Golfyste's road legal mk4 "project track car"

[Rylarr]

Cheers dude
Also got the under wingmirror lights working with them as they were already installed
Will get a night shot inside when I finish the night shifts.

Pretty simple yet I think it's quite effective. 

That will be no good, its light when you finish the night shift!

ill pop up in the small hours 

[golfyste]

Do it dude
Nip to mine later and post a few photos up here 

[golfyste]

Ok i have done it again with not updating often enough so now im going to have another monster update 

Been very busy lately and made quite a bit of progress!

Start with something small...

i went around the car and fitted cable protections to all the wires in the car







Im going to say now i have done quite a bit but ave been so caught up in the work i haven't really taken that many pictures as i always forget 

i refitted the tank and then fitted the rear axle




I then fitted the suspension, wheel bearings and the standard rear brakes (these will be getting upgraded shortly to 255mm discs when i get hold of some carriers but these will do for now)




I removed the ecu from the daily on saturday and sent it off along with the spare standard aum ecu i have  to R-tech to have them both deimmo'd

i then over the last few days have been returning the daily to standard and switching all the bits onto the track car

i removed the 3" system off the daily leaving a nice space and a crappy looking rear valance




I then Spent quite a while (with very few pictures  ) switching the turbos from one car to the other aswell as loads of other bits
this was the end result - a nearly standard looking engine bay!




I then fitted the standard zaust to the daily, the centre bracket had broken off so had to weld it...

first ever attempt at gas welding! Pretty messy but its stuck ok   



I also switched the valances so the dailys is standard and recut the modified one to neaten it up a bit!






I then moved onto switchingover the intercoolers, switching the injectors and also painting the inner part of the drivers wing as it had a slight bit of rust








I then switched over the headlights....track car starting to look mean 
the ths intercooler will be getting swapped for a wellycooler setup when i do the engine switch once the spare engine is rebuilt




A cheeky pic of the cold air feed




And with a mounting bracket made up (made need the position adjusting when i put the bumper on)






I then fitted all the boost pipes, tip, recirc, air filter etc to the track car




I then started looking at how i was going to convert the narrowband lambdas to wideband.
i found a guid but it had no pictures but managed to sort of sus it out 

Luckily i have the spare engine loom that came with the engine i bought so looked in the plug and found where the two extra wires goto in the plug and found the empty spaces on the arz plug so that may be tomorrows job



Also while trying to remove the wipers and scuttle panel to get to the ecu i managed to break the windscreen 
An expense added to the list that i could do without but sh*t happens i guess



Also i order some new arch liners as i had melted mine 
They arrived so i got them fitted rear wheels can now go on and that's the back end done 




I also swapped my bora vents from the daily




And a final pic showing the car starting to look pretty mean 
im sure it will look even meaner with a wellycooler on 




Some more work to do tomorrow so will try keep upto date 

[golfyste]

Couple of night shots with the interior led's

[Dave_IOW]

Looks the bollocks that mate

[golfyste]

Cheers dave 

Another small update
finished panting the wing on the current daily and finished putting it back together (bumper, driveshaft) and also removed the eibach RARB, we then towed it up the drive out of the way untill my ecus come back

The anti roll bar




i decided to take a look at the adding the wiring for the wideband lambda.
its only temporary as after i have rebuilt the spare engine i am going to try cut down the spare engine loom i have to get rid of anything i dont need and then i will be swapping the whole loom.

but for now....

Trying to figure it all out




used some telephone cable to run the two extra wires to the ecu, not the perfect solution but as said it only temp






New plug all soldered on




Splitting the ecu plug




and after had installed the wires into the pins




I then spent the rest of the day changing ryans cambelt and water pump as his water pump had decided to explode into




Tomorrow i will be installing the rear anti roll bar, Heat wrapping my exhaust as the heat wrap arrived and i may also look at dropping the subframe and fitting the front coilovers and polybushed wishbones etc 

[Granta Gti]

Love the work mate. You selling the daily then? Also your track car would love the n249 bypass 

[golfyste]

Yeah its pretty much standard now so when the insurance is up I'm gonna sell it on and drive te trackcar for a while and then look into a gettin another daily ( 320d etc)

Yeah I'm going to do all the bypasses etc when I do the engine rebuild but I'm leaving the current engine as it is as its only temporary 

[Diamond Hell]

Remember to wrap the manifold so the joints are 'flushed', not open when the car is going forwards, if that makes sense?

Also dunk it in a bucket of water and wrap wet - keeps things a lot cleaner and it'll tighten up a touch when it dries.

You probably knew that lot, but worth a reminder 

[golfyste]

Sorry but I don't know what you mean by that first point whatsoever

May just be me being knackered 

And yeah I will