Mk1 Driver project VNT TURBO DIESEL

Hurrah, took a day flexi today and had a kid free 5 hours to play…

First job involved chopping the rot in the rear arches then I figured I'd get the front wings off.

Apparently some heat applied to the sealer can help…..



Fitted up the tank and rear beam


I'm liking this, may as well get a pic whilst it's clean


That's it five hours graft! :cry: Plenty of prep work done as well, welding grinding, wire brushing, painting etc etc etc.

Hope it's not too long before the next instalment.

This is awesome, i cant wait to see how it turns out.

Test fitting my rims just to see if the arches need any work..

Looks fine and dandy from the first angle.


Oh dear - Berg cup arches anyone?


They are 8" x 14 with +12mm offset.

Been re-building yet another bike - I swapped the NC30 because it wasn't really me.
But I'm back on the golf again - mostly attacking the engine bay area.

I need to get all the dirty grinding out of the way so I can get the front suspension on, and the wheels and get it in the garage and dry for bodywork/prep.

Cutting the clearance notches


Welded up


Some rot I hadn't spotted or expected - hidden well behind this reinforcing plate which has been prepped to have the spot welds drilled out


This don't look too clever - rot in the seams


Bye bye scuttle


Attacked brackets and the bay in general over the weekend, cut holes for hidden wires, pics to follow.

Gotta get it on it's wheels cos the roll over frames are on the bay.

Last time this'll be clean..


My favourite type of coilovers - free ones :thumbs_up probably a load of carp too.


Action shot! drill in one hand - camera in the other, could have resulted in a trip to A&E or a broken camera. Thankfully just resulted in two nice clean holes to run my loom through


Out of the vinegar and coated with rustbuster epoxy mastic which is da bomb!

Seem to be making good progress now, keep it up.

yes indeedy - cracking on!

Bit more graft tonight.

Got the front suspension gubbins bolted up and some free(ish) brake discs courtesy of Lloyd of Retro-Fit fame



Wheels on, rotisserie off and she's in the dry  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



I can get stripping the bay and get the glass out to do the headlining - not sure if I want to drop the doors off yet - should be able to do without the hassle.

loving the gt lts on the wall. wow that takes me back. good work also

very good standard of work there, lovely!

looks swet mate, im doin the same 1.9TD, wat did you mean wen you said tdi internals? and wat benifit does it give?

thnx foxy

mine wont be a 1.9.

The TDI's typically come with 10 or 11 mm pump heads, the TD's have 8 or 9 mm heads.

I'll be fitting the bigger pump heads to the AAZ pump to get more fuel potential.

It'll also have the governor tweaked and the boost enrichment enhanced.

meanwhile progress continues…..What a feggin mess.



Holes getting plated everywhere


See your 9" 22mm master cyl and raise you 10" and 25mm :music:


choppy chop…this'll come in handy


probably use it to fill this huge hole


Meanwhile if I just chop this cable change selector housing down a little so it fits in this piece of cardboard…


….then it'll probably fit into this hole in my floor


At the moment I'm at the breaking eggs stage of this particular omelette, I've the welder and three grinders plugged in at once, loaded with wire brush, slit disc and grinding disc. lets get medieval }

this is looking cool mate

keep it up

Made up a 2.5mm thick plate for that hole, had to cut and reshape the chassis rails a bit and attack the inner wings with the heavy stick to make some clearance…



Just about got enough clearance now to fit this baby in :thumbs_up should haul me up nice.

10" servo with a 25mm master cylinder woohoo! other jobby is the clutch master cylinder.

No, they don't fit the standard pedal box.



still welding up original holes, hours of work. hopefully it should start looking half decent when I get some filler/paint on it.

I was thinking of welding the original chassis number back into the section in the scuttle that's missing - good idea or no?

All the welding sorted, sandblasted the seams….



Crack open the rustbuster epoxy mastic and fire up the compressor :thumbs_up



Filler time!

My caddy had a satin black engine bay, I was gonna make this one white (body colour)…..I'm quite tempted to do it black but with a white engine….whadyareckon?

Nice work… Was that epoxy mastic the same as what you did the underside with?

And can you apply it with a brush?

Rich

Looks great, happy with the result?

Alex.

Nice work… Was that epoxy mastic the same as what you did the underside with?

And can you apply it with a brush?

No epoxy mastic on the undrside - that was schutz with waxoyl

The epoxy mastic is a low gloss black finish and goes on really well with a brush - there are some brush finished bits (driveshafts/hubs etc) on page 3 of this thread.
The gloss isn't as good with brush finish and there are some brush marks but I had an old brush and was being my usual slapdash painter

Looks great, happy with the result?

very!  got some paint on it, so it wont be rusting inbetween grinder sessions. It's only a primer and I have a lot of filling/smoothing to do before a final finish is applied.
It's my second time using this compressor and gun. (Had a ?50 turbine and HVLP before) the epoxy goes on SO EASY - no runs and nice finish, there is a little bit of dust in the paint but as I was sandblasting about an hour before, I'm not surprised!

Had a pretty useless weekend, missus ill, eldest boy really ill and me and the baby trying to fight the bug. Just made me really sleepy.

After two nights of non-activity and severe withdrawal symptoms I managed to get out to the garage last night.



Can happily report that filler sticks to epoxy mastic and it doesn't react to rattle can primer.:thumbs_up

and it dries like rock! great stuff!

great for rust prevention too….

nice work