My 93 Vento GL

[titanfs]

1993 auto Vento GL with 2E. Don't have any photo of the car when I got it few months back but it had faded champagne gold color, polished the car and found silver underneath while the original color is maroon.









Got it tinted, that's my 91 swift with jdm cultus transplant.

[titanfs]

The headlights were very dimmed, changing to brighter bulbs didn't help and was thinking of adding relays and change to thicker wire when I found a golf nose cut from a halfcut shop with hellas, long foglights and white turn signals. Locally Vento stuff is harder to find compared to golf's but still these hellas are rare here, so got a separate bonnet and converted to golf front end. Managed to fix the broken driver side headlight adjustments but now with less travel. Mixed in some leftover silver color to the black for some stripes on the bonnet.

[titanfs]

A Mk2 Golf owner was letting go of his 17" TSW Alpine cheap as they were wearing out his tires, inside 80% and outside bald, steering vibration and somehow got a very spongy feel while driving. Went to check them out and found their PCD to be 98mm instead of 100mm. Bargained for a lower price then bought them coz I wanted good 5-spokes rims and if I can't use them, I can still sell them to Alfa owners.



I made my own wobble bolts by machining off the tapered section of a lug nut to get the tapered washer. I have used the "grind valve" method with some grinding paste and the lug nut siliconed to a hex socket to find out the contact surface area and also to make a better seating for the tapered washer. If I want to have threaded studs & lug nuts on my hub next time, I can still use them. Of course I would then need to machine the lug nuts flat or reverse tapered steel nuts.



I have torqued them accordingly and the washer works great.



with 215/45, it's rubbing when I go thru a hump too fast at the 2 o'clock position, paint came off, so that part is rolled.

Didn't have enough lug bolts and they are a bit short for the front after machining ( rotor ) and I didn't want to machine down to the 17 hex head. So I am still driving with 16" Speedline in front. Or this? High tension 19mm bolt

[titanfs]

The rear absorbers that came with the car are a bit soft, so went looking and found a set of ABT/Bilstein.





With the ABT springs, the car is sitting a bit low with the top coils all fully compressed. So I fitted back the original springs. Is it because of the difference in Golf & Vento's rear weight? These should have been taken out from a Golf and could have been a Mk2 as well.

[titanfs]

Then I got smoked! They came with a rear trunk lid, package deal from the shop, won't sell the 2 inner lights separately. The lid has a different license plate tub from mine.





I have connected the rear foglight to the brakes as well.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Not too shabby! I like the bonnet lots nice work man

[dylan8]

dont see many ventos done up in Aus. Looks great! any other plans?

[anthony]

The Vento was a great,solid car,with bullet proof engines.
Sold as the Jetta 3 in most of its main markets.

[rayray086]

Hey, you're from Malaysia Where abouts in Malaysia?

[titanfs]

Thank you very much.
I am in Shah Alam, about 60km south-east of Kuala Lumpur.

Transferred the Alpine CD player, Punch amp & Bazooka sub from my swift (don't need the Alpine in that car, can't hear the difference anyway while the vw has a great factory sound staging in front/insulation) Zip-tied the sub to the rear deck.





Next will be the 2E, compression result :
DRY : 160/160/115/75
WET : CYL3 145 CYL4 95

Hope it's a blow-thru gasket as the previous owner said & not the rings or a valve. But she'll go anywhere, not overheating, so I just drive it first. Will do a top overhaul end of March with some porting and polishing when the head's out and skim it.

Other things would be:
1) rear antiroll bar, still can't find one that squarish (factory from other cars) that will fit, most probably will just make one. I think it will be better than a torsion bar in the c-channel.
2) a sump bolt for the 096 auto, change the ATF once when I got the car and 1000km after that, quite messy