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Aug 24, 2009 21:55:50 GMT
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Had an interesting conversation with the missus - "why don't you just spend some money and get a decent car AND I thought you said this one didn't NEED much work" We've been together nearly 15 years - you think she would have learnt by now. that quote will be shown to my misses.... so as to make sure in the future I can say 'I warned you' and ' everyone else does it' THANK YOU! and nice looking engine bay by the way
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Sept 16, 2009 15:21:52 GMT
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Bit of an update.... mostly I've been flatting down by hand - 6 hours in total over a fair few nights. Few highlights though - First LLoyd from Retro-Fit sorting me out when a 1Y manifold appeared on my driveway by magic This turned up too, £66 of niceness from ebay I also had my first go at fibreglass moulding, first up make a mould from MDF then radius the corners with some bath sealant, finally loads of coats of furniture wax to hopefully stop it sticking.. I laid in one layer of tissue then a layer of heavy cloth and worked it in with an old paintbrush trying to soak the cloth and push it into the corners. Soon as it was dry I separated the mould and thankfully it released, when I got it out the finish was good with only one small void to fill. It's a cover for the heater fan aperture, I intend keeping the heater but with a different fan install, may have to cut a few hole in it to draw air from the engine bay via a carbon filter if recirculating cabin air doesn't work....didn't want to just plate over the hole and lose the option to run a heater. Elsewhere I've been cleaning, derusting and painting a whole load of bits for the engine bay, brake servo, clutch cylinder, engine brackets, fuel filter bracket etc. Built up the cable selector shifter mechanism into it's modified housing. The housing should fit partially up into the mk1 floorpan via an enlarged original gearshift hole - hopefully I can re fit the original console and the cables will run tight to the underside of the car. two tiny bits of filler to flat in the engine bay and a few fiddly bits of guide coat to address on the slam panel and I'll be ready for painting the bay. I asked the paint guru at the local motor factors to mix me some slightly flat black, sorta semi gloss - not gloss but not satin - hope he has it right, the last lot was fine. Need to get some brownie points banked to secure me enough kid free time to paint.....
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luckygti
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I need to try harder!
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Sept 16, 2009 21:27:14 GMT
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Looking good. Actually scratch that, looking awesome Fibreglassing looks successful too. I might have missed it but is the car staying white?
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Sept 17, 2009 11:10:10 GMT
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White - yep. Looks great on mk1's
Not sure about the rest of styling....
I want to go no bumpers, with possibly black rear arch spats.
Don't know what to do with the driver stripes and the standard mk1 trim.
I'm not having any chrome - no way! Chrome on white = Fridge.
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Sept 20, 2009 23:04:56 GMT
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Flatting down done! She got washed outside and left in the sun to dry. Whilst my two year old got some freestyling in. Whilst I washed down the garage, then back indoors to be sprayed... Pretty damn happy with the results couple of pits in the filler I need to address and the slam panel reacted - thankfully it was the only area
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Sept 21, 2009 12:59:50 GMT
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wow, thats a lot of time and detail being put into an engine bay and it doesn't even have a motor in it looking forward to seeing this done if this much detail is going to be put into the entire project
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Sept 22, 2009 20:58:01 GMT
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Pedal box ready to fit.. clutch pedal is (i think) a mk3 golf or passat clutch pedal with relocated and spaced pin to actuate the master cylinder brake pedal is the original mk1 brake pedal top section, cut short, with mk1 clutch pedal bottom half section welded on, and the actual pedal section cut off and welded on in a different position. I'll go and fit it in a bit...
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Sept 24, 2009 19:56:13 GMT
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Bolted my modified cable shifter up Pedal box finally in Master cylinders and servo mounted up - not a great deal of room but tucked away quite tidily.
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Sept 29, 2009 23:09:44 GMT
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love this mate...super work, keep it up
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Speedle
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Sept 30, 2009 8:05:22 GMT
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some lovely attention to detail mate, the fibreglass work also excellent! and top notch work on that engine bay
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Ether
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Sept 30, 2009 11:20:49 GMT
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Brilliant work
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Jan 25, 2010 23:39:50 GMT
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Not a lot of noteworthy progress for a while, fair bit of welding, diesel pump building and a considerable amount of time spent on a PIC forum developing code for my VNT controller which will be as trick as a very trick thing. It's got this whole config/startup routine which (should) cycle the turbo vanes open-closed-open and steps the standard mk1 revcounter up and down the dial whilst running some diagnostics too. I've managed to get my heater box finished too, for those that don't know, I've blocked over the heater aperature in the engine bay but still want to run a heater, as it will be a daily driver. The standard fan sticks up above the heater box and protrudes into the engine bay so first job was to remove the original fan, I then measured the hole in the heater box and sent a lot of questions to ebayers along the lines of 'please tell me the dimensions of the fan and it's shroud'Eventually I bought a SRAD gixxer radiator fan, which fits with a bit of a squish to the shroud, rivetted in and refitted the 3-speed resistor. The packing around the fan is to stop the airflow shortcircuiting without passing through the heater matrix and getting to the windscreen. Seems to work quite well on the bench, time will tell... As the engine bay is done I turned back to a job I started ages ago and rapidly got bored with, that is, welding in some arch extensions. 2" at the back and 1" for the front. extending the front arches using rear arch repair panels..... first up, chop the arch off and cut out any rot that also needs sorting in the process - all praise slit discs!:thumbs_up I'm using hadrians panels from carz2.co.uk - golf mk 1 two door rear arch repair panels, chop most of the repair panel away to leave just the arch section and a piece near the rear of the arch to knit the panels together tidier. I'm choosing to painstakingly cut the two panels to butt together, you could just clamp one against (overlapping) the other and weld them like that and use some filler to cover the join but I want to try and avoid the droopy look that some extended arch mk1's suffer from. Then I start tacking them together, I do normally have to make some fine adjustments with a file or flap disc in the grinder, a G clamp or welding clamp helps a lot Gone about an inch wider than stock all arches and all bodywork patching and fabrication complete! ;D I had thought my bay and all the welding was finished.... Got my intercooler mounted up, had originally mounted it lower but it wasn't ideal, happy with it now but the oil cooler will have to move further across the bay. Also got the brackets fabricated for the bonnet clamps to clamp onto
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Drizz
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Jan 26, 2010 11:23:37 GMT
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Whats the header tank from then chap? or did i miss it?
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MGF VVC 160 MG Midget Metro Turbo 200 BRM Range Rover Classic TD5 Discovery Premium 300TDi Defender 90 Rover 420 GSi Sport Turbo Discovery Extreme 300TDi Range Rover P38
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Jan 26, 2010 23:22:19 GMT
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Top stuff - can't wait to see it finished
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Jan 26, 2010 23:36:39 GMT
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Honda VFR 800FI 1998 - 2000 You and me both, I've a mk1 mondeo as a daily which only increases the desire to get it finished.
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Drizz
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Awesome
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Jan 27, 2010 21:55:23 GMT
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At it again tonight Having modified my oil cooler bracket that I bought on here - it wouldn't fit in it's original spot - I wanted to poke it out through the front panel holes. Having welded it up good and solid I discover that the rad now wont fit and I have to cut all the welds and move it a few mm. Finally the bracket is in Ok so the cooler is not bolted up properly so it sags What do you reckon? I'm not sure myself....
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Jan 27, 2010 23:13:43 GMT
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Didn't like it, cut it all out and modified the bracket (again : Mounted it up vertical, and braced the intercooler mounts. allowing enough clearance for the intercooler pipe and hopefully the alternator. Rad fits up nice and snug too.
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JamieS
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Awesome work so far fella.. looking forward to more
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I wasn't going to weld anymore in the bay, job done. After all, it's had it's 'final' coat twice already. However the front slam panel has been mocking me for months, niggling away and I was just about ignoring the issue when another forum memebers work forced my hand and yet again I reached for the mig.... That's it, no more engine bay plates - ever......
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