looking to maybe get an 83 84 gti, can i put a a 86 8v in that car? how dificult of a swap?what is needed?

I believe MY84Z was working on something like that, maybe he will pop in and help out

ya cool buddy has one taking up space in his garage it runs right now want to give it to me cheap just would like more power than a stock rabbit motor , a while back a guy in new b did it to a rabbit diesel ,was bad lil car ,but he moved back to portugal so hes no help now

it definetley fit's and it's a easy swap, just not definete on what's needed.

Really not worth it. It's the same motor in a lighter car. 83's and 84's are C.I.S. (Continuous Injecting System) motors. 86 was the last year of the C.I.S. motors. To be honest your best bet is to put a 93 to 95 motor which would be the 2.0 Crossflow motor. It's a direct fit and is easy to switch over to digi wiring harness which was used up to 92 and it's fuel injected and also OB1 should be a direct swap for that too and thats 93 to 95.

and the vw gandi speaks!!!

LOL thanks I just hope it helps

Hey man whats up i personaly dont know a great deal about vw's but what i can tell you is that my neighbor owns mattie imports in fallriver on the ave its actually my his mom but my buddy knows pretty much anythign and everythign there is to know about vw hes a good kid if your interested pm me and i can give you his info or me and him can come down to the shop some night and talk

Yea Chris knows a lot too. Very resourceful.

and if anything if you were to swap a motor from another mk2 into your car you'd be alot better of with a 2.0 16v, not the 1.8 16v and definitely not another mk2 8v...the 2.0 crossflow setup as stated before is a great swap for mk1'2 and mk2's...if you really wanna spice it up swap a vr6 in that bitch. you'll have a fast lil car if you do that

Thanks for the help guys if i go throught his i now know i got some resources here

how about a 1982 Volkswagon Scirocco

sorry been busy and he is correct


this is also true

I've wanted a MKI or MKII Golf/Jetta with a VR swap, they are really slick cars.

I just saw this post now i have a friend who did a VR6 in a cabrio i dunno what year cabrio but that fucker moves! i think the car will be there at the season opener on the 3rd trying to get a few other really fast vw's and a few clean vw's also

The rabbit would be bad ass with a VR in it but so much work involved with that setup. A 1.8t would be really nice should be a direct bolt in.

they are cool fun cars yes the motor will swap right over as long as it is 86 you won't need the computer or anything else. I always wanted to do a vrt swap but never got to it. Once you get one and start messing with it you will be in love with the driving experience and fun of it.