Motors mk1 golf gti progress thread (VERY PIC HEAVY)

thought id share this lot with you, been into computers all my life and the other passion was cars although i knew alot about different cars i didnt know how to actually do any mechanical on them but always had the willingness to learn, so i bought a project and here is the last 5 months work bear with me there is rather alot

Wooo!

Reeto, ive finally got the hang on this ****e and im going to make me a blog.

I've got the following jobs to try and get done for inters, will be getting pics up and documenting everything over teh weekend for you all...

Basically my life is a big stupid adventure with so much random *******s going on that this will probably make you laugh, cry or run away screaming... but its all in the name of science...


Bits i'm waiting on in the post
New Hubs
New Wheel Bearings
280mm ATE Discs
Green Stuff Pads
Brand New 16V/G60 Calipers
Caliper Spacer Brackets



Eurosport 7x11" oil cooler with mocal sandwich plate


New Alloy Filler Cap - My old one doesnt sit flush
Rear Disc Conversion From a Mk2 GTI
NOS Alternator

Bits i still need to buy
Rocco 16V Handbrake Cable
280/300mm Steering Wheel
165/50/15 Tyres
S/S Centre Pipe
Opening 1/4 lights
New Radiator
Silicon Coolant/Ancillary Hoses
Chrome Window Wiper Arms
4-Pot Calipers Whenever i can find some.
Splitties or some deep dish 15's

Jobs that need doing
4 Branch Manifold needs fitting - Will be polishing up over the next couple of weeks

Uprated ARB with new polybushes



Rebuild my new engine - thats the main reason of this blog
Rear Braided Hoses need fitting
GTI Arches need fitting
Paint O/S Rear Arch, currently in primer.
Sort Fan Motor (Possibly Seized Fan)
Rewire Alarm/Stereo/Electric Windows & Central Locking.
polish rocker cover


The deal with the engine

I haves me a 1800 GTI Engine i picked up, the following work has been done.

Piper Cam
Vernier Pulley
Ported & Polished Head
New Oil Pump
New Distributer
Bottom End Painted Black.

I will be polishing up the throttle body, inlet manifold and rocker cover.

Also got myself a full set of gaskets, o-rings, seals, bearing shells and loads of other ****ing bits i have no what they are, basically everything to fully rebuild a new motor :-D








Some other jobs i've done over the last couple of months

Fitted a new driveshaft, hub, wheel bearing, EBC x-drilled/grooved discs and greenstuff pads]

painted up the arch spats, duckbill splitter and calipers and bumpers



Oh and the car at the moment -





The arch damage has been repaired, and primered, still got to paint it back to the audi rot pearl
pressed plates arent shown fitted

also fitted a new gearknob, bucket seats, steering wheel, stereo, electric windows, replaced the air, oil, fuel filter, sparks, oil, coolant, leads, dizzy cap, rotor arm, adjusted trottle and clutch cables, new pedal rubbers, cleaned carpets, fixed loose bonnet catch, new driveshaft

 

managed to sort the gear selector rod, what a feckin mission, especially when you have hayfever and a sneezing fit and end up headbutting the sump! owwww.

cant seem to find the fill port for the gearbox oil so thats a mission ive given up on. will re-attempt when my brakes come later on in the week and i change them

also twatted my head off the bleed nipple crawling out from under the car so my neighbours heard me shout "****in nipples" about 20 times hahaha

definatly a job for two people is the shift selector rod alignment!

anyway time to grab some lunch and go round me mates, innabit






wheeeeeeeee

WHY oh WHY do people always advertise the best stuff stupidly cheap on late late sunday evening...

ive been tempted by a 90amp upgraded alternator for running the sub, also bought myself a new dual voice coil sub to make way for the old dvc sub i blew up.

got myself some carbon door cards with pods fitted hopefully in the next couple of weeks

and my best find yet, hopefully i can go pick these up on saturday, some rather tasty lorber 5 spoke deep dish rims...

been after a set like these for ages...

what do you reckon, black with a polished dish, or fully polished?









wooo new presents...

stereo lead, 280mm brakes and subwoofer have arrived...

stereo is already hooked up now and i have tunage again... first time ive had tunes in a car since i sold the G40 back in february... didnt need it then tho as the G was music to my ears!

the new subwoofer is a 12 inch, so ive got to get a jigsaw blade and enlarge the hole in my 10 inch sub enclosure. once this is done i can mount the sub in the back behind the front seats and the amp in the spare boot well.

the carbon door cards will be here in a month or so, so im on the lookout for some cheap decent components

tomorrows plans are to :-

finish work
go to boardmans garage and get a full mk2 rear disc conversion with rear brake bias valve of a mates old valver in the yard.
will try and see if i can rob the servo off it too... then its off to gsf to pick up 2 brake hoses, 16v rocco handy-b cable and a passat 4 port master cylinder...

saturdays job is a bit of a mini mission

remove old hubs
fit new ball joints
fit 280mm brakes
plum braided hoses
drop rear axle
fit rear braided hoses
fit brake bias valve
remove old drums and stub axles
fit new stub axles and disc brakes
fit new rear wheel bearings
fit servo & master cylinder
fill and bleed brakes

go for a test drive, (no heavy brakes for a good 200 miles to let the pads bed in)

sit back and smoke a fat spliff

sunday :-
cut new subwoofer hole in sub box
fit subwoofer
fit enclosure in car
fit amp in car
pull up carpets and wire in.

and that hopefully should be my weekend in a nutshell

i also found a guy that will rebuild my engine for 60 quid so that will save me **** loads of time,

gotta take a trip to brum to go pick up the alloys in the week


oh fitted the strut brace

you can see the new brakes here, but i cant decide on which brace to keep Arghhhh!


Right up...

Friday -

Went down to find out about the 16v servo, can get it for 25 quid and a new passat master cylinder from a 87-92 16v model for 35 quid, ill wait till inters for these as im running light off cash...

oil cooler arrived today, its a sexy piece of work if i do say so meself...

the rear disc conversion is on hold until i get the servo and mc done... the extra pressue needed to run bigger pistons means theres alot more pedal travel so i dont wnat to increase that with rear calipers too...

saturday -

meant to wake up at 9, woke up at half 2 hahahaha, all i did today was cut a subwoofer hole to accept the 12 inch sub and fit it in the box... laziness oh also started to polish up the 4 branch manfold, its coming up mint!

went a houseparty later on, took far too many pre-rolled joints and a mahoosive bottle of southern comfort, which i drank nearly all of it and proceeded to go lie outside, chunder **** loads and went and passed out in the car! woke up at half 7 very uncomfy and hungover as ****!

sunday -

despite going to bed at half 7 i woke up at 11 reasonably refreshed.

mounted my amp in the spare boot well and sub behind the drivers seat. wired in the rcas, power, ground and amp remote and some new fuse holders...

need to get a wire brush on my earthing point as its a tad rusty, ive also got to change the sealing around the passenger side taillight as its letting water in...

went over to my mates lockup where i procedeed to take off teh old hubs and 239mm brakes...

fitted the new hubs with 280mm brakes on, plugged in all the braided hoses and bled the brakes...

they look amazing but the pedal travel is enormous (due to the larger piston size and still with the 19mm master cylnder and 8v sevo), ill sort this in the week after inters (or possibly this week if i sell me red golf)

didnt fit new ball joints as i couldnt get hold of the m6 bolts and nuts needed but the two new wheel bearings in the hubs have worked wonders...



managed to get meself a nice radiator slam panel metal cover which im gonna polish up, and 2 plastic covers that sit either side of the drivers window, these are pretty rare i think and once ive blackend them up will look the nuts!

ill take some pics of these tomorrow, oh also sorted my camber and tracking, shes rocking 1 degree either side, a bit much it should be 0.5 but ill wait till i get my new alloys with lower profile tyres...

oh it was ****in scary driving back in the insano rain, aquaplaning like a mother****er all over the place

oh and my f**kin pressed plates keep falling off, i wish we got sent the sticky pads by hte company, both plates fell off in town and i didnt notice till i got till the garage, i had to cruise around town trying to find them, theyve all got scratched and the chrome holders are ****ed!

not impressed but mehhh, also like currie said the yellow and white covers ont he plates come off pretty easy, no wonders yours was messed up in the post...

gotta get some ****ty decent sticky ******* pads tomorrow and hope the plates dont fall off agani, well surprised i didnt get stopped by police and noone flashed or even told me i had no plates on as i was driving around, id be going pure mental if i saw someone rolling with no plates

anyway glad to have big brakes and a sub and stereo again... all in all a productive weekend woop

Driving back from work today, just come off the motorway onto a dual carrigeway about 2 minutes from home when the sound of a bolt twatting some metal happens and an almighty knocking happens, so i pull over calmly into the bus stop without braking as i only doing about 20mph when this happened. Once i got into the bus stop the o/s wheel was seized up to **** and the car just stopped straight away

jacked up the wheel to find to my dismay that one of the caliper extension bracket bolts had either come loose or sheered out of the mounting and my caliper was hanging by only one bolt.




it had essentially cheesewedged itself against the brake disc and my alloy wheel busting the bleed nipple in the process and scratching up the nice new calipers.

i tried to find the bolt in vain, but i managed to take some pictures, you can see the missing bolt, and the bolt thats holding the bracket to the caliper is also coming losoe.

These bolts were torque wrenched tight when fitted to the car but needed no real tightening as they were proper tight out of the box.

I either suspect that they were hi-tensile bolts used or they werent held in with loctite when originally fitted by the company who sold them to me, surely these bolts shouldn't come loose and disappear completely after only 40 miles of driving.

I'm not impressed in the slightest and the fact that after only 40 miles this has happened, how the hell am i meant to put my faith in these brackets indefinatly, as i had planned on keeping these on the car for as long as she lived. I mean imagine if that had happened round a roundabout or when i was doing an emergency stop.

anyone else had similar problems, or are you still running your 280mm brakes years on with no problems?

I wonder how many people are going to whip their wheels off in the morning and check how tight the bolts are!

yay...

right some updates

brakes - guy is sending me 8 new bolts, a new drivers side caliper and some threadlock (should have done it in the first place) all free of charge. (damn ****ing straight)

carbon door cards should be arriving next week, yaaaay well excited bout them.

got some other bits im picking up this weekend

samco hoses, single wiper mech, brand new uprated engine and gearbox mounts, cant remember what else matt has in store for me

ohhh yeh ordered a full gear linkage set from missinglinks...

gonne be **** hot, short shift kit with weighted shift rod, new bearings and bushes made of teflon mmmm, proper heat resitant

also all the rods are adjustable which means i can adjust the shift rod selector gap from the engine bay without having to **** about under the car... trust me this is a VERY good thing

will get some pics when it all arrives...

as for tonight im gonna do some pikey engineering to get my car on the drive, cable tie to hold the bracket to the hub, just so my caliper doesnt rub against the wheel (this is causing it to seize) wanna get it on the drive to do the work on her and currently the car is blocking my next door neighbours drive (even tho i told the twatty recovery **** to drop it outside mine and leave her drive unblocked...

when he came to recover the car too, he went to my house, phones me up and says where are you... im like im not at my ****ing house you ****, thats where im going!!!!!!!!! he got confused by my other red golf with a completely different registration... you pay peanuts, you get monkeys...

got the car brakes all working over the weekend, got two new bolts and a new caliper arrive, not bothered fitting the new caliper at the moment, will leave it for when i do the master cylinder and servo...

not too much of an update this week because ive been at work in london,

got two parcels i need to pick up today not quite sure what they are, heres the list of bits im still waiting on in the post or have to go collect, its getting ****ing huge now!!!

Magnex Full SS System
New Wishbones
New Balljoints
New Sunroof Seal
New Lower Strut Brace
New VAG steering column to rack rubber sleeve
Upgraded Engine/Box Mounts
Single Wiper Conversion
Debadged Grille w/ Mk5 Polo GTI Badge
Polished Fuel Filler Cap that actually flush
Power Rohr
Carbon Door Cards with Speaker Pods
Infiniti 5.25" Components with Tweeters & Crossovers
K&N Cone Filter
MissingLinks Short Shift Kit Complete Bushing & Adjustable linkage set
2 Braided Rear Hoses for Disc Conversion
Tyres - 195/45/15
2 x 100 mm driveshafts - 1 spare 1 for my mars red GTI.

I'm sure there is more but i can't remember!!!

When i get back from Holiday i will be taking a week out, got get AHA 839Y to the mot station and spend the week fixing what she needs, once thats done ill be sticking her up on ebay with a full 12 month ticket and 6 months tax!

During this week, ill send my engine over to my mate to get rebuilt, and when AHA is back on the road, it means i can take OTF to the bodyshop to get the painting done.


anyway this is me done for the next week or so, see you all on the 3rd at NW:VAG meet...

Sunday - Fitted Carbon Door Cards & Speaker Pods, Fitted 5.25" Component Speakers... sounds absolutely amazing.





Need to do a couple more jobs before im happy with it all tho.

remount the door pods a bit more securely
install and wire up the crossovers
surface mount the tweeters onto the door cards.
get some double-sided sticky foam to stop cards rattling slightly

Up and coming jobs this week -

Change Coil
Change alternator to 90Amp Jobbie
Engine Oil Flush & Filter
Smoke Tint rear lights
Fit two new balljoints
Tighten up & loctite d/s bolts and all steering rack column
Fit Full Missinglinks short shift kit
Change Gearbox oil

Hopefully the gb oil should sort out my 2nd gear crunch or i will seriously be considering a new box

Ordered a couple of new things -

Set of wheel arches
new boot seal
new rear bumper clips

update:

today and yesterday i was battling it out in the rain and ive got some bits and pieces done in the quest to fix my 2nd gear crunch and intermittant engine cutting out and the loss of wipers... hmm not much then!

Well,

Fitted a

MissingLinkz Full Short Shift kit, consisting of 2 adjustable metal selector rods, weighted shift rod, new relay shaft bearings, new shift road bearing and reduced the gearthrow by about 30 percent. would be 50 but the short shift adapator is too long and was fouling the engine or gearbox, either way it was a no go.





changed the gearbox oil which has ailed that fabled 2nd gear crunch, need to take it on a good drive and let it all warm up to see if im still having any other problems as the syncros might be worn...

changed engine oil, filter and ignition coil, retarded ignition timing by a coupla degrees and she seems alot perkier now

my new tyres came yesterday too, so they are going on my lorber deep dish wheels tomorrow, (took them down today but the boss was about at the garage so my mate told me to come back in the morning )

mmm 195/45 eagle f1's



and the wheels



got my tinting spray too so going to do my rears when the rain gives up for a day, put the oem ones back on and im thinking all reds would look good... but then again ive just gone an ordered some mk5 style citigolf lights from south africa, they are the MUTTS NUTTS


also spent a good hour working out what every relay does in my spare parts box and what each relay did on my fusebox, then i noticed that nearly all of them were the wrong relays in there, so switched them all round and im almost set...

got the wipers, fuel pump relay, indicators, brake lights etc working. next mission is to tackle the fan blower and find out why that isnt working!

heres the fusebox before its more here for a reference point



woo productive day i think so wooo

my other engine is also meeting its maker, thanks for jezza in the white passion wagon respect, so wont be too long before thats all ready to get dropped in.

 

argh another feckin misssssssion!!!!!!!!

Right well suffered a few set back this weekend

N/S wheel bearing stuff it again :-(

New Wheels have had tyres put on them but are catching against the front calipers so require 5mm/10mm spacers.

So...

the car is going into the garage this week to have the following done because i now cant be arsed any more...

New Outer CV Joint
2 x New Tie Rod Arms
2 x New Tie Rod Ends
2 x balljoints
New Polybush Steering Rack Mounts.

All parts are going to be supplied for them so its just a case of getting a couple of quotes on the cost of labour.

Also got a few more parts coming this week for some further jobs

Retrofit AeroBlades
H4 100w Bright White Bulbs
Upgraded Headlight Wiring Loom
Longer Wheel Bolts & 10mm Spacers
300mm Steering Wheel

The legal allowed value for headlights is apparently 55w or NOT to dazzle other drivers, its kinda hazy so im gonna fit 100watters and tint the headlights, this will sufficiently reduce output but with the higher output of the bulb and upgraded wiring loom will still produce sufficiently brighter light than std.

Also the need for decent wiper blades and the fact i now found retro fit aeroblades for super cheap mean im going for them, all i need now is a mk2 wiper motor to dessimate and fit into my mk1 wiper motor casing.

gimme a ****ty day without rain too so i can tint me fooking lights!!!

also even crapper news, the engine i was due to rebuild isnt going to happen now as so many little parts are missing from it its going to uneconomical to rebuild, therefore my best best is to get a 1.8 8v bottom end and stick the head on that... however its just more sensible to put a 16v beasty in there and sell the p+p head and all the other goodies on fleabay

****in cars man one nightmare after another

some pics when the wheel bearings broke, you can see the new wheels, i need to mask off the tyres and do a couple of touch ups on the edges of the rims, but apart from that im happy with em, big dish and fresh mea






also managed to tint the rears today when i found a shock horror hour without rain in manchester

all that crap was done on friday,

yesterday i stripped the offending hub and found out that y wheel bearing as completely exploded adn managed to descimate the hub too so i'll be swapping the hubs over from the other golf tonight hopefully and i can get her on the road.

fitted the front tinted headlights now and they are looking sweet, will look far better when the debadged grille is on, headlight wiring loom is all installed and in place too

car wil hopefully be taking in for painting next week and im now going to try and get someone to swap my 1800gti engine into this and ill drop a new head, cam and pulley onto along with my beasty oil cooler.

oh also put black side trims on the car as they look better than the chromies

will put more pics up tongiht

went to awesome summer bash sunday was wicked, car got impounded on the monday tho so I've gotta go save her, while rooting thru my paperwork for the car i found a **** load of car receipts and currently heres what I've done to the car since owning her back in feb...

Leccy Window motors fitted & wired up, switches fitted
new horn relay
new indicator relay
new upgraded battery
filter change - fuel, oil, air
leads / plugs / rotor arm / dizzy cap
new rocker cover
front goodridge braided hoses
239mm EBC x-drilled/grooved discs
greenstuff pads
inner cv joint - ns
bucket seats
stereo / sub / amp / infinit component speakrs
gearbox oil
gear linkage bushes
full short shift missinglinx kit
2 x new front wheel bearings and 2 x new hub assembelies
carbon door cards
polished front strut brace
lorber 15 x 7 deep dish alloys
195/45 Eagle F1s
5mm spacers
New pedal rubbers
100W H4 Bubls
Uprated Headlight wiring loom
wiper relay
300mm wheel
momo gearknob
chrome mirrors
pressed plates
new ignition coil
new sparks
new magnecor performance HT leads
280mm ATE Grooved discs
Greenstuff pads
Refurbed VWII calipers
Tinted Headlights
Tinted Taillights
Replaced rear taillight seals
replaced rear boot seal
new rear arb and poly bushes
2 x rear wheel bearings
new sump pan
rear braided hoses
sump gasket
mocal sandwich plate
2nd oil cooler
90a alternator
timing belt
lots of other replaced engine gaskets
new magnecor ignition leads
new piperx induction kit
fan blower - new
aero wipers
debadged grille
polo mk5 gti grille badge
new fuel pump relay
new rotor arm
new dizzy cap
new fan belt
new throttle cable
new oil pump
new oil filter
schrick windage tray
synta 10w40 oil - 3.5 litres
quick shift throw bracket
power rohr
wind deflectors

Stuff to fit

new radiator
chrome radiator top metal cover
chrome radiator brackets
Single Wiper
SS 4 branch manifold - 8v (new) already got a mild steel fitted
uprated engine mounts
headgasket
three gearbox bushes
steering rack polybushes
2 x tie rod arms

Things I'm awaiting

Samco coolant hoses
fully acoustically padded interior
5 Way Fused Power Distributer
Uprated Stereo Wiring
Polished Coil Bracket
New VAG Scuttle Panel Cover
Mongoose Stainless Steel Exhaust

Parts to buy

RainX
front Lower Strut Brace
2 x rear bumper clips
16v servo
22.2mm MC
1/4 lite seal OS
windscreen seal
door skins
GTI Arches
Mk2 Golf 16v Rear Disc Conversion

upgrade ground wiring
http://www.vintagewatercooleds.com/tech/Te...ound/ground.htm

useful site

http://www.vintagewatercooleds.com/tech/index.html

[quote name='DubLass' post='719504' date='Tuesday 7th August 2007 - 10:43pm']Yeay! On the way to NWVAG, camera at the ready.....









But then......snap! Clutch cable...









So RAC Ron do ron ron came in his low loader and took us home. After a mile walk down the road to go for
a wee in a dodgy pub, where once i had driven though and locked my doors.

Hope you all had a good time you *******s in your working cars! haha[/quote]


[quote name='grungeisdead' post='719512' date='Tuesday 7th August 2007 - 10:47pm']muhahahhaa...

well got my new induction kit and magnecor ht leads fitted today before i set off for nwvag and the car was running sweeet as a nut...

till we got to preston int town when the clutch cable disintigrated!!! i also managed to electrocute myself with a makeshift circuit involvin a clutch cable, me and a positive battery terminal :-D

all good now tho had a new clutch cable at home so fitted and shes up and running again! happy days!

ill be making a cameo at the next meet now hahahha

ill put some pics up now!!!

edit: respect to mk3rob for the polishing on the car, check out walshs leg in it! thats a beast! salz for the entertainment, walshie for the bolt cutters and window mech for me to attempt to try and make a pikey clutch cable, and kris with the jetta for the legendary two cable ties that could have saved the day, if the cable hadnt snapped of the pedal end as well! doh



[/quote]

woo

 

fitted in the last week

new magnecor ignition leads
new piperx induction kit
fan blower - new
aero wipers
debadged grille
polo mk5 gti grille badge
new fuel pump relay
new rotor arm
new dizzy cap
new fan belt
new throttle cable

will be fitting these this week -

new radiator
polished radiator brackets
polished radiator cover
neuspeed low temp thermostat
nuespeed 2 pole fan switch
samco hoses
g12 coolant - 6.5 litres

new oil pump
new oil filter
shrick windage tray
10w40 oil - 3.5 litres

polished coil bracket
polished door strikers

padded battery cover
stainless battery cover

power rohr
wind deflectors

quick shift throw bracket

Today had to wake up early to go get a pipe to fix my bath as a leak appeared which starting dripping into the kitchen! doh!

got the tracking done at hyde road tyres, only 25 quid, bargain! started chucking it down in spades, but luckily when i got back and sorted the leak in the bathroom the sun was still shining so then i started messing about with the car,

drained all the oil and took the sump off, cleaned it out, took the new oil pump apart and cleaned it with paraffin and then oiled the cogs with fresh oil.

whipped off the old pump and fitted the new one, this was 2 bolts, piece of cake

fitted the new schrick windage tray which has an inbuilt gasket, sump and torqued up all the bolts, fitted a new washer on the sump plug and fitted a new filter noting to put a fresh bit of oil round the seal before fitting hand tight. sorted

while i was down here i fitted the quick shift bracket, i had to cut it down as it was fouling the block before but shes sweet now

topped up with synta something or other 10w40 oil 3.4 litres

fitted a blue power rohr to match the magnecor leads and the 2 pole fan switch to my new radiator

will have to pop to awesome gti tomorrow in the morning and pick up the samco hoses as the ones i ordered from ebay arent going to be here for 5 weeks *sighs* however before i set off ill change the fuel filter as it needs doing and itll be depressurised as I've not driven her since 2 on thursday

then ill come back and start re-wiring the electrics in the engine bay, tidying up a few wires in the engine bay and giving it all a degreasing with some sugar soap. once the wirings redone, fit the battery jacket and put the polished battery cover over that.


then fit the new radiator, polished radiator brackets, samco hoses, the nuespeed theromostat, top it all up with coolang and sit back and relax, smoke a spliff, enjoy the mad fancy dress party and take her for a spin in the morning.

oh in the evening walshie came round and we cruised up to preston for a low key aircooled meet with mk3rob n beckyb, the hustler was scrubbing like mad but if it aint scrubbin it aint dubbin, we scrubbed the sump plug a couple of times too hahaha, but thats what happens when the sumps lower than your mams tits! we nearly ran out of petrol but just got into the forecourt in time, thank ****! and we managed to get lost whilst cruising around on the redline barely going on fumes :-/

we also saw a merc with SAF 75 on teh number plate and a riced up civic with WALSHY as the plate, co-incidence or what!

all was well tho







well today has been rather gay but productive

changed the fuel filter but one of the bolts fully snapped, have a 7 mile bike ride tomorrow to go get the part from a mate which is **** but at least ill have it!!!






disconnected the inlet pipe to the water pump to get to the themostat but those two bolts gave up the ghost as well! so i thought **** it, change the waterpump, phoned my mate at gsf and 20 minutes later a new waterpump at a very cheap price so in my hands



removing the old water pump was a since, take off the alternator belt, remove the alternator, it was three bolts, 4 bolts and the waterpump was off too.




fitted the nuespeed thermostat and new o-ring, same for the outlet on the new waterpump. put new bolts in on the inlet elbow







fitted the waterpump and alternator

removed the old radiators cleaned bits of the engine with some degunk and tidied a few electrical wires as they were a bit of a state, it still looks messy but hopefully is fully functional haha




fitted the old fan shroud and fan to the new radiator and mounted it with new polished brackets, fitted a polished radiator top cover too. when connecting all the hoses, the one from the expansion tank to the rad snapped, bloody old hoses, i wish the samcos had arrived! but its gonna be five weeks.... had to bike it to the local motor factors (luckily around the corner) to get a new one made up



filled up the car with 6 litres of g12, and disconnected the top inlet of the rad and let a bit of water come out and put the hose back on, to bleed the system.

put the battery jacket on and polished battery cover, just need that fuel filter bolt and ill be away grrrrrrrrrrrrr

couldnt be arsed taking any pics of the final product as it started raining but nearly done now, just need that vital fuel filter bolt and i shall be sorted

 

Rob and walshie came round on saturday hand to give me a hand getting the car ready for VW Festival as i was still having random cut out issues.













I managed to source a near new fuel pump, accumulator and metering head off a friend for free so fitted the metering head, cut outs still happened after and once the dizzy hall sender was checked, it was only sending out one spark and none after, swapped for a new dizzy i had sitting in the back of the car and shes running sweet again, managed to make it to the festival half an hour before everyone else did cos they got lost... i did manage to get beached 3 times oops

Jobs for this week include

Autosol Mongoose Stainless Steel Exhaust - SS 4 branch manifold
Fit Mongoose Stainless Steel Exhaust - SS 4 branch manifold

Fit Polished Door Strikers

Fit New Fuel Pump / Accumulator / Warm Up Reg

Rewire electrics, windows, amp, stereo & alarm now i have my fused distribution block

Find out where I've sprung leaks :-
drivers side 1/4 light seal, needs replacing.
check sunroof draining channels & bulkhead grommets

List all spare parts for sale on fleabay!


Other Jobs that need doing soon

Fit Piper Fast Road Cam & Vernier Pulley
Re-adjust tappet shims
Polish Rocker Cover/Cam belt Cover & Others as i have spare parts a plently ready for polishing
Pick up interior from Charlie & Fit

picking up sallys new goof in bury, quality view here shame i had a crap camera and I'm pants at taking shots at the best of times!





shes a poorly goof atm, you can poor feebs has wet herself she'll be back to full health soon tho yaay




couple of snaps in didsbury when i went for lunch, you can see the nice mud splatter, beenas trophy after the weekend at vw festival getting beached and dragging the chin splitter with her





went to go save sal as a water pipe burst on the golf as i was getting onto the mancunian way i spotted these two fomos... i hope they broke down but unfortunatly its more like 2 new traffic cop mobiles on the beat... damn




went down to derby to see charlie, had a looms scrappie run and we managed to poice 4 brown mk2 golf doorcards, polo drivers mirror, mk2 golf ignition coil, 22mm master cylinder, induction piping, golf mk2 arch trim. there was loads of nice cars there, 1 mk2 golf that came in with a headgasket failure but was mint bar that, it was gonna be crushed

a small light mk1 W reg, fully ****ed but the rear panel could easily be cut out and saved...

a few pics of the day up until then







started messing about on the derby, removed bonnet, wipers, grill, 2 bolts rounded off in the headlights, rear lights, bumpers and arch trims. i had to get angle grinder happy with a few ****ed screws, showed charlie how to work her generator after we scratched our blonde heads for about 20 minutes...

 

moved loads of random odds and sods about from garage to garage....

its been a long time since I've last seen dennis, on our first encounter charlie could have died when a wheel came off the derb, loads of random mini missions have happened with the car but hopefully its not rivaling the silver ******* yet although we did find some rot today nothing a bit of tlc cant sort...

true to form I've got plenty of fresh cuts and bruises







went and washed the cars at a car wash, met a new friend called jet with an audi coupe, apparently weve both inspired him to keep it as its going in the paper saturday for sale, but after seeing our two cars hes determined to make it a minter, go on son!














did our best attempt at some trick photography, but I'm lame hahahahaha! and we were too baked and lazy to go anywhere other than 2metres away from charlies house haha










so ive got my new interior, will be fitting all that this weekend, along with rewiring the sub, amp, alarm, electric windows, radio and central locking... hoping to get my ss manfold fitted to replace the mild steel one already fitted and fitting the new ss mongoose exhaust. yay will be doing that at the nwvag preparty saturway whilst drinking heavily and being chronically stoned :smoke:

 

spent friday and saturday fitting the new interior, took all the seats and carpets out, started laying down the new wiring for the alarm, windows, stereo and sub, hoovered all the carpets and refitted them after duct taping all the wiring down

(the wiring pictured was teh old wiring, i didnt take pics of teh new wiring)

gotta cover the speaker pods in acoustic carpet and then shes all sweet...







we went to the nwvag pre edition 38 party and then off to the birch meet which was just downt road

and no my photography hasnt got any better.

rob has a sign ont driveway... dub parking all others will be towed away (very apt!)








the nwvag mascot



nwvag reppin at the birch meet









nwvag doing the in meet pitstop

 

the friday: woke up at 7:30 :shock: we put the aitwes on pheebs and took her to hyde road garage to get the tracking done, she proceeded to wee on the mechanic, one jubilee clip later and we had the tracking done and one cured leak hehe










NWVAG @ E38













and the only other two at the show i got



this rude golf with a 1.9t golf parked next to us so i ordered he open his bonnet

 

well had a top weekend at e38,

loads of parts arrived this week...

so far i have

fitted DB Audio T-Rex 6.5" co-axial speakers in the rear,

got my bosch merc injectors and fitted them to mint braided fuel hoses, got new seals from gsf

old injectors

new bosch part no's, avail of ebay.

fitted to the hoses


fitted the brand new eibach 23.5mm arb on tuesday after work, before the nwvag meet. what a complete mission that was on my own, recruited some help from my housemate and its in and sweet as a nut...

I'm rather annoyed at the 2 poly bushes that go in the middle of the car on the clamps, the have a small ring in the centre that just gets in the way with the enlarged bar. I'm sure this needs cutting out but I've pikeyed the clamps in for now. next week ill take those two bushes out, cut em down and fit them properly

but now the car is so tight that on a 90 degree turn the rear cocks it leg, ****in a

heres the old polybushed front arb i removed.



my exhaust manifold is also seriously blowing so needs changing asap for that stainless beasty...

and lastly I'm losing alot of oi! but no marks anywhere really bar at the back of the engine, I'm guessin the sump from where i fitted the windage tray as a didnt use longer bolts, tighten it up tho and itll be reet.

new heater matrix, front lower strut brace and heater valve arrived...

also painted up my teh lucas 54 calipers, its a saf special paint job but it does the job muhahaha



sal came over today and we went down to a couple of scrappies, spotted a mk4 and mk6 polo both baseish models, golf mk3 estate and gl. couple of mk2 and mk3 gtis spotted some g60 calipers, and a fair few rear disc conversions

might go back for some...

got my timing set up properly with a light gun, it was only out by a couple of degrees but its bang on now. one of my exhaust manifold bolts has snapped off someone elses pikey attempt at getting it off...

gonna phone my mate martin tomorrow whos an aboslute beast, I'm sure he'll be able to rock it out

also the vacuum pipe that comes from teh rocker cover was just attached to nothingness so i went to a fishing shop to get a tee piece connecter. the guy there pulled up this random crack box with odds and sods in and was looking for ages , he coudnt find it so i went into the car and he comes runnig out, gives me one...

me: legend mate, want a quid for it?

him: fiddle sticks offfffff!

nice one got it for free schaweet, so its now connected via a teepiece from my dizzy vacuum which is also connected to the TB. werd

anyway fitted new injectors, fuel hoses that arent frayed and a cold start valve, the old injectors were dirty as and the seals were absolutely shot!






eibach 23.5mm arb - took a picture as i never bothered before



omp front lower strut brace which is pissing me off trying to fit arghhhhhhhh its like 3mm too short!!!





hahahaha aye you and mate are legends nice one for taking us to the local supermarket cos me and karl are blonde as fiddle sticks and were destined to get lost!

hairdryer on the arches for a bit then a breaker bar inbetween the arch and the tyre for the ultimate pikey arch rolling/merking

the bbq was a beast, i got fully smoked out and also managed to have 4 snosagues evade me on the bbq...

heres a taster of some of the pics, some i cant show cos its a secret for polo show

shitty repro water pump that made some dodgy noises bar being new, and my new vag water pump. new copper piping, to say the old was ****ed, was an understandment.
















attacking an rx8 at looms



hmm wonder why this was scrapped




dirty dub

 

muhahahahaha good job, i think you are a young jedi pikey in the making

gotta love the 5 finger discount pole too

dirty looks are a pikeys way of advertising too so keep it up

yes karlita did indeed phone me today and got to hear my manfold blowing it tits off, i think i fully cracked the mani going round a huge bend off junction 7 of the m1, damn you walsall! (me fecking birthtown gahhh)

rick with the woody olop is joining us too in the afternoon after he's merked some springs with an angle grinder

a quality snap of a honda civic in some random scrappy in the north where we got the panel for charlie. (theres a quality sal pose with this but i wont post it without her prior approval muhahahaha)



tain nice but cained at the olop show, complete with the DUD golf, pikey as you like mate



karl passed out in my golf, he was strapped up with the harnesses at one point to stop his head hitting the dash

i was kinda miffed that half of my bed was taken up as id forgotten my tent poles (which is turn i hadnt not packed them in manc, but i left them at charlies gaff! and she forgot to bring them saturday DOHHHHHHH!!!)



manc union dash monkey at peace with the world



some pikey action at the show, changing a wing, door, boot and bonnet at the show




i didnt have much to do on this as i woke up late to see the work already in progress

[quote name='DubLass' date='Wednesday 19th September 2007 - 7:51am' post='763772']
Tuesday Pics

Mayo!


Karl, the ledge, gets stuck in


Mani gasket...! No wonder it was blowing


Head off


When Pheebs burst a water pipe in Preston a kind crazy guy stopped and proceeded to Pikey a road side solution,
for the water pipe i 'dont even f_cking need' haha

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[quote name='DubLass' date='Wednesday 19th September 2007 - 7:56am' post='763774']
Rick's here!


Whats he looking at?


Saf concentrates..


Inspecting the head


New waterpump vs Old


Walshys here


Off to pick up capri and to gsf!

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[quote name='DubLass' date='Wednesday 19th September 2007 - 7:58am' post='763775']
Finally, a gti! wooop - BEFORE


The line up (wide angle lense needed)



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[quote name='DubLass' date='Wednesday 19th September 2007 - 7:58am' post='763775']

[quote name='DubLass' date='Sunday 23rd September 2007 - 12:55pm' post='767924']


cheeky walshy





brew bitch





The last one was pure arse





Today i need to sort the stance out woooooooop
[/quote]

 

right update of my work on the last few days

whipped teh head off my golf, managed to snap three bolts from the water outlets and round off an inlet manifold bolt.

replaced all new exhaust manifold studs, got new gaskets, cleaned up the face of the head and the head in general.

also did a bit of polishing on the rocker and cam cover.




the head with the new manifold attached just cos i wanted to look at it mwahahah


after cleaning up the bottom of the head a bit, just a bit of carbon deposits well everywhere, must have been running lean for a long time!!!



along came rick with some grizzly techniques



and the bolt was free



fiddle sticks yoooooo bolty



inlet fannymold off, will be hammeriting it black before it goes back on



injector seats - just a bit battered to say the least



my progress of the polishing, not bothering with the throttle body, cleaning it up will probably paint black too

some pics of the head cleaned up





and a toureg i spotted in town sporting our plate. ****er (P1 KEY)



also got walshies pooberg change, we scratched our head trying to idle once the new one was fitted but a *******o wire was at fault, all reet now. wooop

cheers boyos

ordering some 4 new injector seats tomorrow, making a pikey throttle body gasket out of a cereal box, picking up some hammerite spray. angle grinding the old manifold off from the centre pipe.

not taking any pics of my samco coolant hoses but they are fitted now woot

 

This thread crashes my laptop, and my desktop's pagefile goes up three hundred megs on opening.

Awesome

 

mancunion dubz owning laptops across the globe

 

I don't actually understand a word of what's been written, but I'm liking the photos!

 

I think I've seen a load of these photos on Edition 38? Love the build, I daren't ask how much this has cost...

I finished my own 8v build a few weeks ago. Converted my Mk2 8v GTi to 2.0L using an Audi 80 block, a ported/polished head, gasflowed exhaust manifold, stainless downpipe, new dizzy etc. Goes like a rocket, but fancy a wilder cam in it (probs 270 degree lift) to really get the most out of it.

 

Very nice, but I have to say I prefer how it looked at the start.

 

You should try that ol' Vinegar trick that someone on here did instead of polishing, seemed to work a treat...

 

A 270 degree cam isnt wild lol.

 

Note: I said 'wilder'. Considering that the standard Golf GTi 8v cam has a duration somewhere round the mid-250's, then a cam like a 270 degree Newman could be considered 'wilder'. Might I also add that anything higher than 268 provides a lumpy idle on a standard-ish 8v Golf engine, so I think I can say without contradiction that a 270 degree replacement cam, would there indeed be, wilder. If I was going for a 'wild' cam, then something like a 285 duration would provide just such an experience.

 

Likewise.