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Delayed update from August 09, 2011:

Weekend at VW Whitenoise Norfolk

Car was fine all the way there!... Exhaust had given up just as we got there. Got there quite late so had to camp somewhere pants for the first night, met up with some family and we got very drunk...  Camped with family on Saturday, there was nowhere else to go, it was rammed!.. I must say that this show for evening entertainment is the best I have been too!  Loads of bands, DJ's and random acts, It rocked!  The overall turn out was insane!  I highly recommended it to everyone on here.  Will give plenty of notice for next year when I have the dates.

Took the car down to the display area and again it was well received with lots of interest and questions etc. 1 of only 6 tin tops there I might add.

On Sunday I took the car to a car park to try and sort my exhaust, jacked it up and realised it was pretty fecked this time, did what I could but made no difference. Played around with timing and fueling but she wasn't having any of it. Drive home was horrible, misfiring at low speeds all the way up to 50mph.... Drank like fook!...  I need to get the exhaust properly fixed and the engine needs stripping badly!









More pics in the events thread

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=196929.0

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Delayed update from August 10, 2011:

Just found on another site, a cool pic at Whitenoise.

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Delayed update from August 31, 2011:

I wanted to take the car to VW Action but decided that because the Tax runs out tomorrow and it's got some outstanding issues that are affecting it's running, it's probably wise to take it off the road now, plus I am very poor at the moment.

SORN kicked in so took it out for a serious blast last night, really gave her some stick!  Was great.  Going to miss the fact I could just jump in it at will.  Not looking forward to taking it to bits but I hope over the winter I can get that motor back to how it once was.



Went to VW Action in the Mazda! 

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So... I wanted to get my exhaust fixed properly once and for all.  I thought I would do the right thing and remove the entire system minus the four branch, clean it up, high temp paint it and reseal all joints upon reassembly. Then, cut out the bad bit (joint to the manifold) and put a flexible section in.

System is a steel Supersprint in very good condition considering it's almost the same age as the car!...  I should have thought about it's age before I tried to split it though!



First bit was easy, get it's ar5e up and remove my bodge on the end of the down pipe.



All I needed to do was get the silencer off to release the rest of the system.



Got the clamp off pretty easy but the silencer obviously didn't want to budge. 

Gave it some mild persuasion followed by lots of heat, followed by bending back the female end, followed by beating the sh1t out of it, followed by giving up playing nice and cutting it off. At this point my grinder told me to go feck myself and went pop which after 3 hours of sh*t was enough for me to walk away from the car,





It's also pants not being able to get the car high enough so that I don't end up battering myself in the process!

Was tempted to re-tax it for a couple of months while I do other bits but not at this rate. 

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Picked this up tonight from Peterborough.  No marks, needs a good clean and it's got some overspray to remove but, not bad for £10.50 with mint rubber.

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I'm bored at work and have nothing to report......

.......However I would just like to say because I forgot at the time, Happy belated 28th Birthday which occurred in October (first registered).
It's only important to me as the car actually died at the tender age of 20 and it's future was bleak.

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The sound on THIS video demonstrates why it's off the road.    Started her up after measuring up what I needed to fix the problem.

Maybe I could just blag that its got some crazy old Group B Motor in it or something.

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I'm jumping the gun a bit as the car has a few high priorities that need addressing before I even start thinking about it's looks again.  I am seriously considering making this a more obvious Richard Lloyd Racing car by replicating his Group 2 Graphics.

Ideally I would like to do it like the group 2 car (berg cup arches and front valance) but I fear doing hard to reverse work to the car by cutting metal arches back for fitment.  It's also worth noting that the eary group 1 car was running standard kit, followed by arches similar to mine which are BBS so to me mine is somewhere in the middle. 

RLR Group 1 AKAI Golf



RLR Group 1 AKAI Golf (revised)



RLR Group 2 AKAI Golf



I could take it a step further and incorporate my UR-Quattro Bonnet. 

Graphics will be a pain as they will obviously need making up and I  won't know where to start.

If anyone gets bored and wants to play with photoshop and my car, please do, it might help the decision making process 

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Another poor update........... sorry.

Had to get some gear out of the golf to do some critical engine work on the other halfs car and took a snap of these:



Pair of genuine OEM wings.  Oxide primered but never fitted.  Snapped them up for a decent price as they are very hard to get hold of, especially for reasonable money.  I need the N/S one as I think the one I ended up doing up and fitted is from a cabby, bad fitment at sill level. (a lot of prep and painting time wasted).  doh!

Went to Halfrauds to get oil for the other halfs car, saw these and took the lot. (would imagine they didn't sell very well since I never see a mk1 near me.)



For once, an actual bargain from a store well known for not being cheap.

Funny how the packaging says GOLF GTI when clearly the car used is not... That's Haynes for you! 

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Due to umpteen things I've got going on, the poor thing has just sat there feeling sorry for itself for far too long.  (I've felt sorry for it too)

I had some man chores to do today for Mrs Me, I'm also on call for work but felt hopeful that I'd squeeze a couple of hours in and I did.

I've been kicking myself because I never usually leave a battery to drain and sadly mine didn't have enough to start her up.  Jumped it off the Mazda to let her have a run then put it on charge.

Running like sh*t at the moment.  Exhaust still fecked so I measured up for a flexi joint which I keep saying I'm going to get round to sorting.  Will defo order it this week and try and tap up someone to weld it on for me.

Had to drop my fusebox recently to try and assist Travis with a couple of things, left it hanging as I've still got a couple of issues of my own which today I fixed.

MOT is due at the end of the month, where the feck have the last 12 months gone!

Proof that I got her out of bed.



The last show I went to in it was the one my cousin runs (VW Whitenoise) my horns stopped working on the way there. 

This was annoying as it was all fresh when I rewired the car!  Today I fixed them, somehow I'd managed to yank out one of the spade connectors behind the dash for the switch.. 

Ever since the rewire, the fifth injector has never worked which meant it always took a little while to start.



Gave up trying to figure out why it wasn't getting power and today gave it a fresh feed from the fuel pump prime live. Works a treat now and starts instantly. 

The last electrical thing that seems to be dead is the WUR.  Double checked it's getting power, it is.  Which reminds me, raferackstraw has found a spare he's willing to part with but he's not sure if it's for a mk2 or mine.  Need to go back out and check the part number.