What heads fit a 2e 2 litre bottom end?

[Golf Loon]

2E with 1800 head is the best engine in a Mk2.
Looks original, goes awesome and good fuel economy.
Put a cam if you like and hold on.

[sports racer]

Sounds good Matt. Make sure you keep those parts I want hidden until I pick them up.

Cheers

Paul

[roccodingo]

Agree with Matt on this...

[Peter Jones]

I also agree with Matt, that combo saw my white MK1 get 2:08 lap times at Phillip Island and top speeds of around 180Km/h.

Fantastic amounts of torque for a street car and very reliable.

With cam, carbs and headwork I was pulling 8600 RPM and didn't often ever have the revs below 5000.

There's dyno charts and more info in the wreck to race thread.

[velly_16v_cab]

2E with 1800 head is the best engine in a Mk2.
Looks original, goes awesome and good fuel economy.
Put a cam if you like and hold on.

this is what my mk2 runs but with a 286 cam.
Only issue is that it "pinks" on current timing settings (6deg advance)
Will be fitting a 3.5 fuel pressure reg and get a Chip for it and try again.
Even on 98 Ron and octain booster it still pinks when warm. Pulls like a train mind
Fuel, its good. MFA show high 6's on my 30 min run every day (mainly highway)

[sports racer]

286 might be too agressive. I'll go with Matt's sugestion of 270.

Most of my driving is on the country road between Canberra and Braidwood which is 100 kph, 80 k's each way.



It's heavily policed so I sit on the speed limit + a few k's so I don't need an engine that starts to deliver it's power from 4000 rpm. Yes it's useful for overtaking but I like torque much more.

When I used to have the stock standard MK2 GTI I was getting between 5.8 and 6.0 litres per 100 k doing this drive and that included 10 k's of city driving each trip. Now that it has the 2 litre bottom end with a reco'd head I'm hoping economy hasn't gotten much worse and adding a MK3 downpipe + 270 cam should turn it into a spirited performer while still giving great economy.

Matt's talked me out of converting to LPG, for now.

Cheers

Paul

[Petska84]

I had the impression that this combination is not worth while
And the 1.8 revs better and more of a fun engine to to have rather than the 2.0 which....mind you has buckets load of torque.

[ryana89]

The 2E in my MK2 averages mid 6's (highway) at the moment, would be interested to know how a mild/270 cam changes your performance/economy.
Stock cam falls on its face at 4000.

[velly_16v_cab]

sorry, i meant I have a 268 cam not a massive high lift one

[sports racer]

You've got a 268 cam and it pings? What compression do you have?

[velly_16v_cab]

not sure, 2E bottom end and 1.8 RV head time at 6Degs