Motors Random adventures of a spanner! (Pic heavy!)

Looks good, i'll be keeping an eye on this!

 

I was just nit picking, the engine should be in the middle of the car driving the rear wheels. Although it is interesting that the inlet manifold is on the rear side of the engine.

 

there could be a problem of that heavy engine so far forward that she will be nose heavy and cause understeer, but no car is perfect for every situation.

cool log, keeps eyes open for updates!

 

cheers dude

no worries J, im aware a mid engined car would give me better handling and that the rear wheels is the preffered method of drive to save the wheels that are steering from having to power you aswell, however i just love mk1 polos and golfs, so would do anything to them, if i could weld and was a bit braver i would consider trying out something rear wheel drive and mental but im still just a novice when it comes to cars, so this is a car i love and even though i dont know that much its interesting just getting stuck in and having a go

ive mainly driven dubs, all of the ones ive had have had the inlet manifolds on the rear of the engine, the polos&lupos have the exhuast manifolds on the front of the block and the golfs tend to have them on the rear, the mk1 golf gti was pre cross flow for inlet and exhaust both on the rear, the mk2 16v models had the inlet on the front and exhaust on the rear.

indeed im not after a track warrior, just an old skool polo with a new skool touch, the powers not going to be immense but more than enough for the chassis and weight, and i never fully use any cars potential especially on teh open road so understeer wont be too much of a problem

got some ear defenders today so i wont go deaf later, my ears have been ringing for the last two days

 

haha my housemates favourite fields. polos although they have **** handling as standard love being chucked about abit on the twisties, teh fact they weigh **** all makes 40 seem fast too!

 

Well been quiet on the car front for the past week, as I've been chilling with the family and covered most of the UK doing the rounds hahaha

Still managed to aquire some goodies in the time

Brand New Remus Exhaust with Lifetime warranty woo, ebay nos bargain




Had a trial fit of it today and it looks like itll be reet, will strap it up with the hanger tomorrow to check for certain but looks like it will sit okay in the valance

Been stripping back the underseal in the engine bay and scuttle panel and wirebrushing some rust.

my por15 and huge bottle of metal ready arrived aswell so can get cracking on that at some point in the week.

hoppy turned up as well in the cadwana. mmm




and ive bought another car :-D, getting collected tomorrow hopefully



Taxed and Tested which means i can bring this to edition 38 and give my sister her clio back. yay!

 

****ING love that caddy. Love it.

 

finished the last of the wire brushing of all the surface rust, although i managed to uncover a hole in the bulkhead so thats another wee job for when i can get someone who can weld round.







holy moly




doused in metal ready





starting sifting thru the box with the mounts in, bit confused so have taken a picture of evertyhign laid out and will have to get in touch with dave (trooper25) and find out what everythings for





And hoppys mini adventure collecting my new car, danke dude

[quote name='HoppyGTi' post='1130312' date='Tuesday 19th August 2008 - 9:56pm']Right, the task was simple..........go to a local town 25 miles away, collect a car & drive it home................How hard could it be?????

The ride Mk1 Polo, T reg with 895cc's of fury under the bonnet, full MOT & Tax.

I was on time to collect the motor, made another Dub friend as we discussed the details of the deal, handed over some dollar for the car & drove away.

I added £10 worth of Shell's finest petroleum distilate and ..............................................


This is where it all went wrong.


Seems as though the old girl wanted to suck up it's own faecal matter through the fuel line, causing much jumpyness & lack of power.

After getting one tow from a friendly MK2 Golf Driver (with a full leather interior I add) and being towed to a garage I though every thing was fine.

But another 2 miles on & things were serious. The lack of power & sudden engine dying made it impossible to be safe on the road without some one pile driving me up the ass So i took the decision it was too dangerous to continue, so pulled on over.

So it was down to this;

(Check out the AA man's face )










Whilst broken down, a friendly group of passing aircooled people stopped to offer a hand, which was nice. The result of this little meeting has found me another 3 local friends & another local meet!!!!

THIS IS WHY I LOVE DUBS!!!!!

Anyways. Journey should have taken about 40 mins, in the end too me 2.75 hours!!!

Oh well..................still smiling







Finally at home!!!

[/quote]

 

arun popped round and we got the cable shifter and the exhaust fitted, also flatted the por15 on the rear panel ready for primer.

need to remember to take over some brushes, masking tape and newspaper tomorrow!

the exhaust fits ok and the downpipe will only need a short pipe to connect the system up so might just get another flexi section and make a bracket up for a hanger





Need to work out this clutch mechanism out so i can start getting the pedal box together,




not even sure where it attaches on the gearbox, or does it fit to a clutch reservoir or something.

need a polo drivers side engine mount too

 

looking awesome

 

looks like fun...
personally, right after i buy myself a bike, i want to buy myself an old (60s) muscle car and rip it apart, rebuild and get it up to speed... preferably an old charger/impala/mustang... but they're hard to get...

 

wooo, busy wee day.

beenas finally met its new owner, soon to be 20vt'd



housemate finally got himself a car, turns out its a sweet dub, sorted



another piccie of the exhaust



got the rear panel in primer



engine bays done in por15 now

 

This thing is looking sweet. FI I hope?

This build reminds me of the olsmobile v8 powered mk2 I saw a while back. The guy had put in a Cadillac v8 where the 8v engine used to be in a mk2 golf. Looked like allot of fun. It sounded like a muscle car and ran like a go cart.

here is a link.

http://www.tremek.com/forum/car-pic...91-golf-cadillac-northstar-v8-conversion.html

 

yesterday we went down t hoppys go to pick up the wee polo, armed with some spare leads, a new fuel filter and some odd tools we were all set.

got there and the old fuel filter was pure jank man so whipped that off and the rubber gasket that sits inbetween the airbox and the carb was slightly perished so we just bodged it back in place as best as we could.


the wee beasty fired up after that, took it for a wee spin adn bar a knocking from a cv joint all was absolutely sweet. couldnt help but do my first bit of modding and ripped all the badges off the front.





so off we went daaan to la pub, got there 5 mins before the uber food deal was ending, score XD





got back to manchester safe and sound, so today i swapped over the wheels for the lorbers and changed teh driveshaft while i was at it for a spare i had, the outer cv boot on the passenger side has split which caused the knocking




pikey'd earth strap, on the job list to sort out, the jump lead is connected to the battery earth



couple of engine bay shots

 

woke up well late today and couldnt really be arsed but after tommy made me a killer steak sammich i was ready to roll

painted the hood satin black, and underside with por15




painted the front panel in por15 and decided to poke at some holes... bad idea!



holy moly



gearbox mount



or this way



and there are two types of clutch operations for the lupo engines i assume, cable and hydraulic.

is this setup the cable



and this the hydraulic?


(which connects to another cylinder operated by the clutch pedal
if so ill stick with the cable as it minimises the amount of plumbing, pedal box and bulkhead modifications, it just means i cant use the regular lupo gearbox mount in conjunction with this one unless i get one off a 1.4s that fits differently to the gti one it seems (after examining the one on charlies to the mounts i got with this engine)

 

Its best to poke at the holes now while its all in pieces and the welder is close to hand .

 

i wish i had a welder and knew how to weld. willl be taking evening classes in it soon but cant afford it at the minute :-(

need to pull a few strings and see if i can borrow an able bodied welder for a little session

 

good luck buddie any local mechanic/blacksmith would probebly do it and shouldnt cost to much either.

 

nice one mate, i worked with a guy in france who had a thing for mk1 golf's, and he had a pristine mk1 with an otto 16v in it, was quick as.