MORE POWER was:Cabrio questions

[Rave Racer]

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> Rave Racer wrote:
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> >         Large open spaces need more power to fill up the roads.
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> That is pure BS. 100 hp is more than enough to cruise at 70 mph!

    70 yes!  170....  well....  maybe with turbo and NOS

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> > My OLD
> > jetta has more juice then that!
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> Of course, but remember that this is the basic Passat engine. If I
remember
> correctly, your Jetta is a 88 16V, right? Stock, it makes 123 hp. The
smallest
> engine in the Euro-spec 88 Jetta was either a 55 hp 1.3 or a 54 hp 1.6
diesel.
> The 16V was biggest Golf/Jetta engine in 88, with 139 hp in Euro-spec. It
made
> 123 hp with cat. Once again, you have the biggest engine!!!
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        It's and 89, but there's no real big difference.  I'm just glad the
VIN starts WVW...
        Well, it's not the biggest....   I first wanted to do a 2.0L swap
for the low end torque, then the VR6, then RWD conversion like with that
orange Rabbit in England.  But now I own an AUDI, and it gets all my money
my woman doesn't take.
        55hp?  I guess in those small streets of Europe you don't really
need that much power.  But that doesn't mean that if I lived there I
wouldn't be swapping something real big in there!