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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Golf mk2 gallery => Topic started by: jv on 27 June 2006, 13:22
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Sounds interesting....
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Ok for strt of, i have had several golfs, and other VW's, the mk2 always my favourite, was goin to build my Jade green 8v into a track car till i found i nice loads of rot under the car, and on bulk head.....So i've bought a 1991 3door Driver in blue for £300, its imaculate, no body rust at all, and all in working order (not that it matters)
Plans are for a 2.0 16v on twin Webers, stripped of anything un nessasary, G60 steel wheels, and lowered a bit, enough to take corners and grip well, yet look stock enough to any non-dubbers!
Will post picks soon, project well under way now, however still alot to do!
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ok, here we go, first day of buying the car! a few pics.....
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ok, first thig was to get old engine out, and start tidying up! took wings off, to make way for all the work (save damaging them) strip front rite down....
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The driver lump and subframes, removed my standin all on blocks, unbolting subframes from body, the susp top mount, steering coloumn and brake lines...leaves this....
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ok, i want a tidy lookin car, including under the bonnet, goin to loose anything not needed...and as i'm running webers and a 3D ignition map, the std golf loom is not needed, goin to make custom loom and hide behind wings, in chassis legs and anywhere possible! stripped remaining items, cleaned (scrubbed for hours) the bay and rub down any rust, and bare metal, scratches etc and spray with a bare metal rust protector! (the pinky stuff)
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A little bit too rusty, will hav to fit a new battery tray!
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a can of the rite colour paint (after a strange greeny colour the shop mixed up wrong) and a few minutes later, the engine bay looks brand new (except the battery tray) and very happy with the results, pitty its on a gravel driveway and goin to get dusty very very quickly...but should b easy to clean off wen needs be!
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next was stripping the engine off all the subframes, cleaning, sanding and spraying the sub frames, all in a nice matt black for the 'new' look!
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New lower arms too, and painted the front panel in same matt black paint
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Fitted all the bushes, minus an anti roll bar and bushes, had problems with this, wrong size bar for bushes, or vise versa, a few people say they cause understeer, so is off now, and may be fitted at a later date! All the poly bushes i bought 'can be fitted by hand with no specialist tools' b******s, i managed to fit all except the front subframe bushes and then needed a 2 tonne press to push them in, and still struggled (hence all these pictures feature a nice green front frame (hadn't fitted my black one as i hadn't pressed bushes in yet
Bought all compotion engine mounts, and fitted them and a 8v bottom end and a 16v head, to make sure things line up..ie. cooling system, and manifold/exhaust, basically a mock up of roughly wat it will lok like with my valver in it....however i havn't got the Tdi yet, and is the next thing on the list, and the manifold i bought of ebay happened to fit mk3 golfs, not mk2's, so this is how it stands atm!
An engine in, no cooling, no manifolds, no wiring, not hubs, oh it does hav a new fited and painted battery tray thou, waiting for more cash, and time to sort the wiring!
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Down behing the engine you can see the all cleaned subframe, steering rack, track rods, all nicely dusty from the driveway
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The new arms, bushes and track rods
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Vibra-technics compotition mounts (on my green subframe :undecided:)
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Ok, not alot to report, bin spending most my money payin off a few debts and getting my scirocco running rite!
So as i hav no money to spend on the ca, i decided to clean the hubs i got, were rusty, and looked a bit messy, cleaned them with wire brush, and wire wheel in elec drill, de-greased them and painted with hammerite satin black (the closest to matt they do apparently) will get the photo's sorted soon and post them!
Next is the gauges and custom loom, getting ready for the engine :smug:
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ok, had to remove the engine and box last week as my scirocco needed the box!
So while i hav the bay empty i fitted the front cross member, with the new poly bushes, and took some photo's of the newly cleaned/sprayed hubs! (only got a set of std discs i bolted on for now!
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Last post August 2006....wow!!
And very little had changed until this winter! I have started playing around again with it after converting my grandads old shed into my workshop! Have cut out the boot floor and half fitted the ally plate, will give me a little less weight, and something better (flatter) to mount the tank and battery to!
Have also removed the rear beam, cleaned and painted it as the front, and all the rear brake assembly has either been renewed, have kept the drums as i plan to strip and cut as much away as possible form most of the car, and the lack of weight at the back will only end up with locking of the rears!
tried to mount my seats with the 'universal' seat brackets i bought, haha, no chance they're ever going to fit, even though they still say they do fit mk2 golfs! will end up making my own no doubt.
The shed is about only 30ft long and 16ft wide, so since having the golf in it has had to be taken out so i can fix my brothers car, and before the golf went back in i started to fix a 'small' oil leak on a friend car (200sx S13), and has been in there since Christmas, had the engine out, just about every oil seal there is replaced as they were all leaking, and is now back together and hopefully being removed this weekend! I have 1 more job to do on my polo (work car) and its all go for the golf again! will update pictures wen its back in the shed!
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Managed a fair few hours on my lil project this week, had a couple of mates over to help me, managed to completely strip the car, finally, finish off the ally boot floor (just gotta finish the last few rivets off when i get some new drill bits) Check the whgole front end was all tight etc, fit a lower strut brace, new ball joints, and start on the 'custom' hidden wiring loom, managed to weed out all the unwanted bits of a loom i had, and started hiding it through inner wings, chassis legs etc. Actually went better than i thought, gotta lengthen a few more wires this week, and the Lighting should be done, then to start on the dash, and engine loom (not alot there though)
Will post some pictures up wen i can get a good photo, its in a poorly lit shed/workshop and it was all of sat night, and some of sunday morning, bout 5pm saturday, till 2am sunday we were in there! Was a great night too!!
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Ok sadly still no pictures, been a bit hectic, and only doing a few minutes here and there on the car so no time to take pics!
Managed to completely finish the ally floor, and seem seal it all in, Remove all the sound deadening from the foot wells etc, all the looms are now finished just waiting to be fitted, and started making the dash (well a couple of buttons and speedo that is)
Money is extremely tight at the moment, but still aiming to finish this car this summer, i need the suspension, brakes and manifold still, if anyone knows of anything good, and reasonably priced i would appreciate a PM, as i have a birthday coming up, and all i want is bits for my car lol!
Will try and get some pictures soon, hopefully have a weekend to spend on it soon, so it will start going back together and look more like a car....
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ok, managed to get a few hours on the car this week again, decided to get the inside painted so i can start putting bits back on, cleaned it all out, and gave it a quick rub down and primed and painted the inside!! looks really good, should look a bit tidier now and like its meant to be stripped!!
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a few pics of the painted ally floor in there too!
Got all day saturday to get some more bits done with a mate too, so looking good after nearly 2 years of storage!!