Mk1 with a few new pics and a vid

Here's couple of my car back from a successful MOT. Please excuse the pic quality, done on my phone (k750i), just have to sort out the tempramental temp guage and get the bike carbs on at some point, cheers

J  8)

Basic Spec:

Drivetrain

Original 1500cc rebuilt (new water pump, crank etc.)
Flowed head with titanium valves and springs
Schrick cam
Mocal Oil Cooler
Baffled Sump
Supersprint Grp A exhaust (1 box  :twisted with 4-2-1 manifold
Lightened Flywheel
Sachs Clutch

Chassis

G60 steelies with 195/45/15 tyre's
Supersprint Coilovers (Wound down 100mm  8))
Autotech strut braces (Rear and Lower Front)
Mk1 Gti ARB's
Fully Polybushed
New Top Mounts, Wishbones, Ball Joints, Drive shafts and Hubs etc.
256 Drilled discs with Pagid Pads
Willwood 4 pot 'Powerlite' Calipers with custom mounts and Goodridge hoses
22mm master cylinder and 9" servo
New Hubs and drums at the back and new brake lines all around

Outside and Inside

Full respray in original regatta blue
Small chrome bumps with carbon end caps
Early chrome single light grill
NOS Gti Metal 'flag' mirrors
Polished filler cap
Original 'very blue' interior  8)  with low back seats and new carpet
280mm momo wheel and early chrome oval beetle interior mirror

Welcome mate,same colour as mine. :wink:

Nice  

Welcome to the club forum always good to see some 5 door Mk1's

Cheers for the comments guys just happy ive had it MOT'd now and can take it out in the sun  8), cheers

J  8)

Welcome to the site and i love the car hunni!!! looks amazing

Hope you like it on this site

Chrissie xxx :wink:

Thats a BEAUDDY!

Mmmmm… G60 steels 8)


They look like 45 profiles, are they?  They always seem to make such a difference to the look 8)

Love the chrome bumpers and colour too

 :mrgreen:

Welcome to the site retro. Cracking car you have, I really like it  8)

Welcome to the site. Your car is awesome looks like a lot of hard effort has gone in there.  8)

Are you sure its lowered 100mm on 195/45R15s? I am certain that at around 80mm, the front wheels are level with the front arches and you need slimmer tyres than 195 to 'tuck in' to the arches. Or arch widening. Or smaller rolling diameter of the tyres.

Thanks again for the comments guys.


paul_c I got my tape measure out mate and checked the drop as the coilovers can go down 120mm and ive got about 20 - 25mm left, although i have already clipped the front arch lol.

Cheers,

J  8)

Retro_J said

Thanks again for the comments guys.


paul_c I got my tape measure out mate and checked the drop as the coilovers can go down 120mm and ive got about 20 - 25mm left, although i have already clipped the front arch lol.

Cheers,

J  8)

The reason I ask is that I have 185/60R14 and I've found mine hits the arch with loads of thread left to lower on (12 whole threads or so). So I've wound it up to around 22 threads to avoid whacking the arch. If you adjust the camber to try tuck the top of the wheel into the arch, you merely hit the coilover spring on the other side   .

Having done a few quick calculations, the reason you can get lower is because your tyres are a smaller diameter! Given that the rolling diameter of your tyres is 556.5mm, and that the stock ride height of a car is 617mm at the arches, then a 100mm drop would mean your wheelarches are 517mm from the ground. Thus your tyres are tucked in 39.5mm at the top?

Just added a couple more pics and a vid of it idling now that its been set up.





A couple of interior shots





Being dwarfed by a volvo and focus at tesco.



A quick vid of it, with the supersprint sounding  8), cheers

J  8)

Looks fantastic! I wonder if I should get some of those steel wheels for mine, really like the look of them