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Offline MS1COYS

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #590 on: 23 September 2012, 10:53 »
Yes: I nearly got to the point where I had to buy an MX-5....  :whistle:

Your comments range from the sublime to the ridiculous. I'm starting to understand you  :grin:
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #591 on: 23 September 2012, 18:16 »
Lovely progress mate. I hear there is a bit of a race to get at least one mk2 done soonish...

It's given you both a kick up the arse though, whatever the outcome :wink:


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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #592 on: 23 September 2012, 21:02 »
Nothing like a deadline to focus a project. :cool:

You don't own a Mk2, you support it.

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #593 on: 23 September 2012, 21:03 »
Nothing like a deadline to focus a project. :cool:

dont you remember last time this was ring bound, the engine was back out the night before he went  :whistle:

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #594 on: 23 September 2012, 22:32 »
dont you remember last time this was ring bound, the engine was back out the night before he went 

Could you just not mention that at the moment!  I really don't want to remember that sort of pain right now.

Enforced family day today.  :angry:
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #595 on: 23 September 2012, 23:48 »
So here's a bit more of an update for anyone who's interested.

A bit more about the cage:

Front strut pick-ups:



A-bars and door cross bars, showing the sill mounting:



Top of the front section:



Rear struts:



View when taken from behind:



That tubing specification in full:



What I did yesterday:

Welded in new steel in to fill holes where cage was dropped down to be welded on the top of it.
Patch an area of the floorpan where something had welted it and it had gone off in a circle - very odd.
Position and weld in passenger seat mounts



Diced down remains of dash to fit around dash-bar.  Found that despite me emailing CC to say 'ensure the dashbar doesn't interfere with the speedo drive', it looks like the clocks will be jerry-rigged in for this event and then replaced with an electronic dash of some sort.



That's as high as the clocks go with the speedo drive attached.  :rolleyes:

I think I'll be sourcing another dash at some point, but things were really just focused on getting it in for this event:



Mike, who's coming out to drive this as his first 'ring experience is a VW technician and so got on with the important servicing of the ABF:

Replaced cambelt, tensioner, waterpump, thermostat, rocker gasket, sparkplugs, new crank sensor, crank seal at flywheel end.

Fitted lightened flywheel, gearbox, built up other misc bits on engine.  It's now ready to be fitted and will go in once I've done the driver's seat mount and slapped some primer on the tubes in the engine bay.

Engine built up:



Skinny flywheel - 9kg down to around 6kg:



Engine and gearbox waiting to go back in:



Next up:

Driver's seat mount (now I've practised on the passenger mount.  :grin:)
Harness mounts
Splash paint on the scuttle area (and one small poxy bit under the screen)
Re-fit windscreen, rear doors, bootlid.
Fire-up and made hooting noises.
Shakedown.

Also outstanding - make rev-counter and screenwash work!

Going to be a busy week!
« Last Edit: 23 September 2012, 23:53 by Diamond Hell »
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #596 on: 24 September 2012, 00:02 »
I like your DC's  :grin:
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #597 on: 24 September 2012, 09:14 »
They're Mike's.
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #598 on: 24 September 2012, 09:15 »
Evolution Map / Longlife USA 80mm TBE w/100 cell Sports Cat / ITG Maxogen G60 / Forge Twintercooler/ Forge TB Hose / R8 Coilpacks / EBC D&G Front & Rear Discs / EBC Yellowstuff Pads / BSH PCV Kit / Poly Pro Front & Rear / W.A.L.K / APR Torque Arm / 034Motorsport Density Line Engine Mounts / Vibratechnics Subframe Mount / Vibratechnics Dogbone Bush

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #599 on: 24 September 2012, 10:21 »
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Going to be a busy week!

Ring me then  :whistle: