Date:         Sun, 26 Mar 2000 05:57:29 +0200
Reply-To:     Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
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From:         Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: 112HP @ 4800RPM on a stock WBX?
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Gary McEachern wrote:

> What's different about the DJ engine from the MV? Is it just pistons and
> longer connecting rods or are there other differences as well that account
> for the greater HP?

The pistons are the only mechanical difference. Cam, con rods, heads, valves,
case, everything else is the same. It uses it's own Digijet injection system,
and has no cat. or O2 sender. See http://members.tripod.com/perlindgren/wbx.html
for specs.


John Anderson wrote:

> VW recc of 98 OCTANE!!!!
>
> Yep, where you going to buy that in the US, going to run super blue
> racing or avgas in you waterboxer at $4 a gallon for 15 horsepower???

The 98 octane we got here (ROZ/RON) is about the same as 92 octane in US gas.
This is due to different ways of rating the gas. Or at least so I am told.

PerL
87 Syncro 112i