On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Eliot Lim wrote: > the v8 had a relatively short and simple development. it was just two > VW GTI 16Vs siamesed in a new lightweight Al-Si block. the heads are > carried over unchanged. in fact i can replace the distributors with > those from a GTI 16V. they are the same part. I got a real kick out of Eliot's license plates: "16VX2Q" -Adam