Year: 1989

Mileage: 167k

MOT: Dec 15

Location: Devon

Price: £2500

Basic spec is:

1989 GTi, 166k, 11 months MOT.

ABF conversion.

When i bought it, it was on the original 8v engine, lowered on FK AK coilovers and everything was mainly stock and old, so most of the following spec has been done recently.

Engine

ABF 2.0 16v from a SEAT cordoba on around 90k running the 02a ABF box

Freshly serviced, plugs, leads, oil filter and air filter are brand new.

Ran up to temp with fresh oil and filter, drove 6 miles and then drained and replaced oil and filter again so the oil system is nice and clean!

VW spec inlet manifolds cleaned, blasted and painted

Just about every important gasket changed, headgasket (and bolts), rocker, inlets, exhaust, sump, front water flange.

GTD airbox

Brand new LUK clutch, brand new cable, running the SEAT hydro/cable converter

MK4 02j shifter, cables and tower

Brand new speedo cable

Brand new G60 spec gearbox mount

Solid T-mount Front engine mount

Standard manifold and downpipe into a custom decat pipe, straight into the standard 8v system. Makes a nice sound!

Chassis

FK AK Coilovers, ride and handle brilliantly!

Brand new track rod ends, balljoints

SilverProjects adjustable top mounts

MK3 subframe with standard ABF rear engine mount

Powerflex front wishbone bushes, R32 solid rear wishbone bushes

23mm G60/Ibiza cupra spec front ARB with powerflex inner bushes, recent links

23mm ibiza cupra 'stubby' master cylinder, all front copper lines replaced, and both front flexis

Brand new ATE 9" servo (irritatingly expensive)

280mm G60 front brakes, plenty of life left

standard rear GTi disks and beam

Corrado 'skinny' 16v driveshaft

G60 steel wheels 15x6, brand new Nexen N6000 tyres

Front jacking points welded for last MOT, relevent cavities were cavity waxed and any welding undersealed.

Interior

Standard 8v GTi interior, fairly tidy, not perfect

Headlining is really good

Leather corrado steering wheel

Just replaced dash with a half decent uncracked one

Standard 8v clocks. MFA works as it should, speedo is working with the 02a box!

Heater works as it should, makes irritating intermittent noises though

Kenwood I-pod head unit

Wiring for Sub in place

Speakers are JBL all round by the looks of it, apart from the tweeters

Parcel shelf is good

Exterior

A bit tatty, but for the age of the car and mileage, it's to be expected

Various car park dents and dings

Only real bad visible rust is on the bootlid which is past it's best, have a cleaner non GTi replacement which can be included.

Most of the plastics have been scuffed in one place or another

Dent in O/S sill, hasn't even broken the vinyl though, so no rust starting there, will just need pulling out

Bottom of the wings have gone, not visible really, but could do with replacing

Standard GTi red stripe 4 lamp grill, will also include a 5 slat 2 lamp grill

Brand new Osram Nightbreaker unlimited bulbs, with an uprated headlight loom

Photo speak a thousand words though

89 GTi by Lewis.Hall, on Flickr

89 GTi by Lewis.Hall, on Flickr

89 GTi by Lewis.Hall, on Flickr

So basically what we have is a completely mechanically sound mk2, it won't want or need for anything for some time! I built the car to drive spot on and put a smile on my face, and haven't worried too much about the slightly tatty exterior. The baton ideally needs to be passed onto someone who is ready to make it look as good as it drives!

Ideally, i'm looking to swap for a mk2 or mk2f polo coupe with a fairly good base engine, GT, 16v swap or G40, obviously willing to take PX for a car of less value (scruffy GT for example)

Cash price is 2.5k

You wouldn't be interested in a PX with a ole mk2f (Standard 1.3) and cash would you?