My 1992 GTI

**DocWalt** · 08-23-2014, 07:01 PM

I was a touch bored, so played with a gearing calculator. Fifth sucks terribly on track now, but it makes highway driving so much nicer.

**anyonebutme** · 08-24-2014, 07:11 PM

Has that car ever reached 120 on the track?

**DocWalt** · 08-24-2014, 08:21 PM

It was pretty close on the back stretch at Pitt Race. It doesn't make much power over 7k RPM so I was shifting right around there.

**anyonebutme** · 08-24-2014, 08:27 PM

new cams should fix that hopefully.

**DocWalt** · 08-24-2014, 09:51 PM

Yup. Cams should make power to 8k, hopefully the bottom end can do it.

**DocWalt** · 09-08-2014, 08:52 AM

Blew it up yesterday. Coasting along at ~35mph, rolled back into the throttle to maintain speed and it ran on three cylinders with a horrendous metallic clanking. I'm dropping my new engine bits off at the machine shop this week. I'll pull the pan on the old engine sometime this week. I'm perplexed why I completely lost the cylinder when the engine failed, every other time I've spun a bearing it kept running on all four.