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Title: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Jay-Tee on 13 January 2007, 22:07

Hello everyone, after a few years of owning a mk4 polo and with my rate of insurance gradually dropping as i reach my early 20s i decided it was time to get some serious speed. Today i put down a deposit on a 89 Mk2 Golf GTi 16v and its a pretty tidy interior wise for its age and theres no dents or rust visable but since its a GTi and may have boy racer history i wondered if theres anything i should check or look at replacing. The car runs fine except for the clutch could do with replacing but i basically need to know what needs to be done to keep it running well. It has a few mild modifications such as a debadged grill which i hate so its lucky he kept the original 16v one which i'll be refitting soon and i'll be putting the VW badge and the golf GTi badges back on the rear as it only has the 16v one at the moment which doesnt look too great by itself. Also i heard the 0-60 on the mk2 is just over 7 seconds with a top speed of 130mph does that still apply today as i know cars depreciate in speed over the years. Any help with this will be appreciated, thanks!

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Stu.750 on 14 January 2007, 09:32

Welcome to the forum matey

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Neaty on 14 January 2007, 11:41

hello and welcome  :smiley:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: 152GTI on 14 January 2007, 22:26

Welcome mate  :wink:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: >>Mart<< on 14 January 2007, 22:28

welcome buddy  :grin:

yea im afraid bhp will decrease when the car has lots and lots of milage

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Daz... on 15 January 2007, 09:31

Welcome to the forum  :cool:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 16 January 2007, 16:58

Arrow. :cool:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Dinky on 16 January 2007, 21:23

welcome to the fourm hun :smiley:

Dinx :kiss:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Martz on 21 January 2007, 22:08

Welcome to the site! :cool:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Jay-Tee on 03 February 2007, 22:05

thanks everyone!

I now have my hands on the GTI and i added a pic of it to my signiture, hopefully it'll be alot of fun :P

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Hurdy on 04 February 2007, 14:04

Welcome to the site Jay-tee.

Some cars get better with age, some worse.

The only way to find out for sure is to get yourself to one of the Meets where there is a quarter mile drag available. I,ve tried the GTI international dragstrip a couple of times and found them both very exiting and a good gauge of the performance. (last time out 0-60 in 7.3 in my TDI MKV) :grin: :evil:

Title: Re: New to the world of GTi
Post by: Jay-Tee on 05 February 2007, 18:58

Thats cool, where abouts is this dragstrip and which meetup do you need to go to?