1982 1.6 project
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1982 1.6 project
New wheel cylinder each and dropped the axle to remove the tank and put a new one in.
The cars had new brake lines, discs and pads refurbed the calipers and drums, new fuel tank and pump, engine flush and service. lots and lots of tiding and replacing parts and refurbing parts got all the eletrics working properly and got it through the MOT and then stripped it for paint shop.
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back from the paint shop carefully getting rebuilt.
Really happy with the paint just need some clean seats now mines well past it anyone got any knocking about.
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head rebuild
Removal of head
The first exhaust valve was the worst the valve seat was quite bad should clean up though
Its suprised me how it was running ok like this inside.
I managed to remove the manifolds without shearing anything, but then sheared two on the water pipe on the front of the head luckily there was enough left to weld a washer and nut on to wind them out.
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Paints looking great, once the engines done, its time to go cruising.
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brucieboy said
last pic…. battery..hen…..
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battery hen…. get it? im sorry
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Valves came up well so promptly ground new seats in and put new seals in place.
before paint after a good clean inside and out.
after paint with eastwood alum blast
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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refurbed the metering head.
I changed the water pump, thermostat and treated it to some new injectors and then put everything back together fired up straight away. I then then timed it up and set the idle it sounded real good i let it get up to temperarture but the fan wouldnt kick in and just carried on getting hotter and hotter. I knew id bled the water properly my head was a bit pickled then wondering why this would happen now .Thermostat was my first point of call, took the new one out and put it in a pan of water with my old thermostat and started warming them the new one wouldnt open GSF sold me a faulty one :x .So put the old one back in and everything was good, its now running really cool alot better than before overall im very happy with the engine now. next its the servo upgrade i think.
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Glad you have sorted the 'stat' problem, crappy gsf :roll:
I take it you will be upgrading to a 9" Servo and 16 m/c, I also got a 10mm diameter stainless steel bar made up with a r/h and l/h m8 thread turned on each end to replace the 8mm mild steel push rod that runs across the back of the bay, this makes a difference in braking performance to, as there is pretty much no flex in the s/s bar under hard braking. If you remove the std bar and flex it you will see it flexs a lot. Worthwhile upgrade I think, I'm also running 256mm mk2 16v discs and vauxhall capliers, as a lot of people on here are, and its a good upgrade to.
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ronko said
I know what you mean about the bar that runs down the back I'll have a look at that. I've got a servo and master cylinder from a corrado g60 had it for while not sure whether to put it in as I'm trying to keep it as standard as possible but I'd say that's more of an upgrade and not a modification I reckon so it's ok? I think
Yeah I think it's ok, better stopping power gives more confidence in driving and enjoying it as a gti I think, plus you are using oem parts, so like a natural upgrade really :wink:
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