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Offline Seth

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mk3 engine swop
« 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
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Offline Dom Mk3

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Re: mk3 engine swop
« Reply #1 on: 23 March 2006, 22:32 »
it'll drop in, but you'll need the usual conversion stuff... gearbox, ecu, loom, clocks?
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Re: mk3 engine swop
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: mk3 engine swop
« Reply #3 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!
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Re: mk3 engine swop
« Reply #4 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.
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