Turbo Diesel Cabriolet Project (with head porting pics)

[mk3pete]

looks mint man! very jealous

[gldgti]

Thanks Pete

Also forgot to add that I finally got around to hooking up the VDO oil pressure gauge. Decided to put the sender on the filter housing rather than hanging off the end of the head in the breeze, leaving the idiot light on the head.

Oil pressure using Penrite semi-synth HPR diesel - 60psi cold (pretty much all rpms) dropping to 20psi hot at idle and about 50-60 at ~3500 rpm.

[gldgti]

Set to do the exhaust on saturday.... but I'm chicken-ing out on the straight through no mufflers claim - I have bought a glasspack SS offset (but straight through perforated) muffler. Will take a vid of the noise with no muffler for all the folks but I think the muffler will be going on. I don't need droning on the highway, which is all I'm worried about really.

If it seems quiet enough without the muffler I may yet leave it off

[ByronRichesMk1]

Blast pipes perhaps? ;D
Don't even care if it's predominantly a JDM thing haha.

[gldgti]

So I wussed out and used the muffler

was a long day - started at 7.30am and finished the exhaust at 4pm... stopped for 10 minutes in the middle







Made a 3" tip, by flaring the 2.5" pipe out to the ID of a 3" sleeve over the end, and TIG fused the end together... more pics (of the outside) tomorrow

[Preen59]

Tidy. Well done, Aydan.

[brasstinman]

Nice work

[gldgti]

phone vid of no exhaust sound..... not sure how well this worked...

1.9 td no exhaust - YouTube

[gldgti]

more pics

[Preen59]

Top stuff, mate.

[EwenHayton]

very tidy job, And sounds mint. Also i like your seats in the they look awesome with i had new upholstery. Looking good anyway nice to see another cabby on here

[gldgti]

Thanks mate. The seats are retrimmed GTI seats.... main reason I wanted them was because they sit 20mm lower than the stock cabriolet seats.... Ok, im half an inch under 6 ft, so not the tallest man around, but it just felt all wrong!

Took these pics today when swapping in yet another gearbox.... happy now with the ratio's (this is a '6W' code gearbox, from an Austin Maestro!!!) which appears to be the same ratio's as the 4+E gearbox of mk1 turbodiesel era.

I have fitted up one of my new 5 speed conversion mounts -





And I might say they fit wonderfully and look the part, I reckon.

[gldgti]

Old Man now.

Its official - I am old.

I'm still a couple of months from my 27th birthday, but yesterday evening I put standard springs with Bilstein touring shocks in the cabby.

My goodness, it is awesome.

The ride - unbelievably smooth.

The grip - just as good through the corners when not accelerating, with less traction when cornering hard but I don't care.

The height - well its a cabby so the standard springs seem to be slightly lower than a normal hard top mk1, but the heavier engine has made it a tiny bit lower I would say... looks fine

Anyway, I guess this means I am officially OLD.

[Transporter]

Now, you made me realize that.... I was born old already.

[Jarred]

hahah, bugger!