Mk1 16v Project

[Preen59]

what colour are you gonna paint it?

I assume you mean the cam cover? Black wrinkle finish.

[Jarred]

I assume you mean the cam cover? Black wrinkle finish.

oh yea woops, I remeber reading that somewhere now...

ANd yes, you should get ready in time for nats

[evorobin]

Now THIS is a real 16v!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5G4l6Kkw

That's about as serious as it gets.

And this is revving the back out of summat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv42vKGJl64&NR=1

[Preen59]

Primed the cam cover yesterday and painted it today.



Tomorrow i'm going to rub the ribs back and re polish them. I'l post pics when it's done. This wrinkle finish paint takes a while to set properly, the can says 5 days to fully harden! It had started to wrinkle a little when i left the workshop.

[Jarred]

wow, that's patience, 5 days! I think it'll look pretty trick once you're done

[Preen59]

Ok, well the wrinkle finish went to crap cause it stained when i polished the ribs and i couldn't get it out. Also it was uneven because half way through painting it the can started leaking so i could get even cover .

So, i wet blasted it again and repainted it with high temp flat black. Came up looking really good i think..




Also, today i lightened my flywheel, which came up well.



If anyone is interested i can machine flywheels for them, too.

[Jarred]

hot!!! I love it, great combo with the flat black and polished ribs.

[Valver.]

Nice project Should go well with that engine

[Preen59]

Nice project Should go well with that engine

Thanks dude, it's not to the level of detail that your cars are (which are some of the best i've ever seen), but i just want a nice neat car that i can say is mine and i've done.

[Preen59]

Ok, so yesterday i got some more stuff done on the braking department. I started fitting the rear disc setup that i got hold of. I've cleaned all the parts up and painted them and i also machined the discs and cleaned them up too. At the moment i'm just doing one side so i can figure out how i'm going to do it. This way if i make a mistake it's half as bad.

Here's a pic of the setup on the rear end (Minus the disc..)



And here's the freshly machined and painted discs.

[Jarred]

what is your brake set up going to be like? what components are you using?

[Preen59]

what is your brake set up going to be like? what components are you using?

On the back i'm running a mk2 8v GTI setup all standard. The stub axles bolt straight on to the standard mk1 rear end. I've got to shorten the lines and make some new ones and mount the proportioning valve though. So i'll put it up on the hoist once i'm ready and work out how i'm going to do that. I'll post pics and all the dimensions with a full how-to once i work it all out.

On the front i'm going to do the 278mm magna rotor conversion with the commodore calipers. There's a thread in the interesting articles section about that.

[Valver.]

Thanks dude, it's not to the level of detail that your cars are (which are some of the best i've ever seen), but i just want a nice neat car that i can say is mine and i've done.

You're detailing what's beneath the surface so that's more important anyway IMO Look forward to seeing this run

[Preen59]

Some more progress.. Today i got my rear wheel bearing kits for the disc brakes and i also got my calipers back from being kitted. So i put one disc back on after packing the bearings etc and i also painted my calipers with high temp polyurethane metallic silver paint. To get the calipers kitted costed 200 bucks but they do a good job and they re-plate them too.

Here's a pic of the calipers when i got them back (before i painted them).



Here's a pic of my finger when i managed to open it up with a screw driver doing a hose clamp up today.. After i did it my old man was kind enough to mention that he had socket drivers for hose clamps so that that didn't happen..



Also, here's something else i did on the weekend not related to the goof. It's a busted Chrysler 392 block that I machined at my work on sunday to see how much we could safely take off where the oil filter goes. Dad is building a 60's top fuel dragster and the remote oil filter adapter won't fit between the chassis rails and the block so we wanted to see how much we could take off to make it fit before we did it to the block we're going to use..

[ontarv]

looking good !!!
by the way , your not working if there is no blood