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there is no such thing as a 50/50 power split its allways dynamic,
my guesss is nutters quaife would need bell houseing swapping over from a 4 pot 02c box then it’d fit your motor or any 4 cyl.
engine wise i like the 16 valve motors
You’re going to need a properly organised environment to do this. As DannySyncro has already outlined – the penalties for perceived ‘irresponsible’ driving are heavy and long-lasting.
Land owners generally aren’t open to this sort of thing, as you need a lot of space to do it and if they permit activities like this then they’re opening themselves to complaints from their neighbours and trouble from environmental health.
You either need an airfield of some description, an organised drift event, or the occasional sneaky roundabout.
In the mean-time these should keep you entertained:
Man plays with Boxter at german race track:
Someone who is f**king great playing with a roundabout (same person):
the carrier bag round the number plate is sub optimal idea
cars get known, yours is now know so if someone from aldi rings up saying there is a golf going sideways you’ll be suspect number 1,
i used to get blamed for everything involving a red mk2 golf round here.when i had a 1600 mk2 auto yonks ago i started left foot brakeing just because 2 pedals 2 feet but the box died so that sort of stoped
Get the ABF into my Syncro.
I’ve already started collecting VAG downpipes to chop up for the manifold [
]ABF – best thing that could ever happen to a Syncro.
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A number of my mates locally are into fast cars but to date none of them really do sideways…figured it can’t hurt to ask here before I try other avenues (or roundabouts as it were)Tha big jessies.
It’s all about the sideways. Until you go sideways you’re not *really* driving.
I should know – I have mates who are Zen in the art of sideways. I was out with one of them a few days ago:
It’s not every day that people stop at a junction to allow someone to pull donuts….. [}
]hate to say this but for serious sideways drifting the golf isnt really the car for it. something with rwd and 200+ bhp then you can drift. 250+ you can powerslide
I’ve been hell-bent on going sideways for some time, as anyone who’s had a lap on a track (or some wet roundabout action) will know.
The Syncro *will* go sideways fairly effectively, especially with the right technique – on-power, sharp off-power, back on-power. This provokes reliable 4-wheel drifts, although to get them to be tyre-smoking bad-assed hooligan drifts you’d need north of 200bhp (maybe even 250bhp), quite a lot of confidence and a fair amount of space.
Unfortunately lots of on-road sideways will attract the attention of the fuzz, so that’s a bit out of the water, despite the preponderance of roundabouts up your way.
I know various people who’ve done dedicated drifting track days, which is probably the best forum for drifting, as if you try it at a ‘normal’ UK track day you’ll get black-flagged pretty sharpish.
I also think that to get a Syncro drift-worthy you would want to drop in at least +2 degrees of camber on the rear wheels – the rear end of mine is further out than that and it will step out pretty enthusiastically when encouraged. Things might be further encouraged by fitting an LSD – it would make the drifts far more controllable as you’d be able to pull yourself out of them at will. An LSD is definitely on the cards for my Golf at some point – it’ll make the Golf much quicker on a wet track, which is when things become very funny with other, supposedly quicker cars about.
i would think that would be quite easy to adjust to fit the 16v head. iirc there was a company that would do lhd 16v manifolds
i’m running a modifyed pump with no problems tho one from a FI syncro would have been more optimal chouldn’t find one at the time
they are exactly the same engine. how hard it is to fit really depends on how you feel about makeing an exhaust pippe.
mine has spax psx dampers on the frount with eibach springs and spax rsx coilovers on the rear
yes and yes
on a RHD basicly there is no room as the steerign rack gets in the way, TC routed both pipes down one side useign a rallye downpipe but had to do rather a lot of modifyign to the footwell and the downpipe to make it fit.
with the 02c cabel change gearbox there is a hole on the left hand side thats in the right place for the pipe and makes a nice easy run so would have been daft not to use it.
80,000 mile Seat toloado 2.0 16v ( ABF ) in standard form running on the stock ECU with a 4 – 2 – 1 tubular manifold.
