Being stock, or even slightly modded, a 1.8L isnt going to be able to reach
the rev-limiter in 5th. The peak horsepower at about 6200?? and by the time
you are there, or anywhere past there, you are not making enough power to
overcome drag. The way my car is geared now, if I remember right, it was at
5500rpm at 130mph in 5th. It was still pulling pretty good, but I had to
slow for traffic.
Fred 92 GLI 16V 2035
From: "Andrew Traenkner" <[email protected]>
To: "W. Lee Hendrick" <[email protected]>
CC: "A2 16V VW mailing list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Future GLI?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:26:04 -0500
I'm sitting here looking at the Feb, 1991 issue of R&T (The one I'm
supposed
to be scanning in for you guys, heh!) at the comparison between the GTI
2.0L
16v, the Nissan NX2000, and the honda CRX si. According to their gear
charts, the 2 litre will do 122MPH at 6300RPM. This is with a .91 5th gear
(My '88 has a .89), and a 3.67 final drive (standard). Our 1.8's, with the
extra 1000RPM to play with, should top out a little higher (horsepower
willing, of course!).
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Lee Hendrick" <[email protected]>
To: "Andrew Traenkner" <[email protected]>
Cc: "A2 16V VW mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Future GLI?
> At 4:02 PM -0500 1/28/00, Andrew Traenkner wrote:
> > > Straight from the factory, both cars are rev-limited in top speed,
> > > anyway.
> >
> >I'm not so sure of that. My '88 GTi 16v cruises at 60MPH, turning
> >~2800-2900 RPM (This with stock tire sizes). This would give my car a
top
> >speed of ~140MPH. There aren't any hills in Florida to give me that
sort
of
> >speed. Wind, on the other hand.......
>
> That number is based on your speedo and tach readings;
> neither of which are very accurate or linear. According to the VW
> tech data, my '87 GTI 16v (if stock) would hit the rev limiter at
> 124mph.
>
>
> W. Lee Hendrick
>
> [email protected]
> http://soliton.ucsd.edu/~hendrick/
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