Do MK5 owners like other Volkswagen GTIs

[R32UK]

I could eat my diner off that

[garethmk1]

Steve thanks for fixing the links, dunno what I did wrong, thanks for your kind comments also.  It was my late grandmothers car which she promised to me, whilst well ... difficult .. never mind.  Anyway, I could never ever ever ever part with that car.  I first had ownership of it it in 1996 so it's been with me for the last 11 years.  I initially swapped it over to 16v in 2000, the bottom end gave up during an overly quick change from 4th to 5th at full throttle ... hmmm ... that was the end of that. I then bought a 1H Rallye engine, totally tripped and rebuilt it to a very excessive spec for example sputter bottom end bearings (the big ends were £106 alone), and a properly done head which I flowed on a supeflow flow bench (ruined 2 standard 1.8v heads until I found where the limits were for the 8v head) and got a very keenly flowing g60 head, hybrid T3/4 turbo, grey cosworth injectors, DTA etc etc. Our engine simulation programme (Ricardo Wave) predicted 280bhp with safe 28psi - the rebuld cost me £2k and all work carried out by myself. Got poor ... sold it for £500  on ebay ... the dumb ass who bought it fcuked me around and couldn't get it to run - complaining of overfueling - didn't have the heart to tell him he didn't know what he had.  Anyway, bought a 1.8t AEB - for reasonable money - sold it recently at a loss again on ebay after no intrest in the forum.  Then thankfully bought the ED30  , just waiting to get my hands on that properly, proper turbo going shortly on that. 

.... then the missus told me ... when are you going to get your mk1 finished and I though fcuk it, I'll put another 16v back in it so ... there it is .... the engines a bit trick in so far as it's got a KR exhaust cam as inlet, is an 027 "3" prefixed head, got Dellorto 45's to go on after its run in and a quaife ATB all running through Avo coilovers and a full polybush set with seam welded rear beam and wishbones.  Just need to get ED30 seat centre cloth for the seats front and rear and I'll be happy. Should be good - just hope its not to stiff and to extreme for the road ... and also that it makes me drive the ED30 less - HAVE TO GET REVO QUICK !!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the kind comments,

Gareth

[SteveP]

^^^ No probs

Thats some serious modifying you have been up to  and sounds like it's going to be an awesome car when finished 

[WhiteGTI]

Amazing!!!!!!! Gareth - you should do a project thread for it in the MK1 project section! Im sure many others will be very interested in reading all of the things that you have done! Although, I appreciate that it will probably take you two weeks to write it all up considering the amount that you've done to it!

Great example of one of the best cars ever made! Never ever ever sell her! 

[Jkctr]

That car must be bloody quick running on redbull!

[sharman]

Owned a 76 Bay camper, 1990 MK2 GTI, 1996 Polo, 98 Golf GT TDI, x2 2000 Golf GTI Turbos, 07 GTI(current) and 08 Polo Match(wifes).
I have to say my favourite was my 1990 black 3 door 8V big bumper GTI. Had her for 5 years and regretted the day I sold her. I even offered to buy it back a year later. I really want another, but family and safety dictate my current MK5 GTI. This is a great car and as much fun as my MK2, but just lacks a bit of character and soul.

[Martz]

Awesome looking MK1 you have there mate. Good fun!

[RedRobin]

I have to say my favourite was my 1990 black 3 door 8V big bumper GTI. Had her for 5 years and regretted the day I sold her. I even offered to buy it back a year later. I really want another, but family and safety dictate my current MK5 GTI. This is a great car and as much fun as my MK2, but just lacks a bit of character and soul.

....If you were to do one or two performance mods, you might unearth the Mk5's character and soul. But it's a slippery slope!!

[JC]

god I'm feeling the love in here now     .   

[Edition30]

Nope < to the original question.

Im always drawn to modern cars hence buying a MK5. I like to have the new models, probably go after a special edition mk6 when they are released providing I like it.