GolfGTIforum.co.uk
Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Golf mk2 gallery => Topic started by: jv on 13 August 2004, 22:55
-
background:
Bought in Oct '01
8 previous owners
140k on the clock
mods before I owned it:
repspray, a few interior mods, lowered, blue rear lights
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
FUTURE PLANS:
Engine
bottom end rebored to 1870cc complete with ceramic crown coated pistons and cryo treated rods lowering the cr to 8.9:1. Turbo changed for a larger K04 item hopefully running 1.5bar of boost. Bigger injectors. 4 bar fuel pressure regulator. DTA E48EXP engine management. Complete custom powerflow exhaust system with 3" downpipe into 2.5" system finishing in a single 3.5" pipe. Quikshift air filter. Samco hoses throughout. the 5th cog ratios hopefully changed to give higher top end. Possibly change the rad to a G60 item with a mocal 19 row oil cooler too. All smiles water, PAS and coolent alloy tanks installed. Should develop 270-300bhp with 320 ft/lb of torque.
bodywork
New front and rear big bumpers, completely smoothed out and colour coded, towing eye removed on rear. G60 arch and skirt set, colour coded, new n/s wing, new rear wings, TT (or like) filler cap, Engine bay to be semi smoothed, un-needed holes filled. Slam panel colour coded with holes removed. scuttle to be cleaned up. hole left by single wiper filled. Boot to be fitted with CL glass, splinth removed and smoothed, remote opening to be fitted, wiper removed. Complete respray in the same colour. Wheels refurbished, possibly resprayed slightly darker.
Interior
Maybe retrim the seats and door cards, maybe. Refit the mk3 dash more snug. Stack 8130W gauge to be fitted. All smiles alloy gear shifted fitted. windows wired up to indash switch. minor electrical things fixed. 17cm speakers fitted in front. a nice twin sub boot layout installed. Battery relocated to in spare wheel bay.
Other
305mm Brembo 4 pot setup on front. Braided hoses throughout. mk4 rear calipers in red to match fronts. Koni and Eibach setup installed with -70/80mm drop. All smiles Strut brace under bonnet. All smiles scuttle panel.
Ah, we can all dream. :grin:
-
Spec: (as of Aug '04)
Interior : Mk3 Dash conversion, Mk3 heater matrix, Electric Recaro reclining seats, boost gauge mounted next to headunit on dash, mk4 cab switches thoughout (light up red), Momo race steering wheel with raid boss, momo gear knob, leather gear gaiter, sparco pedal covers, later style door pockets with custom pods to take a 17cm speaker, blue neon lit white dials, mk3 indicator and washer stalks, Golf GTi sil guards, mint door cards all round, leccy windows, leccy/heated mirrors.?
Exterior : 1987 Mk2 Golf GTi three-door bodyshell repainted in aqua metalic, 17"x7 Kahn RSR wheels with 205/40/17 Toyo Proxies T-1s tyres (rear) Yokie A539 tyres (front), Monroe shocks with -60mm 16v Raceland springs, G60 front brakes, 280mm drilled front discs, 239mm drilled rear discs, G60 running gear, colour-coded electric wing mirrors, 4 bar single lamp grille with crystal clear lights and blue headlights, crystal front and side indicators with chrome bulbs, crystal / red rear lights with chrome bumbs, big bumpers fitted all round, later style '90 spec doors with side rubbing strips removed, T4 vented wing, rear five door handles on both doors with armour plates for added security, gas bonnet struts, rear wiper lay down, 16v ariel relocated to roof, original ariel hole removed and smoothed over, de-badged and smoothed, chromed door locks, chrome door pins, chrome boot lock, chrome boot pin, Rolled arches.
I.C.E. : Kenwood KDC-PS9524 MASK MP3 headunit (4x50w), Alpine? SPR176A 17cm Components in front doors with tweeters mounted on dash and door cards (50w), Kenwood KFC-HQ698 6x9's (75w) on shelf, Genesis ST100 amp (bridged @ 290w) running JL 10w3 sub (300w) in homemade fibreglass box mounted behind the wheel arch in the boot, 4 gauge wiring. *
Engine : 1781cc 20v four-cylinder engine from a Audi 180bhp TT, engine code AUQ, Varible Valve Timing, RPM KKK-K03 sport turbo, Forge fast road polished dump valve, Custom boost pipe, Large front mounted intercooler, JR polished air filter, polished fuel rail, MK3 16v golf cable change gearbox, G60 rear engine mount, G60 driveshafts, G60 hubs, 120amp alternator, Powerflow Custom 2.5" down pipe into Bosil exhaust system with standard twin pipes on back, All loom hidden, Polished rocker cover, polished throttle body, VR6 throttle cable, VAG management. Power (guess): 210bhp Boost: 12/10psi (peak/constant)
* - All figures are true RMS
-
Update:
(16th August 2004)
Installed mk3 stalks. Everything works including the column mounted hazard switch. This wasn't as simple as bolting them onto a '90 spec car. I had to solder on all the new plugs and change the ignition barrel.
-
17th August 2004
Continued making my sub enclosure that will fit behind the wheel arch. most of the top and back. just tried it back in the boot and it fits well snug. Once the ouside is done I'll do the inside and cover it with dynamat to aid accostics. Hopefully my 10" sub will be right at home in there.
Found out after driving to work I've done the steering column up a bit tight so the steering is really stiff. will sort soon.
-
19th August 2004
Fitted blue undercar neons. (boo hiss - all). Also did some more work to my sub enclosure. it's almost done now. just need to seal the edges and fill the inside with dynamat.
-
22th August 2004
had a small water leak for a while now. decided to try and sort it out, but got bored so put it all back together again. turned the MAF sensor upside down purely to hide the plug and connected up the vvt that haddn't been connected since I had the engine installed. it now seems to have alot more top end power than better. maybe it does do something after all.
-
August 25th 2004
Finally finished my stealthed box. It had a few tiny rattles so I covered the inside with dynamat and overlapped it in some places. I tested it at a set volume and again after I'd applied the dynamat. the volume doubled! the sound isn't like the 12's I've been use to previously, but it's good enough. The sound in the stealth box isn't as good as I want so I'll be building a MDF box soon. ::)
also waxed it and cleaned the windows aswell as fitted my un-molested rear quarter panels.
-
28th August 2004
my header/expansion tank finally gave up the ghost. it'd been leaking water for a few weeks now and yesterday after caning it back from work I noticed more than the usual drops of water under the car. a quick phone call later and a tear up to the scrapper landed me a tank off a mk3 16v. hopefully this will stand the pressure better now I'm running the 20v. The mk3's tank fits slightly different to my old one so some small L shaped brackets to mount it to the susspension tower. After those were in place I connected up the water hoses and soldered on the new plug. Once again the mk3's wires being the same colour as the loved mk2's. thanks VW.
no leaks... yet. I'm leaving it a few days just to make sure there aren't anymore leaks and then I'll pop some antifreeze in.
-
23rd September 2004
Since moving and being jobless once again I haven't had any money to buy anything just yet, but I did get a job today so hopefully I'll be getting some more things done now. Anyway. I thought I'd invade my thread with a pics of the girl.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/pic001.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/20vt.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/pic005.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/dash2.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/pic003.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/pic004.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/recaro.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/car/wheel.jpg)
-
4th October 2004
I lost one of my plastic arches on the back while the car was loaded up with all my things and as we were on the dual carriage way we couldn't stop and pick it up.
g0ldf1sh, a kind soul, donated his old 90 spec arches so I can replace all 4 and all on the skirts I bought a couple of months ago. hopefully it'll look a bit lower thanks to them. I spent last night thoroughly caking them in back to black so when they're put on the car they should tidy my 'neglected' look up. Just waiting for the other 2 and I'll get some sticky stuff to attach them.
-
7th October 2004
managed to hoover it out for the first time in months. Also got Dubby to make my dash all shiney with some spray she had.
(she forced me to post this one)
-
17th October 2004
With a day off work and a decent day of welsh weather I decided to first of all wash the car as Ben my flatmate had also said yesterday he was going to wash his polo. so I called into Halfords and picked up a shammy... and some glass polish.... and some carpet cleaner.... and some special cloth things reconmended for the glass cleaner? ;D
I wanted to clean the glass so I could finally stick the 'GolfGTI.co.uk' stickers on that JV sent me a couple of weeks back so this was the perfect time to do that. I've previously been using a carplan glass cleaner that was alright, but decided to try the Autoglym offering. It's awesome. Goes on nice and comes off leaving a crystal clear window. I then stuck the stickers on.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/sticker.jpg)
Looks good I think. Was about time I put some stickers on? :-[
While washing and cleaning the car I got bored of waxing so after doing the roof I decided I'd paint my calipers. I can't seem to get any of my wheel nuts undone so I had to do them through the wheels. which isn't really a problem given the hole between the spokes? ;D At first I thought they looked really really pink, but in the pic they look red. I've been told after I've laquered them they'll do a lot reder. We'll see. Here's another pic.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/caliper.jpg)
My wheels will be off for a refurb very soon so hopefully I can avoid those kerbs better than the first time! The road is really narrow round my flat >:(
That's about the lot for today's update. I went on to wax the rest of the car so that's all clean and clean the passenger front window. Got bored then so didnt' do the rest heh.
-
15th November 2004
Passed the MOT with flying colours 8)
-
1st December 2004
renewed insurrance - ?660
-
13th December 2004
A side neon has started to fall off and is now only held on with 1 bracket. if I get round to sorting it before fate catches up with it I'll remove all the neons and return to sainity. :wink:
-
16th December 2004 (day off work and no rain :D)
Fixed neon...
replaced throttle cable with a 1.6 carb one as recommended. it's about 3 inches longer. After some trial and error with positioning I settled on this arrangement. (see pic) The cable is ok like that, but if I could make another hole just above the silver heat wrap then that would be even better :)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/20vt.jpg)
-
5th January 2005
ARGH! Where do I start. horrible start to the new year. Since moving out of my parents I haven't had a lot of money to spend on the car, but now this has happened. I've had an annoying water leak for ages now, but it hasn't really been a major problem until now. When filling the tank up again before leaving work I noticed that the nut that usually holds my engine to the engine mount had sheared off so nothing was holding the engine down in the bay? :cry: here's the picture as that tells 1000 words. I bascially have no money so I'm going to have to groval to my parents or someone to loan me money to replace the mount. Day off tomorrow so I'll try and fix my water problem at least. Also need to get a new oil filter and do a full change while I'm at it. it's all money :sad:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/broken.jpg)
-
6th January 2005
Paid the garage round the corner ?2 to do what I told them and fix the water leak. they chopped off the leaking part and resealed it so fast the header tank haddn't had time to completely empty! now that's service :smiley:
then a quick trip to GSF, which is 1 mile down the road just to rub it in to everyone who has to mail order their bits got me a shiny (figure of speech) new 16v engine mount ready to replace ASAP. it turns out the 16v one has exactly the same mounting points as the 8v one, but it's a fair bit chunkier and only ?1 dearer? :smiley:
not a bad day on the car front. on the women front I broke up with my girly, but enough of that. more money to spend on car, yay? :cool:
-
9th January 2005 (part 1)
in a nutshell...
removed bumper
removed rad fan and boost pipe to gain more access
removed dead engine mount
modified new 16v mount
play called off due to rain
put the kettle on? :grin:
here's some pics so far (with captions).
Dizzie says: see what I mean?
Rich - Londub Today! says: feckin ell!
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/intercooler.jpg)
Radiator fan out of the way I have more room to work
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/missing_mount.jpg)
birdseye view
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/more_room.jpg)
-
10th January 2005
well after rain called off play yesterday and then even though it'd stopped the ground was still very wet I decided not to finish the job. So early this morning got the washer cut down to size and bolted it all back together. once again reattaching the bumper was a nightmare, but I got it on eventually after 30 mins. connected up the boost pipe I removed and tested. works a treat. the chunky 16v mount fitting in no problem at all. hopefully it'll be a bit stiffer than the 8v one.
-
12th January 2005
As you'll probably all cheer now I've removed my neons from the car. The plastic clamps were always breaking and dragging them on the floor so I thought removing them was best and try to sell them. There must be some chav out there :wink:
Also fixed my non-illuminating boost gauge so I can actually see it when driving in the dark.
More things to fix tomorrow and I'll finally get round to washing it if it doesn't rain. :smiley:
-
13th January 2005
Bloody RAIN!? :angry:
Gave it a bloody good wash and shammy'd it all off. hoovered out all the bits of mud and sticks I'd collected in my footwell and just when I start to do the windows it starts to piss down. grrr. had a fag and tried to wait it out, but it's still raining. grrr. Here's a pic anyway.? :grin:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/rain.jpg)
-
14th January 2005
finally got round to painting the rest of the calipers. Slightly rusty looking discs I know, but I haven't driven it since I washed it the other day.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/red_calipers.jpg)
-
18th January 2005
Installed a 7 colour voltage gauge as I was really bored today. Mounted it in the top right corner of my centre console opening and routed the wire nicely out of the way. Will update with a picture soon.
-
24th January 2005
The voltage gauge was misbehaving so it was removed last night along with the Road Angel's wire as that has been sold now. Decided to try the cheaper method of loosing the rear spoiler and fill the holes with rubber grommets instead of swapping out the glass for one from a Golf CL. Here's a pic. Could do with another wash, but it's too cold outside!
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/no_spoiler.jpg)
-
27th January 2005
Bought the oil (synta silver) and filter (a06a 115 561 b) from GSF and Audi respectively ready for the garage round the corner to do the swap for me. I can't be bothered changing my own without a nice garage and the tools I'm use to. They only want ?10 to do it. Also bought a new sump plug with built in washer just to be on the safe side. Hopefully she'll appreciate it as i haven't changed the oil since the engine was put in August last year and I think I've done about 5000 miles ish. it's now reading 177k almost.? :sad:
-
1st February 2005
Took the car down to GSF to borrow their pressure washer and cleaned it. Also GUNKed the engine and washed all that off. Looks much cleaner now. I'll take some pics tomorrow. Also cleaned all the glass and hoovered it out.
Oil and filter change arranged for tomorrow. :smiley:
-
2nd Fenruary 2005 (7.27am!)
All in the name of dubness! Got up at 6am this morning and was round at the garage to have my oil change done at 6.20. *yawn*
Many thanks to Gary @ Canton Cross (02920 221451) in Cardiff for doing that little job for me. he said pop round about 6.15 and he'd do it then as in the day he's flat out with other jobs. Hlaf hour later and a nice little chat the filter, sump plug and oil are all changed and topped up. He couldn't get over how much I paid for the engine though :grin:
Took it round a little 3 mile trip to see how it goes now with new oil and it's absolutely mental! It was probably the nice cool air, but it's 'a stormer!'. The oil was pretty bad coming out the bottom, but my does it go now. I pulled off from the lights in 1st 'normally' and changed to 2nd. planted it... it pulled hard to about 4500rpm (the sweet spot) and then started struggling for grip @ 50mph! :evil:
Glad I got that done as it's been bothering me for a few months now. Now what can I do with the rest of my morning seeing as I got up at 11.45 yesterday. :laugh:
-
4th February 2005
Rewired boost gauge's illumination as it's been playing up for ages now. Discovered this when I removed the fusebox...
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/ecuwire.jpg)
Another of Designa Dubs' bodges. Even after they were given a second chance to fix all their previous f**kups I'm still finding their shoddy work 6 months after I had the car returned! Grrrr :angry:
-
5th February 2005
When I first got in contact with Designa Dubs I spoke to a guy called Paul there. He was the most helpful guy in the world and the main reason I chose them to carry out my conversion. Unfortunally he parted company with Designa Dubs a couple of week before I managed to take my car down to them which kind of threw a spanner in the works regarding what Paul and myself had talked about for ages on the phone. Basically my exact requirements regarding my conversion.
Anyway, after the massive thread regarding the quality of Designa Dubs' work on ClubGTi this last week Paul showed up? on the forum. I got in contact with him and gave him a phone call. This morning I was up at 6.45am (yawn) and was on my way down to his place in Basingstoke for him to have a look at their 2nd attempt at my conversion.
Paul set about swapping over as many of the water, vacume and breather hoses as he could to 'samco' style blue sillicone hoses. Many of the hoses on my car were split or about to split and therefore I would loose performance because of it. He also had a fiddle with my car adjusting the boost control until it ran a sensible pressure level (15psi). The car should now develop around 220bhp. It certainly feels a hell of a lot quicker than before, although the boost pressure does take a bit longer to come on song, but once it does? :grin:
Here's a picture of the engine now. He also removed and insulated all the odd peices of loom that weren't required for my conversion, but left dangling around the engine. The air filter is his, we just put it on for the picture? :cool:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/samco.jpg)
lots of cleaning and polishing planned for the next few weeks.
-
6th February 2005
Made this :grin:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/headlight_loom.jpg)
Should make my lights a bit brighter. will test when it gets dark lol.
-
7th February 2005
Lights work wickedly. so much brighter on both dipped and mainbeam. I shall be making up some looms if the demand is there.
On the way home from the Newport ClubGTi monthly meet had a little play with a mk3 2.0 16v running 180bhp. I'd sped off after hitting the motorway so I slowed to 55 to let the others catch up. the mk3 flew past so I dropped to 3rd and gave chase. pulled cleanly past him doing about 110. I recon I must be running about 220bhp now. the top end speed is just amazing now. it's so quick on the open road.
Also collected from Dubusiness a rear wheel arch to replace the lost one, a bonnet stay, boot mounted water bottle, a one-way valve and 2 headlight plugs to make another loom up.
I want to mount the water bottle in the boot and run it to the bonnet washers. then get rid of the washer bottle from under the bonnet to clean the look up. Will have to extend/rewire the loom aswell to get the pump to work. Then need a sealed battery to go in the boot.
-
8th February 2005
Finally got round to fitting that rear arch I've been missing for months now. Tidied up the look 100%. Also picked up a CL rear glass peice in clear ready to swap over seeing as I've removed my spoiler anyway. looks good. Going to have that put in asap. needs a little clean and the webber carb sticker removed though. couldn't complain - it was free :smiley:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/arch.jpg)
-
8th February 2005 (part 2)
Here's a sweet pic I also took on sunday night. amazing what you can do with a tripod :grin:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/interior.jpg)
-
17th February 2005
Well I spent 3 weeks slowing making fibreglass box that sat behind the wheel arch in the boot so it didn't take up any bootspace. only trouble was it sounded really pants.
I managed to scrounge a old 10" MDF box from work and a new terminal peice to connect it all up so last night I moved my sub into the new box. it sounds 100 times better now in here. Now all I need is some 4 gauge wire to power my amp and the system will be improved loads.
I plan to make up some more door pods soon to house 17cm speakers instead of the 13cm ones I have in there now. Hopefully that'll give a nicer mid-range sound in the front.
-
19th February 2005
Threw out everything that was in the boot apart from my oil, water, deicer, sub and amp. It now lives back in my bedroom. Also threw the fibreglass enclosure in the skip lol.
Decided I wanted to run my turbo properly so put it back to standard. then it was only running 5psi of boost which was really slow. had a little fiddle in the dark, but no good. Turbo manifolds burn when you touch them by mistake. doh.
Fiddled a bit more in the daylight. Lucky I had a pic on my pc of the wastegate so I adjusted it somewhere close to that. Now it's lag-free and smooth as ever. I'll miss having the huge burst at 5000 rpm though. Will have to wait to get a k04 on there later in the year.
Also popped some 100/80w bulbs into my headlights to see how they perform with the uprated loom. Have to wait a few hours to let you know the results!
Also started to polish my inlet manifold. Only did about a 3rd of the top of it, but it's getting there slowly.
*update*
The lights are bloody awesome! I only had them on dip and gareth asked if that was main beam lol. main beam is like daylight! The bulbs aren't even the phillips blue ones. only cheap things. but they're super bright now. can't wait to drive down a lane lol
-
27th February 2005
Blew a boost hose off :angry:
Will fix soon lol...
-
2nd March 2005
God. We're in march already! Well I fixed the boost hose the other day so that's running fine again. Since washing it on sunday it hasn't moved more than 20 miles!
My white led sidelights and white led interior bulbs arrived like a month after I ordered them lol. Fitted them in about 2 mins. see pic below
My work has 2 Polk Momo amps they want rid of. thinking about getting them for a test. might be able to 'borrow' them for the shows :wink:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/white.jpg)
-
5th March 2005
Install a 0 gauge voodoo amp wiring it that runs from the battery to a dizzy block and then onto the amps with 4 gauge. also earthed as 4 gauge everywhere. I used 0 gauge as it should keep the overall power up over the biggest distance.
The kit included about 10 metres of 0 gauge, 5 metres of 8 gauge, a dizzy block with 0/4 gauge in and 3x 4/8 gauge out. all fused. a nice little fuse block with voltage readout too. and some RCA leads. Got it cheap at work.
also replaced the scrap wires that went from my amp to the sub box with lush new 10 gauge.
-
12th March 2005
Blagged a lush new Kenwood KVT-725DVD-B from work. have to pay it back monthly though, but at least it's interest free and I got it cheaper than retail.
(http://kenwood.nl.nt.ims.hr/grafika/products/car/velike/kvt-725dvdb05.jpg)
also swapped a 80gb HDD I had spare for a MTX 4244 4ch amp that's now running my front component speakers. they sound so much clearer than they did on my headunit.
tomorrow I might start to building my boot up as the massive mess of wires is comical. I'll take a pic asap.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/my_boot.jpg)
:grin:
-
17th March 2005
forgot to post the pic of what my boot now looks like
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/my_boot2.jpg)
I also just filled up with super unleaded and the car feels loads smoother and better throughout the revs :grin:
-
20th March 2005
Afer a qucik visit to work for 2 hours this was the result. Still not finished my boot install and I've got different ideas floating round in my head about what sub setup I should go for. Thinking about having 2 10in now mounted arseout pointing into the middle of the boot. Anyways, I managed to completely make the n/s side panel and cut the big peice for the o/s. Just left to cut the fiddley bits that fill the gaps and cover them with sexy carpet.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/boot3.jpg)
Here's also some pics of my new headunit
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/closed.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/open.jpg)
and sexy Jojo on the screen :tongue:
-
2nd April 2005
Last week I finally covered the false floor and side panels I made a few weeks back. Totaly I covered the little bit of white that the boot latch bolts to. looks a load better now. I also shortened my aerial as it wasn't picking up radio 1 or any of the other decent stations (only R2, R3 and R4). Now it's shortened I can receive more stations than I can save lol. Even getting BBC Bristol and I'm in Cardiff!
For some reason I've developped a seriously annoying wine that's picking up on the engine RPM as it changes tone throughout the revs. Going to pull the boot apart tomorrow as long as it's not raining to see if I can see anything obvious making this happen.
Here's a pic of what my boot currently looks like.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/finalboot.jpg)
-
3rd April 2005
Down to work again on a sunday! The plan was to find out why I had this wine through my speakers and carpet my box. Turned out the hideaway box for my headunit was to fault. I'll be returning that tomorrow! Lucky we have a spare one doing nothing. Also popped in a better box than mine as it's closer to JL's recommended box size. I think it sounds slightly better than before.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/finalboot2.jpg)
also started work on my 2nd attempt at 17cm door pods. I screwed the MDF to the original pocket and now I need to cover the edges with fibreglass to smooth it alll out. Already the sound is better in the front of the car
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/17cmpod.jpg)
-
10th April 2005
Attended the Malvern show at the 3 counties showground yesterday. was an alright turn out. Saw a few old friends, etc. Had a nice little convoy back to south wales. Also bought these chome wing bolts :grin:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/wingbolts.jpg)
-
15th April 2005
Got some free wiper blades from the garage next door to work. Fitted then friday night. Good job too. It's been pissing down all day today. I hadden't changed the previous set in over 3 years! The new ones are Champion ones and work awesomely clearing all the tiny little drops out the way on first sweap leaving the screen clear and practically dry! I suppose cleaning the entire outside of it to get rid of all the flies who'd died on impact helped a lot.
Haven't done anything else over the weekend. Got Marc from work to wire up my clifford to act as a turbo timer earlier in the week. means I can leave it running for a set time after I've left the car for the turbo to cool down. I get weird looks off people now when I leave it running in the middle of the street. :grin:
here's a pointless pic of my engine. resonabley clean for once! new air filter will be ordered as soon as I get paid in a week :cool:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/engine.jpg)
-
18th April 2005
Used all my new Autoglym products on the trim of the car and the rear 3 windows. Looking very good now.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/sweet640.jpg)
-
24th April 2004
Recently this week my central locking had been locking the car fine, but not unlocking. seeing as I have no key holes on my doors this was annoying me a lot having to get in through the passenger side so I popped down to work and pulled the door apart.
Replaced the door motor with another one I had spare and it seems to be alright so far. While i had the door card off I covered 90% of the outer skin with Dynamat Extreme. I double layed a 6in square peice behind the speaker and did a small area of the inner skin with a small peice I had left over. I would of done both doors, but I didn't want to open any new boxes. Just using up the little bits we had lying around. Here's a not very interesting pic.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/dynamat.jpg)
Then washed and polished her and popped along to the local Elite 1k meet just up the road.
-
25th April 2005
My Audi flip key arrived this morning so in my lunch hour I trimmed down the original key and fitted it in the flipper :grin:
Here's the pics. Working sweetly.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/key1.jpg)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/key2.jpg)
-
1st May 2005
ARGH! It's not all mods that happen to my car. Last night I pressed the brake pedal hard and it went to the floor. oh dear. Got ben to pump it while I looked round and it's pissing out of one of the front hoses. A bit like your garden hose when you get a tiny nick it in. I'm suspecting it was because the hose was twisted when a certain company installed them.
How where am I going to get another hose on a bank holiday?
:cry:
-
7th May 2005
My polished rocker cover FINALLY arrived about a month after I paid for it. It's not as good as I was expecting. Could do with a going over with 2000 grit paper, but can't complain really. It was cheap enough at £50. So I wipped the top off the engine to swap them over. All the mounting points, etc are in the same place, but because it came off a BAM engine the coilpack holes are different so I couldn't fit it :cry:
topless:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/topless.jpg)
both rockers:
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/rockers.jpg)
-
15th May 2005
Washed it ready for the cruise tonight. Also did a bit more polishing in the inlet manifold. it's getting there slowly, but the task of polishing it gets very bored very quickly. I think I'll just strip all the bits I want polished and send them up the road to the polishers. Going to replace the biggest water hose with 2 samco bends and a polished pipe soon.
you can see in the pic the manifold is getting there. need to do the vertical bit facing you now. :)
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/150505.jpg)
-
18th May 2005
Kerbed my n/s rear wheel last night. mad a massive bang when doing it. didn't damage the wheel too much, but my amps now aren't working. they fired up this morning, but I suspect a dodgey remote wire somewhere off my hideaway unit which is also in the boot. grrr. It only just came back from repair!
-
24th May 2005
180,000 miles :D
-
27th May 2005
Finished applying the whole door with Dynamat Extreme! See pic!. The door feels like it weighs a ton now! completely solid! Hopefully the road noise will be reduced and my stereo will sound better aswell. I've decided I'm making my golf a comfortable car to drive. if I wanted a quick (and noisey) stripped out racer I would, but it'd drive me mad!
If anyone is interested in buying Dynamat here's a great site and if you want to buy a few peices they'll do you a deal. everything is FREE P&P www.dynamat.uk.com
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/dynamatextreme.jpg)
-
29th May 2005
Dynamatted the other door. I can already notice the reduction in road noise and improvement in my stereo :D
-
1st June 2005
Another £170 little circle of paper :angry:
-
4th June 2005
ARGH! She decided to dump the contents of the PAS all over our workshop floor at work! FFS! I had to rebuild the pump about 9 months ago because of that. I'm sure they used the wrong 90 bend when they did the conversion. So again I took it apart. cleaned it all back up and rebuilt it. Refilled with PAS fluid and it seems to be holding it in for now! Time will tell!
Also temporary fitted 2x 15" MTX subs and a 1501D amp for tomorrow's show.
-
6th June 2005
Good weekend apart from the weather. Our marque was nice and warm though with all the engines running to keep the tunes pumping out loud as f**k! We had a live DJ with a FM modulator and all the cars in the tent tuned their radios to recieve the broadcast so we all played the same music. My twin 15" subs stole the show though. So many people amazed by the size :D We only threw them in there the day before! The amp to run those mummas costs £750 though so I won't be keeping them too long. Back to the single 10"!
here's a piccy!
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/twin15s.jpg)
If anyone was wondering how loud. the roof was flexing and all the water on top was moving. the sunglasses on my rear view were jumping up and down about an inch and you couldn't hear the person next to you even if you shout very loud! excellent :D I managed to cook one of my Alpine TypeR's also. I guess they didnt' like running flat out all day opps.
-
8th June 2005
ARGH! I was racing a jap thing on the dual carriageway tonight and managed whilst smashing though the gears to snap one of the cables that my gearbox operates with :( Needless to say I then didn't have any gears now! I manged to pop it into 3rd with the help of my mate holding the clutch in and then still holding the clutch in get back into the drivers seat and drive home with only 3rd. Even did a hill start lol. The Clutch now hates me!
I wanted to change the cables anyway to try and sort out my annoying problem where I can't get it into gear sometimes. Just never knew what cables DD had used. Will call them tomorrow and see if they want to tell me or not.
-
10th June 2005
One £70 cable later!
To be continued...
....Right, had a sh!tty day at work as half the staff buggered off early and left the remaining peeps to look after the shop on our own. which was carnage.
Got home and started to remove the old cable. Unfortunally Haynes don't make a "mk2 golf with 02A box and 20vT engine" manual yet, so I had to do the remove bolts, remember where they came from and rebuild process which actually worked quite well this time.
Started off removing the heatshield to gain access to the cables and the bottom of the shifter. Not too hard. I then disconnected the gearbox end of the broken cable. I had to loosen the exhaust and push it out the way to get the whole shifter mech out of the car leaving a hugh hole in where it use to be and a view of the tarmac from inside the car! Once that was done I dismantantaled the shifter so I could unhook the broken cable and reattach the new one. Simple enough, just very greasey and messy. Once that was done it was bascially a backwards process from before. I bolted it all back together, replaced the boost pipe and intake that I removed to access the cable on the gearbox and went to have a feel of the movement from inside the car.
It's mega smooth now. That cable must have been well past it. It's almost like a new car! I adjusted it slight when I re-attached the cable to the gearbox end. that might have done some good. I'll see what it's like when I drive it futher as I only took it round the block so far. I still need to clamp the exhaust back together and replace the heatsheild as I decided that was enough for 1 night and went out on the piss.
unfortunally I think I had a bit too much to drink and I'm still way over the limit for legal driving to get the car down to work so I'll have to walk. :D
I took a pic of the shifter on the floor, but can't access my web server so I'll add that later.
-
18th June 2005
Changed the oil and filter and did the fuel filter at the same time. Messy job but had to be done.
Also swapped the twin 15" subs for meaty MTX 8500 twin 10"ers :D
-
15th July 2005
Wow, it's almost been a month since I last posted something.
not a lot has been happening. I've bought a 6 cd changer for the boot which free's up the front slot loading and easy access to the 6 best cds about now. Not a bad buy for £40.
I knew I needed a new air filter from the moment I had the 20vT installed, so 11 months later I finally buy one :D. After seeing the HUUUUUUGE one on Claire/Gary's mk1 I wanted one of those. They're made by a company called Quikshift. Cost is about £65 and you need a small peice of Samco to fit them onto the existing plastic MAF. All the bits I need arrived yesterday and today so I shall be out there at lunchtime fitting it and taking pics :D
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/quikshiftfilter.jpg)
The shopping list now looks like this...
Quikshift Air filter
Full exhaust system
Forge dump valve
Newspeed lightened pulleys
Newspeed turbo intake pipe
Samco hoses
N75 boost control valve
Solid front engine mounts. VR6 rear engine mounts.
Jabbasport remap
Should be seeing be best part of 240bhp then
-
22th July 2005
Had a week off work, but haven't done much to the car. With the help of my dad I change the GTi rear glass for one I rescued off a CL so I wouldn't have the holes left after I'd removed my spoiler. That's cleaned the look off the back end up a bit. Asked for a quote off my bodyshop to get all the rust removed and bits sorted. Still waiting to hear back off them.
Found a N75 boost control valve on ebay that was listed as a dump valve. Knowing what it actually was I bid my £5 and won. VAG want £55 for a new one and this one was still boxed so I got it today. Awesome. :D
The shopping list is having things ticked off all the time :)
Quikshift Air filter
Full exhaust system
Forge dump valve
Newspeed lightened pulleys
Newspeed turbo intake pipe
Samco hoses
N75 boost control valve
Solid front engine mounts. VR6 rear engine mounts.
Jabbasport remap
-
29th July 2005
My N75 valve arrived off ebay today. Not a bad purchase for £5 :D
-
25th August 2005
Fitted a boot pop at work in half hour using a door motor. it's running off the rear wiper stalk which means unless u disable it it keeps opening the boot every 10 seconds as if it's working the wiper lol. I'll sort that out soon!
also the mileage ticked onto the 183k mark :D
*edit* Replaced the relay for the timed rear wiper with a simple male-male wire which stops the reopening boot :D
-
27th August 2005
Popped round to DUBusiness in Taffs Well to see Gareth this morning and install one of my uprated headlight loom onto Gareth's Rallye. Simple enough to do just a bit of soldering to do and it works a treat! I had no idea the Rallye's lights were so bad!
I secured my header tank nicely in the engine bay with the new bracket I got from VW the other week welding on a couple of bolts to the susspension turret for a proper fit :)
Just built up 13 looms to take to e38 show and sell.
-
29th August 2005
Removed my wheels to totally clean them up for the show next weekend and give the calipers a fresh lick of paint and ended up breaking my F'ing 17mm socket :cry:
-
11th September 2005
Just bought a Bailey DV30 dump valve on eBay as recommended by Jabbasport for my engine. Was £104 from them, but there's a guy on eBay selling them for £85 brand new with free P&P so I had one off there. Should stop my surging at 6000rpm and bling up the bay a bit.
(http://i6.ebayimg.com/03/i/04/28/ec/60_1_b.JPG)
New full exhaust system is being fitted by Prospeed in Cardiff on the 19th. That'll unlock a bit more BHP before it's off for the all important remap at Jabba. Looking forward to a proper 230bhp afterwards. The exhaust system is 2.5" all the way through with a single circle pipe out the back. haven't decided on the size yet.
-
13th September 2005
Bailey dump valve arrived quickly and in brand new condition. Fitting took all of 2 minutes. Now instead of my boost gauge reading -8 on tickover it's -30. and when you let off the gas instead of it jumping down in steps it's a lot smoother. also before I had a flutter of my wastegate. I now have a RS turbo noise just not as loud. I suppose I'll get use to it.
yummy :D
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/bailey.jpg)
-
19th September 2005
A little late with my update, but I've been busy. On monday I had a full custom exhaust system fitted to my golf by ProSpeed in Cardiff (029 2046 1444). Charlie sorted me out a wicked price and with recent recommendations from other modified car owners I went with them over longlife and other local exhaust companies. £270 for the complete system fitted before lunch. Can't argue with that.
I knew I needed a 2.5" system from research online so that wasn't a problem, but once the car was on the ramp the experts told me I had a 2" downpie. Grrr. I was under the impression it was 2.5" so I could link straight in. Not a problem though. They cut the old system off right at the bottom of the downpipe which should relieve most of the back pressure that was making my boost behave weird. Another £160 for a 2.5" downpipe with 2 layer flexipipe.
They also added a 4" silencer at the front as I didn't want a boy racer noise. As I was undecided on my tailpipe design they held up a few. I'd had my eye on a single 4" pipe for a while now. Kinda Jap style (awaits yawns from everyone). It looks good now it's on. There's only 1, not 4 like most corsas I see.
I've taken 1 picture, but it's not the best to see the exhaust. When I get the golf back in a couple of days I'll mak sure i take a better one.
I seem to have got more boost now. I think this is because everything is flowing better. the ECU wasn't happy once again so we had limp mode in 3rd, 4th and 5th. Grrrr. I knocked it back a turn on the wastegate which brought it down to a max 15/16psi as it was before. The power has increase a little and it sounds awesome.
-
21st September 2005
My Genesis Dual Mono amp finally arrived. Bought off the Talkaudio forums for a bargin price of £275. They're £550 new and this one had just been back to Genesis for a service and refurb so it looks new anyway. It puts out 2x150w RMS in stereo or 1x500w RMS bridged (4 ohm). Plenty to run my sub that's rated at 300w without wacking the gain right up.
(http://www.genesiscaraudio.net/amps/d_mono/d_mono.jpg)
I've now got it running my 10" sub off the Dual Mono and replaced my MTX 4ch amp with the Genesis ST100 amp that use to run the sub. It really needs setting up now. The front speakers are way to loud on about 25% gain and the sub is too quiet on 25% gain. Will have a fiddle soon. Also need to tidy up the wiring as I removed the TV tuner so the aerials are a mess under there.
-
27th September 2005
Over the sunday morning I removed the TV tuner. It was useless anyway. Rarely picked up a signal and lost it again even quicker. Took me about 30 mins to pull the aerials out which lived behind the C pillar trim. That removed a lot of the messy wires that lived under my false floor. Then turned my amp around so the wires weren't so all over the place and fiddled a bit to get the balance right between two amps. Sounds ok now, but still lacking a bit of warmth as they say.
-
2nd October
Nothing really exciting happening. When the car was on the ramp we noticed one of my trackrod ends was split so needed replacing. Decided I'd swap both of them over at the same time. It turned out Designadubs managed to get another thing wrong and had put the ends on the wrong sides. With the help of the Haynes I did this little repair trouble-free. My steering wheel has been slightly out for ages now. So I put a turn more on the one side and a turn less on the other. This straightened out the wheel nicely. Just need the tracking done now ASAP so I don't wear this set of tyres like I did the last.
Also picked up a Oil filter and plug today so i can change the oil again.
-
3rd October
Ordered german plates.
-
11th October 2005
German plates arrived. fitted the front one. back one will be fitted when it stops raining!
Back to pro-speed this morning for a 2.5" downpipe to be made. Charlie and the boys did a great job once again. The car now peaks high boost. I'm sure I can squeeze a little more from it before it complains lol.
Just the samco intake pipe to add now and we're off for the remap.
Also bought a JL 8" 8W7 sub and box off ebay. they should be here tomorrow.
-
12th October 2005
Sub arrived yay! She's a sweet little thing. I hooked it up to the phoenix gold stand, but I don't think the amp on it was up to the task of powering the W7. It sounded ok, but nothing stunning. Seeing as I didn't have a headunit in my golf I borrowed a Kenwood KDC-W6031 from work and wired it in tonight and hooked up the new sub. It sounds aweomse. So tight and controlled. the Bass is awesome now. I'll post a pic soon.
-
20th October 2005
haven't really done a lot to the old golf. Tried to sell her, but no one seems to be putting in any tempting offers. Just gave her a really good wash so it's looking good. I put my german plates on almost a week ago and I still haven't had any hastle off the old bill even with a white rear plate! Not that I'm tempting fate or anything!
I'll probably end up keeping the car now. No point in getting myself further into debt over it. I've saved enough in my e-savings account to cover my insurance which is due in december. so now I can continue with the mods. Next on the list is a Samco TIP. I want to change my actuator also as I've been told it must be broken for my boost to behave as it does. I have a spare K03 at home so I'll wip that off and see how easy it is to change.
-
23rd October 2005
Well my super stiff clutch was starting to annoy me a lot so I disconnected it from the gearbox to try and find out if it was the pedal, the cable or the actual mech on the gearbox which converts the original hydraulic clutch into a cable one. After removing most of the intake I got enough room to work on it. It turns out it's the cable which is causing the problems so I shall be buying another one tomorrow from VAG.
After hearing there's a rolling road day coming up next month I felt it was time I joined in on one of those and found out exactly what BHP my babe was putting out. I've been doing all the little bits to my engine before I get my remap so when I do it takes all those factors into account and gives me the best gain from it, aswell as sorting my fueling out throughout the rev range.
So the last ingredient before the remap was a Samco turbo intake pipe. If you see the standard TIP along side the Samco one you will be shocked how small and restictive it actually it. There is a 90° bend just before it joins the turbo which is very restictive. the Samco pipe is much larger here and the inside of the pipe is very smooth. I've heard reports of cars developing 5-12BHP from this add-on. Lets hope mine is one of those 12BHP gains :D
The price from Forge motorsport was £116 and it looks like this:
(http://www.forgemotorsport.co.uk/images/products/FMGOLFIND.jpg)
I shall post again when it arrives and i've fitted it. Likely to be next sunday now as it's always dark when I get home after work.
Incase you haven't guessed I'm keeping my babe now and not selling her.
-
24th October 2005 (my birthday - yay)
Changed the clutch cable in the dark and in the rain. it's now super smooth. Will test drive it later when I've changed clothes as I don't want to get my 'caros wet! :D
-
26th October 2005
Clutch is now super smooth after I'd changed the cable. The bitting point is a little high. I think the clutch is slipping slightly cos it's so high. I'll drop it off a touch and see what it's like. My dad said it'll stretch slightly anyway.
My new Samco TIP arrived and looks good. Will probably have to fit that on the weekend as it's not really a job I'd like to tackle in the dark!
Defiently step-by-step pics coming on that one.
-
29th October 2005
Fitted the samco turbo intake pipe this morning. Removal of the old pipe was annoying. there's a water pipe which doesn't bend bolted to the block that runs right past it. I manged to bent it slightly out of the way. I'd read on vortex fitting the new pipe was very tight. mine wasn't at all. slotted onto the turbo no trouble at all. I had to nip to halfords to get a bendy hose clip screw driver to attach the clip that holds it on though.
Bolted all the rest of the bits to the pipe and routed things nicely in the bay. The turbo seems to spin up quicker now and makes a slightly different noise. Now it's back to limping again grrr. I really need that remap now. 1 phone call to jabba on monday :D
I've also lost my camera so I couldnt' take any pics :(
-
2nd November 2005
Bought a cute little 20vT badge off ebay and found my camera. will take some pics of the new intake soon. Also got my kenwood DVD/TV back from repair to that'll be going back in soon.
-
23rd November 2005
So it's been 3 weeks since I last posted! wow. Right, what has happened...
My kenwood TV returned as I said in the last post, finally got it all installed back in the golf to find out it still wouldn't play any discs in the front loading slot. The changer was working fine though, but that wasn't good enough. I managed to get the new(ish) Alpine IVA-D310R from work inexchange for the faulty kenwood which has since gone back to our supplier for a credit. I know my 10 disc MP3 changer won't connect and I have been missing the convience of having a changer, but I'm sure I'll get alpine's offering in the form of a 6 disc MP3 changer soon. Oh well, had the 310R in there for almost 3 weeks now and I've been very impressed with it's features and ease of use on the move. Defiently better than the Kenwood 725 I had before. With the Alpine range there are so many add-ons you can get. 5.1 surround is a doddle to connect up aswell as a digital TV tuner, DAB radio, DVD changer and more.
Ok, so enough on the ICE. What's happened to the rest of the car? Since my conversion the car has run 'so so'. It's been very quick at times, but on other times it wouldn't run at all, refusing to let me put my foot to the floor. So I put that down to the map on the ECU. Also since installing the Bailey DV30 dump valve the car has hunted on idle. Again I put that down to the map meaning the fueling was off.
So after speaking to AmD in Bicester near Oxford I was told they did the original imobiliser defeat code so they would be able to remap my ECU and get the wanted 230bhp from my engine. Off we went at 6.30am on the 15th of November.
It turned out I had the wrong ECU, with the wrong management loom, the wrong MAF sensor for my engine. Also my actuator had seized so we couldn't limit my boost and the turbo was overspinning itself. not good. Before I talk about management I need a new actuator... Onto the VW dealership I was. Unfortunally they can't sell me just the actuator. I have to buy the whole turbo which comes with the actuator attached. even though you can remove the part I want with 4 bolts :( ohwell. After purrusing eBay I noticed a Forge version. £115 new, but a lot lower than that at the time. After a couple of emails I bought it outright for £80. The guy only lived down the road in Newport, so offered to drop it off for me. Bargin. Unfortually after speaking to Forge and sending them some pics they confirmed I had the K04 version of their actuator and it wouldn't fit my K03S. Grrr! They did suggest I removed the broken one, separate it from it's bracket, modify said bracket and bolt the sexy new Forge one onto that bracket. Champion!
Ok, so my management... What were the options before me?
1) I could hut scrapyards, ebay and the half dozen or so forums I frequently visit and try to find the right management for my engine code AUQ. This of course would still need the imobiliser removed by AmD or alike. and then further remapped to my desired 200+ bhp.
2) Go down the route of the common standalone management such as DTA, Motec, Emerald, etc. I would loose some of the sensors on my engine such as the plagued MAF sensor on the intake and the knock sensors, but I would gain a bit more extra power at the expense of a slightly less smooth delivery. I can live with that.
After a couple of phone calls I was told I could pickup a DTA E48EXP ECU for less than I was originally quoted by AmD. A few more conversions turned up a 2nd hand ECU from a friend of a friend for £450. He's only used it for 2 or 3 months on his Rover 600 turbo, but wanted to go down a slightly different route than the DTA could provide. What's more he was only asking £450 for it. Bargin. Compared to the original price I Was told that was closer to £900. I would still need a loom to connect it to my engine, a map sensor for the DTA to read my boost levels and a proper map from somewhere such as Stealth racing.
Since my actuator was discovered seized at AmD we've had to lock the wastegate open meaning I have a lower compression engine running no boost. It's very very slow now and still gives me grief when trying to drive it 'fast'. Just to put into perspective how slow it is. It stuggled to get 100mph on the motorway and you can pretty much plant every gear everywhere and it won't throw you back in the seat or loose grip from the road. It's slower than the 8v I use to have. Compared to before when it could throw you back in the seat in 5th doing 100mph uphill. :(
So I need:
a new actuator - Forge one £80 (got)
a DTA ecu - 2nd hand £450 (almost got)
a map sensor - £85
a loom - £???
a map for my engine - £400.
I guessed I was looking at just over £1000 to get all this sorted. oh well. I also have my insurance renewal in a week which I will have to pay monthly to be able to afford this to get my car fixed and running spot on.
-
25th November 2005
My tracking is so far out it's eaten a set of Avon's in 2 or 3 months! grrr. Just bought another 2 budget ones this time and booked her in to have the tracking done tomorrow morning. also got the MOT at 11.30 so it's all fun and games.
-
26th November 2005
Passed the MOT no problem (even though I forget to change the plates. still had german ones :D)
-
6th December 2005
I now have my DTA ecu purchased for £450. Trying to get round El's so I can give him the car and he can install the loom, map sensor and get it all running properly before it's taken up to Vince @ Stealth for a final map.
-
7th December 2005
Did some website work for a existing client of mine so I got a bit of extra cash to spunk on the golf. Got a dead cert sale on the 8v when I get the 20v back so that's another few hundred. After cruising ebay this afternoon to kill the last hour at work I spotted a complete k04 setup on there. the lad also had the intake pipe and downpipe. I had the lot for a bargin price of 400 notes delivered.
After speaking with Voodoo about the DTA installation they're going to install the k04 at the same time so the map will be spot on and should be developing a tidy 250bhp which will keep it safe and reliable! The turbo has only done 40k so should be in a good condition.
I'll need new piston to lower the c/r and then I can up the power to give me 270bhp :D evil stuff!
Also bought a sexy carbon fibre peice that goes in front of the inlet manifold and around the side of the engine. hoping to get the inlet, rocker and belt tensioner polished up so that'll look mint as f**k!
-
10th December 2005
Removed the wings and got the tracking done :D
Carbon Fibre engine cover arrived :D
-
12th December 2005
k04 turbo setup arrived :D
Absolutely zero play in the shaft. Was told it'd only done 40k! all the parts look new. Got the injectors too so that's everything to fit to my engine when it goes away to voodoo in Jan. All excited now.
hopefully also bought a AGU inlet manifold with cable throttle body, fuel rail and more injectors for £60 which I'll be having polished up and fitted when it's away also. hopefully my engine will be looking as sweet as it's performing :D
-
28th December 2005
Got more money for xmas than I expected so hopefully I can afford to have a set of FK Highsport coilovers fitted at the same time when it goes away to voodoo in the next week or so. Should handle aswell as it goes in a straight line now.
-
13th January 2006
Not a lot has been happening to the little 20vT. She pretty much sat on my drive for a few weeks without moving. When I did come to move it the battery was flat. oh well. let it run for a while on the drive and it's been fine since.
Gave her 160 highspeed miles last night on the way to Ali's and she performed very good. I decided to try and get her running with some boost even though the management is pretty shot. It basically runs as it did before, but we some boost. With the actuator still seized you have to keep an eye on the boost gauge as it'll overspin if you hold onto the gears too long. Still I can get some power down and let off some of those sorely missed 'dumps'.
Decided to give the calipers a fresh lick of paint in a lovely yellow :D much like the porcshes of course. Only managed to get the 1 corner done today. Will try and do the others tomorrow. Also found out the source of my weird noises which turns out to be a knackered wheel bearing on the front letting the whole disc and wheel move. this is then touching on the splash guards and probably the carrier. Will get voodoo to sort that soon.
No idea when it's going into them. Hopefully this month :(
-
16th January 2006
Got the other 3 calipers painted up over the weekend and they look good. Very shiney, that was until I drove another 160 miles. they're a bit dirty now. anyways. I'll wash her soon :D
Ordered up a 4 bar Fuel Pressure Regulator today from Westec in Newport. Grant did me a little deal on it and gave me free P&P which was nice of him. That's another item crossed off my list of things to buy to complete the engine. Here's the list at the moment
DTA EXP48 ECU (£450)
DTA loom to connect ECU to car
3 Bar map sensor
K04 turbo setup (£430)
TT low compression pistons (£300)
20mm wrist pins
4 bar FPR (£40)
Metal water pump impellar
Mk3 golf throttle body (2E) (£40)
Solid front engine mount (£65)
G60 rear engine mounts
a new timing belt
I think that's about it. Quiet a list I know :cry:
I shall cross more off as a I go along
And as my thread hasn't received any pics for agggggggges now here's one of the latest purchase :D
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/FPR.JPG)
-
18th January 2006
After speaking with the bloke I bought the pistons from he says the pins are the same size as the ones in my engine so happy days. No need to buy more rods :D
-
24th January 2006
It's Xmas again lol! Loads of bits turned up today! Solid front mount and mk3 8v throttle body on my list and then my sexy new Focal 165K2P components. Cant' wait to get some proper door pods made up and get them in the front doors of the golf :D
-
27th January 2005
quick post as it's very late. Pistons arrived today and they're brand new! not a mark on them :)
Going into work tomorrow to try and build the new pods to take the focals. bedtime now.
-
28th January 2006
All my shopping for parts is finally over. Ellie will be supplying the rest of the parts as I'm sure he can get a better deal than me.
Started work on the door pods today in work and they're taking shape nicely. Built the one side up ready to the fleeced and the shape will be there then ready to cover. Still a bit to go, but I'm sure these will be better than before.
Here's a pic of my shopping! Click it for a 1600x1200 pic.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/shoppingth.jpg) (http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/shopping.jpg)
-
1st Feburary 2006
As funds were starting to get a bit tighter than I had first hoped I was going to leave the shocks off my list of things getting done when the engine went in as these were £400. After speaking to a few people a set of pretty much new KW shocks with springs for the handsome sum of £130 came along. Bargin!
-
13th February 2005
Not a lot really happening at the moment. Still waiting for Elie to give me the go ahead so I can hand over my car and get things started. It's getting a little tense as I told him I'd like the car back on the 8th of March. he says if push really does come to shove he'll do the work at his house if the workshop isn't ready yet.
I fitted my focal speakers into the car over the weekend to start running them in. They sound sweet as f**k in the mid-range of the music, but the top end is very over powering even with the Xovers set to -7db. Had a little play with the settings on my headunit and things are getting a bit better. I think I might need to move the tweeters down into the footwells and see what things sound like then. My new door pods aren't going anywhere for the time being. Still as they were 3 weeks ago.
-
26th February 2006
Finally a day where it wasn't mega cold outside and the sun was out for a bit so I decided to install the new loom I made up for my electric seats. They're working good now. I ran the power wire into the boot where it's connected into the main power for the ICE.
I've had a remote bass adjuster for a few years now, but haven't had it in the car. so today while I had the seats out and the carpets up decided to put that. My wires had been on show for a while now so I also tucked them out of sight too.
All in all a good day's work for me. Finally got to do something to my baby :D
-
1st March 2006
Took the old girl up to DUBusiness in Pontyclun where Gareth worked his magic and changed over the wheel bearing which had been so bad the wheel wobbled quite a lot on the car. The hub was also worn a lot so we changed that too.
-
11th March 2006
Seeing as I was overtaking on monday afternoon and as I shifted to 5th there was a horrible munching of metal noise and total lose of power delivery. After being towed home we diagnosed the problem as the diff had been shafted...
A quick trawl round the various forums for another 'box turned up a G60 one which was recently rebuilt 5000 miles ago. At the handsome price of £150 this was the 'box of choice. Also the G60 ratios are apparrently the best suited to the 20vT engine.
Just got back from collecting it and gave it a good power wash to get the grime off it. The plan it to get it painted up before it's fitted next saturday. :)
-
12th March 2006
so after the diff committing suicide on monday I needed another gearbox to replace it. I had never been happy with the ratios on the box that I've had since the 20vT conversion as they were a bit short and in 5th doing 80mph the engine would be sat at 4000rpm. A tad high to keep like that for an hour on the motorway.
Picked up a nice G60 gearbox for the nice price of 150 notes and it had been rebuilt 5000 miles ago so hopefully it's a good 'un.
Well after a quick soak with the pressure washer and being left to dry over night it was time to get painting. There's nothing worse than a grimey gearbox and a pot of hammerite paint from B&Q is only £5 and there's enough to paint 20 gearboxes in there!
anyway. Here's the pic of what my gearbox is looking like now. I'll be flipping it over and painting the underneath tomorrow as it takes ages to dry in these cold days. I'd removed the brackets as it made painting them and the bits around them easier. Aswell as the hydraulic clutch bit which was still attached.
(http://www.dizzie.biz/golf/paintedg60box.jpg)
-
10th April 2006
Well it's a sad time for my little baby. Over the weekend I was stripping the interior completely out of her. Every little bit is coming out before the shell is scrapped. :cry:
After work today I was up there again. Removed the 20vT engine completely aswell as a few other bits and bobs. Over the next week I'll be steam cleaning the engine off and rebuilding it ready for it to drop into the edition one.
I'll post the last pic of the car before it's gone forever :cry:
-
13th April 2006
The car was finally completely stripped to a shell and collected on Thursday the 13th of April.
A bit of a sad day as I have owned and loved her for the last 4 and a half years. R.I.P.