well gasser tale.. back in 97.. before fast diesels existed.. LOL..
way home from YSUsless.. once nice afternoon in the 84 coupe.. why 97 still had 14s on it.. got the 15s in 98.. was on a set of back roads i "have fun on" and that car will pull 80-85 in 3rd much like toaster does..
with its old 80ff tranny and 2.0 8v i gots in it..
i blew past him at one point.. no idea where... still no clue where.. he gabbled off where and well it was close to the beginning of said back roads i was on..
well while sitting at 3rd stop sign i see him roll around the turn behind me say 3/4 miles back..
and im like.. crap.. wonder where i passed him as there never piggies out here... his blinkies still not in on..
so i roll on thru the stop sign and creep away to see if i get followed.. he finally catches up.. throws on blinkies.. so i stop..
"do you know why i stopped you" ahhhh not really... "you can honestly say that" ahhh honestly maybe excessive speed?? but no idea where you saw me... " well yea you were speeding.. but you lack a front plate"
he never clocked me.. i knew that due to radar detector never going off..
so got a toung lashing.. a coupon for no front plate.. $68 at that time.. and a commint on my audi r8 ronal style wheels on it
real smoke tail...
79mph in 65.... my 1.6td wagon april fools morning aka 1amish out side of columbus on way back north.. 4 persons in it.. of non light weight.. say good 1000lb of beef.. back fully loaded where you can in no way see out of it.. rear bumper abt 1" off ground.. 2 state piggies... and a view on their face when no one from same zip code and so much $$ in rc crap in the back that they did not wanna deal with what they were seeing.. toung lashing and sent on way..
passat has 10.1" ad rear disks.. its needs them and does not have issues in crappy weather like mk1 do...
now.. so since way off topic...
the 82 coupe that became the 84 coupe.. started off with a 1.8 8v.. then moved up to a 1.8 10:1 8v with cam on stock fuel/ignition aka no knock sensors type of crap.. used 4 1.8s to build that.. then soon relized how unusefull the brakes were.. they would fade so bad, rember this is back in 94-95ish.. since the 82 was so rotty i did stupid things as well if i crunch it no big loss.. there were nights of running sr11 where the tops of the doors would fludder like a butterfly..
the pedal would sink to the floor trying to stop from fade that i did rear disks.. then relized how much better they worked.. aka turned blue from heat.. 16v prop valves were added to prevent this a week later.. still on stock master by the way.. then to add more to the fronts.. i went up to 10.1" and honestly.. the stock master still used..
the big advantage.. can lock up all 4 vs a 16v rocco 22mm master set up.. yes pedal is lower to floor.. but somehow the smaller master allows more pressure.. in feb 97 i built the 84 coupe from the 82 coupe.. picked up the 84 in june 96.. it sat for a few mo till i did its build..
now with todays pads and such.. no idea how fade will be...