Golf 2 Shipments to Australia

**mrgolf** · 23-06-2006, 06:11 PM

Isnt it Digifant? I thought it was digifant with a smaller valve head for emissions. The head would be the biggest difference with emissions, so it makes sense...

syncro · 23-06-2006, 06:16 PM

Yes digifant.
As far as I know there is only one size of valves for GTIs.
I need the engine numbers for a K-Jet and an Aussie Digifant to check.

**mrgolf** · 23-06-2006, 06:26 PM

Around 86-87, the Euro GTI's went to Digifant....

syncro · 23-06-2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by mrgolf

As if VW didnt treat GTI's t o a bit of extra care when they were being built. Thats like saying R32's get built the same as a 1.6 pov pack MkV... Actually, I am only guessing. I wonder how much of this is true.
....

They came off the same line, built by the same people

**Golf Loon** · 23-06-2006, 06:55 PM

I havent got a digi head off the car, so cant take pics of both.
The kjet uk spec cars had 38mm inlet valves. This is the same as 2L audi and Mk3s.
I reckon the digifant valves were smaller. If you put a kjet head onto a digifant motor, you get more power.

syncro · 23-06-2006, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by mrgolf

Around 86-87, the Euro GTI's went to Digifant....

Depends which country. I think it was later than that.

syncro · 23-06-2006, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by joshyd-mk2gti

my build date is 06/90, complied in 10/90 and first registered in 1991.

Can you check that build date again that it is not 08/90?

does anyone have the website where you type in the vin number and it tells you where it was made? i think i remember mine being built in Wolfburg.

Yeah here

So far we have 4 8/90 builds and 1 6/90.
No confirmed 91s yet.

**Golf Loon** · 23-06-2006, 07:12 PM

Tell us the website.
I reckon anything after 1990 had just been on the shelf for a while.
Post 1990 the writing was on the wall and VW were gearing up for the Mk3.
Thats why I believe they dumped the 1990-1992 Mk2 on the Aussie Market.

syncro · 23-06-2006, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by mrgolf

Isnt it Digifant? I thought it was digifant with a smaller valve head for emissions. The head would be the biggest difference with emissions, so it makes sense...

Why?

Digifant (Aussie type) is electronically controlled with a cat and oxygen sensor, knock control for third world fuels.

Kjet is mechanical injection and more for performance and has been in Golf GTIs since 1976 with little change.

RV Engine (Aussie Digifant) + EV,RD,PB (K-Jet)
Inlet valve 048 109 601A
Ex valve 053 109 611

These parts are the same from Golf 2 start to finish.

crazygee · 25-06-2006, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by syncro

All of the GTIs sold here were made in Germany.
Definately less than 300 were brought in. I have an idea there may have been 150.
A lot of immigrants came from South Africa in the early 90s and they brought their cars with them. (They probably heard that we had the gutless ones here!)
I wouldn't say that they were lower spec than the UK cars, just lower performance. The UK/Euro spec engine did not meet our pollution laws.
The insurance here was definately GTI. Maybe they would have sold more of them if they called them GLIs?

How about some replies from Aussie Golf 2 owners with your build date?
It is on the firewall on a small plate not the compliance plate

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