RE: Hydro/Solid lifters (was somehow: Upshift Relay)

["Pat Dooley" <pdooley@gte.net>]

Ok, I stand corrected.
Never seen one tho.  Thought I'd seen em all.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Iain Mannix
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 7:29 PM
> To: Pat Dooley
> Cc: quattro@audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Hydro/Solid lifters (was somehow: Upshift Relay)
>
>
> *Most* 8v Sciroccos were solid lifter; however, there was a hydraulic
> 8v _JH_ motor in the latest(87+ in US) Sciroccos.  It was still 8.4:1,
> 33/40mm valves, but it had hydraulic lifters.  Still called it a JH;
> it was not the HT/RD motor found in the Golf(same motor, 10:1).
>
> The compression increase(from 8.4-10) comes from the pistons - putting
> the hyd head on a JH block must have been what happened, possibly
> because everything else was hyd in the mid-late 80s?
>
> I did'nt believe it until a guy I know bought one out of a wrecked
> Scirocco - I thought he was making stuff up, but it A) was hydraulic
> and B) I verified the possibility at the dealership.
>
> Most are solid JH motors, though(83+, I believe).  All are durable.
> Pre 83-82 or so, it was a 1.7 or 1.6(no idea on the engine codes for
> those anchors;).
>
>
> I.Mannix(know little about Audis, but a fair bit about VWs....)
>
> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Pat Dooley wrote:
>
> > Yep me thinks you are wrong.  My 86 had solid lifts.
> > In fact, Sciroccos always had solid lifters.
> > Only exception being 16V models.
> > I guess had something to do with A1 chassis.  Scirocco chassis
> never changed
> > over entire production run from mids 70's to late 80's.  Sheet
> metal did,
> > not chassis.
> > Far as I know, the 1.8 8V roc's were all JH code motors.  Very
> nice motors.
> > Not big on power, but you can beat the hell out em with no
> adverse affects.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
> > > Behalf Of BRIT4VWS@aol.com
> > > Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 6:17 AM
> > > To: jon@tranquility.net; quattro@audifans.com
> > > Subject: Re: Upshift Relay
> > >
> > >
> > > 86 Scirocco should have hydraulic lifters as all gas powered VW
> > > engines after
> > > 1985 had hydraulic according to what I have read in Bentley.  I
> > > may be wrong
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Britton Ingraham
> > >
> > > 87 4000 CS quattro
> > > 85 Quantum GL5
> > > 73 Beetle
> > >
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> > > but must
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> > >
> >
>