looking good :)

SPoke to Bogg Brothers yesterday about running a 1.4 16v on bike carbs, they said the most suitable ones to use are either R6 or Fireblade carbs. I also spoke about inlet manifolds, i mensioned that there is going to be a limited amount of room beetween the head and the bulkhead and aparently the length of the tubes to the carbs is not critical unless your engine has been internally tuned (forged internals, Knife edged crank, cams and lightened flywheel ect) so i thinck a home brew manifold is going to be made for my project. Altho they did mention that if you send them an inlet manifold gasket and dimensions of the room you have along with your engine code and carbs they can make a manifold and re-jet and set the carbs up as best they can for about £285. As for ignition he just Said vacume advanced distributer ect.

Hope this helps, Moza

Love the Coupe!

I'm wanting to put the arches on an'all; let us know how it goes. reckon it'll be easy to fit?

& what alloys you got?

Proper beaut.

Cheers.

SPoke to Bogg Brothers yesterday about running a 1.4 16v on bike carbs, they said the most suitable ones to use are either R6 or Fireblade carbs. I also spoke about inlet manifolds, i mensioned that there is going to be a limited amount of room beetween the head and the bulkhead and aparently the length of the tubes to the carbs is not critical unless your engine has been internally tuned (forged internals, Knife edged crank, cams and lightened flywheel ect) so i thinck a home brew manifold is going to be made for my project. Altho they did mention that if you send them an inlet manifold gasket and dimensions of the room you have along with your engine code and carbs they can make a manifold and re-jet and set the carbs up as best they can for about £285. As for ignition he just Said vacume advanced distributer ect.

Hope this helps, Moza

£285 is really good actually! Cheers for that mate, defo going to be considering this route!

Love the Coupe!

I'm wanting to put the arches on an'all; let us know how it goes. reckon it'll be easy to fit?

& what alloys you got?

Proper beaut.

Cheers.

Yeh i need to get hold of some saloon arches as they dont have the cut out for the bumpstrips. I've got some gt ones but they have been run with 15" alloys so they are a bit nackered! Aprarently it doesnt matter what model mk3 you have, they all can accomodate the arches

looking clean dude. I dont know much about vag engines to be honest so i cant help out with any tips or anything unfortunatly Wish i could do something like this

Cheers mate, you'd be supprised how little i know lol

looking good :)

Cheers dude :-)

Thanks, what are those wheels you have fitted? Really like them; expensive?

They are made by rial, not sure on the model name though, think they came on old BMW's

did you actually get some hammerite then?

Yer i thinck i am going to ring Bogg Brothers up and have a speak to them about it. I am realy tempted by bike carbs personally, Nice tidy engine bay too. The only problem i can thinck of is getting a suitable vac advanced distributer, not sure if one of a carbed polo will fit being older engines ect. I will get in contact and post up what they say about it.

Moza

You want the ignition system from a mk2 Coupe S, the coil, distributor and module.

Thats what heg123 is running his 16v with.

Project looks good, will look forward to seeing the outcome :)

Lookin good man, if it comes out anything like that photoshop it'll look sweet

Right can anyone point me in the direction of the most suited set of carbs so i can start looking to purchase some?

Thanks in advance, Dan

Good to see this coming along so well mate. Thats gonna be awesome on carbs imo

Right nothings happened for a while but I'm finished uni for the summer so hoping to get a shift on. :-D

Decided I'm going to use this engine because its on less than 50k, ordering new clutch, cambelt and waterpump anyway.

Engine mount figured out, plate being made up within the next few weeks:

Gearbox before:

Gearbox after:

Mk2 MH dizzy sourced:

Pulley swapped from mk4 alternator to mk3:

Lets face it, 1.3 turbo trumps 1.4 16v anyday lol

Still i'll do my best to make it shiny and interesting

lol True, carbs ftw! I'm planning on a stainless manifold then straight through, id prefer not to put a back box on even but we shall see

looking great.. :) you should get it all done in a week!! :)

I could get it done in less than a week if i had some savings to spend lol

I could get it done in less than a week if i had some savings to spend lol

Sell something... I find the neighbours car normally brings in some money.

Is that the knackerd gearbox I gave you with the engine lol?

Nah its the 8p one out of the mk3. I've decided I'm not even using the engine i brought off you now lol, gona use the one i've seen the clocks of so i can guarentee the milage.

Got a chappy modifying the engine mount for me today :-D

I could get it done in less than a week if i had some savings to spend lol

Sell something... I find the neighbours car normally brings in some money.

Would clear some space on the drive too!! Had 5 cars and a caravan on my drive the other day :-s

nice to see you up to sumat now then dan, i dont finish uni for like 6 weeks, then i shall be round to lend a pair of hands

Looking good dude!

Wish I had have done my gearbox whilst it was off now :(

Now you just need to hurry up n get it on the engine then in the car :p

Well cambelt and water pump can be changed this month but I'm not sure funds will allow the clutch until beginning of next month, but the mount should be done by then so it can go in after that. Plenty of time for cleaning and polishing before it goes in

Excited :-D

Nah its the 8p one out of the mk3. I've decided I'm not even using the engine i brought off you now lol, gona use the one i've seen the clocks of so i can guarentee the milage.

Got a chappy modifying the engine mount for me today :-D

Well I'm pretty sure it was 44k when i sold it to you anyway lol.

Have you sold it then?