Blast From the past - GTi Engineering 1988/9

I don't remember the oettinger 170/2.0 16v conversions a couple of years after 1989 in the brochures!
Were these heads different to the French 16s cylinder heads? (1.6 vs 1.8) as the inlet manifolds clearly are,and the water jackets must be!
VERY RARE beast that engine conversion imho (and i've been around for a long time on the mk2 gti scene) the only one i could of come across was in a white mk1 many many years ago at TRL.

 

No one noticed the price of the tyres yet?
Back in the day 1988/9
Cheapest 14" tyre they did was pirelli P6 @ 80 + VAT
195 50 15 pirelli P700 ONLY 140 + VAT EACH pmsl
Must be 200 each in todays money but having said that,i paid well over 100 each Yokohama A008's back then (about the stickiest road tyre around then)

 

Theres a whole thread dedicated to the GTi 16S (Oettinger). here.

http://www.vwgolfmk1.org.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=39687

Courtesy of the Mk1 Owners Club Forum.

By 1981 the Golf GTi became increasingly under threat as the hot hatch leader from competitors such as the Renault 5 Alpine, the Ford Escort XR3 and Vauxhall Chevette HS. VAG France requested more power from the GTi to stay in front and met the engineers in Wolfsburg to find a solution. The 1.8 engine was still a year away, the 16V even earlier in development and turbo conversions had proved unreliable. VW informed the only solution was from a company called Oettinger who had a 16V engine ready. Official authorisation was given and on 1st October 1981 the newly born GTi 16S (?S? for soupape the French for valve) became available in the VW range, but only in France and Switzerland at a price of 75,000 Francs (around ?7,500). Only between 1200 and 2000 were built during just over a year. The standard GTi was shipped from Wolfsburg to Oettinger who carried out the conversion which consisted of hundreds of specialist parts. The 16S was only available in 2 colours Alpine White and Black Metallic. Black Metallic was unique to this model


Oettinger Engine
- Max Power: 136bhp at 6500rpm, Max Torque: 160Nm at 5500rpm
- Max Engine Speed: 7500rpm, Capacity: 1588cc
- Compression Ratio: 10.5:1
- Description: Double over head cams, 4 valves per cylinder in 240 V, 30mm inlet and 27mm exhaust valves, specific inlet manifold (with equal length runners) and exhaust manifold, 79.5 mm bore x 80mm stroke, Mahle pistons, balanced crankshaft and flywheel, 2-piece oil sump with windage tray, Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection (note different location of components), specific distributor, alternator pulley, brackets, etc
- Each engine is individually marked on the cylinder head cover, cylinder head and cylinder block which is a modified EG one.




Can't see it too well in this pic but the car has a very strange "Table Top" spoiler

Pics. C/O dubboy - Mk1 Owners Club





Pics. C/O dubboy - Mk1 Owners Club





Pics. C/O dubboy - Mk1 Owners Club

 

theres a few more scanned GTI Eng articles spread around my Golf Syncro thread if anyone hasnt seen them before

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=163414

 

Some very interesting stuff in that thread mate.
Love the details on the Syncro rebuild.

 

ive got loads more stuff somewhere thats worth scanning. Heres an article i scanned a couple of years ago too (id forgotten about this)

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=169830&highlight=%22gti+engineering%22

 

Bloody Hell! Supercharging Golf's 25 years ago! Who'd have thunk it
Great article

 

Best the tuning company ever

 

wow, so much to take in

 

1987 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI RE2000 16V 'GTI Engineering'

Saw this on ebay is it really worth the price??

looks like it was a beast back in the day

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1987-VOLKSWAG...6278662?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item41530daa06

link on ebay page
http://www.eporsch.co.uk/RE2000b.htm

 

So the advice perhaps is, hang on to your MK IIs like I intend to.

 

16v185 on here

 

Was it circa 8k before?

 

Sadly the front spoiler on Chris's car got damaged, it was a really iconic car that one. Mine will look exactly the same when it's finished (8v RE1900) but my front zender spoiler is also damaged which I'm trying to get repaired as they are impossible to find these days.

Always wanted to own that red RE2000 wish I had the money, maybe one day........

 

Yup Chris said it just fell apart as it had been damaged before. Mine's in two pieces and some it is held together by fibreglass. I just wish I could find a replacement but I've been looking for years to find one, only ever come across my damaged one which I bought a few years back.

Sadly the zender kit is a rare as rocking horse doodoo these days

 

wow that has dropped in price!