Good buy? 1991 Jetta 1.6 td w/ Hood Stack

[jenham]

Hey I've been looking for a diesel Jetta/golf and ran across this one on kijiji. Yes that is a hood stack. The guy wants $2000 for it and just curious if these would run horribly with a hood stack or not. I was hoping to daily it and will only be looking to do a bit of modding because it would be my daily. This would be my first diesel Jetta [spoiler][/spoiler]

[jenham]

200,100km on it btw

[vanbcguy]

It will run fine, the less restriction post turbo the better. However $2k for a car that's clearly been molested doesn't sit right with me.

Since there's no flapper on that stack what happens when it rains? Is the turbo full of rust?

Sent from my XT1097 using Tapatalk

[jenham]

It will run fine, the less restriction post turbo the better. However $2k for a car that's clearly been molested doesn't sit right with me.

Since there's no flapper on that stack what happens when it rains? Is the turbo full of rust?

Sent from my XT1097 using Tapatalk

Yeah I asked him the same question about the flapper and I was going to bargain him down quite a lot either way.

[ORCoaster]

If you are expecting to use it for a daily then the hood stack is clearly a problem.  Can you legally drive with that obstruction in the front of your view?  Back woods beater I would say yeah probably make do but in traffic it is going to cause you trouble.  Too expensive with the major modification to the exhaust there. 

Inside looks OK,  Miles OK but any other modifications to the engine?

[jenham]

Hood stack is fine here in Canada as long as smoke isn't in the windshield. And I've also found out it does have a flapper it just doesn't look like it in the pictures apparently. I'll have to go look at it in person

[jenham]

Well apparently it is a 1.6 td swap with the drivetrain swapped as well as well as a new clutch and timing belt put in 7000km ago. Gonna go check it out and if it's all OK I should have myself a Jetta!

[binoo]

lol old post i know...  that is one terrible looking stack haha who would do such a thing!?

[marvyn31]

That huge hood stack can really cause distractions. Looks like OP ended up buying it because that is his profile pic.

[ORCoaster]

Maybe he runs a dozer all day and just having there is no biggie to him.  I think we all recommended a flapper to keep the water out.