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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Seth on 23 March 2006, 22:02

Title: mk3 engine swop
Post by: Seth on 23 March 2006, 22:02

How easy :smiley: or hard  :sad: would it be to put a vr6 engine in my mk3 gti 8 valve does anybody know I been offered 1 from a corrado thats been rear ended and as my engines dead I figured it might be wirth lookin into

Title: Re: mk3 engine swop
Post by: Dom Mk3 on 23 March 2006, 22:32

it'll drop in, but you'll need the usual conversion stuff... gearbox, ecu, loom, clocks?

Title: Re: mk3 engine swop
Post by: mowgli on 24 March 2006, 09:00

BRAKES!!!  :shocked:

Oh, and uprated front springs, a set of second hand front struts off a VR6 would do nicely.

Title: Re: mk3 engine swop
Post by: ...joe on 25 March 2006, 11:11

should be easy as they made a vr6 golf so plenty of parts available. anything you cant get off the 'raddo can be found in a scrappy if your lucky. definately need brakes and shocks to take the extra weight!

Title: Re: mk3 engine swop
Post by: Dizzie on 25 March 2006, 17:13

aren't the mk3 8v brakes the same as the VR6 ones anyway? 288mm?

the boys at DUBusiness up the road from me are doing this conversion. they had a VR6 vento which they removed all the bits needed.

The VR6 gearbox is cable whereas the 8v is rod. simple to convert though.