Mk 1 Golf engine - help

**gldgti** · 12-08-2007, 07:56 PM

I think the 1.8 head is accepted as the best performance 8V head vw make.

blackgti1.8 · 12-08-2007, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by evorobin

WAKE UP GUYS

I Love that video

How wild do you like your MkIs?

Try these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSMB...elated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AcCq...elated&search=

**gldgti** · 12-08-2007, 08:12 PM

man the yellow mk1 polo and blue mk1 golf carried so much corner speed..... the green mk1 held it together too, nice.

blackgti1.8 · 12-08-2007, 08:47 PM

Ok, one more.

What does 10,000rpm get you?
Well, this really:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jigFo...elated&search=

Always wanted to find a video of that purple Berg Cup car.
Just tripped over it....

**static1800** · 12-08-2007, 09:17 PM

That was a bad idea watching those berg cup cars, i need to find myself a mk1 now for a track car.

blackgti1.8 · 15-08-2007, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by static1800

That was a bad idea watching those berg cup cars, i need to find myself a mk1 now for a track car.

Doesn't it just

**static1800** · 15-08-2007, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by blackgti1.8

Doesn't it just

Whats worse is i have a 16v sitting in the shed n:

**xbgs351** · 10-09-2007, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Jason Ralt RT 30

Golf engines biggest benifit was it was lighter and smaller in comparison to other makes at the time, similar horesepower was developed on Toyota and Ford engines - but the size / weight benifit was not as good.
There is a healthy number of these cars running around in the Australian F2 Club in NSW, google their web site and you will be able to see some of the cars which run these engines.

For most of the 80s the Golf was the engine of choice.

Regards

Jason

They were also fragile as hell, but if you wanted to win you had to race one. Things obviously improved with the introduction of the 8500 rev limit. One comment I heard at this year Phillip Island Historic meet was "That from the first turn of the key you started counting down until the engine would let go. The only problem was that you never knew what number to start at."

**HillFlog** · 13-09-2007, 07:55 PM

If you need any advice on your engine you need to get in touch with Tom Brinkley in Sydney he looks after several vw powered F2 cars and is a brilliant source of information. You can also check bertils engines web site in the US.

The 8V is a super simple motor, so just pull it apart and get a list of torque settings, be careful though as all sorts of stuff could be machined to different specs, bore stroke etc, the head is likely to be quite different from standard too.

Just to clear up, the cams imposed rev limit was due to the fact that the vw guys were getting 11000rpm / 210hp! whilst some blew up mostly it was the other engines that were popping trying to keep up with the vw's. The 8v head is no performance head at all but can be made to work well enough, all cost related