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Title: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: JimmyKeegs on 13 April 2011, 14:06

Hi all. I'm James from Northampton and am new to the site, came across it trying to find some advice on what to do next. I have had my 89 Mk1 Golf Gti Cab for over 4 years now and its finally thrown up another problem to make me get my wallet out. After seeing it get recovered from my garage after a long winters sleep last saturday, it now requires a new engine (block and head). Its The DX engine code but was wondering where to look at how difficult it would be/expensive to get the 16Valve KR engine dropped in it(and is there loads of wiring issues thrown up by this). Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks again, James.

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: ads2010 on 13 April 2011, 14:33

hi and welcome, get a mk4  :smiley:

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: lemski on 13 April 2011, 14:33

I had these questions when I was lookin at starting my mk1 thread. In mk1 section there's a massive list of stuff u need for it to work. Good look and welcome

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: JimmyKeegs on 13 April 2011, 17:16

Cheers guys and thanks 'lemskigolf987' I'll take a look at them.

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: lemski on 13 April 2011, 17:25

Its okay. Threads called 16valve into mk1 or something like that. Haha. I await your project thread

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: Thom89 on 13 April 2011, 22:02

Hello and welcome to the forum  :cool: :cool:

Thom

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: dubboy on 14 April 2011, 19:17

hello and welcome good luck mate  :cool:

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: JimmyKeegs on 15 April 2011, 08:43

Am struggling to find the same engine at the moment. Does anyone have any ideas on somewhere I could get one from? Have posted on the wanted section and Phoned around various salvage companies. Besides that i suppose its a waiting game?!?!?!

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 16 April 2011, 00:14

Shame.  Welcome though.

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: JimmyKeegs on 18 April 2011, 09:13

Cheers guys, finally found a replacement engine, getting delivered tomorrow or wednesday so fingers crossed its a decent one!

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: lemski on 18 April 2011, 09:17

good luck mate

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: raferackstraw on 21 April 2011, 20:40

16v into mk1 is very common mate and the issues are all very straight forward to solve, 100mm drive flanges on gearbox are required but if you use 16v kr engine with 16v box then it drops in, you will need 16v metering head n fuel lines n ecu. pm rubjohnny about making up a loom.
mine has a brm motorsport loom which runs a 16v isv rather than using the mk1 aav, and it idles perfectly with no hunting.
use the search function on here and mk1golf.org also clubgti.com for more advanced 16v tuning  :wink:

Title: Re: New and my golfy's engine is dead!!!!
Post by: JimmyKeegs on 27 April 2011, 09:25

Cheers raferackstraw, found a cheap straight forward replacement option to get me going again. Think this is still going to be a good option for the future so its good to know its not to much work to get the 16v KR in. Gotta see if I can get hold of some nice wheels and coilovers/lowering springs now, might need to start a new thread for advice on this!