My MkII GTI Rebuild Project

[ausgolfer]

More Inspiration...

What are these BBS wheels called? They look 17's

[99gti]

Hi mr. anarchy. I have a 1985 MkII GTI 5-door in Atlas grey, AND... I am gonna do the 1.8T swap.... with Audi S3 motor (225bhp)!!
Although this is the first talk i've heard about rego problems (gulp!). It is a UK car brought over in '86 by original owners. Do you know of anyone else who has done this in Aus? If I can i'll prolly also use the 6speed quattro 'box heheh.
Also, about the wheels, I found some BBS RS001's which I promptly bought before the guy realised he was virtually giving away some of the most wanted rims ever, and they are 15x7 ET25. My car is lowered and they rub a little. They actually caught on the inner front guard lip and sliced my front tyres quite well! So watch that!!
Any advice would be ace.
Wade

Wade - I can't wait to see what comes of your little prjoect. It sounds like its going to be a romper stomper!

[GermanwithaVdub]

Hi mr. anarchy. I have a 1985 MkII GTI 5-door in Atlas grey, AND... I am gonna do the 1.8T swap.... with Audi S3 motor (225bhp)!!
Although this is the first talk i've heard about rego problems (gulp!). It is a UK car brought over in '86 by original owners. Do you know of anyone else who has done this in Aus? If I can i'll prolly also use the 6speed quattro 'box heheh.
Also, about the wheels, I found some BBS RS001's which I promptly bought before the guy realised he was virtually giving away some of the most wanted rims ever, and they are 15x7 ET25. My car is lowered and they rub a little. They actually caught on the inner front guard lip and sliced my front tyres quite well! So watch that!!
Any advice would be ace.
Wade

ahhh you beat me to it... great to see people taking interest in these great little cars over here. since yours is an import it will be MUCH easier to register it. please, start a thread and let us track your project

[GOLFBALLS]

ahhh you beat me to it... great to see people taking interest in these great little cars over here. since yours is an import it will be MUCH easier to register it. please, start a thread and let us track your project

Will do. Are those your Scala wheels there?
My car had those on it before i got the BBS's. still got em but may have to sell.

The wheels on that too low GTI in the pic look like RM's. Maybe 16"??

[Jarred]

yay for updates. Keep em coming, it's looking good.

[intensem1]

they are BBS rs and look like 16s to me probably 5x130 running adapotrs!
its so low which makes them look bigger.

17s generally have less dish also.

[GermanwithaVdub]

Will do. Are those your Scala wheels there?
My car had those on it before i got the BBS's. still got em but may have to sell.

The wheels on that too low GTI in the pic look like RM's. Maybe 16"??

they were on it when i got it... possibly called snowflake wheels? they're original vw thats all i know. sorry for hijacking the thread

[anarchycamp]

Hi mr. anarchy. I have a 1985 MkII GTI 5-door in Atlas grey, AND... I am gonna do the 1.8T swap.... with Audi S3 motor (225bhp)!!
Although this is the first talk i've heard about rego problems (gulp!). It is a UK car brought over in '86 by original owners. Do you know of anyone else who has done this in Aus? If I can i'll prolly also use the 6speed quattro 'box heheh.
Also, about the wheels, I found some BBS RS001's which I promptly bought before the guy realised he was virtually giving away some of the most wanted rims ever, and they are 15x7 ET25. My car is lowered and they rub a little. They actually caught on the inner front guard lip and sliced my front tyres quite well! So watch that!!
Any advice would be ace.
Wade

Awesome!!! I think we need to set up a vw watercooled 1.8T swap thread where we can post resources/links etc, i talked to Seb(Bug_Racer) the other day about this swap and gave some usefull points.

Are you doing a complete dash swap at all? Then again yours is out of an S3, what would yo bring across? Instrument Cluster etc? I heard someone had done this before although i could have been thinking of something else, stacks of people have done it Eur/US etc so there is a stack of resources out there, lots on vwvortex on the Mk2 forums.

I was going attempt to get some RS001's, i thought 15x7 might be a bit skinny and was going to attempt to find something 8 or 8.5 and get my guards flared for the G60 arches.


For Example (1690 Euros)



8x15 et25 would that work?

[anarchycamp]

No updates at the moment as Ive been roped into (by wife) building a deck

40 post holes and a 10m trench for electrical cables on the cards this weekend!

[GOLFBALLS]

Nah not doing dash swap. I'll keep the original look both interior and exterior, just lowered and BBS RS's.
Its a future classic and I dont wanna go messing around too much so i'm gonna keep it absolutely standard interior and exterior, but restore it all to new condition. Cant use S3 interior anyway as its all been sold before i got it.
I just love the concept of the classic GTI look, unmolested, and giving the subarishi brigade a real shock at the superkhana's and hillclimbs!!
What about you? You keepin standard interior?
15x8 should work. Just roll up the insides of your arches!!
I'll crank up that thread in a coupla weeks hey?
Also thinking about videoing the whole process and making a DVD!
What you guys reckon?

[anarchycamp]

Mate...the more documentation the better!!! Videos...Pics etc

Want to keep the interior classic looking although im after some Mk2 Recaros (am going on a grail hunt to the UK in September) then will be retrmming all seats/door cards at some point...If i go the 1.8T swap i guess the cluster swap would be on the cards.

Have you looked into downpipes yet? I know dubsport fabricate them for Mk2 1.8T conversions so might have to pick one up as well while im over there

Lets get the swap thread kicked off, will start pulling some useful info off vortex.

[GOLFBALLS]

Dude, Check out www.qpeng.com !!

[anarchycamp]

Now that is what i call GOLD!!!

cheers mate!

[anarchycamp]

Bit of progress on the old Floor Pans.....cleaning and Rust Bulleting...should hopefully have all that sorted tomorrow.....









My sound deadener was in a bad state so will be calling the local distributor for Dynamat this week to get some prices on some new gear...

[anarchycamp]

Couple more pics...Dynamat is $169 per 12 square feet..so not cheap but will probably still do it.