my dream would be to make so much revenue on my channel that I didn't have to work anymore, and i could go full time cars. Then I imagined myself there with you guys just goofing around, and learning things from professional mechanics. It would have been epic. I'll always have Casablanca. (although the truth is, i'd keep my job, which i enjoy quite a lot.)
i'm a CIS fan and Charles is right. when it works and is tuned properly it works great. i'm also using an old VW Motorsports CIS unit. i'm also in my 50's.
Thank you, Im the same, just had to go down in comments to see someone stand up for the old CIS when all the hate came in the VID :P Just restored my Golf mk2 16v KR -88 totally original, when I got everything set up right and dailed in with the CIS it runs really smooth. For me it was a blast to set my mind in to understanding everything. Its just something really beautiful with an all mechanic system.
a year or two ago I had a 1985 Jetta that I got for free from the farmer I was working for. It took a long time to get it to run (and I know basically nothing about cars, especially then) and, being a 20-something broke-as-a-joke farm kid I somehow drove it from Montana all the way to Texas (and back!). Whenever I stopped the car would stall, so I had to shift into neutral and both rev the engine and brake at the same time every single time I stopped. This video brought back some serious trauma flash backs from that-- the sound, the look on Charles' face when they kept stalling at that light, everything. I'm going to go sit in the fetal position for a while
"If it was a customer's car it would have snapped" lol, Thank you Paul. That one got me laughing hard this morning. Not because I am a mechanic and can relate but I was a retail manager for most of my working years so yeah, this is a thing. Happens with electronics too. Customer's VCR acts crazy at their home, they bring it in and it works fine for me. I open it up to check the belts and clean the heads and SNAP, the freakn' belt breaks. Never happens when I clean my own VCR. Oh also I am indeed old enough to have been tuning those injection systems if I was into VeeDubs back then. That was after the 69 Mustang and before I got back into fun cars. Great video and sad to hear about David moving on, such a great guy and excellent tech. I will be down there with my Mk7 GLI on the 16th getting my Holy Shift installed with Jack, very excited about that. Also jazzed up to finally making it down to the Dragon this year. No tickets as I missed the announcement but I will check out the show and look for you guys and the project car. Looking forward to meeting Charles in person after commenting and chatting with him on stream. I will stop by the office and say howdy if you are around.
CIS is a fantastic system, it is rock solid, you just need to know how to work on it. My 1981 Scirocco runs great on the original system. The main culprit for it not running right is vacuum leaks.
This is awesome!! Really looking forward to the engine swap. Been working on my 1985 Scirocco refurb on my channel (I'm the original owner, 106K NO RUST, same color MARS RED). Hoping to get her started soon and am looking forward to doing a VR6 swap as well. Thanks for restoring a Scirocco!!
Glad I can finally sit down and watch this series. I’m the guy that came up at the Quiktrip near Eurofed back at the beginning of your journey and Charles said it’s a secret project. These guys are awesome and real down to earth in person. I recognized Paul but forgot his name in person even after watching a ton of videos when repairing my GTI. My bad Paul😅! Anyways I’m glad this project came to fruition and thank you for documenting the experience!
32:15 four guys one grinder...... Laughed through the whole video! Always awesome when Paul and Charles get together! Looking forward to the next segment, guys
In the early 90s I bought a Scirocco for $100 from a coworker. who was leaving the company. He drove it to my house, followed by his dad, signed it over and they headed home. I jumped into the VW, started it up, and the engine's wiring harness immediately began to smoke even as I could still see them turning the corner in the rear view mirror. I didn't lose anything on it, as my roommate bought it for what I paid, fixed it up and drove it for 3-4 years.
Awesome Video, brings back old memories! I had 3 of these Sciroccos back in the days over a 12 year period because I couldn't afford a Delorean 😛, one 84' stock, and two factory 88' 16V's with Euro-Conversions, and had 2.0L 16V's professionally installed in both of them. Those cars were a real screamers, I could even keep up with muscle cars! 😁👍
The trick to finding first gear in an old A1 chassis with a worn shifter, is its Galway between 1st and reverse. You gave to push down in the reverse lockout to catch it. Learned this 30 years ago and has saved me many times. My current mk1 scirocco has a Hurst shifter with a different reverse lockout but I still need to do this.
Memories guys.. had one of these back in the late 80’s getting flash backs watching your content today. Best of luck going forward with this somewhat ambitious project will be following your progress with interest
I had a 88. Loved that car. The reverse gear had to be pushed down then up. Had a person run a red light and hit me and knocked out the gears out of whack and it would only shift in reverse. Good times.
I remember the CIS fuel system.. It was the modern thing back when i was in a shop for a few years. I loved cleaning the bowl with acetone and getting it shiney again.
I had a red Scirocco S in 1980 or so. Loved that car! 5 speed manual. Jensen Tri-X 6x9s with a Sony front end cassette and a Linear Power amp. Rocking to 'Ah Leah' by Donny Iris! Great times!!!
My older brother had an '80 Rabbit (diesel) and an '81 Scirocco when we were teenagers...those cars were actually quite fast. My brother's Scirocco had all the same dimension and the tiny wheels but the one in this video has the square headlights and the more modern interior. Same engine though, I think. I miss that car, it exotic looking to me when I was 16 and didn't know much about cars.
I wouldn't change family for the anything but having been involved in activities like this in my past life (with VWs)...they really do make great memories.
25:49 HAHA, nothing spins around inside the fuel distributor. it distributes fuel but doesn't work like an ignition distributor. These fuel systems are very reliable until the car sits too long, like most older VW's have. I agree they are crap compared to modern fuel injection and also agree most anyone competent enough to work on them is old as dirt.
There is a barrel with slits machined in it. As the airflow plate is lifted up its reveals the slits in the barrel and meters the fuel flow. There is also pressure regulated for enrichment ect and a few other things but that’s the gist of it.
I was hoping that somebody else caught that. CIS is always spraying gas through all 4 injectors, and it just pools on top of the intake valve when the valve is closed. Which is where the name continuous injection system comes from. Nothing inside the distributor spins, it only adjusts how much fuel goes to all 4 injectors based on how much airflow is going past the plate.
My '75 Volvo had that injection system, took it to the car grave yard in'03. My son could not kill it, built like a tank get up and go long gone but did not let us down.
I had an 84 back in the early 90’s. Loved it. Did a Tectonics Tuning 2.0L build. Had another 78’ model in Germany with a 1.5L and a points type ignition.
I owned a 77 Scirocco back in the late 70's and early 80's. It was a great car except No AC and I lived part of that time in Central Florida. It would get in the low 30's for mileage which back then was better than a Bug would get and it was much more sporty. It had points and on my return trip to Virginia to sell the car it broke down for only the second time in the many years I owned it. Both times the points broke or stuck. Pretty simple fix so over all I liked the car.
Fantastic video, gents! Great to see the partnerships and networking involved in getting that project off to a start. Not always an easy task. Looking forward to the continuing saga of that car.
mk1 VWs are the cars that started my VW addiction in the early 90’s. I honestly cannot say I miss those days. Now, I just like to look at them, but I would not want to own one as a daily driver. You guys are much braver than I!!
I’m original owner of my ‘86 “Rocco”, 350k miles same engine, never cracked open. Super easy to work on. I’m surprised the blower motor still works. They usually get dirty and stop working. You’re brave to drive it on the freeway, not a super safe car.
When I was 11, I helped my Dad pull and replace the engine in our family station wagon. I learned then that any conceivable repair will take at least twice as long as initially estimated.
@@MrTheHillfolk - I still miss those old UK repair manuals that would lovingly describe in the most infinite detail how to pull parts for a repair, then leave you hanging with "assembly is the opposite of removal".
@@floydblandston108 Ahaha yes! I tried to read the disassembly instructions backwards and all it said was dnfjjfbdbdhskwodybenfkdbsbdhhyrejkfofnfb gobbeldygook 😂
I owned this exact car when I was in college in the mid 80's!! Except mine was a white Wolfsburg Edition.... and I totaled it when I was "F1 racing" it and hit black ice on a curve during the winter. 90 HP felt so fast back then.
I had an 85 GTS, the designers said...Body styling? Let' make it sleek...Driving position? Let's make it sexy.... Headlights? Let's use candles....Braking system? Nah! What's the point? I loved my Mk 2, as Jeremy Clarkson once said, "Its the fastest you will ever go at 40 mph". Definitely a fun car to drive and held the road like glue.
I feel for you guys. I remember when I was teenager in the mid 80’s my dad brought home a scirocco(red also) fixer upper, that probably came out of a junk yard. I helped him get it running but we had nothing but problems with fuel pump issues and electrical gremlins. I don’t think it ever ran well and he didn’t have it long before he sold it😄
Oh the nostalgia! I used to own a 87 Scirocco 16v. Bought it at 100k miles (silly me) and drove it for 50k more before I had enough with its shenanigans. That things gave me the finger every month, costing me as much as a new car payment, but boy, still missing how fun it was to drive.
People who don't like vw. Have never driven one. Watching this video, make me feel good about buying a 2004 Golf for $800 at a police impound. It had a locked up engine. I spent $2600 to have another engine install. It now at an upholstery shop now getting redone.
Man it makes me remember all I my rides I had with my father's car he gave me, same car, same colour, different wheels. he had it since 87, I got it in 2003 up to 2010, it was a money pit just to keep it working haha
Cool video, I just bought an original scirocco with 3000km's on it. Was looking for a video to convince my wife that I can drive it 2200km's home from eastern europe through the Alps to the Netherlands. I thought this video was perfect to show that it was perfectly possible, but she probably thinks I'm crazy after watching you guys trying to shift into gear hahaha. Long story short, gonna do it anyway. Great video and greetings from the Netherlands.
Owned 2 of these back in the 80's. One was a 1300cc and the other 1600cc. The 1600 kept failing and had a new engine fitted by the VW Dealer. I really liked them, except that I had trouble getting in and out.
Given she's not a great runner, but considering her age all parts have stood the test of time. I'm a scirocco fan and this is a great running scirocco. Most do not run this well after sitting for a long time. Love this series!
FYI shift bushing kit for better shifting, cold start thermo time temp switch for the hard start. Heater fan switch will burn up. You got the fuel pump else these cars run forever until the 5 speed transmission destroys itself. 10 gallons at 30 mpg gets you 300 miles unless you red line it at 110 mph it was one of the fastest cars in 1980s national speed limit was 55 mph
Loved every second and cant wait to see whats next. Now i have to vr6 swap my already 16v aba turbo swapped mk2 gti. When my wife retaliates il just blame you guys...
My wife had a 1980 Scirocco back in the day. I came to despise that car more than I ever have despised any car probably in my life. However, the manual transmission was probably the best thing about it. I thought that by '84 they actually made a 6-cylinder version. I just remembered, it was called the "Corrado" I think.
I had a black 1984 scirocco back in 85-87....loved that car so much! I still love how they look👍 That car was honestly very cool in the 80’s, honest! I am literally laughing out loud as I watch this! The road trip is killing me....😂😂😂😂😂
my first car was an 84 Scirocco...got my license in 1988 and the 84 Scirocco was my car for the next 11 years....when I sold it, it still looked like it came off the showroom floor....really took care of it
I am driving a 1984 VW Rabbit Cabriolet. Took the engine out and put in electric motor and batteries. In first gear I can spin the wheel inside of the tires. (Then the tire goes flat.) Generally drive in 2nd or 3rd gear... no clutch.
Lol,many memories,my first car was an 84 Rocco in this faded red.its sloppy shifter, even on a good day,takes some elite mastery of feeling out shift mechanisms on a manual transmission. If you can drive these,you can drive anything.maybe not a 1972 Mack dump truck,10 spd manual,no power brakes,no power steering : l
I disliked the look of the Sciroccos until I saw one with euro bumpers and lights - then I loved it. Maybe not the most reliable but its never left me stranded either.
The shifter works as it did as new lol. First is a light stop on the reverse spring and up. Pull back left to second, Second to third is really just a straight push up. Fifth is a hard push to the right and up. FYI the engine and trans come out together, it drops out from the bottom.
My father in law is French and he had one of these, not a sports model though. He's taken us all over France in the thing. Four adults and one child crammed in that thing for hours at a time.
You get the engine out much more easily if you disconnect the entire drive train and engine mount (just a few cables, hoses, bolts and nuts) and lift the front body over it, pivoting the car up on the real wheels. Then you can replace the engine directly from the drive train. That is the way these cars were designed. In the factory, the entire drive train was inserted in the car from below by robots.
I can’t get over the condition,...nice. I had Vw fox with cis 1.8L sohc 8v with 81hp and 93lb-ftlbs, 4 speed 0 to 62mph in 10.5 which for a 87 was impressive, it ran a 17.70 1/4 miIe, sloowwww today. could not keep struts in it, the gas tank leaked, valve seals burned oil at 100,000 miles. I had Vw rebuild it, and back in 1994 a 740.00 repair bill wasn’t easy to pay for, but they let me make biweekly payments that I paid with my part time job at Wendy’s as a 16 year old. They always looked after me. Mine wasThat exact same colour of this car here. Anyway it’s long gone thank God. I bought another one with 35,000 miles it was a 1990. This one ran 17.1 in the 1/4 probably due to the extra gear.Had the same issues again minus the valve seals and with a 5 speed. This was late 90s. In 2016 I bought a used golf tsi, a 2015, loved it so much I traded for a new 2017 GTI, loved that too so traded for a brand new 2018 Golf R blue, with Pretorias, and that’s my Vw history.
So I have and love a 88 Scirocco 16v . The car is so much fun to drive but you are correct. The CIS-e is a pain. I have it running well now but it took a lot of work and money. Yesterday my fuel tank started leaking so its dead in the water again. I would live to do a VR6 or 1.8T swap in it.
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had a Top Gear type of adventure feel.
my dream would be to make so much revenue on my channel that I didn't have to work anymore, and i could go full time cars. Then I imagined myself there with you guys just goofing around, and learning things from professional mechanics. It would have been epic. I'll always have Casablanca. (although the truth is, i'd keep my job, which i enjoy quite a lot.)
BROOOOOO that came out so killer and clean in the eng. comp.
Not better than a 84 Audi - 5cyl Quatro. The V6 is nice, but a header full of 5 cyl gas pressure - is just fantastic. Cheers! Nice idea thou
I want a reliable friend like Charles.
I have friends who come up with ideas like Paul.
Thank you guys for documenting your pain.
in my group of friends, im the charles. i do all the builds for the older water-cooled dubs around my area
Thanks for talking me into doing this. Even with all the unexpected problems, I still had fun.. mostly 😂
Finally some content with older VWs! I would love to see even more from the Mk1 and Mk2 era.
The question is, will we survive???
I think the question is "why?"
@@kevinbarry71 never ask that in the VW world
The answer is "why not"?
🤣🤣🤣 That shifting was hilarious. I feel like that when I am trying to launch the car.
Yes, awesome
i'm a CIS fan and Charles is right. when it works and is tuned properly it works great. i'm also using an old VW Motorsports CIS unit. i'm also in my 50's.
Thank you, Im the same, just had to go down in comments to see someone stand up for the old CIS when all the hate came in the VID :P Just restored my Golf mk2 16v KR -88 totally original, when I got everything set up right and dailed in with the CIS it runs really smooth. For me it was a blast to set my mind in to understanding everything. Its just something really beautiful with an all mechanic system.
I saw this scirocco for sale I’m glad you guys got it
Love this duo. You guys are honestly so funny together!
a year or two ago I had a 1985 Jetta that I got for free from the farmer I was working for. It took a long time to get it to run (and I know basically nothing about cars, especially then) and, being a 20-something broke-as-a-joke farm kid I somehow drove it from Montana all the way to Texas (and back!). Whenever I stopped the car would stall, so I had to shift into neutral and both rev the engine and brake at the same time every single time I stopped. This video brought back some serious trauma flash backs from that-- the sound, the look on Charles' face when they kept stalling at that light, everything. I'm going to go sit in the fetal position for a while
This almost makes me miss all my old 80’s VW’s. Almost..
Omg I’m DED when you put the hi beams on LOL and when you pulled up to the hotel and those rad fans were screaming. Lmao
11:16 Scirocco still has a great profile
I wasn’t ready for the episode to be over! Good stuff!
"If it was a customer's car it would have snapped" lol, Thank you Paul. That one got me laughing hard this morning. Not because I am a mechanic and can relate but I was a retail manager for most of my working years so yeah, this is a thing. Happens with electronics too. Customer's VCR acts crazy at their home, they bring it in and it works fine for me. I open it up to check the belts and clean the heads and SNAP, the freakn' belt breaks. Never happens when I clean my own VCR. Oh also I am indeed old enough to have been tuning those injection systems if I was into VeeDubs back then. That was after the 69 Mustang and before I got back into fun cars. Great video and sad to hear about David moving on, such a great guy and excellent tech. I will be down there with my Mk7 GLI on the 16th getting my Holy Shift installed with Jack, very excited about that. Also jazzed up to finally making it down to the Dragon this year. No tickets as I missed the announcement but I will check out the show and look for you guys and the project car. Looking forward to meeting Charles in person after commenting and chatting with him on stream. I will stop by the office and say howdy if you are around.
CIS is a fantastic system, it is rock solid, you just need to know how to work on it. My 1981 Scirocco runs great on the original system. The main culprit for it not running right is vacuum leaks.
This is awesome!! Really looking forward to the engine swap. Been working on my 1985 Scirocco refurb on my channel (I'm the original owner, 106K NO RUST, same color MARS RED). Hoping to get her started soon and am looking forward to doing a VR6 swap as well. Thanks for restoring a Scirocco!!
VW version of Roadkill. This is gonna be good!
Glad I can finally sit down and watch this series. I’m the guy that came up at the Quiktrip near Eurofed back at the beginning of your journey and Charles said it’s a secret project. These guys are awesome and real down to earth in person.
I recognized Paul but forgot his name in person even after watching a ton of videos when repairing my GTI. My bad Paul😅!
Anyways I’m glad this project came to fruition and thank you for documenting the experience!
32:15 four guys one grinder......
Laughed through the whole video! Always awesome when Paul and Charles get together! Looking forward to the next segment, guys
Having owned three Sciroccos, this video was very nostalgic. The fuel pump was about the only thing I never touched on my ‘88.
This my dream car from the 80s that you have turned into some Top Gear nightmare.
In the early 90s I bought a Scirocco for $100 from a coworker. who was leaving the company. He drove it to my house, followed by his dad, signed it over and they headed home. I jumped into the VW, started it up, and the engine's wiring harness immediately began to smoke even as I could still see them turning the corner in the rear view mirror. I didn't lose anything on it, as my roommate bought it for what I paid, fixed it up and drove it for 3-4 years.
I grew up driving an old Scirocco. My front drive shafts always fell off and I would have to climb under it and put them back on. I loved it though!
Awesome Video, brings back old memories! I had 3 of these Sciroccos back in the days over a 12 year period because I couldn't afford a Delorean 😛, one 84' stock, and two factory 88' 16V's with Euro-Conversions, and had 2.0L 16V's professionally installed in both of them. Those cars were a real screamers, I could even keep up with muscle cars! 😁👍
Thanks for not treating this car like a pile of shit and distroying it like most aholes do when they buy an old car.
1977 Scirroco, is my love 👍
This, I miss my S2 rocco's but I lust for a clean S1, I even have a set of NIB Chastian rear window louvers setting waiting for it!
The trick to finding first gear in an old A1 chassis with a worn shifter, is its Galway between 1st and reverse. You gave to push down in the reverse lockout to catch it. Learned this 30 years ago and has saved me many times.
My current mk1 scirocco has a Hurst shifter with a different reverse lockout but I still need to do this.
Memories guys.. had one of these back in the late 80’s getting flash backs watching your content today. Best of luck going forward with this somewhat ambitious project will be following your progress with interest
I came here for CIS content and have left very pleased :P As always, very entertaining and fun to watch!
Man, this is a super cool project! Love everything about it... can’t wait to see it completed!
I had a 88. Loved that car. The reverse gear had to be pushed down then up. Had a person run a red light and hit me and knocked out the gears out of whack and it would only shift in reverse.
Good times.
I remember the CIS fuel system.. It was the modern thing back when i was in a shop for a few years. I loved cleaning the bowl with acetone and getting it shiney again.
In Scotland we call a transmission like that as a pudding bowl gear stick! It's like stirring a pudding bowl!
Dad had one of these. I liked it at the time. He said it was the only car he had ever had where the tyres lasted longer than the body.
I had a red Scirocco S in 1980 or so. Loved that car! 5 speed manual. Jensen Tri-X 6x9s with a Sony front end cassette and a Linear Power amp. Rocking to 'Ah Leah' by Donny Iris! Great times!!!
Reminds me of the piles we drove in high school. You had to know the secret ritual for starting, braking, turning. Awesome road trip.
My older brother had an '80 Rabbit (diesel) and an '81 Scirocco when we were teenagers...those cars were actually quite fast. My brother's Scirocco had all the same dimension and the tiny wheels but the one in this video has the square headlights and the more modern interior. Same engine though, I think. I miss that car, it exotic looking to me when I was 16 and didn't know much about cars.
I wouldn't change family for the anything but having been involved in activities like this in my past life (with VWs)...they really do make great memories.
25:49 HAHA, nothing spins around inside the fuel distributor. it distributes fuel but doesn't work like an ignition distributor.
These fuel systems are very reliable until the car sits too long, like most older VW's have. I agree they are crap compared to modern fuel injection and also agree most anyone competent enough to work on them is old as dirt.
There is a barrel with slits machined in it. As the airflow plate is lifted up its reveals the slits in the barrel and meters the fuel flow.
There is also pressure regulated for enrichment ect and a few other things but that’s the gist of it.
I was hoping that somebody else caught that. CIS is always spraying gas through all 4 injectors, and it just pools on top of the intake valve when the valve is closed. Which is where the name continuous injection system comes from. Nothing inside the distributor spins, it only adjusts how much fuel goes to all 4 injectors based on how much airflow is going past the plate.
My '75 Volvo had that injection system, took it to the car grave yard in'03. My son could not kill it, built like a tank get up and go long gone but did not let us down.
I had an 84 back in the early 90’s. Loved it. Did a Tectonics Tuning 2.0L build. Had another 78’ model in Germany with a 1.5L and a points type ignition.
"We have noise from the dash" - it is a sweet sound of speed (speedo cable). Mine has the same feature.
I owned a 77 Scirocco back in the late 70's and early 80's. It was a great car except No AC and I lived part of that time in Central Florida. It would get in the low 30's for mileage which back then was better than a Bug would get and it was much more sporty. It had points and on my return trip to Virginia to sell the car it broke down for only the second time in the many years I owned it. Both times the points broke or stuck. Pretty simple fix so over all I liked the car.
Fantastic video, gents! Great to see the partnerships and networking involved in getting that project off to a start. Not always an easy task. Looking forward to the continuing saga of that car.
mk1 VWs are the cars that started my VW addiction in the early 90’s. I honestly cannot say I miss those days. Now, I just like to look at them, but I would not want to own one as a daily driver. You guys are much braver than I!!
I’m original owner of my ‘86 “Rocco”, 350k miles same engine, never cracked open. Super easy to work on. I’m surprised the blower motor still works. They usually get dirty and stop working. You’re brave to drive it on the freeway, not a super safe car.
When I was 11, I helped my Dad pull and replace the engine in our family station wagon. I learned then that any conceivable repair will take at least twice as long as initially estimated.
Putting things back together takes 2.5 times longer than it did to take apart ,on average.
@@MrTheHillfolk - I still miss those old UK repair manuals that would lovingly describe in the most infinite detail how to pull parts for a repair, then leave you hanging with "assembly is the opposite of removal".
@@floydblandston108
Ahaha yes!
I tried to read the disassembly instructions backwards and all it said was dnfjjfbdbdhskwodybenfkdbsbdhhyrejkfofnfb gobbeldygook 😂
Charles; "minor inconvenience".......,the whole car is a minor inconvenience! ;-)
Only if by minor you mean major
But a challenge accepted.
@@Deutscheautoparts 😄
I owned this exact car when I was in college in the mid 80's!! Except mine was a white Wolfsburg Edition.... and I totaled it when I was "F1 racing" it and hit black ice on a curve during the winter. 90 HP felt so fast back then.
I had an 85 GTS, the designers said...Body styling? Let' make it sleek...Driving position? Let's make it sexy.... Headlights? Let's use candles....Braking system? Nah! What's the point? I loved my Mk 2, as Jeremy Clarkson once said, "Its the fastest you will ever go at 40 mph". Definitely a fun car to drive and held the road like glue.
I feel for you guys. I remember when I was teenager in the mid 80’s my dad brought home a scirocco(red also) fixer upper, that probably came out of a junk yard. I helped him get it running but we had nothing but problems with fuel pump issues and electrical gremlins. I don’t think it ever ran well and he didn’t have it long before he sold it😄
Man! I have always loved this car! I bought an 86 Plymouth Colt because of this car's design!
Lol "...or the hammer side of a wrench"
Spoken like a true mastertech
Please get some EU/UK spec bumpers, those US ones are ridiculous 😂.
I had a 1984 VW Scirocco in 1984. It was a beast when new.
You guys are comedy gold together! Love to see old things resurrected.
Oh the nostalgia! I used to own a 87 Scirocco 16v. Bought it at 100k miles (silly me) and drove it for 50k more before I had enough with its shenanigans. That things gave me the finger every month, costing me as much as a new car payment, but boy, still missing how fun it was to drive.
People who don't like vw. Have never driven one. Watching this video, make me feel good about buying a 2004 Golf for $800 at a police impound. It had a locked up engine. I spent $2600 to have another engine install. It now at an upholstery shop now getting redone.
i'm so sorry i laughed hard at "this is what embarrassment looks like" you guys make night shift so much fun.
I wanted one of these so bad in the early 90s. I ended up with an '84 Supra so things worked out ok in the end.
Man, so many memories... gold 81 Scirocco was my first car.
Love this just started watching this little project. Because i vot my Mk3 Sirocco a month ago. 🔥
Man it makes me remember all I my rides I had with my father's car he gave me, same car, same colour, different wheels. he had it since 87, I got it in 2003 up to 2010, it was a money pit just to keep it working haha
Cool video, I just bought an original scirocco with 3000km's on it. Was looking for a video to convince my wife that I can drive it 2200km's home from eastern europe through the Alps to the Netherlands. I thought this video was perfect to show that it was perfectly possible, but she probably thinks I'm crazy after watching you guys trying to shift into gear hahaha.
Long story short, gonna do it anyway.
Great video and greetings from the Netherlands.
Owned 2 of these back in the 80's. One was a 1300cc and the other 1600cc. The 1600 kept failing and had a new engine fitted by the VW Dealer. I really liked them, except that I had trouble getting in and out.
I knew a guy who took an original round headlight Scirocco and transplanted a 1.9 TDI diesel into it....then chip-tuned it. It was absolutely INSANE.
Wow! Cruise control on a Scirocco. Thats rare. Good options on that 84.
Love the build. I wantt to see more Scirocco. Thanks.
Given she's not a great runner, but considering her age all parts have stood the test of time. I'm a scirocco fan and this is a great running scirocco. Most do not run this well after sitting for a long time. Love this series!
Btw original color is MARS RED
FYI shift bushing kit for better shifting, cold start thermo time temp switch for the hard start. Heater fan switch will burn up. You got the fuel pump else these cars run forever until the 5 speed transmission destroys itself. 10 gallons at 30 mpg gets you 300 miles unless you red line it at 110 mph it was one of the fastest cars in 1980s national speed limit was 55 mph
This is EXACTLY the project I've had in mind for the last few years!
Y'all doing that legal Miami car move hahaha and y'all should have done the flashlight in the socket haha
Loved every second and cant wait to see whats next. Now i have to vr6 swap my already 16v aba turbo swapped mk2 gti. When my wife retaliates il just blame you guys...
My wife had a 1980 Scirocco back in the day. I came to despise that car more than I ever have despised any car probably in my life. However, the manual transmission was probably the best thing about it. I thought that by '84 they actually made a 6-cylinder version. I just remembered, it was called the "Corrado" I think.
I had a black 1984 scirocco back in 85-87....loved that car so much! I still love how they look👍
That car was honestly very cool in the 80’s, honest!
I am literally laughing out loud as I watch this! The road trip is killing me....😂😂😂😂😂
my first car was an 84 Scirocco...got my license in 1988 and the 84 Scirocco was my car for the next 11 years....when I sold it, it still looked like it came off the showroom floor....really took care of it
I am driving a 1984 VW Rabbit Cabriolet. Took the engine out and put in electric motor and batteries. In first gear I can spin the wheel inside of the tires. (Then the tire goes flat.) Generally drive in 2nd or 3rd gear... no clutch.
You can drop the engine and trans together out the bottom next time 😂 Love MK1 content!
I subbed to this channel for tutorials. The direction it's going in is amazing loving the content
I had a black '84 scirocco Wolfsburg 1.8 8 valve. Added a tri y header- G grind camshaft and had the same 13" rim jobs!
Simply Amazing! Gotta love you guys
Cool vid! Seems a shame to molest an original in modified scirocco though. Still, love it :D
This is amazing. Yall should do these kind of videos more often from now on. 🥰😁
Thanks! That will probably depend on how successful this series is.
Lol,many memories,my first car was an 84 Rocco in this faded red.its sloppy shifter, even on a good day,takes some elite mastery of feeling out shift mechanisms on a manual transmission. If you can drive these,you can drive anything.maybe not a 1972 Mack dump truck,10 spd manual,no power brakes,no power steering : l
I disliked the look of the Sciroccos until I saw one with euro bumpers and lights - then I loved it. Maybe not the most reliable but its never left me stranded either.
An absolutely brilliant build! Keep doing what you do!
I loved my Scirocco back in the day. New Engine, trans, and upgraded breaks would make a fantastic car.
Damn you guys were legit 15 minutes from me!
My first car I got at 16 was a 1978 Sirocco, it was in 1985. I loved that POS!
The shifter works as it did as new lol. First is a light stop on the reverse spring and up. Pull back left to second, Second to third is really just a straight push up. Fifth is a hard push to the right and up. FYI the engine and trans come out together, it drops out from the bottom.
My father in law is French and he had one of these, not a sports model though. He's taken us all over France in the thing. Four adults and one child crammed in that thing for hours at a time.
You get the engine out much more easily if you disconnect the entire drive train and engine mount (just a few cables, hoses, bolts and nuts) and lift the front body over it, pivoting the car up on the real wheels. Then you can replace the engine directly from the drive train. That is the way these cars were designed. In the factory, the entire drive train was inserted in the car from below by robots.
I can’t get over the condition,...nice. I had Vw fox with cis 1.8L sohc 8v with 81hp and 93lb-ftlbs, 4 speed 0 to 62mph in 10.5 which for a 87 was impressive, it ran a 17.70 1/4 miIe, sloowwww today. could not keep struts in it, the gas tank leaked, valve seals burned oil at 100,000 miles. I had Vw rebuild it, and back in 1994 a 740.00 repair bill wasn’t easy to pay for, but they let me make biweekly payments that I paid with my part time job at Wendy’s as a 16 year old. They always looked after me. Mine wasThat exact same colour of this car here. Anyway it’s long gone thank God. I bought another one with 35,000 miles it was a 1990. This one ran 17.1 in the 1/4 probably due to the extra gear.Had the same issues again minus the valve seals and with a 5 speed. This was late 90s. In 2016 I bought a used golf tsi, a 2015, loved it so much I traded for a new 2017 GTI, loved that too so traded for a brand new 2018 Golf R blue, with Pretorias, and that’s my Vw history.
Those US Sciroccos are so cool but theres a reason why we called this things the „Scirosto“ in Germany …because they rust so bad 😆
Looks like a straight car that just needs a good clean and restoration.
I have a 1982 Scirocco GL Auto, love this build!
A definite adventure. I envy you ppl. Great done !
I had similar fuel dustribution system on my 92 Corrado, which had a 2.0L 16v. First time seeing that
So I have and love a 88 Scirocco 16v . The car is so much fun to drive but you are correct. The CIS-e is a pain. I have it running well now but it took a lot of work and money. Yesterday my fuel tank started leaking so its dead in the water again. I would live to do a VR6 or 1.8T swap in it.
Great video and series!
I had a 1986 Scirocco, took it to 114 mph. sold it to a friend of mine, I think he still drives it on Sundays.