new south wales member

hey all, my name is Gareth, i am from south wales, Pembrokeshire, and in term time, studying at aberystwyth uni.

I have a mk2 golf gti, here's a taster pic:

hiya, nice to see some heritage in the form of a valver

any questions about the car, i am willing to answer.

The engine now as done about 1000 miles since the re-build Not the standard 1.8 anymore!

Nice looking motor there mate & welcome

hiya mate, love the mk2!!

Welcome.

hey im pretty sure i saw ure car in aber uni, me nd my m8ts ere down in a mk5 golf (half lowered lo) going to the hospitol like

but welcom

GTI-8V-1991 wrote:

hey im pretty sure i saw ure car in aber uni, me nd my m8ts ere down in a mk5 golf (half lowered lo) going to the hospitol like

but welcom

Ah right, cool.

you say rebulid - have you gone abf bottom end?

i see you have the ebay cheapo yellow fog lamps - like me....

Welcome!! Sadly, I don't have a Mk2, but I'll join in on the excitment. Nice car mate, looks really good!

keith_lemon wrote:

you say rebulid - have you gone abf bottom end?

i see you have the ebay cheapo yellow fog lamps - like me....

haha yeah the yellow fogs from ebay. i think they look great!

Yeah 2.0 ABF bottom end, completely rebuilt with the KR head then. Nice amount of torque now!

yeah i like mine too!!, i tried to get hella lamps in yellow but that never happened.

so you rate the conversion? was it a homebrew jobbie?

welcome mate, very nice mk2 u have there

Welcome tasty Mk2

properly clean mk2! welcome

keith_lemon wrote:

yeah i like mine too!!, i tried to get hella lamps in yellow but that never happened.

so you rate the conversion? was it a homebrew jobbie?

I think the conversion was worth it. But to be honest, at the same time another friend did a straight abf conversion with the 2.0 head then. Then ran it on mo-tronic management and got 10bhp more. There are lots of rumours about putting the KR head on gives like 170 bhp. but rolling roaded as come out slightly more than a standard ABF 2.0. But the torque is great. 5th gear 20mph and it will pull instantly. so that's nice!

yeah i was lead to believe that the kr head on the bottom was better as you can fiddle with the WUR and shit... suppose it all depends on the quality of the engine in the first place.

i wouldn`t mind a ABF mk2 next just to sample one, whats the economy like?

When the car went to be rolling roaded, we had the standard box and a WUR modded one, and there was no difference! It actually was better torque with the standard 1 i think i remember..! Economy is pretty much the same for me as well! Prob worth it, such an easy swop, still looks original and now when i see my friend's corrado 1.8 16v boot it, you can see it just doesn't pull like my mk2 does now.

nice to see u cud make it here! welcome pal!