78 2-Door Build Thread

[sports racer]

It was warm enough yesterday to do something so I put the drivers side Recaro back in and fitted the steering wheel. It may not be much but being able to sit in the car and make vroom vroom noises does wonders for my motivation to get the car back on the road!

The seat base was so tight I tried jacking it into position.



I soon realised this is not the right approach so took the seat out, took off the base and ground back the rear right bracket that goes in the floor slider. Works properly now.



The base is great example of over engineering and weighs more than the seat. Some time in the future I'm going to build my own base which will be half the weight, be adjustable for tilt and 3 times more simple in design. It doesn't need all this crap.



All in and added my favourite wooden steering wheel. Looking good!



Paul

[sports racer]

I need to start stripping the Cupra for all it's mechanical parts including the complete wiring loom for the Golf. I hate old electrics so having a setup from the 90's has to be heaps better than the original wiring. Plus it will make it much easier to add the 16v motor from the Cupra later on.



The strap between the Cupra and the tree was how I got the car off the trailer. Just tied it to the tree and drove off. So much easier to get off the trailer than get it on.

Cupra has it's own anti theft device.

[sports racer]

I can't remember if I didn't get the Golf with a rear seat or put it somewhere safe. The only thing I can find in the shed is one off a Cabby, does anyone know if the rear seat will fit without having to make any brackets?

[sports racer]

The 2 litre is out of the MK2 and the shell has gone to help rebuild another accident damaged MK2.





Now I have no excuse not to build up a sweet 2.0 using this bottom end with the big valve head off the Euro spec 1.8.

It's getting there slowly.

Cheers

Paul

[sports racer]

And I found some wheels to suit.

[JazlynGomez]

Yes you got a point it would be easy to understand with pics

[sports racer]

Some time back I sold the complete wiring look to help out a mate getting his MK1 back on the road. At the time I thought how hard should it be to take the loom out of the Seat Cupra and adapt it to the MK1.

Great idea but once I started stripping the Seat it looked like this is not going to be easy.



Then someone had this sitting in their shed so I bought it, a complete wiring loom for a MK1.



I even got a wiring diagram to suit.



Should make things nice and easy.

[sports racer]

Looks like I'll be adding another MK1 to the back yard.



Couldn't resist and the price was right.



Will go and pick it up in a couple of weeks.

Please don't tell my wife.

[sports racer]

Here's the add on Facebook for the car.

Thinking about moving my shell on
Has Cupra suspension and brakes under it
Seat Cupra gti front calipers and rotors, seat Cupra gti knuckles and hubs, seat Cupra stub axles, hubs, calipers and rotors on the rear
Spax krypton height and dampening coilovers front and rear
Cupra dash
Was planning on building it as a track car but I have enough track cars and another car I want has come up
Open to offers
Comes with repair panels and front slam panel plus other mk1 parts

[Weeman]

Looks like a good buy, as well as a lot of work, just the right kind of project! Hows the rust in the floors?

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[sports racer]

I picked it up from Cooma on the weekend – 400 k round trip – stinking hot day, 33C. Drive there, back and unloaded by myself.



I was expecting it to have a lot of rust but there’s hardly any and what rust is there has replacement repair panels. The plan was to cannibalise it to help get the yellow one back on the road then sell off the shell but it's too good to move on.

I'll take out the Spax coilovers (height and compression adjustable - nice) and the Seat Cupra front suspension or I might see how it was modified and use the same parts out of my Cupra.

The firewall has been replaced with a flat panel and the front suspension towers have been raised so much that the shocks rub on the bonnet so making a road registered car out of it isn’t going to be easy and why should I when I have the yellow one for that. Track car? Test shell?





Being an empty shell the possibilities are endless. Adapt the Cupra front subframe to suit like this one?



How about I win Lotto and cut up one of my V6 Boras to put the floor and all mechanicals into the MK1? That would give me a MK1 with 24v V6, AWD and 6 speed manual gbox. I can dream.



Looking for a place to park it at home.



I found these 2 bolts just sitting on the edge of the trailer. Zoom in on the lower wishbones to see where they came from. I don't know when they fell out but amazingly they stayed on the trailer for the trip home.



Here's a safety tip. When bolting your boat hoist to a rented trailer don't do it this way.



Much better. Both bolts are level now.

There's at least another 50mm before the weight of the car will pull out the bolts.



Another set of 16's to add to my wheel collection.



From this side it almost looks respectable.



When only the best cable is used to stop the doors opening whilst on the trailer. Probably didn't need it but better safe than sorry when towing a car that's backwards on a trailer.



Lots of spares too. Floor looks much worse than it actually is.



This should come in handy if ever I hit a roo with my other MK1.



I used 3 cans of this stuff to completely spray the body to help prevent rust.



So now I have 2 donor cars for Scruff in the middle. I really need to pull my finger out and get it back on the road.



Cheers

Paul

[sports racer]

Forgive me father for I have sinned.

I have bought another set of wheels.



But would look friggin awesome on the MK1.

16x9's off a BMW E30 so they will have massive offset when on the Golf. Good thing I still have these flares.

[Mk1_Citi_Golf]

Hello! Your yard is looking far too cluttered. You can park this one in my yard for a few years if you like....

[sports racer]

That's the one that I want to build so it looks like Aaron's.



Will probably end up looking more like this.

[sports racer]

So........ got the new wheels and they don't fit.

Who knew wheels off an old BMW have a different PCD (Pitch Circle Diameter). Turns out modified old BMW's use later 5 bolt hubs and even though the new wheels have been cut for 4 stud the pcd is different to the Golf's 100 mm. Looks like I'll have to get some adapters made.

Good thing I didn't buy them for the tyres.



Here's what they look like next to the "old" wheels.

16x9's at the back, 15x8.5 at the front, 15x7.5 on the right.



8.5 looks perfect on the back, made for a MK1.





Different story with the 16x9's.

No flare.



With flare, they still stick out.



Front is just as bad.



BUT..... I have to do it. The car looks awesome with the 16's and will be even better when I fit the same size tyres that are on the other 16's that I used to have on the MK2.