Mission: '76 Mk1 GTI replica TargaWest 2012

[GOLFBALLS]

Righto. Some may say I am mentally impaired, but in my eyes the mk1 is made for targa rallying, and I love competing. There are too many in the Porsche/Subarishi brigade hogging these events so it's time to get in.
This is the deal.

Take the pictured Mk1, strip it, race prep it, make it look like a proper 1976 GTI, run the proper Heron GTI 1600 (to stay competitive in the class), and be ready to compete in TargaWest 2012.

As I'm currently more focused on the mk2 conversion i'll just post these pics for now...





...yes thats another future project in the background!!!!



back home and given an 'inspiration coat' \





Siezed engine due to some twat putting wrong head gasket on.






Obviously i'm just keeping the block as a spare


stripped







Floor nastiness. She'll be ok.





The aim isn't to make a squeaky clean perfect show car. This car is fairly rough so it will make a perfect race car with some cleaning up.

hope you enjoy!

[GOLFBALLS]

couple more pics

[Jarred]

hopefully this thread will contain much win!

so far so good!

[tinto]

Awesome! Are the regs tight on what you can enter?

I agree about the subishi/ Porsche overload.
Soon it will just be gtr35 and evos.

[GOLFBALLS]

Awesome! Are the regs tight on what you can enter?

Yes and no. It's a little complicated, but basically you can't enter a car with an engine that wasn't originally offered or homoligated on that model (unless you apply for the 'grandfather clause' a-la John Caruso's 350 Chev powered Jaguar).

Obviously this makes my 1.8t mk2 void

I picked the '76 spec because it is the original and my favourite, and running the 1.6 keeps me in the smaller classes and the earlier year keeps it out of the way of the later more modern stuff to an extent.

You can modify but again depending on what you do, it can force you to go up to categories with cars that will rape it.

I wont be competing in full competition class yet, just the challenge class.

All the rules and stuff can be found on the CAMS website.

Cheers,
Wade

[Calais]

Looking forward to this build!

Best of luck bud.

[GoLfMan]

I too am looking forward to this build

[evorobin]

Yes you're mental but obviously talented with the spanners

Could even have a 1.6 16v as these were sold in France...

[gtimk5]

Thats great news to read and I wish you all the best with this build. Looking forward to seeing the progress.
Great idea!
Andrew

[GOLFBALLS]

Yes you're mental but obviously talented with the spanners

Could even have a 1.6 16v as these were sold in France...

Saying i'm talented with the spanners might be a bit optimistic!! Hopefully my talents will grow while doing this project.

I think Luke (volksee77) is going for the 16v for his car. I'm trying to keep mine cheaper and simple

Thanks for the encouragement fellas!

Cheers