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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: mk2 _8v_sunderland on 13 March 2006, 22:11

Title: mk2 vr6 conversion
Post by: mk2 _8v_sunderland on 13 March 2006, 22:11

just wonderin if anyone has tips on doin a mk2 2.9 vrs conversion as i a m considering doin one?

help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: mk2 vr6 conversion
Post by: ...joe on 13 March 2006, 22:31

a few people on here are doing them but i guess the best advice is get as much of the donor car as possible, you'll need upgraded brakes suspension etc its easy to bodge but done well its wicked!

Title: Re: mk2 vr6 conversion
Post by: mk2madman on 14 March 2006, 12:05

If as your user name suggests the car you are using is an 8v then good luck!
You want a rear ended rado??

Take the entire front end with cross member! looms, fuse boxs & everything!
Then check the posts for changing hydraulic cluch to cable clutch?
then save a lot of cash for top of the range suspension Brakes and handling upgrades?

and then bolt it up to your 8v?

easier and may be better/cheaper option would be 2.0 16v
but that is just my opinion

Title: Re: mk2 vr6 conversion
Post by: Veedub1989 on 14 March 2006, 13:42

try....

http://mk2vr6.com/site/news.php

really useful site  :grin:

Title: Re: mk2 vr6 conversion
Post by: Outlaw-Torn on 15 March 2006, 23:58

I agree with mk2madman, stick a 2 litre mk3 in there! I had a mk2 with a mk3 engine (till someone drove into it) was stupidly fast! 0 -60 in about 6.5 seconds, the guy i got to fit it reckoned putting a VR6 in wouldn't really be any quicker, cos it's so much heavier. Plus if you've got a 16v mk2, the mk3 engine'll go straight in, only sits 1mm higher and runs on same injection system, so just upgrade the brakes, lower the car a little bit and the job's a good 'un!