ARC/AVY bottom end with AHW head
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:09 am
Morning.
Now this might seem like madness to you but I'm contemplating doing the above.
I have this
Which I rescued from an old boys garage recently. It'd been put off the road in 2007 after the gearbox grenaded, I wanted to use it as my winter toy, I rebuilt a second hand gearbox, gave it a very thorough service and Kermit's now on the road!
The bottom end of this however has the traditional diesel sounding piston slap and I suspect that it may not be much longer for this mortal coil, there's no smoke, it still performs and doesn't drink oil excessively but is sounds pants!
I like to play with cars and am competent with a spanner, I like stealth mods and sheep in wolf's clothing!
I want to fix the diesel noise and, since it's an AHW, there's no point trying to fix the bottom end, it's a bucket job.
Now, what to replace it with?
Obvious shout would be to buy a breaker GTI and swap the lump from that, but since my AHW has a throttle cable, I'd end up having to rewire the whole thing, change the pedal box, etc etc to go fly by wire.
For reasons too tedious to explain, having another car lying about in bits would be a no go (I've already got 5 cars attached to the house and my neighbours tolerance is at it's max) so I've written this off as an option.
I have however been offered a GTI bottom end in excellent condition (there's a head as well but I'm unsure about whether it's practical to use this without a rewire to enable the VVT)
Is fitting this with my AHW head, a GTI inlet and a throttle cable activated GTI inlet and (probably) a full GTI exhaust set up a (relatively) sensible and doable option?
My objective is circa 100BHP with a completely factory look under the bonnet
Thank!
Now this might seem like madness to you but I'm contemplating doing the above.
I have this
Which I rescued from an old boys garage recently. It'd been put off the road in 2007 after the gearbox grenaded, I wanted to use it as my winter toy, I rebuilt a second hand gearbox, gave it a very thorough service and Kermit's now on the road!
The bottom end of this however has the traditional diesel sounding piston slap and I suspect that it may not be much longer for this mortal coil, there's no smoke, it still performs and doesn't drink oil excessively but is sounds pants!
I like to play with cars and am competent with a spanner, I like stealth mods and sheep in wolf's clothing!
I want to fix the diesel noise and, since it's an AHW, there's no point trying to fix the bottom end, it's a bucket job.
Now, what to replace it with?
Obvious shout would be to buy a breaker GTI and swap the lump from that, but since my AHW has a throttle cable, I'd end up having to rewire the whole thing, change the pedal box, etc etc to go fly by wire.
For reasons too tedious to explain, having another car lying about in bits would be a no go (I've already got 5 cars attached to the house and my neighbours tolerance is at it's max) so I've written this off as an option.
I have however been offered a GTI bottom end in excellent condition (there's a head as well but I'm unsure about whether it's practical to use this without a rewire to enable the VVT)
Is fitting this with my AHW head, a GTI inlet and a throttle cable activated GTI inlet and (probably) a full GTI exhaust set up a (relatively) sensible and doable option?
My objective is circa 100BHP with a completely factory look under the bonnet
Thank!