So its begun!

[Shteifen]

Ok so it looks like i lied but as usual its not my fault.
My internet has been getting slower and slower over the last couple days and it just took about 10 minutes to load this page alone.
So it doesnt look like ill be getting the pictures up until i get back from overseas
very sorry about that, i know a thread like this is pretty useless without pictures.

ill get onto it asap when i get back though!
-steve

[schoona]

Don't worry Steve, priority is holiday and subjject of the pictures!

[Shteifen]

Ok im back from Egypt yay!
By the way i found out where old air cooled combies go to die.....Cairo. They all go to Cairo

Ok! Time for pictures. Hope the sizes are ok, i havent done this much before!
Sorry for people with 56k, there are alot of photos
Lets start with the car in question:


I actually managed to get it into the garage by putting a few blocks of wood at the entrance and taking the front lip off so i didnt need to mess around with lifting the coilovers or anything yay!
Starting to pull it apart:








Definately getting gasket matched:


-steve

[Shteifen]

MY NEW ENGINE CRANE WOOO!


Dad's really impressed ive stolen his garage for these few weeks!






Sump off

Rocker cover off!

[Shteifen]

REALLY needs a bit of port work...and she'll get it!


Crusty pistons

seriously, its crusty in there


head gasket was clogged up where the coolant passes through it, all muddy!




Crusty head too!



Sorry theres heaps of photos!
So thats the progress as of when i left for holidays on the 10th of January.
The head, block and intake and exhaust mani's have been at R. G. Baker engineering getting ported polished, bigger valves and cams installed, blocks been bored out to 82mm to fit 2.9l vr6 pistons.
My brother just took the intermediate shaft and bearing/bush thing to him today to fit the bush thing for me.
The Head will be all done and ready to pick up in a couple days.
Im ordering a clutch probably from Four Seasons Tuning in the US, just a stock one, and have it delivered express, and it will still be cheaper than getting one locally! unless someone knows a place around here where i can get a cheap kit minus the flywheel.
Ill be getting the flywheel machined and lightened tomorrow too.

Umm...thats it i think.

I also might paint the wheels soon, probably black, i just need to find some more jack stands to use while they get painted

-steve

[Shteifen]

Holy crap. ok so each post can only have 12 picture and i dont know how to make them smaller soo.....just scroll up?

-steve

[Umai Naa!!]

Looks like the poor thing has had a hard life. Can't to see how she turns out, mate. All the best!

[mk3pete]

nice work man props for doing it your self
we are definatly gunna run em down the 1/4
my set up is vey similar and should be interesting

[Jarred]

Finally some action Steve! well done mate good to see.

how come you're sticking with a stock clutch? not even upgrading to a stage 1 or something?

[GoLfMan]

thats mint!!!

get it done ASAP so we can see it

[Golf Loon]

Gripforce in the states sent me a vr6 stage 2 clutch in 3 days and it was about $250 delivered. They do some more hectic ones too

http://gripforce.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=18&zenid=d4079ebbbfd5bbfcf46e3d26ead13e96

[Shteifen]

well i was thinkin i'd stay with stock just because its cheapest really, but since Loon just mentioned that Gripforce site, i looked on them and it looks like im gonna get a stage 2 kit too cheapest i can get it anywhere around here otherwise is like 495 Australian.

Loon they dont seem to be able to ship to my address straight through the website, do i have to contact them by email to set that up? looks like itll cost more than u paid still cheaper than anywhere here!

-steve

[Shteifen]

looks like itll be done tomorrow (thursday) at around lunch time, so im gonna get my brother to pick it up friday sometime.

fly wheel will be picked up tomorrow by Peter Orger's workshop tomorrow to lose some weight and probably be balanced. it currently weighs 7.8 kg (17.2lb) and im thinkin ill take it down to around 6-6.3kg (~13-14lb) so its not too light. dont wanna lose too much torque.

-steve

[mk3pete]

i went in to bakers today to pay for the head work i got done itl be ready for me tomoz
while i was there i took a gander at your block man its lookin good
curious as to what year your car is
as i was lookin at a shaft with some gears attached and rob said it ran the distributor. i thought only really early golf came with distibutors and were later upgraded to coilpacks

[Shteifen]

haha he thought it was for the distributor? thats weird he would have said that cos he asked me to give him the bush/bearing and the intermediate shaft so it could be installed there...im pretty sure he knows its not for the distributor.
mines a 97, no dizzy, its a coilpack one like yours

hows it all look, is it nice and clean? i hope so

ok so i just ordered my stage 2 clutch kit from gripforce! thanks Loon!
cost around $320 aussie, and should be here in less than a week. much cheaper than 500 aussie, whihc was roughly the cheapest i could find around here :S

gonna give rob a call now to pay for block and headwork

-steve

ps. i THINK only really early vr's like ones that came in corrados came with distrubutors, i think once they were in golfs they changed to coilpacks