What did you fix/replace on your Mk1 today?

[static1800]

You are running an RV engine arn't you Ayden?

[Jarred]

thats good as! well done!

[Jarred]

After I pick up my 81 Caddy I will be replacing the engine (current engine is in the bed in back with a bad crank bearing). Not sure if I want to replace it with another 8v (one is available locally rebuilt with mild cam and a 4k tranny) or a 1.8L 16V also available locally for about the same price $125us? other than that I have to fix one hole in the floor and I am ready to roll. Picking it up this Tuesday late arvo.

hopefully I don't find any evidence of any of these !!!!!

16V for 125 US, thanks for rubbing it in!

[Water Boy]

After I pick up my 81 Caddy I will be replacing the engine (current engine is in the bed in back with a bad crank bearing). Not sure if I want to replace it with another 8v (one is available locally rebuilt with mild cam and a 4k tranny) or a 1.8L 16V also available locally for about the same price $125us? other than that I have to fix one hole in the floor and I am ready to roll. Picking it up this Tuesday late arvo.

hopefully I don't find any evidence of any of these !!!!!

How is your Rabbit going?

[gldgti]

You are running an RV engine arn't you Ayden?

yes - RV with g-grind and dellorto DHLA 40, electronic ignition, foam sock air filters (terrible), and homemade exhaust. no heat shield on exhaust manifold either.

i think i'm gonna get a TT cam (272) and see how that goes.

[Jarred]

put my nice clean and polished chrome bars back on today! looks soooo much better!

Now just need to clean & polish the wheels, clean the interior & clean the windows, and I'm ready for DOVW!

for those interested. I grabbed a can of vanish Preen for large carpets the other day. (large pink can). its the stuff you shake and spray onto the carpet and leave for a couple hours and then vaccum off. cost like 8 or 9 bucks, and the results were pretty good, the carpets seem alot cleaner and less grimey. So for anyone wanting to spruce thier carpets a bit, I'd say, take out the carpet (yes,remove it from the car) grab two cans, go nuts and cover all the carpet with the foamy stuff, and then vaccum it off later on. should bring most grimey old stale carpets back to something resembling decent. not too bad for $15 bucks and half a days work.

[dubai gti]

picked up a new accel. cable and bush for the accel. pedal...now ready for a last minute Weber sorting tomorrow by a carby guy (i've just lost 3 weeks with someone else...)...few more things b4 Sunday, if I even get a chance to clean it

[Inertiatic]

Ignition switch to fix my windscreen wipers and headlights.... hmmmmm

[dub be good to me]

Changed gearbox oil and took out the rear engine mount spacers (thought exhaust was rubbing on heat shield, but rattle must be somethign else )

[dubai gti]

fixed my Weber return spring....after a visit to Vicroads in Carlton yesterday afternoon(to change engine no's), the beast revved to about 8k+ before I could kill it (going down Queen St. in City too !!!)
turns out my man who rebuilt the carby, hadn't used especially good(read thick-enough) steel for the return spring bracket, and it snapped.

luckily I managed to clip the end of the spring onto the firewall, to get me home.....must think about carrying some tools...it is a Mk1 afterall

[Jarred]

Some cable times at the minimul Mark!

but yes, a few spare tools always come in handy. Mind you, I've only ever needed them when I didn't have them! (irony much?)

[dubai gti]

Some cable times at the minimul Mark!

but yes, a few spare tools always come in handy. Mind you, I've only ever needed them when I didn't have them! (irony much?)

hehe..it's like the old saying if you ever toured around Oz, fencing wire could keep just about any ol' car on the road !

[Lima]

[16v_kid]

nice work dude..

i was watching Wheeler Dealers the other day, and they did the same thing on there MK1 GTi.

good stuff.

[Lima]

Yeah, I've seen that ep on YouTube only, was it on Foxtel or something?