Wreck to Race.

[Preen59]

Looking good, Pete. Should have some serious grip now! Do the Koni's have bump and rebound adjustment?

[Peter Jones]

Just rebound adjustment on these ones.

I've accumulated a few of these over the years and finally bit the bullet and had a set reconditioned.

[Preen59]

Cool as. You would be able to get a lot out of rebound adjustment alone i'd reckon.. And i guess it's probably not a bad thing.. Less things to change, less things to screw up and bugger the setup (believe me, i've done it in Karts many times!) i guess.

[Peter Jones]

Gotta be better than leaky AC Delco e-bay shocks

[Preen59]

Haha.. They'd nearly have to be, right?

I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on them actually..

[Peter Jones]

I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on them actually..

What? Leaky AC Delcos? They're great! Nice and soft for jumping off the ripple strips

[Fewer]

Hi Peter,

really great job. I'm just impressed seeing the result of your work. I've found this forum and your thread yesterday and I was thinking of my own work I did more than 20 years ago on my GTI Mk1. Unfortunately my GTI hat a collision with a powerboat 3 years after restoration. My car was beeing scrapped after this and I miss it every day.
No car after it was able to give me such fun as the GTI did.

Go on with it and be careful. This cars are getting more and more seldom also in Germany.

Have a nice day.

Tobi

[Peter Jones]

Thanks Tobi,

I have 4 MK1 Golfs, a 1980 Passat, a 1559 Beetle as well as a Bora. I'm not about to run out of VWs any time soon

How on earth did you collide with a powerboat?

Pete

[Jarred]

Thanks Tobi,

I have 4 MK1 Golfs, a 1980 Passat, a 1559 Beetle as well as a Bora. I'm not about to run out of VWs any time soon

How on earth did you collide with a powerboat?

Pete

wow, a medievil beetle! how on earth did it survive this long! lol

[Fewer]

Thanks Tobi,

I have 4 MK1 Golfs, a 1980 Passat, a 1559 Beetle as well as a Bora. I'm not about to run out of VWs any time soon

How on earth did you collide with a powerboat?

Pete

Hi Pete,

the powerboat collided with my GTI. I had my car parked in front of my parents house when I heard a loud crashing noise. A Mercedes with a boat trailer crashed into my car and this was the end of my GTI-dream.....
Body deformed, engine cracked, exhaust was lying somewhere on the road.
Build up hardly in months it was completely wrecked in a part of a second.
Although it was more than 20 years ago I'm already feeling sad when I'm thinking of it.

Nevertheless I have fun seeing your pics here.

Tobi

[jayjay]

looks the goods pete.

did you source the scirocco calipers from the states?

i'm curious as to how much the koni shocks costed to rebuild..? i'm thinking about a set myself.

[Peter Jones]

Yep, the 'rocco brakes came from the states from my trip last year.

The Konis are about $100 each to rebuild if there's not too much wrong with them. (No bent shafts etc.)

That's about 1/2 the price of buying new ones.

Pete

[DubSteve]

Pete were those Konis my old ones from the cabrio?

[Peter Jones]

Maybe

The rears definately, I only had the one set. I've got a total of three sets of fronts though and I don't remember which ones were out of your cabby.

[geeza]

What? Leaky AC Delcos? They're great! Nice and soft for jumping off the ripple strips

DOH!! I got a set sitting in here with some King Springs (small budget - got hit by the GFC) and was going to put them in my Cab soon - are they REALLY bad!???

I don't want to wait to get coilovers to be honest and my current shocks are really bad