The never ending project

[nick_mk1]

So I got abit lazy and completely forgot the forums still existed with all these fb hype pages but I'm finally back, and this time it's with something not so new! My mk1 caddy

I'm sure many already on here would know it as Petes caddy or should I say ollllddd caddy

It's been through the books since I bought it and as it sits I could say it's a different car since I bought it


sadly after purchasing the caddy, many things decided to let go within the first few weeks of owning it,

- steering rack completely **** itself.. Teeth where sheered off
- two cv's let go
- master cyclinder seals went


But me being me, I continued on my terrible luck with cars.. And ended up with a cracked head on my hilux, plus a few other things which ended up in me and my mate having to rebuild the motor.. Couple thousand later it was back on the road leaving me absolutely no money to fix the caddy


A few things I've done to it so far

- genuine bbs steering wheel
- sold the 16" bbs Rs and got some genuine 4x100 15" Rs centres and barrels of Ray
- ordered new lips and refurbished the wheels
- axle flipped the rear beam, 2" drop plates that my girlfriends dad happily made at work on the cnc
- air shocks in the rear also!
- pulled the steering rack out and got rid of the crappy power steering, replaced it with a manual steering rack from my stack of mk1 parts laying around! It got a overhaul with all the bushings, new joints etc.

As of now I've been extremely lazy with the car and been busy workin on mates cars aswell as my brothers 2 door mk1 instead.. Whoops


But I shall try and update this regularly and get this damn caddy back on the road


but I do have big plans for it

- tuck the wiring in the engine bay, as i cannot stand it.. As a sparky it's really getting my ocd going
- repraint the bay and the car in a nicer shade of black, not a fan of the matte black
- put the car on air as it's still static besides the air shocks in the rear
- build my spare aeb motor and put a gtx3582 on that aswell as hopefully converting it to awd when my gf's dad gets spare time to help me


The list goes on lol

[nick_mk1]

Currently how it sits


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[browndizzle]

Bloody hell thats awesome! where in syd are ya man? should meet up with the mk1's! love the plans for it! staying posted on this one for sure.

What was the aeb motors out of? is that the 1.8?

hope to see this in the flesh soon!

[nick_mk1]

thanks, no where near finished haha
Near Baulkham hills, when I put rego on it I will definetly come out for a cruise!


Yeh aeb head with a early 20v n/a block


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[browndizzle]

Yeahhh nice man! Keep the updates rolling!

Yeww sounds awesome man cant wait to see this thing roll

[Notso Swift]

You definitely need more pictures than that!

[nick_mk1]

Here you go


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[nick_mk1]

Bit of a update
Car is currently being stored at a mates whilst we get our new driveway pored!

Still in search for a half decent priced t2 bus master cyclinder..



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[MarcusAurelius]

Bit of a update
Car is currently being stored at a mates whilst we get our new driveway pored!

Still in search for a half decent priced t2 bus master cyclinder..



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Can i just ask what you have planned for the t2 master?

[nick_mk1]

To replace mine lol


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