Page 5 of Tuning Parts Catalog by Techtonics Tuning

standard 1457cc engines displacement was increased to 1797cc the engine was in a 78 scirocco running a standard exhaust system and catalytic converter a trip to the drag strip showed 81 mph in 16.7 seconds three years later darrell opened techtonics tuning and started building engines special project cars money earned was poured back into the business in order to buy the machinery needed to develop and build the finest fastest vw water-cooled engines in the country by 1982 darrell built a street driven turbocharged scirocco that ran 13.7 103 mph although the turbo was fun it was a nightmare to work on and it seemed to always need work the year 1982 was also noteworthy because collin gyenes came aboard as techtonics first full time employee he became a vw enthusiast right away and soon bought a second hand jetta i which had over 490,000 miles on the clock before it was retired collin already knew the basics of automotive tuning from previous jobs but hadn t had the opportunity to work with an experienced tuner like darrell or the chance to use an engine dyno for testing collin was a fast learner and soon had his own engine on tt s dyno collin s jetta i set a new standard of performance by running in the 14 second bracket at over 94 mph collin s jetta was often used as tt s demo and was instrumental in selling many engines and parts tt built many exotic oettinger 16v s including one with 48mm carbs and a one off turbo version the performance was great but the cost was too high for most people in 1986 tt worked with the pizzo brothers on a turbo race motor that made almost 500 hp in 1988 the pizzo brothers set the water-cooled vw 1/4 mile record that stood for over a decade in 1990 randy roth came aboard with his good organizational talents as well as welding and fabricating skills in 1991 darrell collin and randy moved techtonics from southern california to sheridan oregon 1000 miles to the north david baxter 5/97 matt fischer 6 99 jeff ashlock 1/00 keith martin 4/00 joey felix 3 02 and josh arnold 7/03 became important parts of the team in oregon collin rewrote the record books with his drag rabbit that could run high 12 s all day long people looked in the engine compartment in collin s rabbit and were amazed to see a stock appearing engine with standard cis injection collin used brains and skill to obtain results that many people can t get with crutches like turbos nitrous the car has since been sold to an ice racer who is dominating his class we re always learning about the vw our customers and ourselves we re a small company with a big reputation and we want to keep on earning the respect and loyalty that our customers have been kind enough to give us we thank you collin s jetta runs 14.7 et 94.7 mph in 1986 turbo scirocco pizzo brothers altered roadstervw rabbit powered collin s drag rabbit runs 12.8 @105.5 mph with normally aspirated 8v engine no carbs nitrous or turbo 5

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