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Apologies, I saw that you replied to a for sale thread, I got confused!

There is a set here, bit pricey though!

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You need golf rallye rear carriers. I see you put a set up for sale?

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Including mine there are three RHD Jetta Syncros that I know of in Ireland.

The 020 is holding up fine, I have a stage 2 black diamond clutch and fitted the diff bolt kit.
Since I am aware of the 020 box limitations I just don’t launch hard from a standing start. I’m not hard on gearboxes and I doubt I’ll ever try and run big power through it!

For the past few weeks I have been running it without the propshaft and its amazing how many times the front wheels will spin when taking off, and thats not driving like a hooligan either, need to get that propshaft back together!

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Thanks! My G60 was standard apart from a smaller charger pulley so was running more boost than standard, but it hadn’t been chipped and was running the standard GU downpipe and a 2″ exhaust which was probably holding it back some.
It now has a 1.8T AUM engine with 150bhp.

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Just seeing this thread for the first time now. That is a very nice looking Jetta. You are going a similar route to what I did with mine. I converted my 89 Jetta Syncro to g60 a few years back. I also upgraded the rear brakes to discs. However I retained the the 020 gearbox (Just replacing the diff rivets) and I also retained the GU manifold and downpipe. I had intended to go back and upgrade these in the future but ended up melting a piston in the engine!

I look forward to seeing your progress.

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Thanks, yeah I miss that engine, I replaced it with a 1.8T but the engine does nothing for me, it doesn’t have the same character.

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Yeah it was the standard RHD GU cast manifold with the toilet bowl opening into the down pipe, held together with 2 C clamps. this then mated up to a powerflow 2″ stainless system. I did the conversion in relatively short time, I basically pulled out the GU engine and dropped in the PG engine with the intention of revisiting the manifold and down pipe at a later date. I even had a LHD g60 syncro manifold and down pipe I was going to try and adapt.
Unfortunately I melted a piston in the G60 as a result of running a smaller pulley and not chipping the ecu to suit the extra boost.

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I actually ran my g60 with the GU manifold and downpipe, it worked fine, but I never had it on a dyno so I couldn’t confirm how much it restricted power!

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I messaged him years ago and he said it has the standard exhaust Manifold (RHD 1.8 carb). Not sure what gearbox it is running though.

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@LD50, it was using the latest version of chrome on windows 8 64bit.

@Lloydy and @Chris S, thanks for the info guys, I searched for N 90369602 listed in the link above and had trouble finding it for sale.

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Now that you mention it, I had issues posting this topic in google chrome, I’d click submit and it would just reload the new topic page. I tried it again in Internet explorer and then it allowed me to post a new topic!

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Awesome thanks for that! Amazing that with such a quiet forum I can still get an answer to a technical questions within a couple hours

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Brilliant thanks for the help

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Thanks so much for the info and the photos, really helpful. It seems like it is a bt involved to dismantle in situ, I’ll just have to remove the whole lot to fix it.

Thanks for the offer of a transfer box but I am going to try and drill out the broken bolt first, and go from there

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Hi, I never had a 16v g60 manifold , only 8v syncro g60

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