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On 2 Sep 97, Toby Erkson wrote:
> Many of you forget that the reason VW didn't do these performance
> mods is because they wanted to build an inexpensive vehicle. They
> also didn't have the technology and research of *many* years that we
> have today to find these performance mods. And to perform such
> research would've bumped up the price of the vehicle and that's
> counter to what VW was striving for.
> Given one pure stock engine and one similar stock engine that has
> been balanced, ported, polished and blueprinted (all of which cannot
> be seen when the deck lid is opened) I will take the 'modified' one
> and bet it's pink slip that it will last longer, operate smoother,
> and pump out an extra horsepower or two over the pure stock engine
> and still get the same or slightly better gas mileage.
I am in complete agreement with everything here, except perhaps the
"technology and research" part. Most of the things that we now know
were discovered by racers during the time when the Beetle was still
in production. VW still chose not to implement them, not because
they were too new, but because the return on their investment was not
considered adequate.
Jim
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Laura Kepner-Adney
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