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I know mine WILL NOT overwhelm the 195/50 R15 Firestone Firehawks on acceleration, has high enough limits of lateral grip on them and lets go nice and progressively. It certainly doesn’t feel over-tyred, or under-tyred, unlike the new Mini I had that ran 175 wide tyres – that was always game for some sideways action.
I know a guy, who’d be able to do us custom cages, if you’re interested – Paul ‘Botch’ Venners. He builds cages for drag racers as well as various other disciplines, so they won’t be under-specced! Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll look into it further.
iirc the 2.0 intermediate shaft dosen’t cause any issues, if using carb dizzy you fit the gear from the 2.0 dizzy to the 1800 dizzy you are using and then make a spacer ring, somtimes made out of 2.0 dizzy. haven’t had chance to find piccys yet may
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ive found a company that can widen steel wheelsThat’s banded wheels, that’s illegal, that is. Isn’t it?
You might also need a spacer ring to fit the 1.8 dizzi. TSR used to do them, but they went bust…. I think they got bought, so they may still have the spacer ring available….
With 020 (rodchange)box it fouls one of the webs on the block (02C clears it fine) you’ll soon see what I mean when offering the gearbox up to the engine, I rounded the edge off the transfer case and then took the rest of the metal out the offending web on the block, I have piccys somewhere, I will try & find them later
Cheers, chap.
A cage is high on the list, but not a BS 3 point ‘show cage’ (what’s the point in that, eh?). It’ll have to be a properly specced one and will probably be welded to the shell in more places than when it comes out of the box.
I don’t want to add too much weight back in, now, do I?
It’s very common, use 2ltr headgasket put 1.8 gti head onto 2.0 block use ether the 2.0 or 1.8 ancillaries, wang in a fast road cam for good measure and your away. lot of ppl also put 2.0 bottom ends on 16vs
The Jetta bodyshell was designed as a saloon version of the Golf floorpan – they didn’t take a Golf off the production line, chop off the back of it and then weld a boot on to it – it’s ‘bespoke’ (great mental image there though!). Because it shares Golf Syncro hard-points throughout the shell there is huge parts interchangeability.
I fitted Golf GTI seats to my Jetta Syncro. If I recall correctly the Jetta Syncro is the only Jetta you would be able to do that with. The 2WD Jetta had a fixed rear seat – not interchangeable.
Basically, any Golf seats will fit your Jetta Syncro, as DannyP has said.
You may want to look at cams listed for the 1.8’s they fit and there is a lot more choice
Its worth looking at Newman cams, don’t need verniers or crappy offset keys to time them to TDC
http://www.newman-cams.com/pdf/volkswagen.pdf
btw, Degrees are are very crude way of comparing cams, different companies start measuring in different places, also the shape of the lobe itself has as much effect on idle than the actual duration.
Is the engine still in the mk3 golf or useng the mk3 enigne managment? it’s engine management really doesn’t get on with bumpy cams.
as for how bumpy of a cam to fit it very much depends on your driveing style and what else has been done to the engine and/or what you are going to do.You can lob a (266) 270 deg cam like the Kent GS2H in a stock and forget it’s there and it wont bring on enigne managment light on at idle, if carbed or digifant I’d say push towards 277 deg. you can tell it has a cam, it’ll want a bit of extra fuel to idle smoothly. but still very drivable round town.
The solid lifter head will go on hydro lifter block 4 branch manifold will not fit the syncro tho
The advantage of solid lifter head is cams can have more agressive ramp angels, more cams avalibe , can rev higher. to see these adavntages you need to be building a rev monster tho.
If I was building an engine I wouldn’t bother to have the work done to a solid lifter head to see these advantages as have to spend over 1K on head work before the differance woudl really start to show. but if had one it’d get used, if I wanted a high revving solid lifter engine I’d start from a hydro lifter crossflow head and have it converted to solid lifter. but those sort of engine cost about 5k to build
