My new project... (many pics)

[Preen59]

Hahaha. whitevr6 is Courtney, Seb's better half..

So, like, a chick.. Dude.

[whiteVR6]

haha thanks preeny :-P

not sure about colour yet i think its gana be red though

will be stripping it down and cleaning it out for a bit and then sort out the paint issue

[Preen59]

haha thanks preeny :-P

not sure about colour yet i think its gana be red though

will be stripping it down and cleaning it out for a bit and then sort out the paint issue

I wish I had time to come up and help swing a spanner.. Maybe when mine's finished..

[whiteVR6]

this maybe a lil more difficult then i first expected!
Seb jacked the car up and put it on stands and the stand on the front passanger side went straight through he floor

[Peter Jones]

Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt

Check out my "Another wreck, another race car" thread for some detail on the repairs needed.

[Preen59]

Mk1s.. They're not as rusty as brittish stuff, but they're close! haha.

[Bug_racer]

Mk1s.. They're not as rusty as brittish stuff, but they're close! haha.

This one is SA , does that make it worse ?

Courtney did a little bit of work on it today , although the workshop turned into a sauna and not as much was done as hoped .
The rust is terrible , gonna be a real challenge to patch it up in some spots .
Im gonna need some help in the induction side of things . Since the car is auto the accelerator cable runs off the gearbox so Im kinda limited by carby choice . Im yet to find a decent blo through carby setup using a downdraught carby on original/near original manifold . Im also yet to find a decent big single carby set up that would work in place of the stock carby . If I could find one or the other it would determine if the car would go turbo or NOS path . At the moment all I can think of doing is having an adapter plate made up to run a holley of some sort .

[Jarred]

When I looked into blow through turbo carb set up, I called Jakes performance in Canberra, bit of an expert on the topic.

he recommended a carb off an XF (or similar) falcon. Dual barrel, think it's a holley. It could be made to fit on a TS passat manifold I reckon, by use of an adapter plate. IIRC it's pretty similar looking to a TS passat unit, just larger. Got one down the garage somewhere if you want me to pull some specs off it..?

[whiteVR6]

Some progress...

[Preen59]

Progress is good..

If you need an adapter, send it up and i'll knock one up for you guys.

[MeeM]

Getting there slowly but surely Plenty of rust to sort out though.