1993 MK3 Golf(VRT Engine build time!!)*UPDATED 17/3/13*

[brett]

thats looking so good now mate ,ive been really trying to keep mine standard ,managed 2 and a bit years but gonna have to lower it even if it is only 30 mm or so and get my bloody wheels refurbed ,you lot do know how to encourage people haha

[leigh_harty]

Sorry mate 

It's engine strip, clean day today though so I am on it.promise

Get some pics up when you do!

I leathered my bay with TFR and ruined me polished intake 

[LowlifeDubber]

Right so i got to work yesterday stripping engine number 2 ready to loose the block and keep all the sensors,rods/pistons and crank etc.
I never really knew what this engine was like but after a strip down i could see the chain guides had gone.

Anyway picture time.







Then it came to removing the head and 2 of the bolts had been rounded of by the previous owner.Tried everything but in the end i had to drill the fecking things out!
Only 2 of them though.






This is what it ended up like.






Sooo then i decided to do a bit of shopping for daft things like shells arp bolts etc and realised i still need all the ancillaries and subframe,loom etc.
Started ebaying and realised screw it it will be much cheaper to buy a full car with a blown engine.......

So im picking this up tonight.




Although its a bit of a pain towing it from Spalding to Lincoln(with another mk3 naturally) i may even be seeing Bucksfizzturbo on my way back as he is picking up something close to where im gunna be
To keep the woman happy as she doesnt really know yet,ive ordered a crap load of stuff for the garden so she cant moan.

[Seanl]

God, I'm glad your putting that poor thing out of its misery! 
Nice cunning though, DH would be proud! 

[LowlifeDubber]

Ha ha i feel kind of guilty for stripping it as it has had a lot of bad taste money thrown at it.
But it has full leather BMC carbon intake,coils,new windscreen,polybushed everything up front etc.Oh and £50 worth of fuel in it as it blew up just coming out the gas station.
£350
Someone with poor taste will but the doors and wings and apparently the tailgate has been partially smoothed.Then theres the smooth bumpers etc so im pretty much winning on the making my money back side ha ha.

[laitymk3]

Looking foward to pick this little BEAUT up lols

But on a serious note if my car died pulling that i will not be very pleased.

[LowlifeDubber]

I think to save your clutch/engine I will tow you as your a novice

[leigh_harty]

Damn you picked up a bargain!! Considering lol

Is that engine obd1 by chance? ....Single chain


Easy Engine to work on arnt they :-) and what's with all that crap in under the cams?

[Wayne]

Great idea with the donor car, hope collecting it goes all ok.

[LowlifeDubber]

Cheers Wayne
Leigh it's obd2
Be no good to me otherwise lol