Right been meaning to start this for a while, but here goes.... After spending ages making 20vT IHI Golf Rallye, I then did a stupid thing and bought a house and sold it!!! [:^(] Now I have had the house a bit, I decided it was time for another project, and was looking at starting one... Then a car that has been round for years but fallen off the scene came up. Its the ex Mark Eliot, then sold to my best mates brother Darren Jones, the Mars Red Mk1 OOE926X. Basic Spec: ABF 2.0 16v engine Carillo I Section Rods Mahle Low Compression Pistons (Ceramic Coated) Compression Ratio 7.9-1 ABF Gas Flowed Head / Raceware Head Studs Inlet/Exhaust Valves Ceramic Coated Schrick 276deg Cams (not sure bout the exhaust) Garrett GT30R Hybrid Turbo, running around 1.55bar approx 400bhp 4x Bosch 440cc injectors (other 4 are blanked on the Cossie inlet manifold) Running Rallye 4wd system with modified prop/driveshafts DTA EXP48 Ecu Since it had been standing the car was reluctant to start/idle and after some fault finding I decided that the wiring was best replaced so went about rewiring the engine/ecu with independant relays/fuses/feeds etc.... After that the car ran a lot better. After getting it running, I decided to put my mark on it (No pun intended Mr Eliot!) Here it is at Inters this year after doin some runs, the best of which was a 12.8s quarter, and a 0-60 of 4.11 seconds Some pictures of the 4wd system After the wiring was sorted I decided to get the brakes done so went down the Porsche route (996 rears). The car has done away with the servo and bar and runs a pedal box with independant master cylinders. I have tweeked these and fitted a Wilwood rear bias valve and the brakes are a lot better now!!! This caused a major headache of trying to find 15" wheels that would fit over them, but got some compomotives that JUST clear!! Really wanted to keep the stealth look, and make it look innocent so a set of 16"s were out of the equation! Next I decided that I would add an Aquamist system and a flow gauge to run a meth injection to help with inlet temp / reduce pre-det. When I had the car the interior was standard, and I decided to add some electronics (since thats my job as an engineer!) First off was a boost controller (VDO guages and SPA boost/temp were already there) Went for a profecb spec2, getting a Forge actuator now to adjust boost between max, down to maybe 1bar as a base boost I then decided that it was time for some other neat things. 1. The green display above the stereo is a project of mine that uses a PIC micro processor and a servo to control the throttle angle since after market ECUs aint so fond of idling nicely!! It uses a temp sensor off the head to sense the temp and hold the idle higher in steps during warm up i.e. 1400-1300-1200-1100-1000 and eventually 950rpm when its warm. Works a treat and great for not cutting out when cold!!! 2. I fitted an Alpine USB Audio Played for the noisy treks to the track/sprint! 3. I got a panel laser cut with a Rabbit Logo (backlit with a Red LED) for the SatNav. The next thing was to focus on the interior and I decided to go down the bucket seat and harness route since I wanted a stripped out interior. Corbeau Forza seats and TRS harnesses. Fitted to runners that I custom modified and welded to the floorpan. After eventually getting the car done and running, I noticed some starvation/hesitation and realised that the custom tank had no lift pump/internal swirl pot. The next job was to fit a Facet Red Top, and a swirl pot, and since then the fueling has been spot on even on low fuel loads (like 2 litres when sprinting at Inters!) Its still an ongoing project (moneypit too!!) I am in the process of fitting a VEMS Wideband / EGT gauge and also a Phormula KS-3 Knock detector and plan on tweeking the map, and maybe increasing the boost by another 0.1 bar to get a bit more poke!! I am sure that this thread will grow since Mark Eliot and Chris Eyre have some history of this car over the past 15 years when it was winning trophies at Inters, hopefully my additions will have improved the car, and I want to try and get her into the low 12s, high 11s on the quarter and get a sub 4 second 60 time!!!
Super, super car... but why the hell would you put a bloody SatNav in it at all, let alone down there?!
Cos my sense of direction is rubbish!! Dont really look at it so its fine there... She just barks orders at me!
The MK1 is Legendary i can remember when it was First Turbo'd fuelled by twin 45 Dellorto's back in 1994 when i got my MK1. Nice Buy Are you going to fit another row of Injectors to up the power ?
Have some magazine articles on this before it was 4 wheel drive, saw it advertised a little while ago, would have had it if i had the finances.
stunning engine bay & car you have there. prob being silly & it's been fine for years but i just dont like the idea of that pipe running between the 2 fuel tanks what with all the moving parts & heat around there. just wondering what would happen if the shaft gave way & it hit it?
Not a real issue I dont think with the prop hitting the tank, it has a diff support just before it, then its into the vicous coupling... Dont think the exhaust is that hot there either, since its at the back of the car and heat wrapped... Not too many other options really cos space is a LITTLE tight The other good thing is there is never much fuel in there (4.5 gallon tank) and the car has a drinking problem!!!
always guessed it would be fine after all the abuse it's had,it is just something that jumped out at me when i looked at the pics that's all.
Ok, right on cue, Mark's still got a great fondness for the car and he's been in touch with various pictures and information that tells a story of this iconic car, which was a very regular feature of the 1990s sprint and VW scene. First off, how the car came into Mark's hands: 1992 Early specification - 16v Scirocco spec : Tarox discs & uprated ARB: 1993 Off to Avon Park (aka Shakespeare County Raceway, near Stratford) for the first pic found of the car on the quarters: Best time: 14.64s Another pic found - same venue, from Rabbit 27: There's also an article on the car in the same issue of Rabbit, which I'll work on hosting. 1994 Inters: 1995 Inters - twin carb'd, turbo'd 16v - 210bhp on second stage boost: & FTD Saturday (14.01s) There's also an article on the car in Rabbit 32, which I'll work on hosting. A week later it did a 13.40 at Santa Pod. August Rolling Road day at Well Lane Turbo Centre, Batley. Combined Rabbit feature, coupled with appearing is Issue 1 of a toe-in-the-water magazine they called "The Golf"... (Rabbit 33) (Rabbit 33) (Rabbit 33) (Rabbit 33) The Golf scan may be uploaded later. 1996 Pictured in "Club Cars" of Rabbit 36: Club GTI National Day, Cobham (MoD), 18 Aug: - classic Borbets and non-GTI spec front spoiler. (Rabbit 37) There's also an article in Rabbit 37, which I'll work on hosting. There's a lot more to cover (and scan) and I will edit it into this post as/when. Here is a picture I've had for many years - Badger5 passed it to me in ~ 2001. The filename was simply "Mk1 16v turbo" and the Bonrath top mounts date back to the mid-90s: I will keep updating this and bump when updates go in.
Glad you managed to find some of the stuff Chris, haven't been able to look through my stuff as it is all packed away somewhere.
Hi all, Just found a few pictures of when it had a bare metal respray about 4 or 5 years ago... The guy in the picture is Darren Jones. He was the one who owned it between myself and Mark Eliot. Apologies for the cut off at the bottom, but will scan some more stuff again and post other ones...!
Cheers Velley! How you doin?! Thought I would post the magazine review since it has a bit of history. I have inserted a zoomed in image of the text so you can read it properly Hopefully it will make an interesting read and explain a bit more history Cheers Luke
Now that was always a nice car - you lucky bugger! Nice to see that it's in a good pair of hands. Just having a ganders at that knock controller I'm picturing it on the cover of maybe a VW Driver mag with another welsh red mk1 - that one with a glass roof and 15" BBS RA's? Maybe I have that (very slight chance...!) Is this Darren Jones chap related to John Jones of AudiGolfHits fame? Or is my memory buggered? More info please
