09-13-2024, 07:40 PM
(09-13-2024, 10:58 AM)Raptured Wrote: I'm sad that VW canned the VR6
I guess I've never been a big fan of VWs. I did have an 8V Golf at one point many moons ago. Like a lego car parts wise - interchangable with most other VWs of the era. Parts were cheap and available. It was pretty slow. I think it only had something like 60 or 65 HP. And the brakes were terrible. Of all the cars I have owned, that VW had hands down the worst brakes of all of them. I did end up wrecking it when a lady in a Blazer slammed on her brakes in front of me in the rain... car just wasn't going to stop no matter what and there was nowhere to go.
It also had the k-jetronic mechanical fuel injection with the crappy air meter thing that broke on literally everybody's car. I had to carry around a set of metric hex keys in the car so I could adjust the secret set screw on the air meter when the mixture got too rich. The air meters themselves were unobtainium at the time and I had no money to replace it anyways.