Mk1 16v Project

[Jarred]

what is your brake set up going to be like? what components are you using?

[Preen59]

what is your brake set up going to be like? what components are you using?

On the back i'm running a mk2 8v GTI setup all standard. The stub axles bolt straight on to the standard mk1 rear end. I've got to shorten the lines and make some new ones and mount the proportioning valve though. So i'll put it up on the hoist once i'm ready and work out how i'm going to do that. I'll post pics and all the dimensions with a full how-to once i work it all out.

On the front i'm going to do the 278mm magna rotor conversion with the commodore calipers. There's a thread in the interesting articles section about that.

[Valver.]

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.

You're detailing what's beneath the surface so that's more important anyway IMO Look forward to seeing this run

[Preen59]

Some more progress.. Today i got my rear wheel bearing kits for the disc brakes and i also got my calipers back from being kitted. So i put one disc back on after packing the bearings etc and i also painted my calipers with high temp polyurethane metallic silver paint. To get the calipers kitted costed 200 bucks but they do a good job and they re-plate them too.

Here's a pic of the calipers when i got them back (before i painted them).



Here's a pic of my finger when i managed to open it up with a screw driver doing a hose clamp up today.. After i did it my old man was kind enough to mention that he had socket drivers for hose clamps so that that didn't happen..



Also, here's something else i did on the weekend not related to the goof. It's a busted Chrysler 392 block that I machined at my work on sunday to see how much we could safely take off where the oil filter goes. Dad is building a 60's top fuel dragster and the remote oil filter adapter won't fit between the chassis rails and the block so we wanted to see how much we could take off to make it fit before we did it to the block we're going to use..

[ontarv]

looking good !!!
by the way , your not working if there is no blood

[Preen59]

looking good !!!
by the way , your not working if there is no blood

Haha, yeah i'm hearing that. Seems to be that with cars, it doesn't matter what you are doing, you increase your risk of injury just because it's to do with an automobile!


Also, something else interesting... On saturday i went to Canberra in the big bad Caddy with the old man cause we were taking one of the 392 blocks down to Graeme Silk race engineering. Turns out he does Neal Bates' toyota rally car engines! Apart from a lot of other really trick drag racing engines, sprint car/ speed car engines. I had a look at his gear, and he has some really nice stuff and i also took a look at some engines he was currently machining/ building.

And to top that off, he has a brand new top-of-the-line Superflow engine dyno!. So i've decided i'm going to get him to do all the machine work and balancing on the 16v. He confessed that he does charge more than most engine builders, but i can tell he takes an interest and he also makes sure what leaves his workshop is exactly what the customer wants and up to his (very high) standards.

So when i've finished building the engine, i'm going to head down there so we can tune it on the dyno.

Dad and i are currently in the process of ordering some 5083 aluminium 50mm thick billets so that i can machine up a torque plate for the 16v aswell as one for the 392 engine.

Once i've made the torque plate i'll post some drawings for everyone.

I didn't realise, but a lot of people bore (or get bored) their blocks static with no tension. This is a really bad idea and is why some engines can be freshened up and still have bad leakdown from new. In some cases, the bore can distort up to 4 thou (0.10mm). Which is awful.

[Jarred]

there's a phone numer you won't want to loose any time soon!

p.s. sorry I havn't got those number for you, I haven't been able to get them measured up very accurately.

[Preen59]

My uncle gave me an oil cooler yesterday! It's off his march open wheel formula 2 car he had years ago. Really good quality aluminium cooler.



Also we're currently building a car trailer for his 914/6 currently being restored and for the Goof.. . So i'll post a couple of pics of it tomorrow. The main chassis is pretty much done and we welded the axle in this arvo. It's going to be a tilt type loading trailer but with no extension ramps, so it's pretty interesting.

Something else interesting.. Here's a pic of a standard Chrysler 392 hemi main cap (top) and a standard VW 16v main cap (bottom).



Yet another reason why VW engines are so bullet proof and you can extract such good horsepower from standard equipment..

[Valver.]

That's an interesting pic comparing main caps!! Thanks for sharing

[Preen59]

Did some more work on the trailer on sunday. Silly enough (i should know better), i was welding in shorts. Got some SERIOUS ray burn on my leg. Won't be doing that again!

On saturday i machined some wheels for a guy who races V8 supercars in the fujitsu series who has the workshop next to my old man and mine. He needed some wheels with a square machined outer edge, so i threw them up on the CNC mill and machined them.



I removed all the water lines etc and pulled the radiator and a few other things out of the golf yesterday too. So as soon as i get a chance, the big bad goof is going on the hoist to have it's ticker removed..

Got my block back today from being acid cleaned, too. Now i have to de-flash it and then remove all the plugs so i can wet blast it and get it all smick to go to Graeme Silk gingerbeering to be bored to 1.9 and have the crank machined and everything balanced.



Got some more Goof stuff from the US too. I got a new golf ball gear knob, a new early euro shift boot, an original US Rabbit badge, a new 16v cam chain and a new 16v dipstick. Also coming is a full new gear linkage kit (16 bucks US!!!) and a full Prothane engine mount bush and suspension bush kit (70 bucks US!!!!!) I love Ebay..