J-SMITH69

vw = garbage

accordepicenter

where is dustin at? Thought hed be yacking all about his setup by now.

jinxy

how much power are you shooting for? sounds like a fun project. some inspiration


vw's arnt choice cars or anything, but their not that bad. Although im contemplating selling my mk3 and keeping my celica, the girl can keep her dubs id rather have a camaro or something

sailman

vw's are great cars! dont ever doubt them they will last forever if you do simple maintance. they are a little harder to modify because you cant just chip your ECU, and the aftermarket parts scene is a lot more low key (ie. less advertising, less magazine full page adds) and there is a lot more people doing custom maching and stuff to make their performance parts..... awesome cars, the 16v is an awesome var, the 2l and the 1.8 16v are almost the same, the 2l has shitty flowing intake ports and awesome exhaust, and the 1.8 has shitty exhaust but awesome intake ports, the intake manifold is a little hard to deal with if you wanna kep the over head design, if thats teh route you want a 50mm runner one will fix you up good and if not you will have to switch to a log style one which you will more than likely have to change your TB, the TB on the stock 16v is fucked and useless, there is no real need for teh second butterfly valve, find a 12v VR6 TB and you're set

mk2mike

Well intake manifold wise im actually going to be chopping a 1.8t manifold and welding it onto the 16v lower intake runners so first of all it give me more room for boost piping and then it changes my inlet over to the right side, ya ya i can do that with a rocca 16v manifold but the 1.8t has a larger plenem ... as for the shitty flowing intake ports on the 2.0 head hehe that is why it was sent out to 034... yeah you can port out the 1.8 head more because more room to work w/ (water jacket wise)... Power wise im aiming for about 250 horsepower honestly i dont want to be crazy fast or anything i just want some more power and anything is fine with me

As for throttle bodys... im just going to use the 1.8t throttle body because i need somethign w/ tps for the standalone....

And yes sailman is right, volkswagens tend to be a little more work to modify... you cant just go down to the local Autozone and purchase parts for them. The main source for parts is other volkswagen drivers manufacturing products in their garage....

sailman

the 1.8t chop is exactly what i woudl do myself, good choice, the only thing you have to worry about is getting good weld when you do it, ive heard some bad stories, theres something about the metal that makes it not wanna take without really good prep work

mk2mike

Yeah it is a little hard welding forged aluminum together but i know a guy in Fresno, CA (not too far from me) that can do it very easily

sailman

keep us updated, thsi sounds liek a sweet build

jinxy

you'll need a bigger turbo than that. but your gli sounds like its going to be sweet

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