1980 Yellow Golf LS Turbo
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1980 Yellow Golf LS Turbo
1980 VW Golf LS
Yellow (if you know the proper colour please let me know, no sticker in boot and I want to order some paint)
First Registered 17/06/1980
Engine: - Soon to be transplanted
Rebuilt 1272cc 'PY' G40
Garret T25 Turbocharger
6PSI Boost Switch
Custom Turbo Manifold
Forge Dump-valve
540mm x 140mm x 65mm FMIC
Blue Rocker Cover
Full 3" Stainless Exhaust (Downpipe Back)
Alloy RPM Tuning Sump
Aeroquip Braided Drain Line
Mocal Oil Cooler & Thermostatic Oil Cooler
Suspension:
JOM Coilovers
Brakes: To be fitted
Lucas 54 Calipers
Audi 90 Carriers
EBC 256mm X-Drilled/Grooved Discs
Ferodo DS3500 Pads
Goodridge Braided Hoses
Wheels and Tyres: To be fitted
Borbet BS 15x7 and 15x8
195/45/15 Tyres (Need purchasing)
Interior Styling:
Cobra Bucket Seats - To be replaced with Koenig Fixed Back Reclining Bucket Seats
Schroth Blue Harnesses with Pre-Tensioners
Roll Cage extending to A pillers and across windscreen
Twin-Pod Clocks with Rev-counter
300mm Momo Team with Snap-off Boss
Couple of pics:-
Outside the pub in Durham (its previous home)
Back on the drive this morning, meeting its yellow younger sister
Comments:-
After having two series 1 mk1 golfs and 6 others, i took a sabbatical to make polos go faster than they should. After building a 170bhp Mk2 Rallye Yellow Polo and a 170bhp+ Comet Blue Mk2 Polo Turbo, I noticed this beauty which would make a suitable home for the turbo lump.
The drive home was interesting, no stereo and a rather loud cherry bomb exhaust made some for deaf ears! Fuel stop at Scotch corner was met with an old dear taking picture of the car when I got out the petrol station. Top couple, taking pictures of it for thier dub mad son!
Lots of random switches and some choice electrics! - Big red button for a horn by an air vent, hard wired rad fan, with a switch in the glovebox!
Wipers didnt work, which was fine until I got to the M62 where naturally seeing signs for Manchester, she decided to greet me in true fashion by raining! So whilst having a fag and attempting to see out of a very wet window, I noticed a random toggle switch in the ashtray. A flick of the switch saw the wipers come on! RESULT!
Interior heaters don't work so probably either a few fuses out, or going by the state of electrics, so dodgy wiring, so a play with the multi-meter over the next week when the cars in the unit should see all the minor niggles rectified.
Clutch is slipping due to all the 55 raging ponies, but thats no concern of mine really as the car wasnt bought for the engine
Planning on painting the bonnet (had a large black square?!) and engine bay, and completing the turbo transplant before the 28th (our clubs Rolling Road day, which the comet blue polo was due to make its appearance!) Wish me luck =D
My two previous series 1's - Warning upsetting content.
The Muppet
The Muppets demise =[
Charlie Murphy
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which after a weekends effort looked like this
The blue mk2 coupe is also mine and will be providing its heart for the Mk1. The engines in question
Mk1
Turbo
If anyones interested in seeing the build of the engine - see this thread
http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=244980&hl=
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Holy Moly!
Just got water lines, gear linkage and driveshafts to come off and engines coming oot!
One big jigsaw puzzle
Tomorrow shall see the engine out of the G40, the blue mk2s suspension and subframe replaced with standard items and some rust in the mk1s engine bay cleaned up with a wire brush and sprayed.
Wednesday is a day off and Thursday see's three new arrivals to the unit!
If anyone has a new clutch (or good 2nd hand one) for a 4 speed polo/golf engine, please let me know!
Also after some 195/45/15 tyres for my Borbets
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the green one was on oz ruote type 018-a's (so is the yellow polo)
blue polo is on exips
black golf on borbet bs's
yellow golf is on some 5 spoke 14s unsure of make
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what you got in mind?
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Yellow paint colour for 1980 comes up as Lemon Yellow
LA1D code.
Not as bright as the later yellow 1981 Lagos Yellow.
Will look great and should go a bit too.
Had a message from charlie says at new year, so really pleased she is well and doing ok.
Did you manage a road trip last year?
cheers
chortle
"Making Cabbies More Beautiful One Roof at a Time"
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chortle said
Hi,
Yellow paint colour for 1980 comes up as Lemon Yellow
LA1D code.
Not as bright as the later yellow 1981 Lagos Yellow.
Will look great and should go a bit too.
Had a message from charlie says at new year, so really pleased she is well and doing ok.
Did you manage a road trip last year?
cheers
chortle
Hi mate,
Thanks for that, I'm actually thinking of painting it another colour now when I get round to it, although I have to paint my Mk1 polo first!
Yeah saw Chaz over the xmas period, we did some work on her Mk2 polo saloon, getting it driving again, bit of a service and taking the arch trims off it so we could work out what welding needed doing.
Yeah we did a trip to Romania, was fantastic, I took my Mk2 polo which I'd just finished a 170bhp G40 conversion in, proper trial by fire! heres a post from the trip I put on my local forum
We recently embarked on a 4000 mile jaunt across Europe to visit Romania and drive the DN7C - Transfăgărășan Pass.
Travelled to France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Back through Austria, Gemany, Belgium & France.
Over 3859 miles, we managed an average MPG of 38.79, with a max of 50.54 and min of 25.5 which was due to the constant stopping and low speed driving on the poor roads of Serbia! They were an absolute shambles in places. We also managed to guzzle our way through 101 gallons of fuel!
The tracking went out and wore through a set of new 195/45/14s and the smallest size i could find in serbia which was 185/55/14 purely by chance as a tiny pikey tyre shop had some part worns. scrubbing city on the front though
fuel line popped off twice, as i hadnt had a chance to change it before the trip, the worst place was on a massive uphill section on a blind corner, with a truck behind us. not cool! but quickly sorted and off again.
fan needed to be on most the time in the super hot weather but the rad temp switch didnt seem to be working, so a quick rewire and job was done.
A stone got stuck in my disc in Serbia after stopping to ask for directions, whipped the wheel off and sorted it, and we've carried the jammy wee get the whole way home
also had to drive through a massive flood water in bulgaria that went half way up my bumper! but abandoned and found another way round. cleaned my wheels but arghhhhhhhh
heres a few of my fave pics of the peril from the journey
Dover
Pitstop in a German Layby
Got to Stuttgart
En Route to Romania
Caught up with some Mongol Rallyiers
The road up the North Side of the Transfăgărășan Pass
Admiring the view
The reason were here
Final Destination Much?
Sibiu, Romania
On a Ferry Crossing from Romania to Bulgaria
KRK Island, Croatia
Romania <3
Border patrol, Bulgaria to Serbia
Sorting a stone stuck in the brake disc in Serbia
Couple of pics from Tatton park a couple of days after returning back from our holiday.
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Got the engine out of the Mk2 this eve
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See ya!
Oh Hai!
Thursday saw the new arrival of Adams 2 of 4 cars and another 2 of my 6 cars =/
It was like an episode of chuckle brothers, to me to you affair, especially with the peril, as half the front suspension was still disconnected! (all back together now that I could work in the dry!). The Lupolo is tucked away neatly behind the yellow golf and blue polo, its first indoor home in 2 years after I had to move out of my old unit near Jodrell Bank. Eddie Stobarts son bought the land to turn into a helipad and stables, the motherhubbard!
My head is still caning from walking into the shutter doors, nearly fell thru the beemers roof taking the above pic, and generally me and pidge were walking accidents!
Anyway the day saw more than enough progress and I managed to get some rusty bits cleaned up in the golfs engine bay and gave them a lick of POR-15, ready for Fridays endeavours!
So today I stripped off the polo engine mount and fitted the Golfie one, got the engine in the bay and front engine, side engine and rear gearbox mount fitted (note - you need to notch the rear engine mount to fit a polo box) and refitted the driveshafts.
Also offered up one of the borbs - 195/45/15 Goodyear Eagle F1s arrive next week, woohoo!
Hopefully Sunday should see the car back on the road, and thrust into daily action!
Jobs include
Tighten driveshafts
Cut and shut polo & golf front gearbox mount (for zee 5 speeder)
Fit turbo downpipe
Fit Intercooler
Fit oil cooler
Route Boost Hoses
Fit new top fill Rad & Slimline fan
Fit high pressure fuel pump, accumulator, in-tank lift pump and change fuel lines for 8mm ID items
wire up fuel pumps
fit ecu and wiring loom along with relayed power from ign switch
fit oz ruotes from the peril
test drive!
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Et Voila - One polo/golf hybrid mount!
Welds all look good and penetrated well. Ground them back and started to box off some of the open sections from the joins, and triangluate it at the front, but I ran out of wire! Gutted! So thats on the shopping list for tomorrow.
So onto the Intercooler and Boost Hosing.
Intercooler roughly hung in place (Good old electrical wire)
Working out the routing from the turbo to the intercooler was a right headscratcher. After pillaging all the boost hoses from the few FI engines I have, I finally settled on this.
So will weld in some brackets to hang the intercooler and radiator from tomorrow.
Need a 90 degree boost hose (top left of the turbo -> intercooler picture) as I'm one short. Anyone around manc way got one? If so PM me asap please if I can collect it tomorrow! otherwise I'll get it ordered off ebay tomo evening.
Lots of jobs for tomorrow, looking forward to cracking on!
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Laura said
love it.. Chris messaged me saying mines done bar the engine mount so i can see a yellow mk1 meet sometime soon!!
WOOHOO! I welded mine up today cos I was too excited and I couldnt wait! Cant wait to see the RPG!
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- Got the driveshafts tightened
- Fitted downpipe
- Painted and fitted custom gearbox mount (my first attempt at welding, see pic below!)
- Intercooler, Oil Cooler, Radiator all fitted and plumbed in. Everythings held in place with cable ties at the minute so I know where to fit brackets to.
- In-tank lift pump and new 8mm ID fuel lines fitted
- Clutch, Speedo & Throttle cables fitted
- Servo vac feed fitted
Tomorrow shall see the
- Injection fuel assembly mounted underneath the rear of the car and plumbed in
- Fuel pumps wired up
- ECU Mounting
- Engine bay wiring
- Dump valve vac feed fitting
Also need to do
Relocate the battery to inside the cabin, as the space is taken up by boost hoses now!
Boost/AFM/Oil Pressure Guages fitting (roughly as I dont want to cut into the dash, dont fancy garish on dash pods, so I think a 3 guage centre console is required!)
anyway some pics
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