mk2 16v

Back in a mk2 again

Not much to shout about really, but it seems a half decent example, solid underneath and no rust in the usual mk2 places. It needs some work, but dont they all?

Did a deal with my 7 series for it so the drive home from near Brighton earlier this week was quite a shock to system! Headed down there at 90-100 on cruise with climate control, huge leather seats and wafting along silently in comfort. Headed back home later that day bouncing along the motorway with a blowing exhaust drumming in my ears, no air con, windows that only go down 3/4 of the way and then get stuck (made paying the toll fun) but was worth it

I have some plans for it, wont be a show car but will hopefully be a tidy good spec mk2

A pic of it the evening i got it home



And the next morning in slighty better light, while thinking wtf have i done!!??



And some stolen pics from the origional advert

Looks good man, now enjoy some sort of reasonable fuel costs

Ste's old MK2 will be keeping an eye on this mate.

Lupton_20vt wrote:

Looks good man, now enjoy some sort of reasonable fuel costs

You know! Only trouble is what i save in fuel costs will be trippled and then spent on repairs. I also got a £150 refund from my insurance when i swapped it over to this

Pistacheuro wrote:

Ste's old MK2 will be keeping an eye on this mate.

Yeah Ste's old one! Thought someone might know it from edition. I will admit it looks ALOT better in photos than it does in person. No offence to Ste but i was a little disapointed when i turned up to look at it, but nevermind It doesnt need a huge amount doing to it to get it to where i want.

looks good dude, would look better on some 16in gottis

I like it

love a mk2!!!!

Now im going to get shot down on here for saying this but.. i've raised my suspension

It was stupidly low for the roads i have to go down so it had to be done! I did take a better pic showing how low it was before i did it though! The ones before it doesn't really look that low??

But anyway here it is how it was.. i can assure you its on level ground, some people may reconise the barns in the background from other pics i have posted, i work on cars here on purpose because its nice flat ground!



Theres no after pic as it just looks pants it needs some bigger tyres on these wheels to be able to look half decent raised up but they can wait untill i have sorted the other niggles. Im not going for being 'hellaflush' or scene.. just want a tidy mk2 oem looking but with a few tweaks

Looks ok. Everyone loves a Mk2, will keep an eye out for it in sunny Soham

whats happened here then?

bridgedubber wrote:

whats happened here then?

It had a slight top end rattle and i have two spare KR cylinder heads so swapping one over and hopefully will be running smooth again! Also the standard down pipe was split and blowing like mad so replaced that while i had the head off as it makes it much easier, so now got a nice 4 branch manifold

Should hopefully pick up my cylinder head tomorrow from cambridge rebores along with a headset so should be up running again tomorrow all being well!

Looking good James! cant beat a tidy mk2, is it black?

mark wrote:

Looking good James! cant beat a tidy mk2, is it black?

Yeah black Is off the road at the moment though.. needs an engine am saving it for when the weather improves. ABF, VR6 or if i can bare the sight of another one.. a dreaded 20vt

black! by far the best colour, let me know if you ever decide to sell

Pretty sure your old one is for sale on edition at the moment mate.. JUG number plate wasnt it? Looks quite smart to be honest! And yeah will let you know! Give me a text some time aswell man, i lost your number

This came out of hibernation today, bit of a clean up Still plenty to do on it before it is on the road.

so whats happening with it now?

has it got a different engine?

Weighing up the pros and cons of different engines at the moment.. hope have something nice under the bonnet for the summer though

I need to keep away from the wheel section of e38 classifieds though. BBS RS