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Thread: Erik & Rupert: The Tale Of Two MK1s

  1. #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by WABIT View Post
    GTI Imports brian?

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    Yep that is who he is referring to.

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    Nice duo, looking forward to see where you go with these.

    P.S. Glad to see I am not the only twit that names his cars

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    Thanks guys!

    Got stuck into some more work on Rupert tonight. Things are going quite well.



    Removed all the spares from inside. Lifted the new carpets out and took the dash out. I want to know that the whole thing has been put together properly, so everything is being given the once over.



    Unfortunately I found this. Not ideal. It's in the passenger floorpan under where the seat would be. I've got to get someone out to fix this and a small spot in the passenger footwell. Can anyone recommend someone? They need to be mobile. I've been told about two blokes who do it, but haven't been given contact numbers for them. Not very helpful.



    Here's one lot of the stuff I removed for the car. There are doubles of lots of bits. Most of it is in immaculate condition, so I'm looking forward to putting the interior together.



    Mint back seat with some of the carpet and a dash mat for the old dash which will go in Erik.



    Front seats, carpets, boot lining, parcel shelf and other junk.



    Then we got into the good stuff.



    Not much to this engine bay. We removed everything from the top side last night.



    Tonight we unbolt the subframe from the bottom and drop the motor out.



    Found this under some plastic cowling in the top of the engine bay. Hoping that it's not a necessary addition to the car!



    Rupert seemingly has an affinity for the //M livery for some reason.

    That's about where we stand. If all goes to plan tonight the motor will be out and we'll start tidying up the engine bay. I'm not going to paint it, but I will give it a good clean and get rid of anything extraneous.

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    I'd sell a toe for those back seats. Lucky sod!
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    Is it rare to find them in this condition? Or is the colour desirable? I'm still learning all this stuff. I was lucky enough to get them with the car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuH View Post
    Is it rare to find them in this condition? Or is the colour desirable? I'm still learning all this stuff. I was lucky enough to get them with the car.
    Both.

    Liking the progress mate. Once I'm back of the road I'd love to check the out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikinoz View Post
    Once I'm back of the road I'd love to check the out.
    Sounds good!

    Got stuck into the motor swap last night. It was hard work.



    This is where we started from. I didn't take any pictures for a long while after this.



    We were told that this is the easiest way to do it on these Golfs, but I'm not convinced. For the two of us in a garage I think a crane would have been far more simple.



    It's a very tricky process getting the car clear over the top of motor. We were using two trolley jacks to hold the car up, and two scissor jacks under the motor to lower it down.



    The wheels and struts had to come off the hubs to make it easier to move the motor around.



    We were inching the car backwards with the trolley jacks. Probably not the safest way to do it, but that was our only option.



    Eventually it was all clear. We can start pulling it apart now. This gearbox is staying in the yellow car so it needs to to come off. Tested it and it doesn't have an LSD, whereas the one in Erik does. I'm not sure how hard it would be to change the LSD over to this gearbox?



    The bay needs a clean and I'll get rid of some wiring. Thinking that I should probably paint it too.



    Erik is waiting in the background for similar treatment. I'm keen to start work on getting that motor out as well.

    Two weeks until I leave for Japan and I need to be able to move one car out of the garage before then at least.

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    I know it might seem easier the other direction but I think that in my experience the way you approached it is still best.

    Your motivating me to get my engine swap done more promptly.

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    I've done engine swaps both ways.

    it's easier to drop out the bottom, however you should have disconnected the driveshafts from the gbox, and left the control arms, hubs wheels etc still attached, that should make it a touch easier.


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    Hey mate, welcome another project or two!

    I bought a rusty 4 door from the same guy who owned Erik. Back then(about 18months ago) it was pretty rough, so I cant imagine its any better now . Then I saw the car again a couple of weeks ago in Salisbury rd in Hornsby. When I saw it I thought "holy crap whats that doing there. Anyway, I work in Mt Kuring-gai if you ever want to meet up and talk mk1.

    My personal choice is out the top with engine and box - just works well for me as I always find it a lot easier to hoist the engine box around on a crane than roll it/drag it on the floor. Also keeps the car in a more normal position.

    Anyway, all the best with the project!
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