performance help?

[Water Boy]

167 actually before limiter cuts in

There ya go 167km/h. (My Mk3 CL struggles to pull that full stop)

[Ben J]

Amen, a much shorter final drive is definitely on my list when I finally get around to my vr6 swap, having never taken the vr6 out on a track when I owned it redline in third was as far as I ever took it. My CL struggles very hard to get close to 155 down the straights of the tracks we have here in qld, is one of the slowest cars ive ever driven haha


As far as handling goes, I'd replace all of your suspension bushings and such, with r32 rear control arm bushings being a nice easy upgrade there. I'd leave stock sway bar up front and add a nice thick rear sway bar. Some decent coilovers if you want to lower the thing or just decent shocks/springs if you want to keep it 4wd height and decent brake pads and such all around and it would be nice to drive. Power wise there is heaps you can do. Cold air intake, ported throttle body, 2.9 clone intake manifold, head porting, bigger valves, cams, mk4 headgasket, exhaust manifold porting, high flow cat, cat back exhaust, chip, underdriven pulleys, lightened fly wheel, 1.8t iat senson etc etc, list goes on and on depending on your budget.

[Ben J]

Have a read through here VWVortex.com - How to build a relatively inexpensive, reliable, powerful Vr6..