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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: retromk2craig on 19 February 2010, 15:55
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im after some advise i want to convert my 8v to 16v whats the best way to do this? cheers
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Search it if you like but it's a complete nightmare to do, much better starting with a 16v as you need to change nearly everything, not just the engine! I think it might be easier with a K-jet 8v but not 100% sure. Still just not worth the time money or hassle tbh
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Just sell the 8v an buy a 16v,
An yo will never look back,,
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would be easier to VR6 it, as long as yours is the Digi engine (being a G plate it would be) :smiley:
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For the time, money and hassel, why not put a 2.0 litre bottom end in, clean up/re-build your cylinder head, upgrade the camshaft to 267 degree cam, improve the induction and exhuast system, would cost about the same and you could see simular bhp to the 16v engine with more tourque.
A few people have done this on this forum, and there's a lot of information out there on the internet just waiting to be used.
I'm in the process of sorting my 8v out and am still tempted to up the power, but I have also gone and got a 16v now so I'll see how I feel. :)
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Sell up and buy a 16v or make the 8v better.
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just why is so much hasstel, skip the nasty k jet part and go straight in with the 2.0 ABF. no more effort to fit to an 8v gti than it is to fit to a 16v gti.
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cheers for all the advice i cant sell car done to much to it now. the engine is gonna come out anyway for a bay clean up and respray so i was just thinking of what to do. i already have a scorpion 4 branch and full system on there. can twin webers work on the 8v. i just wanna go for a clean looking engine bay also. cheers
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abf. the end. i wasted alot of money on my previous 2.0 8v. bigger valves, cam.
i put in a totally standard abf, and it pi$$es over the 8v in every way, in every scenario. all you need is a lightened flywheel and your away.
everything bolts up that needs to. 3 plugs on the fusebox. its really that simple