Any ideas for an engine conversion4my GTi 8v guys?

[Leebob]

Looking for cheapest options possible really.thanx lee

[snifferdog]

Cheapest option - sell the 8v and buy a 16v/vr6. Its been covered many times on here mate, and the usual outcome is that you do it for yourself as a learning curve, in which case,  pick an engine and make it fit. Or if you want a power increase then it would be far easier/cheaper to just sell up and buy the one you want.

[Khare]

Or buy a 16v engine for a couple of hundred ££ or buy a 16v being sold as spares for around £400 or so and book a weekend off work.

[archie837]

Or save a bit longer and 1.8t it

[Leebob]

Yeah,was thinking 1.8t really.

[Wayne]

Be different and leave it as it is. 

Looks a clean and tidy car.

[Gash]

CHARGER!

[Khare]

1.8t conversion is expensive and there's more electronics involved. The 16v route is straight forward and easy to acquire.

[Bellend]

1.8t conversion is expensive and there's more electronics involved. The 16v route is straight forward and easy to acquire.

TBH it's easier to buy a 16v but you've done a swap yeah?

So speaking from experience, you'd deffo do it again if you could go back in time, yeah?


So it's worth it. 

[Wayne]

What I can never understand is people buying a 8v then wanting to make it quicker, why not buy a quicker version in the 1st place.