Wreck to Race.

[Peter Jones]

can't wait. when's the next track event?

There were events this weekend at the Island but I wasn't going to be able to get there.

There's Spints on at Sandown in July, I'm thinking of entering but I'd like some more practice first.

Pete

[Preen59]

There were events this weekend at the Island but I wasn't going to be able to get there.

There's Spints on at Sandown in July, I'm thinking of entering but I'd like some more practice first.

Pete

You guys should get off your bums and come to sandown this weekend coming. I'll be there with one of the fujitsu teams..

[Jarred]

I might be able to do something in July. Have a month and a bit off with uni, so if you do do anything, be sure to let me know!

[Preen59]

That's exactly how I do it! I've never owned a timing light! Never could see the point!

I normally set the timing statically and then advance it 'till it pings and back it off a bit!

It was more the cam timing that was confusing me with the markers all out of whack. When I got it the intrmediate shaft was out of phase too which wasn't making things any clearer.

It's all good now though.

Pete

Know the feeling dude, we had a buggie in at the workshop all messed up like that. cam timing was out too.

Yeah that's how i used to do it with the Mk1. Pain when the points close up, then you reset them and it starts detonating its head off..

[Peter Jones]

Another parcel from GermanAutoParts!



I should have enough bits now to get it running again over the long weekend.


Pete

[Preen59]

Another parcel from GermanAutoParts!



I should have enough bits now to get it running again over the long weekend.


Pete

Nice 8v cam timing sprocket. I made my own instead of buying one.

Good stuff pete, hope you get it humming again soon!

[Peter Jones]

Nice 8v cam timing sprocket. I made my own instead of buying one.

Good stuff pete, hope you get it humming again soon!

My simple machining skills aren't quite up to that yet.

This one is pretty neat but seems a bit heavy @ 528 grams

It's a standard sprocket with the spokes milled out and the new center fitted.

Here's the flip side FYI.



Pete

[Peter Jones]

Things took a bit of a detour when i was putting everything back together yesterday. The new radiator I bought turns out to be a Mk 2 one.

Well fair enough I figure it is a MK 2 motor after all, so I set about making it fit.

The mounting holes were easy, the studs line up with a couple of captive nuts that weren't used, so I drilled them out.

Thhe bigger problem was that I didn't realise that a MK 2 radiator is about 2 inches wider than a MK 1 radiator.

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the MK 1.5 Fan housing!





Pete

[Valver.]

Great stuff Nice choice with the Eurospec gear - they make really tidy gizmos

[Golf Loon]

That fan shroud is pretty neat Pete. VW Just used a bit of mecanno to stretch out to the boltholes. Yours will probably cool more.

[Peter Jones]

That fan shroud is pretty neat Pete. VW Just used a bit of mecanno to stretch out to the boltholes. Yours will probably cool more.

Yeah, I considered doing that too, but I'd just filled the oxy bottles and I had a spare fan housing lying about.......

The mecanno would just have annoyed me 'till I did some thing like this anyway.


Pete

[Peter Jones]

It makes noises! Well at least it did until it made the really loud noise!

I took a while to get the injectors bled and then it fired up no worries.

I'd given it a few 5 minute runs while I checked for leaks and twiddled with the dizzy.

As I was rotating the dizzy I heard an almighty crack and saw a big flash and promptly removed myelf from the general area. I thought I'd stuffed the dizzy at first. There was a strong smell of electrical burning.

Upon investigation I have blown apart the temperature sender!

I must have got some wiring crossed up somehow and the thing has had a meltdown, it blew the guts right out of the sender! So much for fuses!

Hopefully it hasn't taken out the voltage reg in the dash.

Any body got a spare 2 pin sender?

Time for lunch and a bit of a think about the situation now.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Lunch is over - time to go break out the multi-meter!

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Ok a few wiring gremlins sorted.

I'm not sure why the temp sender blew. I didn't think they were polarity sensitive, but That's all I can think of at the moment.

There's an un used MK 2 temp sender on the underside of the water inlet to the head. Can anybody confirm that this actually a temp sender and how it's wired? If I can hook this up instead of the MK1 sender on the head outlet it might save me some grief trying to find a new one.

For some reason the fan wasn't kicking in. Turns out there was no fuse in the fuseholder I don't remember removing it! I put new connectors on the wiring at the fan switch and replaced the fuse and it's all good now.

I took the car for a spin around the block, still needs tuning. You can feel the cam start to work at about 3.5K. I think I need to advance the timing a heap more.

I feels a bit warm in the engine bay but it hasn't been going at any speed yet so that's expected. It needs a good run now to boil off the last of the coolant that found it's way into the motor when the head gasket went south.

I might wait until next weekend to tune it on the road, it's still in race trim and the local police seem to have a blitz on this long weekend. Once it's back in Grandma's shopping trolley garb I'll attract less attention.

Pete

[Jarred]

Yep. Long weekend = double demerits! bummer if you got caught.

Good to hear you've got in running and fix after it broke after you fixed it.