16v or 8v ??????

[monzablue16v]

It's just ze Germans confusing matters, the valver has as said a horizontal distributor 8v is on the front.

[Organisys]

The ariel thing could be a 3 door /  5 door thing as well.

[SilverGTI]

If it still has the rad in it find out the sizes because unless I'm wrong the 8v and 16v's arent the same size, I know this sounds a bit obvious but check the gauges the 16v speedo goes to 160 mph and has 8k on the rev counter instead of 7 in the 8v's.

I thought the rad's were the same on all the 1.8 mk2 Golf's??

[...joe]

nope the 8v is bigger (wider)  the 16v is smaller (narrower) but double cored and diesel's have fooking massive radiators!