Interesting that you mention the similarities. I was looking under the engine lid of my brothers 911SC. Although the engine's a flat opposing six, the motronic ignition looks so much like the components on my 2.0l 16V. Of course it's no coincidence they're both manufactured by Bosch, but I would imagine tuning and troubleshooting procedures would be similar.
-Les -----Original Message----- From: DocWyte [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:55 AM To: Les Noriel; Anthony Pelletier; [email protected] Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] ~echo~ There are surprising similarities. The front suspension for instance is basically a 16v strut, even attaches the same way, two big bolts on the bottom, strut bearing with three bolts up top. Rear suspension is torsion bar, like a beetle. Lots of similarities on the interior, although they were very progressive. For instance, my 1988 has both driver and passenger side airbags. Much to my distress in fact, as now I have to disable them to carry my little daughter with me in the car... There's nothing out there that'll give you the same bang for the buck performance tho. I easily keep up with new sports cars that cost $50k+... -josh --- Les Noriel <[email protected]> wrote: > Porsche 944 Turbo and VW 16Vs together in the same > conversation. > > That last happened in the October 2003 Issue of > European Car. There were three beautifully restored > normally aspirated 16Vs featured. But those cars > were overshadowed by the next article which featured > three Kokeln modified 944 Turbos used at the track. > The mildest of them pushing 350+ hp while the > meanest was a fully race prepared four banger with > 500+ Hp. It hung in with the big turbo 911s except > on the longest straights. > > -Les > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
