HI all,

Ive been looking round and i cant find much info about these engines. I know that they were a flop, no one really bought them, with 115 bhp from a 2.0 L engine compared to 100bhp from a 1.4 16V and you can start to understand why.

But ive been told that the 2.0 engine came from the mk3 Golf GTI. So surely these engines could be tweaked/tuned to turn out a fair bit of power?

Does anyone know of anyone tuning this engine with any real success?

thanks

T

I don't think there's much you can do with a 2.0 in a Golf GTI either, tbh....just that the Mk3 Golf was a less bloated platform than the Mk4 Golf and the Fabia (which I think weight-wise is still a bit of a porker even though it's on a smaller chassis than a Golf) so the shortcomings of the engine were less obvious.

mk3 2.0 8v were codes 2e, ady, & agg respectively for age. Pretty much all to do with emissions. Its not as gutless as most think tbh, and torque is very usable being at low revs. It just kinda runs out of puff at about 5k rpm lol

Oh and there is very very little you can do to tune them and get more out. Basic breather mods, lairy cams, and a remap will still see less than a standard 16v abf lump at 150 bhp.

MK3 Golf GTI 8V. Only a GTI in the UK whilst the rest of Europe wept (in a foreign language we don't know...). Slower than a 1.6 Toyota Corolla... ISTR one of the car shows had a bit of a drag race.

The MK3 engine wasn't cross flow, the Fabia engine was more like the Octavia or MK4 Golf.

MK3 Golf GTI 8V. Only a GTI in the UK whilst the rest of Europe wept (in a foreign language we don't know...). Slower than a 1.6 Toyota Corolla... ISTR one of the car shows had a bit of a drag race.

Thought that was the MK4? Maybe both were, the MK4 was even slower still than the MK3!

Yep, mk3 8v was the "Sport" model everywhere else. I dunno about the mk4 tbh, but the 2.0 gti and 1.8 20v non turbo gti were crap as well.