How to spend £1k to make a mk2 golf gti go faster?

[willdew]

I bought a golf yesterday for track use.

It's a mk2 1.8 8v gti. I know a 16v would be a better starting point - but it was cheap.

It's a generally good, bog standard car.

With c. £1k to play with - what would you recomend I do to make it faster around a track, still keeping it road legal?

[spdpug98]

Suspension (shocks & springs) and brakes are the best things to start with, otherwise it starts getting v. expensive

>> Edited by spdpug98 on Wednesday 16th November 20:58

[spnracing]

Yeah, you'll get very little out of any injection/exhaust mods (e.g. a new manifold or air filter) but if you can find a set of lowered stiffer dampers it will vastly improve lap times straight away. And a set of Pagid Fast Road pads on the front.

Make it go faster for free by reducing weight wherever possible - carpets, sound deadening, fuel, etc and adding as much -ve camber as the front struts allow.

[deltafox]

As stated by previous posters, basically optimise the setup for best results.
A free flow exhaust manifold will liberate extra power, but not a great deal.

[iguana]

Buy a 16v- for your grand you can get 180bhp! could even be done for just over half that if you are lucky.

Need a many £k & big spec 8v engine to get even close to that.

If sticking with 8v for track=

Give engine a darn good servive but basically leave it alone, strip interior, fit decent shocks & springs & ARBs, poly bush it all round, fit braided lines & new brake fluid, ditch the cack 239mm brakes & go up to 16v 256 or G60 280s, fit an oil cooler (tho many do cope without one) & that'll do ya.

Best bit is you can transfer all that lot over to a valver when you see the light!

>> Edited by iguana on Friday 18th November 06:46

[zcacogp]

2.0 16v lump seems very popular on the www.clubgti.com forums ...


Oli.

[gmaclean]

£1k will buy quite a lot of tuition which will make it go a whole lot faster than £1k of mods...!
GM