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hey, That all depends on a few factors. One, how fast do you wish to travel? Unfortunately, let's face it, the vw was never originally a speed demon else they would have went to porche technology when they had the oppourtunity. Two, how much money is too little for the speed that you wish to go. $5000 is quite a bit of bread to spend on an engine. Three, are you planning on doing a nitrous setup eventually? That is one method that you might wish to consider trying, but personally I'd say yes 30+ hp is quite a cool gain for that kinda dough. :-) Yeah I agree that is quite the drastic amount of power. :-) Not to be or sound like a pain in the butt but those are the questions that I had to ask. dennis ps I am dying to have cars instead of going 0 to 60 in 6 seconds to go from 120 to 65 in those same six seconds. ;-) --- Brian Fye <Brian.Fye@susd.k12.or.us> wrote: > On that note, my baby puts out 91hp at the > wheels...so this makes me > wonder, is $5000 for a high-performance engine > *really* worth it when it > only gets you +30hp? Well, it would be nice to know > what a stock FI car > puts down at the wheels cuz it's less than the rated > 65hp (measured at > the crank). > > > remember though, a stocker all new engine is 1200 > for the long block. > if you add dual 2 barrel carbs you are at 1700+ > already and that is for > 65hp at the flywheel. you have 91 hp at the rear > wheels or 1/3 more HP > at the wheels that a stocker has at the flywheel. > that is a drastic > increase in performance. > > Brian Fye > South Umpqua High School > In -School Suspension Supervisor > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | > mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com