Great man.

Another South African.
Talk to a guy on this site named benny.
He currently has a coupe with A14 engine racing.
Can help you with mods and stuff.

Because you are in South Africa, I will reccomend the A14 because parts are everywhere and you can make it square.
Something to do with bore and stroke being the same. This apparently can also help with reliability.
You can then work the GX head a little and use it.
If not, PLEASE let me know as I would like the GX head and SU's on the A12 engine if you are going to sell it.

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I live in Durbanville, Cape Town - close to Killarney race way.

Golfs are fast but are understeery creatures unless set-up perfectly.
There are some fast Dattos around - most notably a white 1600 SSS that gives the Porsche 911 Carerras a hard time in Classics

Where are you from?

Sad to hear about the VW.
They are great little performers on a race track. But I think you know that. Why else do you think they call the Mk1 golf a rabbit in England. Have you ever tried catching a running rabbit?

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The VW is dead my friend . I destroyed it in a end of season race in December.

But...I do have an old Datsun 1200GX that came with my late Father's estate. It will be much cheaper to convert it to a racer for the local classic cars series.
Building another Class A GTi Challenge car will cost at least R80K
GTi Challenge becomes bloody expensive if one runs competitively - building the race motor last year cost R12000 for instance

Hey Mustard

Where are you from?
Why do you go from 2litre 16valve to 1500cc.
Why not stay with the VW car and motor.
they are good little racers and reliable.

Point taken killer - the rods might be better off with a shot peen. A15 imports are quite cheap here (the equivalent of Aus$500) - so the plan is to see how a stock bottom end (apart from new big ends) with a 11.8:1 CR,hot cam and gasflow lasts in a race car.

If it pops halfway through the season a rethink might be in order

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The ACL pistons are stock replacement pistons for the 2lit 16v Nissan Sentra - they work great as a monster over bore in VW motors,taking the capacity up to 2080cc.
ACL makes some good stuff - I'm a great fan

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There not really what I would call stock pistons.

You can get 170flywheel HP from using a stock crank and rods but they still need work.

Good Luck tell us how you get on.

Howzit Killer - I used to get 130KW at the wheels @7200 rpm out of a VW Golf 2litre 16V motor (2X 45 DCOE's) reliably on stock rods (and plain cast ACL aftermarket Nissan Ca20 pistons).
It was usual for it to run for the entire season without catastrophic failure.

The VW blocks are visually not high tech at all . They do come with forged cranks and rods from the factory though.

We'll see.
I'll run it as far as it can go and keep the forum updated

That sounds decent - especially in a stripped out race car

I'll figure the search function out,thanks