Wreck to Race.

[Preen59]

good to see Pete. I'll have to come watch her in action one day! although I'm concerned with your credit listings - I can understand jodie first, but eBay last??? never!!!

All you need is an "eBay Special" sticker on a window some where and you'll be set! hahah


keep us updated.

Hey watch it with the ebay car bashing! My car wouldn't be without the resources i discovered on ebay!!

[Oneofthegreats]

Nice work Pete.

At least you've got a plan (a nice looking plan too!) of attack & a budget.

These track day's sound like a bit of fun. Wouldn't mind getting involved myself one day.

That's if I can get my arse into gear & rebuild something.

[Jarred]

Hey watch it with the ebay car bashing! My car wouldn't be without the resources i discovered on ebay!!

hardly ebay bashing, I love it! I already have my next project planned out! well actually, it's like 4th or 5th inline, but It involves everything and anything from ebay!




Good to see you back on the forum Tim.


So how about some more pics of her Pete?

[Peter Jones]

Time for an update and a few pics. It's been a case of one step forwards two steps back for the last few days but I've chased a lot of issues through to their conclusion and things are starting to go back in.

I replaced the Cam and intermediate shaft seals without too many issues but the crank pulley had to be convinced to come off. I went though a couple of levers before I made this up to lock the crank.



Even then I had to heat it up a bit and really swing off it to move it.

Here's what was hiding behind the covers.



Took me a while to clean that up.

I also replaced the injectors seals and discovered I have one odd injector. some thing else to fix!

3 of them look like this.



But the one on no1 cylinder is made of brass and looks like this.



I wrote the numbers down, I'll have to do some research.

Modern Art?

[Jarred]

hahah you love your red paint don't you pete! what cam did you put in? oh wait, you just replaced the cam seal.. oh. gfot a bit ahead of myself!

[Peter Jones]

Engine bay. Remember I started off just replacing brake pads and I got to this stage!





I pulled the sump off to replace the Gasket, the old one was held on with kypotonite I think!

Here's an under shot you don't often see.



Clean and shiny sump ready to go back on.



Gradually going back together



Water pump back in.



Anotheer shot.


Week nights I've been cleaning up the wheels - no more gutter rash



I've got to weld the shock towers before I can put the suspension back in. It was too hot to weld today.

Pete

[GoLfMan]

great work Pete

[Peter Jones]

hahah you love your red paint don't you pete! what cam did you put in? oh wait, you just replaced the cam seal.. oh. gfot a bit ahead of myself!

Actually I just like painting parts when I put them back in. I'm a pretty left brained person and the colour doesn't matter much to me.

The suspension on the red golf ended up two shades of blue, yellow and red.

Jodie put her foot down and said it's got to be all red or all black.

I just paint stuff to make it easier to clean and keep it from rusting.

(Black would be pretty boring though, I'm not completely left brained!)

Pete

[Golf Loon]

The odd injector is from an early Mk1 GTI. All the others are from the later Mk2 kjet 1.8s. I`d use the later kind in that motor.

You have had a busy weekend, good work.

[Peter Jones]

The new rocker cover gasket is rubber and is one piece, a much better design than the cork with rubber bits original style, the kit came with new shoulder less studs.

The new sump gasket is also rubber, it should seal up a lot better that the kryptonite one.

New Cam belt and tensioner fitted up.

New spark pugs too, Bosch platinum thingies with 4 electrodes.

The engine timing was all over the shop, The fly wheel's not on right so the mark doesn't correspond to TDC on No1. Can't be stuffed dropping the motor to fix that.

The marks on the pulleys weren't aligned right either everything was 90 degrees off and the leads were rotated to make it run.

There's no particular reason for it that I could see so I've set it all back to the factory marks the way it should be. I'll have to check the timing when it's all back together.

Pete