Goodey's daily Mk2 GTI

[Goodey]

Hey All,

Figured I would make a thread for my "new" Mk2 to share it's progress and to keep track of everything.
Anyways I bought the car off martinijosh here on the forums and it's nice to be able to see the car history of the time he owned it.

First time driving a Mk2 GTI and must say it drives pretty well, the car doesn't feel at all fast by any means but this will be my daily car so I suppose I can overlook that for now. The paint is in good condition (minus the front right guard damage).The clutch travel and disengage point is pretty different to my RX7 so that will take some getting used to and it feels a lot lighter. The silverline coilovers feel pretty good. Josh mentioned in his thread that the brakes feel spongy and weak in the first part of the pedal travel, they definitely work but it takes a lot of travel to engage them so I suspect they either need bleeding and a fluid top up or the master cylinder wasn't upgraded when the bigger mk3 front brakes were installed, either way it's on my to do list. I already have one money pit and as much as I don't want the golf to be another one there is more than a few things I want to do haha


TO DO LIST:

• General Service and clean up - DONE
• Fix exhaust leak
• Further diagnose fueling system and replace necessary components - DONE
• Fix mysteriously weak brakes - DONE
• Get the paint detailed/Fix right hand guard
• Install some sort of (cheap) sound system (music=me ignoring that rattles of an older car hahaha)
• Get some 15's or 16's in dark grey/black with a good offset (KINDA DONE)
• Paint brake calipers yellow (love the look of yellow calipers on silver cars with above coloured rims -see Porsche 911)
• Get a new radiator core and flush existing coolant
• Fix interior light
• Custom Headliner/upholstered seats

And probably more to come when I can think of stuff






Cheers,
Sam

[golfmeup]

Good stuff!
Welcome to the forums.
Looks like the car went into good hands
I look forward to seeing another Mk2 around the Gold Coast!

(Mines parked in Banora waiting for my return from OS)

[sports racer]

As a daily they make great cars. Mine has a 2 litre bottom end (find someone wrecking a 2 litre MK3) and a mild cam. Makes it quite nippy in traffic - not super fast but good enough to keep the kids in their V8's honest. Throw on some nice 15's or better yet some 16's, wind down the coils and you've got some street cred without attracting the cops.

If you can't double the legal speed through roundabouts then you're not trying hard enough. These things can be made to go really hard through corners

[Goodey]

thanks guys,

Yeah driving it around more today i can already see the potential. The coilovers keep it reasonably flat around corners/roundabouts already
Down the line i'll be looking at the 2 litre bottom end or possibly even a 1.8t conversion to give it a bit more go Unfortunately I have the ultimate first world driving problem which is that most cars now feel slow/lacking after driving around my RX7 for ages which is actually one of the reasons I sold my bike and decided to get a daily in the first place.

[martinijosh]

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Interior light works, if you look at the settings it has it has bright-off-dim and they only work with the door open.

[Goodey]

Ooh excellent one less thing to do, I'm just at my mates exhaust place now, jacked it up and had a look for any leaks further down and while there was none the entire system looked on its way out, especially the cat converter. When we cut removed it and looked inside the cat we saw that it had completely had it and had actually come apart on the inside and would of been rattling and restricting top end power which Josh had mentioned was an issue in his build thread, hopefully it's also the only source of the rattling exhaust noise as well.

The whole thing should flow a lot more smoothly with a new cat and different mufflers on there

Here's what the new one looks like:


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[team_v]

Hopefully you can get all the issues sorted and bring it out to some of our events!

[Goodey]

Haha luckily Josh looked after it well and fixed all the major problems he had with it (mainly ecu related I believe) so there's nothing to nagging left to sort out

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[golfmeup]

Your lucky Goodey!
Not too many things to fix means more money to spend on performance tweaks!

[martinijosh]

http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94247

[Schalke04]

thanks guys,

Yeah driving it around more today i can already see the potential. The coilovers keep it reasonably flat around corners/roundabouts already
Down the line i'll be looking at the 2 litre bottom end or possibly even a 1.8t conversion to give it a bit more go Unfortunately I have the ultimate first world driving problem which is that most cars now feel slow/lacking after driving around my RX7 for ages which is actually one of the reasons I sold my bike and decided to get a daily in the first place.

Go 1.8t! I've got a mk2 with 8v cam and higher flow exhaust manifold and I think it's a waste. 1.8t although expensive is definitely worth it

[Goodey]

Unfortunately I work most weekends so it's very hard for me to get to most meets

Josh I checked out the fuel filter while the car was up on hoists today and it looks a whole lot newer than all the components around it, obviously I cant attest to it's actual working condition but I'm now thinking/hoping that the fuel problem is something to do with the electrics and wiring. Spoke to the mechanic I used to live with and he said the voltage on the plug should be 12v+ and IIRC you tested it and it was only getting 10v? Hopefully once I replace all the wiring it's all good otherwise the problem will require someone with more skills than mine to sort out

Go 1.8t! I've got a mk2 with 8v cam and higher flow exhaust manifold and I think it's a waste. 1.8t although expensive is definitely worth it

Yeah it will be way down the track though, i just spent 13k on rebuilding and converting my rx7 so I'm not particularly keen on going through all that again in the immediate future haha

[martinijosh]

There are two pumps, one is under the car the other is in the fuel tank. I tested the plug on the lift pump at just under 10v which is definitely odd.

[Goodey]

Yeah i noticed that I'm thinking i may replace all the wiring to both pumps just for peace of mind and if it's still happening then at least i can cross that off from the possible reasons list

[martinijosh]

Running fresh wiring to the pumps would be a good idea. Maybe test the voltage at the fuse box first so you know which end has the vdroop