CorsaSRi16v
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Mad as F*ck.
Loving it to bits though.
[Edited on 31-03-2005 by CorsaSRi16v]
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SVM 286
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Nice start, should be interesting when it's done.
Just what the MK 1 Golf should always have been.
It would appear that he may have commited the cardinal sin though, and fitted a flat plane crank Cerbera lump TRANSVERSLY 
I'm sure that's the cam cover you can make out in one of the photos pointing in the wrong direction by 90 degrees.
If so, he wants shooting.
I've got a pic of a perfect wide bodied RWD MK 1 somewhere that has had all the interior trim, floorpan, running gear, engine and transmission tranferred from a 928!
It's a work of art.
I'll e-mail pic to you when I find it Jimbo.
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myke
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i think thats mint.
gona be a beast, and just imagine the noise coming out of it  TVR noise is the best
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3CorsaMeal
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i want a mk1
isn't a tvr engine just a rover or ford v8 usually?
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TNM
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is there no more pics of it?
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286
Nice start, should be interesting when it's done.
Just what the MK 1 Golf should always have been.
It would appear that he may have commited the cardinal sin though, and fitted a flat plane crank Cerbera lump TRANSVERSLY
I'm sure that's the cam cover you can make out in one of the photos pointing in the wrong direction by 90 degrees.
If so, he wants shooting.
I've got a pic of a perfect wide bodied RWD MK 1 somewhere that has had all the interior trim, floorpan, running gear, engine and transmission tranferred from a 928!
It's a work of art.
I'll e-mail pic to you when I find it Jimbo.
PMSL were you even born when they released the mk1 golf and why should it have always have a large capacity V8 engine 
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286
Nice start, should be interesting when it's done.
Just what the MK 1 Golf should always have been.
It would appear that he may have commited the cardinal sin though, and fitted a flat plane crank Cerbera lump TRANSVERSLY
I'm sure that's the cam cover you can make out in one of the photos pointing in the wrong direction by 90 degrees.
If so, he wants shooting.
I've got a pic of a perfect wide bodied RWD MK 1 somewhere that has had all the interior trim, floorpan, running gear, engine and transmission tranferred from a 928!
It's a work of art.
I'll e-mail pic to you when I find it Jimbo.
PMSL were you even born when they released the mk1 golf and why should it have always have a large capacity V8 engine
Golf GTi was and still is one of the greatest hot hatches
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Fad
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by SVM 286
Nice start, should be interesting when it's done.
Just what the MK 1 Golf should always have been.
It would appear that he may have commited the cardinal sin though, and fitted a flat plane crank Cerbera lump TRANSVERSLY
I'm sure that's the cam cover you can make out in one of the photos pointing in the wrong direction by 90 degrees.
If so, he wants shooting.
I've got a pic of a perfect wide bodied RWD MK 1 somewhere that has had all the interior trim, floorpan, running gear, engine and transmission tranferred from a 928!
It's a work of art.
I'll e-mail pic to you when I find it Jimbo.
PMSL were you even born when they released the mk1 golf and why should it have always have a large capacity V8 engine
Yes he was old enough penfold
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DanSport
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quote:
Originally posted by Jim
isn't a tvr engine just a rover or ford v8 usually?
Yep it's a Rover V8, they are increasingly using straight sixes now though.
It's a TVR engine when in a TVR, as soon as you take it out it's a Rover engine... so post should read 'Rover engined mk1 Golf (pics)'
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jr
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well no
as its a rover block, but TVR have made there own changed to the design to make it perform how they want in there cars, the engien number will alos be a TVR one, and not a rover one
so its a TVR engine
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corsa starter
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dannycorsa c
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waste ov a mk1 if u ask me
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dannycorsa c
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bet it still wont beat the dubwieser mk1
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Fad
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quote:
Originally posted by dannycorsa c
waste ov a mk1 if u ask me
why is it a waste? Looks amzing has an engine to boot...ok the dash is a bit gash but thats about it
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SVM 286
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quote:
Originally posted by Jim
i want a mk1
isn't a tvr engine just a rover or ford v8 usually?
They used to use an improved version of Ford's V6 and they developed the hell out of the Rover V8 engine (which was originaly a Buick engine) over a very long period of time the result being the five litre version in the Griffith.
They then developed their own (flat plane crank equipped) high revving 4.2 and 4.5 litre V8 (that makes even more power than the Griffith lump), for use in the Tuscan challenge race series.
This engine was subsequentially built in road tune and fitted in the Cerbera.
They also devised an excellent straight six of their own; from which the awesome V12 (800+ bhp) in the Speed 12 and Cerbera Speed 12 was derived.
I'd just be happy with a 4.5 litre Cerbera.
They're gorgeous, fast as f*ck, sound like a motorbike, and most important of all, are hand made in good old Blighty
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SVM 286
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quote:
Originally posted by Fad
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Originally posted by dannycorsa c
waste ov a mk1 if u ask me
why is it a waste? Looks amzing has an engine to boot...ok the dash is a bit gash but thats about it
Got to agree there Fad.
I think he's taking the TVR connection a bit far there.
It looks like he salvaged the dash from a smashed up TVR, or worse still made a glass-fibre replica - just wrong.
Big V8 into small car is the perfect combination, but round dash into square car just isn't right.
If it was mine, i'd keep the interior and exterior as original and standard looking as poss so it just looked like an ordinary horrible under powered little old Golf Gti.
But then terrify the sh*te out of some Fireblade riding nutter when I pull past him at breakneck speed with tyre vapour billowing out of the rear arches
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ainsley_brader
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I like the dash, hate the huge wheels pushed too far into the arches.
Love the idea though be nice to see it finished!
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