Re: Jettas are slow...

[Khan Klatt <kmk@pacificrim.net>]

At 2:37 PM -0500 8/18/99, Billy T. wrote:
>Raced a GLX last night in my GTI, on the freeway.  Walked him pretty good,
>from the rear, with the windows down, doing about 120...  Damn, Jettas are
>slow.
>
>b-
>'98 GTI VR6
>G-chip V.11, p-flow, custom exhaust, Weitec top adjustable shocks and
>struts with matching springs...  and oh yeah, GLX wheels($250 if anybody
>wants them, with tires, GAs)
>
>BTW, this is all in jest.  However, I did race a GLX, and I did walk him
>pretty good.  He had some type of airbox mod, or p-flow(Can't mistake the
>noise), and I think he had the resonator cut from the exhaust(can't
>mistake that noise either).  He must not have had a chip, hence the big
>difference.  When my chip was out, I got left by my friends GTI in every
>gear, on the freeway.

Maybe he didn't know how to shift either? With a chip the difference 
isn't much more than a car length or two over a quarter mile with 
equivalent mods and drivers.

-K