Panch's 1980 LS with Rallye G60
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I've had the car for nearly 12 years now, it started out as a 1980 1.3 golf LS model, the car was my mums prior to me having it and she bought it in 1986 so the car does have a lot of family history! I used this as my daily driver for over two years before I took it off the road as the 1.3 carb engine was getting tired, also a friend of mine had a 1H G60 lump from a Rallye sat there, so I snapped it up! Anyway enough history for now here's a picture of the car as it sits currently!
Excuse the 70s carpet that's left from the previous house owner!
That's it for now I'll try and get some more up tomorrow!
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Mk1 1983 Helios Blue GTI Engineering
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Here's one of the 1.3 before I removed it.
Original seats, I don't actually have a photo of these in the car but they have since gone to the scrap yard!
One of the current engine when I got it, it was a low mileage engine but I decided for my own piece of mind I'd strip it down and check it didn't have any nasty surprises hiding away.
I quickly noticed the the cam and head were damaged
At the same time as I was doing this I sent the charger to G-werks for a rebuild but this turned out to have a damaged scroll, possibly also the cause of the head damage.
So I had to source another charger and a cylinder head, with it being a 1H engine this meant the head bolts are different. A second hand Rallye head was hard to come by so I bought a PG head and had it drilled out to fit the 1H. Head bolts were also long obsolete by this point so I sent them to arrow precision and they matched them up to ARP Sierra cosworth head studs, being one of the only choices I had I decided to use them. A piper 268 cam also fell into the mix around this time and the head was ported and machined 3 angle valves+seats.
Old+new
Head after its rework
Managed to pick up a second hand charger that had just been rebuilt by jabba sport with a 68mm pulley and stage 4 porting
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Eventually it came round to time to remove the old engine and get cracking with the G60
Which left me with this
Next on the list was moving/renewing the chassis leg engine mount. Luckily a friend of mine was willing to do the welding.
Next I painted up the new mount and removed the old one
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Fitted a windage tray and had a baffled sump made
Fitted a new water pump and trialed the ARP head studs
In the mean time a set of recaro's on custom bases made there way into the car and a red stripe Gti rear bench but with the standard brown door cards this was all a bit much!
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Really enjoyed this car and how the K-jet drove, but it met its end at 170000 miles exactly and I broke it for spares and kept what was useful for the G60.
Anyway next time back to the G60
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Panch's 1980 LS with Rallye G60
Have you decided on an interior or have you stuck with the harlequin look?
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1986 Cabriolet (long resto!)
1983 Cabriolet (daily pain in the bum)
1983 T25 (weekend pain in the bum)
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1983 Cabriolet (daily pain in the bum)
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The harlequin interior has long gone and does all match now haha
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Brand new pump, stainless mounting cradle from Crazyquiffs
Braided fuel lines
I also found out at this time that my filler neck had seen better days, it actually fell off!
So I ordered up a new one, it is now fitted but I've never been impressed with the fit so I may take it off again and adjust it as they say
As you can see on the new one there wasn't much left to hold it on!
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How did you do the wiring for the fuel pump? I assume, that you also mounted a fuel relay?
1982 - Mk1 Golf 2.0 AGG 8v - 158 HP / 202 NM
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I thought about following your example and build one with a Bosch 4 pin relay, but got stock on primer as you write Ps. Love your brown BBS centres - great detail
1982 - Mk1 Golf 2.0 AGG 8v - 158 HP / 202 NM
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Cheers it's actually a Kia brown!
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Also did the rear beam mounts and fitted a rear roll bar
The beam actually gets a full refresh later in the thread!
And the steering rack
Sorry for some of the photos being poor but they are all I have and they were taken a while back!
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Built up a collection of powder coated parts ready to fit up, I wanted to polish the rocker cover but changed my mind.
Fitted new track rod ends and steering rack boots.
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Mated it up to a Gti gearbox and put the box and bottom end in the engine bay!
The Gti box didn't stay in there long though……..
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