my `76 GOLF 3dr

[Water Boy]

Good work guys

[Preen59]

and the engine bays, just for the fun of it:

Go the DCOE!! gotta love an 8v with a real carbie on it! My Mk1 4 door had a 44IDF on it.. Weapon up to 130 odd K's.

[Jarred]

whats wrong with mah DGV??? hahah
DCOE would have been nice, but I got mine so cheap that it's not even funny!

I heard josh's car coming two blocks away, note too he has a stock exhaust - it was all induction noise!! haha it was fantastic!!

you must tell us more about this mk1 with the 44IDF, that's massive! what else did you do to it?

[Preen59]

Head was ported, portmatched manifold
G Grind cam
11/1 Compression
fully balanced (fully, bru )
Lightened flywheel
4/1 extractors with 2.5" exhaust, oettinger backbox. (LOUD)
I made my own adjustable cam gear for it too..

I didn't build the engine, i guy in town that i bought the car off did. It had a 40 on it when i got it and it wasn't tuned right, so i put a 44 that my uncle had on it and re-tuned it. Then it went like a show of ish.

Check out

http://www.vwfixx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=34054

If you want to have a look at it. That's the website i used to post on before i knew about vw watercooled.

[Jarred]

yummy!! hahah

[Jarred]

hmm... welding..!


I was hoping by writing this on the side of my car it would somehow make it better...

[Water Boy]

Oh yeah... Now u gota just put primer over the holes and get the RWC and drive around on its guts

Al wana-be its alrite id do it too

[Jarred]

bumpity bump with an update!

Dad's is going away for work for 2 weeks, so I get to put my car in the garage tomorrow, which is when I'll start stripping it and getting it ready to paint, which hopefully I'll start by about the 7th or 8th.

Happy snaps to come of course!

[Preen59]

bumpity bump with an update!

Dad's is going away for work for 2 weeks, so I get to put my car in the garage tomorrow, which is when I'll start stripping it and getting it ready to paint, which hopefully I'll start by about the 7th or 8th.

Happy snaps to come of course!

Want a tip for stripping the paint? Go buy a couple of rolls of home brand glad wrap. Brush the stripper on nice and thick, then then unroll the wrap straight over the top. Leave it for 24 hours. Next day pull the glad wrap off and the pain will pretty much fall off. Some of it will come off with the glad wrap. Just use a scraper to remove the rest of the stuff that didn't come off with the wrap. Easy as that. Just don't forget to mask up any joins, otherwise the stripper will get in there and the paint will start bubbling off when you re-spray it..

[Preen59]

By the way, here's a pic of the bad girl when it had a 44IDF on it.

The 1776 loved it.

http://www.vwfixx.com/forums/uploads/post-243-1117093626.jpg

[Jarred]

as said by tim the tool man taylor ".. (dammit it cant type sounds) ugh ugh ughh..."

[Jarred]

update time.

the other day I (finally) popped on my GTi spec front stoppers. Damn, they are so much bigger than stock, and already I can feel the difference, even though I havn't been for a big drive.

Pics:
Look at these suckers! new one on the right, not that I needed to tell you that.


fitted:


clearance issues you say?

[Jarred]

an todays update, (the brakes were done before chrissy actually!)

finally a garage to work in!



yay for primerage:




and the monkey that helped me do it.


Ill wet sand it tomorrow, and respray the few spots that need a touch up, and then hopefully, fingers crossed, colour on friday!!! clear coat will have to wait a while maybe, as i've work on monday at the tennis

[joshyd-mk2gti]

sweet. what colour you painting it? looks like the drivers door has dropped a couple mm, are you going to raise it?

you work for rowlands..????

[GoLfMan]

wow thats like a REALLY hot photo of me