Last year of Scirocco in North America?

1990



"Steve Grauman" <oneactor1.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Sherlock" <svgulatta.TakeThisOut@juno.com> wrote in message
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 > 1990

1988 in the US.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Thanks everyone. As far as I remember, there was both an 8 valve engine and a
16 valve engine avaliable in the North American (U.S. Spec) Scirocco in 1988.
Can anyone confirm this for me and give me diplacment and horsepower specs? If
memory serves, the 2.0 litre 16 valve, 134 Horsepower mill offered in late MKII
GTis was never offered in the Scirocco, right?
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"Steve Grauman" <oneactor1.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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 > Thanks everyone. As far as I remember, there was both an 8 valve engine
and a
 > 16 valve engine avaliable in the North American (U.S. Spec) Scirocco in
1988.

I think they might have been offered simultaneously for '87 because the 16V
debuted in '87 here but I think in '88 my memory tells me that the 8V went
away and it was only the 16V.

 > Can anyone confirm this for me and give me diplacment and horsepower
specs? If memory serves, the 2.0 litre 16 valve, 134 Horsepower mill offered
in late MKII GTis was never offered in the Scirocco, right?

Right. The Scirocco was 1.8L 123hp just like the 16V A2 GTIs that were the
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I miss my scirocco... always kick yourself for selling a car...


"Matt B." <noway.DeleteThis@hellno.com> wrote in message
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 > "Steve Grauman" <oneactor1.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
 > news:20040328025606.22202.00000253@mb-m22.aol.com...
  > > Thanks everyone. As far as I remember, there was both an 8 valve engine
 > and a
  > > 16 valve engine avaliable in the North American (U.S. Spec) Scirocco in
 > 1988.
 >
 > I think they might have been offered simultaneously for '87 because the
16V
 > debuted in '87 here but I think in '88 my memory tells me that the 8V went
 > away and it was only the 16V.
 >
  > > Can anyone confirm this for me and give me diplacment and horsepower
 > specs? If memory serves, the 2.0 litre 16 valve, 134 Horsepower mill
offered
 > in late MKII GTis was never offered in the Scirocco, right?
 >
 > Right. The Scirocco was 1.8L 123hp just like the 16V A2 GTIs that were
the
 > 1.8s.
 >
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"Chris" <splashme.TakeThisOut@SPAM.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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 > I miss my scirocco... always kick yourself for selling a car...

I've promised myself that when my '91 GTI hits 200K miles, it goes. I'm
sure I'll miss the hell out of it too. But I have two cars right now and
there's no sense in that for me (have to insure two cars, and one car has to
be on the street at night too because I have only a 1 car garage, and that
kills me too). But I want to keep my GTI to 200K miles just to say that I
had a car that went that far (and yes...I'm the only owner). It'll be a sad
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Chris wrote:

 > I miss my scirocco... always kick yourself for selling a car...

*snif*

Hi Ron! how's my baby?

nate

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Well after pulling $38 in change from under the seat and dash console,
and filling the shop vac while cleaning it, it seems to handle
better..like it's much lighter! <G> Turning up the Konis helped too,
except my back is bitching.

Yesterday, I finally got a tag on it, and am having a blast! CD player
does work, but it sure has some funny electrical gremlins. Is the amp
always on, or does one of the wires switch it on with the ignition?
I think the driving light relay is hanging and draining the battery,
sometimes the water temp works, sometimes not, oil pressure light is
no-op,fuel pump runs with ignition on, but engine off ( never does
stop), and a few other oddities. No complaints, just having fun

Yeah, it's a blast, (and the P1800 deal fell through.)





On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:31:41 -0500, Nate Nagel
<njnagel.RemoveThis@toadliquor.net> wrote:

 >Chris wrote:
 >
  >> I miss my scirocco... always kick yourself for selling a car...
 >
 >*snif*
 >
 >Hi Ron! how's my baby?
 >
 >nate

Ron/Champ 6

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1962 Lark Daytona Convertible (Boomerang)
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 > Is the amp
 >always on, or does one of the wires switch it on with the ignition?

Amps won't run unless the system is either in "accesory" mode or the car is
running. However, running an amp (the lager the amp, the worse in this
scenario) in accesory mode on a regular basis will drain your system quite a
bit. You should really have the car turned on and the alternator running when
you listen to the stereo.

 >I think the driving light relay is hanging and draining the battery,
 >sometimes the water temp works, sometimes not, oil pressure light is
 >no-op,fuel pump runs with ignition on, but engine off ( never does
 >stop), and a few other oddities

How about doing a ground up rebuild including the engine/tranny and posting the
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Correction: CD player works in the driveway, and makes gawdawful
racket if the car is on the road.

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 12:29:40 GMT, Ron /Champ 6 <ron.dame.DeleteThis@att.net>
wrote:

 >Well after pulling $38 in change from under the seat and dash console,
 >and filling the shop vac while cleaning it, it seems to handle
 >better..like it's much lighter! <G> Turning up the Konis helped too,
 >except my back is bitching.
 >
 >Yesterday, I finally got a tag on it, and am having a blast! CD player
 >does work, but it sure has some funny electrical gremlins. Is the amp
 >always on, or does one of the wires switch it on with the ignition?
 >I think the driving light relay is hanging and draining the battery,
 >sometimes the water temp works, sometimes not, oil pressure light is
 >no-op,fuel pump runs with ignition on, but engine off ( never does
 >stop), and a few other oddities. No complaints, just having fun
 >
 >Yeah, it's a blast, (and the P1800 deal fell through.)
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:31:41 -0500, Nate Nagel
 ><njnagel.DeleteThis@toadliquor.net> wrote:
 >
  >>Chris wrote:
  >>
   >>> I miss my scirocco... always kick yourself for selling a car...
  >>
  >>*snif*
  >>
  >>Hi Ron! how's my baby?
  >>
  >>nate
 >
 >Ron/Champ 6
 >
 >1963 8E5 Champ (Champ 6)
 >1962 Lark Daytona Convertible (Boomerang)
 >1995 VW Passat (Vanilla..yuk)
 >1994 Volvo 850 (Tilley)

Ron/Champ 6

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Ron /Champ 6 wrote:

 > Well after pulling $38 in change from under the seat and dash console,
 > and filling the shop vac while cleaning it, it seems to handle
 > better..like it's much lighter! <G> Turning up the Konis helped too,
 > except my back is bitching.

Ayup, I went a little nuts with the suspension setup... <G>

 >
 > Yesterday, I finally got a tag on it, and am having a blast! CD player
 > does work, but it sure has some funny electrical gremlins. Is the amp
 > always on, or does one of the wires switch it on with the ignition?

I believe it is supposed to turn off if it does not receive an audio
signal from the head unit. Not sure if it is actually working that way.
I'd be tempted to just redo the whole stereo setup. ISTR not liking
the way it was wired, but right now I don't remember exactly why.

I have a newer Alpine in the Porsche, if I swap it out I'll cut you a
good deal, but there's no amp with it. Also I think I have a Sony
cassette head unit with CD changer that I gave to a friend to put in the
16V I sold her but she never installed it - her brother put a "boomin"
system in it for her as a present. I dunno where you would put the
changer though - it fits under the pass seat in the GTI but I don't see
how you'd put it anywhere you could reach it in a roccet.

 > I think the driving light relay is hanging and draining the battery,

oops... I thought I fixed that

 > sometimes the water temp works, sometimes not,

I just noticed that when driving it up to York. I think I have another
cluster from a Diesel something around here if you need a new gauge. It
didn't end up in the trunk with the other spare parts b/c Michele wanted
the speedo needle (I munged hers up while fixing her odo)

 > oil pressure light is
 > no-op,

that's odd, it used to work. Oh well there should be a gauge and dual
sender in the glovebox if you can figure out how to wire it up so the
light still works properly.

 > fuel pump runs with ignition on, but engine off ( never does
 > stop),

Sounds like the fuel pump relay packed it in from sitting too long.
Common failure although usually the pump doesn't run at all and you end
up walking.

and a few other oddities. No complaints, just having fun
 >
 > Yeah, it's a blast, (and the P1800 deal fell through.)
 >

Sorry to hear that, if I had to get rid of a VW for a car I wouldn't
mind a P1800 myself.

Let me know if you find a pair of them

nate

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