{"id":741650,"date":"2013-03-13T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=95601"},"modified":"2013-03-13T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:30:45","slug":"vw-golf-mk1-736-hp-2-0l-turbo-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741650","title":{"rendered":"VW Golf MK1 736 hp 2.0L Turbo\u2026 YIKES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/MK1Golf.jpg?resize=672%2C356\" alt=\"Volkswagen MK1 Golf\" width=\"672\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can pretty much guarantee that the engineers at Volkswagen never thought of putting a 736 hp engine under the bonnet of the original Golf MK1. In 1974 the little MK1 cranked out a mere 59 hp from its inline-4, however the one you&#8217;re about to see makes more than 12-times that. As you can see, the exterior sheet metal remains stock, however that&#8217;s where it ends. Power is put down through the front wheels by way of a six-speed manual transmission, while a massive Garrett turbo running 50 psi of boost helps the little 2-liter crank out big power. The insanity starts after the jump. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/qcz46RzTMu4\">Youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-95601\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"610\" height=\"361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcz46RzTMu4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can pretty much guarantee that the engineers at Volkswagen never thought of putting a 736 hp engine under the bonnet of the original Golf MK1. In 1974 the little MK1 cranked out a mere 59 hp from its inline-4, however the one you&#8217;re about to see makes more than 12-times that. As you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36W6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}