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i'll be honest last deisel i had was an old vauxhall astra and that was painfully gutless and that was a 1.9 turbo but it was pretty old so maybe the newer ones do have more toruqe but i've not driven one and i've heard mixed views on engines on several forums some claiming the 8v engine is...

agreed i'd love to keep the stock engine but its the same as the one in my bug and that only just keeps up with traffic and in the process guzzles fuel like george best guzzled vodka and thats in my bug god knows how it manages in something shaped like a block of flats and weighing nearly as...

good links both of them chap thanks very much time to get the reading specs on 8)

good man! thanks for that every bit helps :mrgreen:

this is probably gonna generate some flak but hey you dont ask you dont get i'm ripping out the old leaky gutless flat 4 in my van and swapping it for a more modern 1.6 or 1.8 golf engine i was just wondering if anyone had any experience with this mod or where i could get parts from? i've done...

the latest photo's today were slowly eating at it and its starting to get more and more van shaped with every panel

thanks guys i cant take all the credit my dad is helping me out and he's spent his lifetime restoring classic and vintage cars to show standard so i have kinda an unfair advantage although he does scare me sometimes i took a weekend off a month ago on friday the van had a nose and side panels...

oh hell yeah i'm gettin in on some of this i've had some right shenannigans with the band and some truly horrible pics taken en route from sober to spannered! and also like evry bloke as soon as someone says "i'm taking a photo act normal" everything goes to hell

well hello everyone incase you hadn't guessed i'm a new member so i figured the best way of getting aquainted with everyone would be to put up a massive post about my latest project and see if i couldnt crash out a few computers as they tried to process all the pics ;) this is my early bay and...