Stan's Epic Golf Build: 1.6se becomes 1.8T

[dylan8]

not a fan of those tails or kit sorry. but its your car!
Glad to see you pulled it off and think it came out cheaper then buying a gti! now i really want to do my 1.8t bora later on.
so any other plans? are you going to register it as a 1.8t?

[Stan]

Yes, wondering about the kit myself.... well we all like different stuff.
I wanted something other than a standard look or another R32 knockoff - however they do look good....

I will run it standard for a while and decide on the kit...

Yes I will register it as a 1.8T once all the niggles are sorted - last thing I want is a car that cant be legally driven or sold and not to mention insurance aches if there is a crash. That shouldnt be too hard - or a whole new saga. I will update here as I go through this as well.

I have a full funtion mk5/6 steering wheel to go in and I want to try and get the buttons all working.... another awesome electrical challenge

Aftermarket cruise control and remote locking kits still to go in

Bora 1.8T idea sounds great - happy to help if I can Dylan

[dylan8]

Yes, wondering about the kit myself.... well we all like different stuff.
I wanted something other than a standard look or another R32 knockoff - however they do look good....

I will run it standard for a while and decide on the kit...

Yes I will register it as a 1.8T once all the niggles are sorted - last thing I want is a car that cant be legally driven or sold and not to mention insurance aches if there is a crash. That shouldnt be too hard - or a whole new saga. I will update here as I go through this as well.

I have a full funtion mk5/6 steering wheel to go in and I want to try and get the buttons all working.... another awesome electrical challenge

Aftermarket cruise control and remote locking kits still to go in

Bora 1.8T idea sounds great - happy to help if I can Dylan

it probably doesnt help from even your perspective when the 'in thing' is still OEM+ as far as im aware. bodykits will make a come back i bet!

Wouldnt mind a newer wheel in my car also! will be watching to see what you do there.
Now that yourself and James has done it makes it seem more achievable (not just some mess on vwvortex haha)

[Stan]

I still have the kit and will mod it a bit, so OEM is the way for me too currently

vortex has been an invaluable source of info, as has ukmkivs, but I hate going to a thread and finding all the pics are down, or it's just all text.

the amount of stuff I have in my head now to do with mk4 conversions and electronics is now 10 times what it ever was - shame I know nothing about the other marks... lol

[dylan8]

yea but im sure you can apply it to anything!
I find ukmkivs really good, lots of good info without all the excessive vortex rubbish and lack of links/pictures as you said

[Stan]

still trying to sort the camber issue - i think something is bent - hope it's the shock and not the hub casting.....

[KKK VR6]

Nice progress

still trying to sort the camber issue - i think something is bent - hope it's the shock and not the hub casting.....

really keen to know the outcome of this, as iv got a camber issue to, which looks to be like something is bent.

[Stan]

Thanks for the kind words mate.

There were really only 2 things it could be - the shock absorber or the hub casting.

Swapped the shock over, as it was the most likely thing to be bent - same issue.

Just had a new casting arrive - and will put it on over the next couple of days, when I can afford to potentially be without the car for a couple of hours. Really it's all it can be - as the strut pushes into the top of the casting and the relationship of these two pieces are all the affect camber to the degree it is an issue.

here is the TT suspension setup. i have the TT casting and the GTI strut pushes into the top like in this pic. Lower control arms and other bits are similar, but different:



the relationship of the strut (number 9) and the hub casting (number 7) is fixed. And regardless of the top and bottom mounting point - which could change camber a bit - the relationship of those two parts doesnt change.

Because the mounted wheel leans in at the top - negative camber - it almost touches the strut / shock absorber - moving top and bottom mounting points, subframe adjustment, and camber plates dont change that particular relationship - hence the shock absorber or the casting is damaged. i guess we will soon see....

Pics to come of before and after

[Clarkee_vw]

Thanks for posting all this info on the conversion.

I've just brought a half cut mk4 gti to do a swap in my golf. Hopefully be easier then yours.. Lol

[kendog]

Thanks for posting all this info on the conversion.

I've just brought a half cut mk4 gti to do a swap in my golf. Hopefully be easier then yours.. Lol

Clarkee, going for it mate! I'll be very interested to see how this comes along!!! Good on you.

[Stan]

Clarkee, do a thread mate, it should be awesome. Let me know if you need to know anything

[euro swag]

Got any more pictures of the silver golf??

[Stan]

Got any more pictures of the silver golf??

try Waterboy. He posted the pic

[Water Boy]

Keen to see some updates Stan!

[Lucky13]

If you haven´t done it yet, the speedo can be easy adjusted with the VW diagnostic tester. But at 100 km/h is ist always 10 km/h lower, thats normal. so when you are going at 110 you still good for the 100km/h speed camera