What would you do?

[thai-wronghorse]

That's more like it. 

[tweed]

put it for sale on here. Would be interested to see what it looks like

its up for sale on here tell me what you think.

[Foreveryoungaus16v]

Been looking at Cupra 225's all day.......

Na civic R type

[GOLF-MK3-GTI]

I've just more or less been through this and till this day i've put near enough £3000 in my MK3. but i only spent so much on my MK3 8V coz i inspected the underneath and all the usual rust places to see if it was worth me putting money into it. and to my surprise it was all good, very good.

If yours needs quite abit of welding, then i would use the £3000 to buy another mint MK3, but to be honest you will find one thats mint for half that figure. (£1500). and then use the other £1500 to treat it with some wheels, Exhaust, or even a major service, etc. or you can just sit on the £1500 if its a daily. win win situation either way.

That is what i'd do gavv 

[F17BAD]

Civic type R's are pants, really slow and you get more torque from peddling a push iron.

Be better of with the LCR, but they are getting old now and finding a real genuine one will be hard... the 20VT engine is great in these  (its same as mine)  but without some love they can have all sorts of issues..

would buy one very wisely if it was me looking for one of those, but thats because iv learnt a hell of alot about the 20VT engine these past 3 years.

I was in this very position when i did my conversion, do i get rid or do i upgrade my MK3.. I wanted a S3, but they felt slow and are a bit lardy.   I decided to find a low mile S3 engine and rebuld the MK3.. the rest is history 

[Foreveryoungaus16v]

The new ones are rubbish but the old ones are solid. Great engine

[F17BAD]

whats different about the engines? they all produce terrible torque mate. having friends that have owned many of these older ones (one was even Turbo) i can say they are most certainly never gonna be on my list of cars i want to own

[Foreveryoungaus16v]

Thats your choice my friend. Many would think otherwise. The EK9 version would be my choice. My mate has a lean cupra r and it is rapid 

[Gavv8]

What sort of things would i need to look out for on an LCR?, i've read up a fair bit about them and they seem to be a better bet than a mk4 golf 1.8T.

[Gavv8]

I've just more or less been through this and till this day i've put near enough £3000 in my MK3. but i only spent so much on my MK3 8V coz i inspected the underneath and all the usual rust places to see if it was worth me putting money into it. and to my surprise it was all good, very good.

If yours needs quite abit of welding, then i would use the £3000 to buy another mint MK3, but to be honest you will find one thats mint for half that figure. (£1500). and then use the other £1500 to treat it with some wheels, Exhaust, or even a major service, etc. or you can just sit on the £1500 if its a daily. win win situation either way.

That is what i'd do gavv 

I hear what your saying but i just fancy something with a bit more refinement and pace, my mk3 isn't all that bad but i just feel a bit 'meh' about it these days.