wdunn

After all the discussion about the true horsepower of the 2000 1.8's, Brett of APR has finally weighed in with his perspective @vwvortex. Follow this link, and scroll down to 4th post from bottom. This finally makes sense to me. Thanks, Brett.

http://www.vwvortexforums.com/vwbb/Forum6/HTML/001719.html

Denver J

More than a few people have run the 2000 1.8T back to back with earlier models both on the track and with Gtech times and the 2000 is about a second faster... I guess that the throttle response could help a little, but hard to believe that this would make such a big difference under WOT.

A4 Pilot

Sounds like the dbw throttle response works with the bp valve to minimize turbo spool up.

Brett / APR

for situations when the accelerator pedal is not fully depressed.

Brett
APR