Ah, an appreciator of the finer things in life - the Mk2 Golf GTI 16v, or "Valver" as they are known to the cogniscenti! I've had 3 of them, all total money pits, all ending up heavily modded, but loved every minute of them!
I got bored waiting for a VR6 transplant into one of them, and got a Corrado VR6 instead. Bad move. The Golf would run rings around it. Too front-heavy and didn't change direction fast enough. And didn't go through trees very well...
The last valver was the nuttiest. Would hit the rev limiter in 5th, and had full race suspension. The feeling of joining the M62 Westbound from the M1 North at J42, and never lifting... Just like Eau Rouge I imagine!
Had to get rid of it, I had taken all the locks out and welded in Audi 80 rear door handles in to replace the easy-to-screwdriver original ones. The Audi 80 ones are pretty minimal and fit flush. A complete sod to get working with the central locking/alarm though!
I had remote start, remote flush tailgate release, Corrado G60 alloys, Punto rear wiper (minimalist), indicators smoother over and put into the fog holes, nutty Clifford Concept 50x proximity alarm which kept getting blotted out by mobile phone masts and locking us out at the *worst* possible times. A Golf too far...
Bought it standard for 3K in 1999, spent around 9K on it(!), did 80K miles in it and sold it with 200K on the clock for 2K in 2001. That includes it being off the road for long stints getting modded... At this point I had become married and priorities had changed somewhat :)
Ah, to be single! Count yer blessings Jake ;). Although it seems you are getting some these days, so be careful!
Ah, an appreciator of the finer things in life - the Mk2 Golf GTI 16v, or "Valver" as they are known to the cogniscenti! I've had 3 of them, all total money pits, all ending up heavily modded, but loved every minute of them!
I got bored waiting for a VR6 transplant into one of them, and got a Corrado VR6 instead. Bad move. The Golf would run rings around it. Too front-heavy and didn't change direction fast enough. And didn't go through trees very well...
The last valver was the nuttiest. Would hit the rev limiter in 5th, and had full race suspension. The feeling of joining the M62 Westbound from the M1 North at J42, and never lifting... Just like Eau Rouge I imagine!
Had to get rid of it, I had taken all the locks out and welded in Audi 80 rear door handles in to replace the easy-to-screwdriver original ones. The Audi 80 ones are pretty minimal and fit flush. A complete sod to get working with the central locking/alarm though!
I had remote start, remote flush tailgate release, Corrado G60 alloys, Punto rear wiper (minimalist), indicators smoother over and put into the fog holes, nutty Clifford Concept 50x proximity alarm which kept getting blotted out by mobile phone masts and locking us out at the *worst* possible times. A Golf too far...
Bought it standard for 3K in 1999, spent around 9K on it(!), did 80K miles in it and sold it with 200K on the clock for 2K in 2001. That includes it being off the road for long stints getting modded... At this point I had become married and priorities had changed somewhat :)
Ah, to be single! Count yer blessings Jake ;). Although it seems you are getting some these days, so be careful!