There are two MK III Jetta's in Central Florida, Mike McCormick built one last year, and we built our's 3 years ago. It is a great car. As far as the Aero benefits, I can not say. We installed the rear factory spoiler on day one. But it was more for show than anything else, since we did not have any Aero data to say if it was beneficial or not. But since it was "Standard" on some models of the Jetta, we installed it. We see 6600 in 5th at Daytona with an 0.81 final drive. So it is fast. We built the Jetta for several reasons. 1. it was cheap, we found a pristine car in a junk yard with a seized motor for $200. 2. One of my friends, Randy Pobst, formally from Melbourne, Florida, and I had talked about "Jetta's, (Mk II's) in 1990, that a Jetta, with the extra weight behind the rear wheels, might rotate better to offset the normal understeer. 3. I wanted to build a new car but it needed to be a VW, 4. We figured that the car had alot of potential, because of the cross flow head, Motronic ECM, etc, and it was only 70lbs. heavier than the Mk II's. Well we were right. The hardest part of building the car was getting the car down to weight. We have done that. The engine is sweet, with lot's of torque. The next issue has been the ECM. We had two different companies burn chips for us but we could never get the A/FR down to were we wanted, so we had to give that up and installed a MegaSquirt. That increased the HP by 8%, and the Torque by 6%. David and Jeff at Atlantic Autoworks in Melbourne installed it and we saw the increase imeadiately on the Dyno. It is a neat car. Randy has driven it, Paul Ronie also has driven it, They had some very favorable things to say about it. So, we hope more people consider the Jetta's to. They are much more plentiful than the Golf's, and for me it has been a fun car.

David Ellis-Brown