was bored out to a 1.9, got hot cams and rev'd to 8k

ANd our survey said. Urgh errrrrrrr.

He quoted the bit about the golf champ cars not the Fifth Gear motor.

nick

you can see when tiff's driving it, it goes well past the original redline to about 8k... tell me that's on a standard 1.8 with standard cams.

You're still not getting it are you? He is NOT talking about the car featured on 5th gear!!!!!!!!!

We have set up for the golf championship cars running standard engines and a standard exhaust manifold that made 176bhp.

Standard engines as far as I now are not 1.9 and cammed to the max from the factory!

Nick