[s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"

[Harold McComas]

I must have been lucky. I had a 85 GTI bought in 87 with 45k miles and about 
240k miles ( in 2005) later no SMS (self machining symptom) tranny. I had 
slowly modded it over the years but by the time I had it the way I wanted 
mechanically, the body was shot. Plenty of road trips and autocrosses in 
that car.

Chris, I thought my Schrick 272 cam had an evil  sound at idle. Your 276 
must have lump, lump, lumpy.  ;-)

Harold M
Manchester, NH

> From: "LL - NY" <larrycleung at gmail.com>
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> I too had an A2 GTi, which ate it's tranny. Turns out that was a design 
> flaw
> that VW sort of half covered (gave me $500 towards an $1100 rebuild) at 
> 50K
> miles. Other than that, the car was (reasonably, yeah, there were broken
> plastic bits) durable right up until a storm felled tree landed on it 14 
> yrs
> and 110K heavily autocrossed miles later. If Paulie does post contact 
> info,
> I'm actually half serious. $800 for that sort of raw fun (not too mention 
> 87
> octane mid-high 20 MPG flailing it as hard as you can) works for me.
>
> LL - NY
>