VW Golf II TDI

[Nitrox]

Good evening all!

It's with great pleasure that i'm starting a thread on TDICLUB.

I'm Nelson, aka Nitrox and i'm from the south of Portugal. I'm in vw's for a while now and i'm going to show you here one of my daily drivers.

I've been a reader of this forum for a while, there so much quality information for people like me who is doing a conversion. I hope to learn with you and of course i will share everything i'm doing to my car.

So, it's a Golf II from 1991 that had the 1600 TD.

When i bought it in 2007, it came like this:



The original 80hp wasn´t enough for me, so i started some mods:


Modified inlet manifold




Replaced the original k14 for a k24





Golf 1 Gti thermostat for the engine oil



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Fitted a Mercedes Van Intercooler






and oil cooler from Mocal



Engine bay completed with relocated battery



Custom made battery holder

[Nitrox]

The car also received a 02a CTN gearbox



With a new G60 Sachs cluth and flywheel




Gearbox selector in place:




Now the exhaust:

Handmade in 60mm stainless steel

[Nitrox]

For the suspension i chose Weitec's coilovers




The pump received a 10mm head from a tdi, and i also did the governor mod. Turbo was at 1,4 bar.
I think it was enough for a optimistic 120hp









Having some fun in a twisty road





Then i swapped the steelies for a set of BBS RM's with 1" dishes

[Nitrox]

Some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GOFkLPKEls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vaE4vjYpy4

And a video a Friend made with me:

http://www.vimeo.com/3399679



Then in 2009 i decided to makethe trip to Worthersee Tour.

Here the car ready to go:








It's a 2700km trip to reach Austria. But the engine broke down Half way trip in a Highway in the south of France... Bad luck!

So finally it was time to get real power to this car. a TDI engine! The search of a donor car was on...

[Nitrox]

And i finally found a wrecked Golf 3 with a AFN 110hp engine...

The car:










After a couple days, the shell was stripped

[G60ING]

You are the VW person that I've seen make their own muffler. Keep the pics coming.


BTW I would not use the k-frame from your mk3 in the mk2. It stands a good chance of being bent.

[Nitrox]

Originally Posted by G60ING

You are the VW person that I've seen make their own muffler. Keep the pics coming.


BTW I would not use the k-frame from your mk3 in the mk2. It stands a good chance of being bent.

Thanks for the advice! I thought exactly the same. So i manage to find another one in decent shape!

I started to stip the engine bay:





And heres the difference between the Golf 2 k-frame vs Golf 3 k-frame:



I also kept the larger Golf 3 sway bar.
Also installed the front Passat cross member in order to have the better Golf 3 Tdi motor mounts.

Everything in place

[Nitrox]

So, with the AFN engine out, time to change gaskets, seals, pulleys in order to avoid future problems!

With 250,000km on the clock, it's unusual to see a head clean like this:



AAZ gasket with new oil pump.








New timing belt, tensors, waterpump, etc.










I have deleted the A/C, so had to change the pulley system.

[vwmikel]

Originally Posted by Nitrox

Is that one of my old pop-off valve plugs?

I love the car. I have definitely given some thought to buying another MK2. I miss my old Jetta TD.

[jjordan11]

Very nice car indeed. I like the wheels. How did you do the larger water-cooled oil cooler along with the sandwich plate for the air-air oil cooler?

[Mark@MaloneTuning]

Nice project!

Originally Posted by vwmikel

I love the car. I have definitely given some thought to buying another MK2. I miss my old Jetta TD.

I miss mine too. I've been considering a MK1 or MK2 with a 1.6 TD sans turbo, and a little nitrous oxide (with a LDA equipped pump). I like the sheer simplicity of the IDI and the linear NA powerband.

[ninedee_golf_tdi]

Looks good, but you have your timing belt tensioner wound backwards.

[Nitrox]

Originally Posted by vwmikel

Is that one of my old pop-off valve plugs?

Originally Posted by vwmikel

Hi! nop, this one was made here!

Originally Posted by jjordan11

Very nice car indeed. I like the wheels. How did you do the larger water-cooled oil cooler along with the sandwich plate for the air-air oil cooler?

Just Bolted an accessory that came along with the sandwich...

Originally Posted by ninedee_golf_tdi

Looks good, but you have your timing belt tensioner wound backwards.

Could you show me which one n the picture please?

Some news.
I installed a GT22 with a 1z exhaust manifold
































Now i have to sort a new back engine mount...

[leon10tagg]

Keep the info on this one coming.....looks very interesting and should be one fast Mk2 TDI when finished.....well done so far.

[Uberhare]

Looks pretty nice so far! Keep us posted.