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[MarcusAurelius]

Interesting valve cover, no oil cap?

[Water Boy]

Good to see that bottom end in action!

[ericcs]

Interesting valve cover, no oil cap?

or breather?

[eltonking]

Cheers guys, thanks again Woody.
James I might be interested in those 100mm driveshafts you speak of...
The valve cover is a custom unit that came with the carbs as they don't fit with a standard cover fitted up, it doesn't have an oil cap but it has a breather on the back driver's side near the carbs.

The 2L bottom end has bucket loads of torque, completely different power delivery to what I was used to with the 1.8
Its running a bit lean and pinging under load and seems to run out of puff up in the top end, i'm hoping most of this is due to the carbs needing to be tuned (running out of fuel in the top end)


...or I might need to get a bigger cam

Sounds completely different too, will be getting some exhaust work done at some point but I think its time I focussed on the interior (about time)

[sports racer]

Welcome to the world of 2.0 torque.

My 2.0 doesn't like to rev but I've always put it down to having the standard (restrictive) exhaust manifold on my MK2. I've got a MK3 manifold which I'll fit one day which should make it breath a lot easier.

If you're going for a big cam you can go a bit wilder than you would if you had a 1.8. The extra 200cc helps tame a wild cam.

Cheers

Paul

[eltonking]

Welcome to the world of 2.0 torque.

My 2.0 doesn't like to rev but I've always put it down to having the standard (restrictive) exhaust manifold on my MK2. I've got a MK3 manifold which I'll fit one day which should make it breath a lot easier.

If you're going for a big cam you can go a bit wilder than you would if you had a 1.8. The extra 200cc helps tame a wild cam.

Cheers

Paul

Cheers Paul, I've got extractors and a 272 cam at the moment. Can't justify only moving over to a 276, but I know peter has a 288....

[Browneye]

Just go 298 and be done

[Tymk1]

I'm keen on a 2 lt block as well if anyone has a spare one please let me know. And Elton im loving this instalment motivated me to finally get off my arse and actually start sorting my golf out.

[eltonking]

I'm keen on a 2 lt block as well if anyone has a spare one please let me know. And Elton im loving this instalment motivated me to finally get off my arse and actually start sorting my golf out.

Cheers dude! Gearbox going in this week hopefully

[Browneye]

Mine too... Join these bad boys together