MK1 Golf built in 83 bought in '03 and and still not completed!!!

Dug the old girl out of storage today, give it a spring clean and a super resin polish,ran it up and down the drive a few times and then popped it back into the garage!!

 

A productive day yesterday saw me finish up with these





now just got to get round to that front end rebuild!!

 

Been a while since last update but have so far cleaned new gearbox




then imported new mounts from the fatherland



purchased seat cable conversion



and never been 100% happy with my brake set up and hope this is going to solve that



So really need to get a move on as I need to strip out entire front ,fit new control arms, Ex Reeves front A/R/B, alloy top mounts, then O2J and bias pedal box inplace of servo and bias valves

 

Think you better bring the shifter with you!!!

 

it would be cruel to tease you and then take it away

 

Well after meeting up with Nick ,he now has a new present for his toy and I have nearly all the parts to complete my 02J conversion, so hopefullly in the next few months we should be up and running and whilst it will always lag behind in the power stakes compared to some of the Mk1's on here I still love it

 

Going away shortly to have 02J and cable shift(along with lightenend/balanced flywheel and clutch), Alloy Top mounts, Front lower seam welded wishbones, Custom front A/R/B(Ex Reeves) and Bias pedal Box(Ex NickBishBashBosch) for a very very reasonable price should be completed a lot quicker than wating for me or hell to freeze over LOL

 

Oooh been told that it can go in next week !! very excited and looking forward to a great summer of tooling around in this!!

 

Its in the garage as we speak not sure on return but Jim does not like to hang about !!

 

Well quick update 020 box, clutch,KR flywheel, brake servo,brake master cylinder,2 x brake bias valves,gearbox rod linkage and Bonrath top mounts all off or out
Lightenend + balanced flywheel,clutch, 02J box in loosely! picked up little things like adaptors etc from Rally Designs on friday so good progress being made.

 

So a few more weeks rush by and we are 90-95% there all gearbox/clutch etc complete. We had to do a liitle cut,shut and reweld on the Autocavan servo mount to angle the brake bias valves away from the 16v Distributor, these now have two lovely remote reservoirs mounted to the inner wing with the header tank moved further to the front next to the washer bottle.

Solid alloy top mounts fitted required a little rework off the inner wings but all in now with a little bit of neg camber.

Mk4 gear linkage fitted with new cable ends from TPS for 22.21 inc Vat and finally the ex-reeves custom A/R/B to go on today after a little bit of under floor modification.Will get pic's up once bay is all tidy and clean

 

little teaser shots!!

 

Well now seriously deliberating whether this will go on the road this year what with the crappy weather!!! only normally tax it from Apr-Sept and we are in July already! been buying a few new items such as S/S fuel tank straps and Eibach Camber plates for the rear so might as well get these fitted and have suspension set up ready to blast straight out the garage next year

 

look forward to it

 

She's alive!! been up and down the road and a few full lock turns with no incidents so all good on that front ,service and cambelt to complete and then 2012 is done!! already started assembling parts for the next upgrade Brembo 4 pot with Seat 305x28mm discs for 2013!!

 

Thats great Mart Would love to see this in the flesh one day

 

Sure we can work something out for 2013

 

so its been a while so thought I would update with a few pictures



so one of many problems ex NickBishBashBosch Bias Brake pedal box will not fit!!




so Jim gets busy with the angle grinder my beautifully rare Autocavan brake bar!!!



and now we have this




remote brake reservoirs needed a new home



Custom Made A/R/B ex Reeves Mk1 hmm custom gives you a clue to how that is going to fit!!



new floor pan mounting plates



Chassis rails trimmed and rewelded






MK4 cable shifter for 02J in place and secured



Solid alloy top mounts with Negative Camber




Nearly finished new coilover springs and a service and I think we are there cannot thank Jim enough for what he has one and gonna shamelessly plug his services http://jimsgarageservices.co.uk/

 

Picked the car up on Tuesday it is transformed!! it really used to feel nervous on the road with road camber changes etc now it feels so steady and planted ,gearbox and shifter is 100% and very positive feel to it. New brakes are superb with no servo a bit more pressure required but have a great feel and once warm are nigh on unbeatable!!

 

Do you know the ral number of the gulf blue and gulf orange? I'm looking forward to paint a fixed in those colours!