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thaught its about time i did an update on this thread as a few things have happened and progress is being made...

to start with i'm out of road tax aswell as insurance now so i have plenty of time to do things that have been a long time coming. starting with the engine

to cut a long story short my engines coming out and another is going in but its no simple engine conversion from another car cuz lets face it that be too easy..

basically i'm building up a 2 litre 16v bike carb powered beastie and i have nearly everything i need now waiting for me just need to make an inlet manifold , finish cleaning up engine parts , jet my carbs and bolt it all together so here goes with some pictures...

to start with i'll be using a mk3 golf gti 8v engine block for the 2 litreness but no pic as it hasn't been delivered yet...

so that i get clearance for my many valves i've baught a set of second hand abf pistons from a mk3 valver


as you can see there caked up with crap so thaught best to clean em up and check everything fine so...


also noticed all oil holes in the oil scraper rings were blocked so came up with an idea that did the trick


and all cleaned up and back together..


then came the delivery of what i'm using to fuel the engine with. in the form of some yamaha R1 carburettor awsomeness!!!


and they'll be getting stripped down cleaned up and jetted accordingly

and a few days later came some more powerfull awsomeness being a mk2 gti 16v cylinder head


and some pics with the carbs infront of it cuz i can really



and soon set to dis assembling the valver head to clean it up get it skimmed and re-seat all the valves .....

the head nerli stripped ...


3 out of 4 valves lapped and re-seated on cylinder 4


a before and sfter shot


and the bits i can do on the head are nerli done now then its getting sent off for a skim.

and today came a parcel in the form of a 4 branch stainless steel exhaust manifold



and i then broke out the heat wrap and wrapped the manifold up nice before running out



then after heat wrapping i realised it was a bad idea as the manifold will most probably need modifying as i've had to buy a mk2 golf 16v mani to fit the engine as they dont make them for the 16v scirocco as there so damn rare so the mani will prob need to be modified to fit with the 2 litre block being taller than my 1.8 aswell as havving an anti roll bar in the way or the zaust...

tahts about it for now really but i'm, sure they'le be more to come

didnt think that through did you

its looking good now but you are blowing the budget build idea at the moment

i_am_me wrote:didnt think that through did you

its looking good now but you are blowing the budget build idea at the moment

no haha the shine from the zaust mesmorised me and led me to the heat wrap :/

and its still kinda on budget in the way its upto no more than 400 quid but not much less than that either

and a random little picture of the cylinder head, carbs and manifold laid out just because i can really

i think you might get lucky and it might just fit.
once you get the block i can give you a hand to mock it up to see where everyting will sit.

i_am_me wrote:i think you might get lucky and it might just fit.
once you get the block i can give you a hand to mock it up to see where everyting will sit.

chers dude and yer i rekons i may get lucky with it tbh not sure when the mk3 gti lumps coming but shouldn't be long hopefully

no problem.
have you got someone who will lend you a folding engine crane yet?
or are we going to have to figure out how to get the one in my garden down there?

i_am_me wrote:no problem.
have you got someone who will lend you a folding engine crane yet?
or are we going to have to figure out how to get the one in my garden down there?

shoozy has one i may have to email hiom abt it

good.it would make it a lot easier.
you got any stainless for the inlet yet?

nah not yet i need to measur up the port sizes so its a perfect match and cant find any plate for the base thats thick enuf on ebay so gunna look in louth engineering place scrap bin