Can a 1.6 fit in a mk3?

[8v-of-fury]

They put the color on your car paperwork??? 

They don't in Cali?

[maxfax]

For all the other goofey crap in Pennsylvania, registration is cake..   Only things listed are Year, Make, Body style (NOT MODEL), and Vin..  Emission rules vary by county but most are just visual...

[RabbitJockey]

i think it's a nice swap for us in the states since we never got the aaz, mk3s are cheap and easy to get parts for, and they ride nicer, are quieter inside, they're nice daily drivers.  i'm sure a 1.6td would have no trouble moving one around.  malone had his franken engine in a mk3 golf two door, he said it was faster than a chipped vr6 even... but that was a very ported 1.6 with aaz head, pd130 intake, awic, and gt20 turbo.

[vanbcguy]

Jezzie does just great with her 1.6TD.  She was originally an AAZ car so there are no emissions issues - the 1.6 happily passes the tailpipe test here in Vancouver.

The AAZ and the MF are pretty darn close power-wise in stock form, so an MF with some minor tweaks will have just as much power as the AAZ at least in the upper range.

[malone]

mk3s are cheap and easy to get parts for, and they ride nicer, are quieter inside, they're nice daily drivers

Agreed. The MK3 also has better aerodynamics than all other generations (not sure about MK6). I'm finally finishing a new MK3 daily driver soon, after having driven my MK5 for 5 years. The MK5 is fairly reliable car but it's heavy and I'm getting bored of it (it's an auto). I also dread the potential DSG/flywheel and PD camshaft replacement costs down the road.

[malone]

he said it was faster than a chipped vr6 even... but that was a very ported 1.6 with aaz head, pd130 intake, awic, and gt20 turbo.

Correct, but the AWIC wasn't even hooked up (no water circulation) so I basically ran intercooler-less. It was also smoke-free so it still had untapped power potential with an injector pump upgrade and intercooler. I miss that motor! My only complaint was lots of white smoke during a cold start.

[RabbitJockey]

he said it was faster than a chipped vr6 even... but that was a very ported 1.6 with aaz head, pd130 intake, awic, and gt20 turbo.

Correct, but the AWIC wasn't even hooked up (no water circulation) so I basically ran intercooler-less. It was also smoke-free so it still had untapped power potential with an injector pump upgrade and intercooler. I miss that motor! My only complaint was lots of white smoke during a cold start.

didn't dave clear up the white smoke issue once he had put it into your jetta?  and also i was reading an old thread about the flow mods dave had done to the deck of your head, can u share anymore info about that?  was there much loss in compression from it?  you two are the like the idi gods of the americas in my book haha.

[malone]

didn't dave clear up the white smoke issue once he had put it into your jetta?  and also i was reading an old thread about the flow mods dave had done to the deck of your head, can u share anymore info about that?  was there much loss in compression from it?  you two are the like the idi gods of the americas in my book haha.

Here's a description of what Dave did to the deck of my head:

Here is my attempt at Paint, straight up KG style.



The Red circle is the the exhuast valve, the Blue one is the intake valve, the grey area's on either side are the area that has been relived. Of coures in real life they have uniform shape and size, as well as, they have a slightly differn't overall shape, size, ect..., but it will give you guys an idea. As Dave said earlier the relief is about .25mm-.5mm deep.

[RabbitJockey]

thanks malone! so it would have been more like this actually?