in my household ive got 3 mk2s all with differant engines, 2 of which are installed by myself.
-1986 16v with an 'abf' with kr cams, four branch etc. this only cost bout £450 and produces 165bhp ( not much torque but loadsa revs!) on the rolling road. heres a pic:
-1989 5 door g60. this had the g60 setup installed by g werks with a 1.9 bottom end, gas flowed head and charger,four branch, red injectors, chip and pulley. produces about 200bhp and 200ft lb of torque. it has good low down power.
heres a pic:
-1986 golf 'c' 1.8 20v turbo installed by me using a k03s equipped engine from an octavia vrs. the engine is standard apart from a remap on the aftermarket ecu, 2.5" exhaust from turbo back (no cat), air filter and front mount intercooler. this produced 222bhp and 241 lbft (at 3200rpm
) of torque on the rolling road.this is an animal! fith gear spin ups in the wet are all to common
. this cost £2000 for me to do (start to finish) and 2 days to complete.
This really is a easy diy conversion especially if you use a plug and play kit from quantum performance engineering.
here are some pics:
