Decision time

[LL - NY]

I dunno about you, but on a daily drive (like to work) I wasn't commonly
able to be at high RPM (Palisades traffic was pretty well bumper to bumper
at 50) and zinging a GTi 8V at speeds much higher than that doesn't net
anything of value.

On 1/12/09, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mk2 golfs are noisy noisy noisy. The engines are really loud and thrashy at
> high rpm. You've forgotten about that.
>
> There is also very little in the way of sound insulation in a Mk2. Your
> 9-2x is a lot more refined.
>
> Taka
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you don't do anything with that 4KQ, I might just HAVE to come and get
>> it
>> (remember, I know where you live ;-) .  I've been thinking about that mass
>> thing. At least here out in the boonies here, the roads are all covered
>> with
>> hardpack on a nice bed of ice. As I remember, in the 500 lb lighter than
>> Saabaru 4KQ, I'd be driving around looking out the side windows at will,
>> inspite of the narrow roads. In the Saabaru, unless there really is room,
>> I'm a whole lot less willing to do so, and in terms of plan view I rather
>> doubt the Saabaru is all that much larger, it just slides soooo much
>> further
>> once a drift is initiated than I recall. So either it's mass, memory, or
>> I'm
>> just getting too old to take risks on the road.
>>
>> As for the Mk2, the sad part is, the Mk2 (to the best of my memory) was
>> hardly any louder than the Saabaru, so I guess I'm still used to driving
>> tin
>> cans (the UrS to me truly is driving in the lap of silent luxury, inspite
>> of
>> some bad door seals. Too bad it's quiet enough to really notice how bad
>> the
>> Blose sound system is with the P.O.'s aftermarket Head Unit).
>>
>> LL - NY
>>
>> On 1/12/09, Mark R <speedracer.mark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Audis are way better in many regards.  I really enjoyed my MK2 16V as a
>> > daily driver (it was my first VW and second car)... but now that I'm
>> older,
>> > I want more comfort, less noise, etc.  Yeah, that means mass.
>> >
>> > I really should go through my clean 87 4KCSQ and get it on the road.
>>  All
>> > my
>> > friends are like "wtf?" but I love it.  If I don't get it going soon, I
>> > might have to sell it....   the plans were to drop in a MAC-1 and ice
>> race
>> > it.... I have both a parts 4KCSQ and a donor MAC-1 (from a 5000 Turbo
>> FWD),
>> > but lack the time.
>> >
>> > I miss my 16V.... but if I had to drive it daily today, I'd probably not
>> be
>> > so nostalgic.
>> >
>> > Mark Rosenkrantz
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Max Baker <max at warped.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Tony Hoffman wrote:
>> > > > As for the Passat, it's an A4. If you are looking for lower
>> > > > maintenance than the A4, that's not it. The guy with the MK2 GTI
>> > > > suggestion is more along that path. cheap and fun!. However, not
>> quite
>> > > > as nice as the A4 ;-)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Having just sold my MK2 GTI for my CQ, I can say with authority, DON'T
>> > > GET ONE.   And this is from a die-hard VW guy who's owned a few, and
>> > > still owns a MK3.     The MK2 really sucked as a daily driver.   (It
>> was
>> > > a 16v FWIW).
>> > >
>> > > -m
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