scimdarren 10 Posted May 14, 2011 Hey All, My son and I have just acquired a 1990 fixer upper. It will be my sons first car and a learning experience for us together. I am originally from UK now living in Canada, I loved my Mk2 Scirocco GTX and always aspired to Corrado ownership! It is a G60 with a reported blown bottom end. The initial satisfaction for us will be to get it roadworthy for minimal expense, So I guess our first question is, based on our goals what path should I take: 1)Discard the supercharged engine and replace with another VW engine 2)Salvage the G60 engine. Thanks Darren Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VR6 0 Posted May 14, 2011 Welcome to the forum, sounds like a pretty cool story :) I never thought I would say this :lol: but it would be a shame to see a G60 engine discarded unless it was a wreck. You can stick alternative/modern engines in them but I think it will kill a lot of the character a G60 has to be honest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scimdarren 10 Posted May 14, 2011 Welcome to the forum, sounds like a pretty cool story :) I never thought I would say this :lol: but it would be a shame to see a G60 engine discarded unless it was a wreck. You can stick alternative/modern engines in them but I think it will kill a lot of the character a G60 has to be honest. This was very spontaneous:o, I saw it advertised at 3pm, gave it a quick inspection, saw my sons reaction to this cool first car and we made a deal! Yes it's pretty nasty, but it didnt cost us much. So I would be up for saving the G60, providing underneath the supercharger is a pretty basic engine? Because we are on a 'school leavers' budget, we would even contemplate putting a standard engine from a Jetta into it just to get her running and maybe in the future fully restore her with the G60 Darren Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
