My Scirocco Project

[Golf Loon]

Thanks Marty. The rocco wont be at the nats this year. Probably Mk1 and Audi, or Caddy.

[Jarred]

h pleeeeeease the caddy!

[Volvo Driver]

Also if your chasing an intercooler, I'd try & find one out of a Mitsubishi Evo3 or a Galant VR4. Will cost no more than $200 & are a very efficient intercooler will bugger all pressure drop, good size inlet & outlet's & are also fairly compact. Will easily fit in the front of a mk1 if you move the rad. back an 1".
Will easily support 400+hp.

Or you could get one of the new Ebay ones which aren't actually too bad and are very efficient.

[Golf Loon]

So the poor Rocco has been a bit neglected of late, so I figured with the departure of My Mk1 16v, its time to make this baby great.

I whacked in a set of coilovers out of Pedros crashed Mk1, so she is sitting pretty sweet now.

I have trial fitted the 2.5" stainless exhaust that I got from Marty at the Nats and I sent off to qpeng to get a full wiring harness and ecu made for the car.

When I rang up to pay for this, I looked on their website and saw their new line in 2.5" stainless downpipes to connect a 20VT into a Mk1 or Scirocco. I had to have one and it arrived yesterday.

Bolted it up to the motor for a trial fit



Motor could go into the car in a day now, just needs the sump and a few hoses.

However, I had pulled all the brake linkage bar setup apart, and the pedal box, so this has to be fixed before the motor can go in.

This is what I achieved today.







No more linkage bar and vague brakes for me. I used a Seat Ibiza 1.4 8" booster, master cylinder and pedal box. In front of the driver. Tomorrow I will modify the rocco column to fit into the beeza pedal box and that should be that. Will also have to fettle the acellerator position a little too, but that wil be beneficial for the throttle body position on the 20VT.

It brought a tear to my eye having to hit the car with a hammer and a holesaw, but it will be worth it for the sake of good brakes and an uncluttered engine bay. I reckon I can make it look factory by the time I`m done anyway.

[Jarred]

Good to see you're still making progress.

Will be very interesting to see how the brake booster/MC relocation turns out.

[DubSteve]

Nice work Matt I think you need to dress that engine up and clean the engine bay a lil, I reckon a good degrease should do.

[Golf Loon]

Nice work Matt I think you need to dress that engine up and clean the engine bay a lil, I reckon a good degrease should do.

Thanks mate. I`ve been thinking about doing a full smooth of the engine bay, Probably wont do the full job though in the interests of getting it running.

[DubSteve]

Thanks mate. I`ve been thinking about doing a full smooth of the engine bay, Probably wont do the full job though in the interests of getting it running.

Even a small amount of shaving tidys it up alot, like they say less is more.

Getting rid of a battery to the boot and also a few holes can do it justice

[Golf Loon]

Even a small amount of shaving tidys it up alot, like they say less is more.

Getting rid of a battery to the boot and also a few holes can do it justice

Have you done much engine bay smoothing steve? You can come and do it for me if you like?

The battery to the boot has drawbacks I reckon and makes the car look less original and makes problems of where to put the spare wheel and your shopping. Wont be doing that.

What I`m aiming for is a tidy almost factory looking install in a car thats fast as fek...

[Jarred]

I've just helped stu with his engine bay., the other week, and it sure as hell was a lot of work.

Personally a tidy standard bay will look tops any day, take Tim's mk 1 as a prime example.

I'd say it would be ALOT of work to do a smoothed bay. Not worth it IMO, especially since the bonnet is down 99% of the time!