Introduce yourself

[thebrief_1979]

Welcome bud - lovely motor - hope to see it in the near future

[Neillyboy]

Hi Matt
Welcome. You have a lovely car there. What's the plans with it?
Neil

[GT1]

Hey everyone. Thought i'd register as recentely aquired 2 roccos in need of attention. The 1st is a mk2 storm which unfortunatelly was left on a porta cabin toilet block for a couple of years and suffered the elements. Seemed ok untill the bodykit came off . The 2nd is an early mk2 gt with a blown motor. Luckily looks like its been garaged since 96. Its a 1.6 kjet which I now know is an interferance engine? (no combustion chambers in head) Thought I could just re time it but its lost all compression on no 4. Either its interferance or a valve dropped. I read the valve collets only have 1 groove as apposed to later heads with 3. Anyone set me straight on this? Any way the gt looks ready to go once motors sorted so am weighing my options. Having owned a fair few golfs I know my way round the mecanics. Just need to decide on engine. 16v makes sense to me though the cost of a manifold does not. Does anywhere sell one for less than 250? Other option is to drop the storm motor in as its running, slightly bigger capacity and just needs a good service. Any thoughts welcome.
Cheers

[Old Mac Rocco]

Hi and welcome.
Don't know much about the technical side but I'm sure someone on here will soon point you in the right direction.
While you are waiting have a rummage about in the various threads.
It's amazing what you will find.

[ianaudia4]

Welcome, when you say early GT do you mean GTi as you state has KJet, which is GTi speak not a carb'd GT?

[Tim_R]

I thought all VW 8 valves where valve safe and it is just the 16 valves that aren't. I know my admittedly late 1.8 EX lump certainly was when i used the wrong mark and timed the cam 90 degrees out.
Is the head a hydraulic one or are the valve clearances adjusted with shims? If it's shimed then maybe the wrong clearances have been set or the shims just aren't sat right and the valves can't close properly.

Edit - forgot to say welcome to the forum

[GT1]

Hi, yes its an 82 mars red gt 1.6 8v kjet from factory.Gt badge on window pillar so not sure. Did gt's only come carbed? I was 100% all 8v's were non interferance untill I looked into this one. As I said, no combustion chamber in head so resembles a diesel head, flat face. The mk1 1.5 shares the same flat head design allbeit carbed. Would be solid lifter too but it ran with previous owner before letting go so dout shimming has caused the problem. It came to me locked up and out of time. I have a spare head but 3 exhaust studs seized and snapped off. Snap on extractor has also snapped off in stud so will need to be helicoiled if I use it.

[ianaudia4]

It's a GTi mate, they came with just a "GT" badge on the pillars.
Get a picture up on here, inside and out, be good to see.

[Neillyboy]

It's a GTi mate, they came with just a "GT" badge on the pillars.
Get a picture up on here, inside and out, be good to see.

Hi & welcome. As Ian says. Let's see the pictures

[GT1]

Heres a couple

[Gaz GT2]

Hi All

Thought it about time i introduced myself and my latest in a long line of vw's, (5th scirocco)

I'm Gary and I reside in sunny Ayr. Bought this at the end of oct last year, got it from a guy in wigan after viewing many dissapointments and I think i've done pretty well, it's in amazing condition, well with it being one of the very last (reg'd aug 92) it should be.
I've had it hibernating over the winter fiddling and fettling with it, hardly needed anything, the passengers side electric window switch was broke used a corrado one for now, there was a little bit of dirt in the fuel system and the sun roof won't slide, not fixed that yet.
Couldn't resist driving it anymore so put it on the road this week and it runs like a dream, so much so it's gonna be my daily driver. only thing i need to change are the wheels for something more suited to the car and the instrument panel, it's got white dials at the moment (not to my taste)

Anyway here it is in all it's glory

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rocco2.jpg

rocco3.jpg

Looking forward to chatting to you all and sharing some of my vw knowledge

[Cpt Custom]

I'm Gary and I reside in sunny Ayr ...

Know it well, being from Killie originally ... though it was rarely sunny as I remember it!

Anyway, welcome to the forum Gary, here's hoping you get to some shows ... can thoroughly recommend Volksfling if you've not been before and there's been a good few Sciroccos there this last couple of years.

[Gaz GT2]

It's been kinda sunny the past few days, especially compared to the rest of the country, I've never been to volksfling, was at the big bang and vanfest with my camper last year, didn't see any scirocco's mind you wrong genre of vw, i'll have to take a run up to biggar this year for sure. Thanks for the welcome

[ianaudia4]

Another Scirocco for Biggar, bring it on. That is at least a dozen so far

[Gaz GT2]

Biggar is a go for me, will be nice to actually see other scirocco's they're a scarce sight around my way, (exept the mk3) plenty of them