RE: VR6 in Mk1, 17s on mkII

["Smith, Mike" <msm@team.co.uk>]

Hi All,

Thanks to those who replied about the 17's. I shall definitely be going
ahead with this.
The wheels are Fittipaldi split five spokes (I don't know the name)
apparently imported to the UK from the US? Does anyone know which ones I'm
talking about?
They already have 215 40 17 Goodyear Eagle F1s on, so even the tyres look
nice!

Re: VR6s into Sciroccos, do it, do it! You know it makes sense!
There is a mkI in the UK with a 2.9 VR6 and it has no body or structural
mods at all! The guy has fabricated his own mounts from the standard
locations on the engine and gearbox to connect to the standard Scirocco
mounting points, and it looks factory (it also looks quite easy). He used
the proper VR6 exhaust manifold, and modified the VR6 downpipe (header?) to
go over the anti-roll bar. The gearbox side driveshaft is mkII GTX (larger
inner CV joint than mkI) but the engine side one was fabricated (I think).
All the mounts use polyurethane bushes - if the engine moves more than 1/4
inch it will touch something!

It goes well!

I hope to do this conversion to my mkII GTX sometime next year :-)

Mike Smith

'86 Scirocco GTX (17's, pearl blue paint)
'87 Polo Coupe (8x14's, 2.0 16V supercharged, no paint yet!)


-----Original Message-----
From: Andre' Bjorkheim [mailto:andreb@maxwell.ee.washington.edu]
Sent: 07 June 1999 20:01
To: Scirocco List
Subject: VR6 in Mk1, how? HELP!!!


The Purple Mk1 owner in South Africa has purchased a VR6 and plans on
putting it in but he isnt quite sure how to go about it.  He emailed me
with the following message.  

> Andre do you know of anybody that has fitted a VR6 engine on a 
> MK1, I am looking to fit a VR6 on my car I have bought the engine 
> but the golf VR6 engine and gearbox mountings are completely 
> different to mine, any advice/opinion?

  If anyone knows someone or a page that they can refer him to, PLEASE
do.  His email is  

 mndawo@jhi.co.za

Any help/URLs you can give him would be greatly appreciated.  Please
keep opinions to yourself.  Everyone has one, and they all stink  =p

========================

 André
 Lime Green 79 Scirocco ©
 ICQ #266870

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