VW engine

[DennyB]

Hi All, I am in the planning stage of building a locost and have been offered a tuned Golf GTi 8v engine with all bits (loom etc). What I would like to know has anyone else fitted one of these before and if so what g/box was used, any issues? Also does anyone have any dimensions / weight of this engine ?

[twinturbo]

Sadly, RWD boxes for VW cars are virtualy non existant.

You may be able to use the Porker 924 Torque Tube and transaxle set up.

TT

[twinturbo]

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=121089.0

This would sugest that the Porsche belhousing is to the to the Audi 5Cylinder and not the VW4 Cylinder pattern.

I can't think of a readily available Transmission.

TT

[Land Locked]

Gilo engineering here in sarf efrika make custom adapter plates, bell housing and complete "conversion" kits. They are however NOT cheap.

If the old brain serves they do a VW to T50 bell housing kit.

I'll try n find a linky.

promised linky

Seems however that my old brain is failing or they've taken it off the list. The upside, they will do one off custom jobs too.

[DennyB]

Hi All, looks like it is back to the ford option as with this being my first build I don't want to make it too complicated or costly.
Thanks for you advice.

[Big Vern]

Hi Denny,
It all depends on what you term as complicated. As I like a challenge and am terminally unable to do anything the easy way I'm grafting a Pinto onto an MX-5 gearbox!
You could try looking up websites that deal in adapters for formula race cars as the golf engine got used a lot in things like F3 a few years ago. But probably cheapest and simplist is to go with a ford engine.

HTH BV.