VW Mk2 Golf "Deep Blue" project

[Cookie28]

VW Mk2 Golf "Deep Blue" project

I'd be interested in that, live E28's.

And because I haven't posted in here yet the car looks fantastic, have watched it since the beginning

[Domel]

I would be very interested, thank you! I'm a big fan of the e28, will own one, one day. Manual with 3.5 sounds great! Also make sure when you replace the seats that you get the recaros/sport seats!

[M M]

I'd be interested in that, live E28's.

And because I haven't posted in here yet the car looks fantastic, have watched it since the beginning

Thank you

I would be very interested, thank you! I'm a big fan of the e28, will own one, one day. Manual with 3.5 sounds great! Also make sure when you replace the seats that you get the recaros/sport seats!

Ok I will make one. Not much is happening with at the moment as all my money is going towards the mk2 motor, but I'll make it and update it as I go along. Definately will look for the Recaro seats, ideally I'd like to go with the dark red/burgundy leather seats but I believe they are quite rare so I guess we'll see.

[Domel]

A black interior always looks good, too

Keep us posted.

[M M]

I agree.

Here is the thread, I will make sure to update it as things progress: http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/...tml#post966816

[M M]

I started polishing the ports on my Cylinder head today. I've never done it before but decided to pretend to know what I was doing and get started on it.
Here are some comparison photos, the one on the right is one I did and the one on the left is the factory one:




Polished:



Not:



I hope that's how it's supposed to be done, still have to do a bit more on these to get them completely smooth and do the other ones too. It definitely feels like it would make a difference to the air flow.
It's getting there.

[M M]

Right, update time.
Firstly I'd like to apologize for the lack of anything in this thread, I'm not very good at writing and tend to just get stuck into doing things rather than documenting it.

Yesterday I spent a good few hours unplugging everything and labeling, and with the help of my two great friends Anton and Mike, pulled my motor out. We left the car at the end of the day like this:

Big thanks to them for coming round and giving me a hand.

The wiring looked a bit daunting at first even though I think I'm fairly experienced with wiring, but today I went through and sorted what I need and what I don't and all was well. It's my first time doing a swap and I have to say it was very straight forward and easy to get it out. I also spend the day today cutting out all the unneeded brackets, nuts and whatever else was in the bay that I wanted gone, leaving it like this:



I won't be doing much tomorrow but on Friday the plan is to degrease and clean everything and start masking and if I have time I'll spray the primer. I'll be painting the bay black.
I will be deleting AC as well as power steering and will depower my steering rack so that I essentially will have a short ratio manual rack. Hopefully will have some more updates shortly.

[ryana89]

Neat work.
Just on the port polishing, what did you use? (a dremel?)
I've always been curious about the benefits of a polish and even match-porting the intake on a 8v...

[M M]

Thanks mate.

For the polishing I used a dremel yes, the sanding bands on the little drum. On the exhaust side I port matched the manifold to the head using a carbide burr, the intake manifold will be cut using the head's measurements so shouldn't need to be port matched. It should create a bit of a difference but hard to say as I never had this engine running without it. It doesn't take long so I think it's work doing it anyway. I once read online of a guy with the same setup as what I'm doing but with ITB's, he got around (from memory) 148hp with the port matched dual downpipe manifold and I think 152 hp with headers. Just some interesting information.

[M M]

So the other day as I was working on the car I decided to do this properly while everything is out. So I've removed all visible seam sealer and am filling in all the spaces to make the bay as smooth as possible. I figured I may as well as it doesn't take as long as I originally thought, plus it will make a huge difference to the look in the end. This is how I left it today.

[M M]

Painted the bay yesterday:





It's by no means perfect but I think it came out pretty good. I'm still considering wet sanding it and compounding to get it looking really good, however this will require more maintenance long term so I'm not sure. Might just leave it as it is.

[M M]

I painted the gear box a few days ago:




Block and head to be done most likely this week.

[GeorgeMK1]

Good work man, I've spoken to you before on s/w haha good to see a thread here! Bay came up a treat

[M M]

Good work man, I've spoken to you before on s/w haha good to see a thread here! Bay came up a treat

Yes I remember that, thanks man! You actually encouraged me to join this forum

[M M]

Got a bit done yesterday:





Big thanks to Anton and Mike who helped me put it back in. I still have a few more things to do bit I hope to have it running by next Friday.