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1.  Too much power to front wheels.  Tires spin when you come out of most turns
2.  Too much WAY too much understeer.  The car pushes like a stuffed pig.
3.  Too much body roll (leads to 2)
4.  ABS Sleigh Ride (ask if you don't know what it is)
5.  Gearing too high

BUT, once the car is at speed (aka Solo 1/Road Rally) they kick some major ass.
I have seen some Jetta's at Holtville Airfield here in So Cal kicking the shit
out of a few BMW 3 series (even playing with a few M3's).

Mark

ps.  Won't be me though..>my car is F*cked up



Loren B. wrote:

> Please excuse my ignorance,(having never raced and being unfamilliar
> with the different classses/catagories), but what makes our GTI VR6's
> such lousy autocrossers and would they fare any better in road racing?
>
>              Loren Bookbinder
>              '98 Porcelain Blue
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: D/SP VWs
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 21:12:33 -0600
> From: "H. Jones" <hjones1@airmail.net>
> To: "Arthur Emerson" <emerson@eideti.com>, <Smokerbros@aol.com>
> CC: <jettaglx@igtc.com>, <gti-vr6@dev.tivoli.com>
>
> >As I just found out in a clarification from the SCCA, *any* Passat
> >(except the new B5 chassis) is eligible for DSP.  With the Mazda RX-3's
> >getting the boot, the class is wide open now.  No Passat ran in DSP
> >at Nationals last year, so who can say how they will do. Having a VR6
> >in a class with 8V's seems like an advantage, but the other cars
> >are all lighter.
>
> Is this for real? A 2.8L V6 in DSP? Did the clarification come from SCCA
> "HQ"?
>
> >BTW, the jettaglx and gti-vr6 lists are probably not the best place
> >for answers on older VW's.  There are Scirocco and an A2-16V lists
> >out there which will prove much more valuable.  The GTI VR6's claim
> >to autocross fame was a second to last place finish in CSP at Nationals
> >last year.....
>
> The GTi/VR6 and the Jetta GLX make miserable autocrossers. Don't flame me, I
> have a GTi/VR6 and I KNOW it is a poor choice for either GS or CSP.
> Translated, in GS the Cameros will kill you and in CSP the RX-7's will kill
> you! My 1980 Scirocco is a much faster autocrosser than my GTi/VR6.
>
> A VR6 Passat in DSP? Who knows, but I would be surprised to see it "go all
> the way".
>
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