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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: jammac on 05 December 2007, 09:40

Title: mk2 backbox
Post by: jammac on 05 December 2007, 09:40

i know you can fit a mk2 16v backbox with a mk2 8v with no probs. and vice versa

so........ will a mk3 16v backbox fit on a mk2 8v system without having to modify?

cheers all

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: Horney on 05 December 2007, 09:42

I think the hangers are in different places and the pipes different lengths.

Nick

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 05 December 2007, 11:25

ER..... i always thought the pipe bores were different too, so you would need a tapered sleeve to get the boxes to fit when swapping them from 8v to 16v or vice versa.

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: nealey on 05 December 2007, 13:29

Quote from: Slick#13 on 05 December 2007, 11:25

ER..... i always thought the pipe bores were different too, so you would need a tapered sleeve to get the boxes to fit when swapping them from 8v to 16v or vice versa.

they are different, iirc there is about 5mm in it

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 05 December 2007, 13:31

thought as much, can remember 16v being about 52mm, and i thought 8v were 48mm or summert.

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: jammac on 05 December 2007, 17:20

oooo ok i had my eye on a 16v exhasut on ebay....for my 8v


ill prob leave alone then. sounds like to much aggro to "make it" fit

thanks anyways

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: JC on 05 December 2007, 20:37

yeah, leave all the 16v's ones for me  :grin:

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: russ-vdub on 05 December 2007, 20:59

id just get a full 16 system.. increases exhaust gas flow which cant be a bad thing

Title: Re: mk2 backbox
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 05 December 2007, 23:32

It can when all of the other engine internals are the same.