Hot Chocolate - 1980 2door MK1

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Hey there gents.

I bought a mk1 last February 2010, decided to rebuilt her.

Here is some pics when I bought her. She had some bumps and bruises but I soon started to add my own touches.

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I then fitted 15" Work splits.
Here is a pic when she made cover on one of our local vdub magazines.

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I then attempted to create a nice looking ICE install.

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Still attempting.

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I then turned my attention to the motor.

Here is my new motor specs:

2.0 8v ADY
Baffled sump
Knife edge crank
Lightened Fly
Balanced bottom
83.5mm Pistons
Gasflowed head
35mm Stainless exhaust valves
288 Schrick cam
ARP rod bolts
45mm Precision race itb's
FFZ box
Gotech stand alone

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Here I was nearly done with the ICE before I scrapped the idea of having ICE in the car.

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My exhaust branch for the new motor.

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Pics of the motor rebuild.

Crank



Double valve springs fitted - left is standard, right is the double.


The Schrick


Standard cam left. Schrick 288 on the right


Flywheel before and after



KS 83mm pistons, all parts used is KS.

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I then fitted Koni coilovers and a set of 7.5j front and 8.5j rear steelies.
Here is before I sent her for a respray.

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Without the front bumper and spoiler.


I love the 8.5j rear.


Look how low my sump is.



The engine, must still tidy everything up.

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Prepping for the respray.

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I finally got my brand new Ronal Turbos. They are 7j et 28. Fitted with brand new 175/50/15 Kumho
tyres.

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Here is pics of the respray before I sent her in to the interior retrimmers.
She still needs the polishes, and the black at my rear number plate must get colour coded still,
I'm not a fan of the black.

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Got my bumpers rechromed.

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The colours that I'm going for inside the mk1.

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Thats where I am today.

Waiting to get her back from the retrimmers and then fit the ronals, give her the final polishes and assemble all the little things.

Comments welcome.