Hi folks. My name is Alan and I've loved mk2s for a long time, always threatened to get a big bumper gti and keep it mint. Missed many chances for good cars a few years back when I thought they were on the expensive side.. How wrong was I, now prices have rocketed ♂️♂️ Anyway, the plan was always to get a 1.8t into one, and now I'm trying to make that happen. I've bought a little 1.3 (now 1.6) 3 door in red, in pretty good shape, and now have a parts list the length of my arm to get gathered up! I'll apologise in advance for asking stupid questions that have already been answered, I can definitely use the search button.. I've already looked through hundreds of posts so I'll try to keep the stupid to a minimum!!
Hi Alan, me and my son have started out exactly the same as you, 1.3 3 door in red which is now a 2L 8v. Welcome to the journey.
How be on! 1.6 driver auto to 1.8t conversion here, and it's a fountain of knowledge and help on here, good bunch.
Cheers lads. I'll get a couple of photos of it up during the week or something.. I've started buying bits and pieces already but been reading through pages and pages of stuff and it can get a bit confusing as to what does/doesn't fit, and then what's common or not, expensive/cheap etc etc. I'm going to try to get to my local scrappy to see what he has laying around that's oldish and VW then I'll start asking what will fit!
