Mk1 16v Project

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Originally Posted by Jarred

what colour are you gonna paint it?

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I assume you mean the cam cover? Black wrinkle finish.

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Originally Posted by Preen59

I assume you mean the cam cover? Black wrinkle finish.

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oh yea woops, I remeber reading that somewhere now... :rolleyes:

ANd yes, you should get ready in time for nats;)

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Originally Posted by Preen59

Now THIS is a real 16v!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5G4l6Kkw

That's about as serious as it gets.

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And this is revving the back out of summat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv42vKGJl64&NR=1

Primed the cam cover yesterday and painted it today.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/211...mallcu3.th.jpg

Tomorrow i'm going to rub the ribs back and re polish them. I'l post pics when it's done. This wrinkle finish paint takes a while to set properly, the can says 5 days to fully harden! It had started to wrinkle a little when i left the workshop.

wow, that's patience, 5 days! I think it'll look pretty trick once you're done

Ok, well the wrinkle finish went to crap cause it stained when i polished the ribs and i couldn't get it out. Also it was uneven because half way through painting it the can started leaking so i could get even cover :mad:.

So, i wet blasted it again and repainted it with high temp flat black. Came up looking really good i think..

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/359...mallag0.th.jpg


Also, today i lightened my flywheel, which came up well.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8...mallji2.th.jpg

If anyone is interested i can machine flywheels for them, too.

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Originally Posted by Preen59

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/

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hot!!! I love it, great combo with the flat black and polished ribs. ;)

Nice project :D Should go well with that engine :)

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Originally Posted by Valver.

Nice project :D Should go well with that engine :)

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Thanks dude, it's not to the level of detail that your cars are (which are some of the best i've ever seen), but i just want a nice neat car that i can say is mine and i've done.

Ok, so yesterday i got some more stuff done on the braking department. I started fitting the rear disc setup that i got hold of. I've cleaned all the parts up and painted them and i also machined the discs and cleaned them up too. At the moment i'm just doing one side so i can figure out how i'm going to do it. This way if i make a mistake it's half as bad.

Here's a pic of the setup on the rear end (Minus the disc..)

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4...mallyk8.th.jpg

And here's the freshly machined and painted discs.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2...mallmv0.th.jpg