1980 B1 Passat Project

[vinderliker]

Brilliant Pete. I wish mine looked so good.

[Peter Jones]

Frank got to go to SEDF.

There was even a cousin to keep him company.









The car got a fair amount of interest and we met some other passat owners, by the sounds of it there's a few more of these out there in backyards and garages that will be saved.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Getting back into this again.

Needs brakes for registration.

The wheel of choice is off an Audi 80 , 14x6 Ronal, but they're 4 x 108 so I'm doing a PCD conversion along with the brake upgrade.

Being a one off model things are likely to get interesting under there, the car already has Nissan and Ford brakes on it

Backs are first as I've got shocks to go into the rear at the same time and re drilling the rears is easier.

The rear brakes should have been MK1 drums I guess but they're currently Nissan and soon to be MK3 Discs.

Here's a drilled and tapped disc.



Making up the jig to transfer the new PCD took me most of the morning it's hub and bolt centric. This is the template sitting on a disc.



Cleaned up the surface rust with a spot of bead blasting.



Cleaned some callipers too.



Backing plates are going to need some panel beating! Think the donor car got dragged without it's wheels at the wreckers



Passat handbrake cables are quite different to Golf ones, it SHOULD be easier to adapt to the MK3 setup. [fingers crossed]

Pete

[Preen59]

Nice work there, Pete. Good stuff!

[Jarred]

Glad to see Frank is finally getting some loving!

[Peter Jones]

Yeah, it's been to two shows on a trailer now, bout time it got self propelled!

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Bit more progress today.

Picked up a new set of strut inserts.



Already had a set of NOS De Carbon units for the rear.



That's one of the KYBs I extracted from the car in the top of the photo.

Only got the rear ones swapped out today as part of the rear brake re-conversion.

[Peter Jones]

I sad re-conversion - here's what I was faced with. Nissan Pulsar rear discs!



So I put some MK3 discs on re-drilled to suit 4 x 108 Audi Ronals.









The hand brake cable will be interesting, I'm off to the wreckers tomorrow for inspiration and a crawl about under some Audis.

[Peter Jones]

Wouldn't be much fun without some wheels on there so we cleaned up a pair of the Ronals and did some tyre swapping.



















I've got the centre caps for those, just waiting for the paint to harden.

[Preen59]

Good work there, Pete. The new wheels look nice.