VW Golf MK1 1979

sports racer said

allana13 said

Can you please let me know if that Junk yard had another set of rear lights ?

How many do you want? My local wreckers has over 50 MK1's but I'm on the other side of the world.



Cheers from Australia (not Austria)

Paul

Cheers Paul… did not realize you are from Australia…. my bad… Any BJ 42 around you…

My brother used to have a swb BJ42 with a Chev V8 - 5 liter Nascar block. He took it out of his street car when he sold the car and put it into the Landcruiser when it's engine died. That motor could sit on 8000 rpm all day. Sure sparked up the performance of the Cruiser!

Ooosshhh, lovely paint job    and if the wheel is fitted there it will be one hell of a stance  

Matt

It's me again

did i mentioned this?

front



the end



also, i have issues about the dome light somehow i've lost the wires about it and i am not sure what should i put there. so if anyone of you good guys can send me a photo of that part i would be gratefull.

ooooh same zender wheels as me  

Very nice

Jamie

zorg said

ooooh same zender wheels as me  

yeah. zenders. i am thinkig to sell them but we'll see how will they fit when the car is finished!

Fantastic rebuild. Attention to detail is great.

thanks i am trying to keep everything clean, or new

besides, thanks to a guy that worked in VW we made the new roof liner. the original was white but i wanted black and it's great







i am thinking to cover the sides too but i am afraid that it will close the car too much… i like it with red sides for now

Very well done… A good skill  

Very nice job on the headliner  

thanks guys Now i should find the holes for the sun shades and the handles

did the rear bushes and pivot bolts end up being ok?

i have the same bushes and bolts and was worrying about the same thing

car is looking really nice, reminds me of when i just had mine painted

mike

Mike i havent' fitted the rear beam yet. I will today and i hope i won't have any problems. Front bushes were dramatic. they are bigger and i had problems yesterday to fit the wishbones but a grease helped.

For now i don't have any serious problems with the car and i hope it will remain like that

p.s. Can someone tell me how to find the holes for the sun shades and roof handles?

finally the engine is in and the car is on wheels




p.s. the tyres are on wrong sides i realized that i can't use my original drive shafts (mk1 1.1L) and i'm a bit confused. have someone of you any idea if i can use mk2 gti driveshafts? or which model? i have inner CV joints of 100mm and the engine is mk2gti 8valves

Cars looking great. Think your headlining looks spot on   personally I think leaving the sides exposed is the best way.

Matt

working a bit on the car. tried to start the engine but the fuel pump was broken and i have to replace it. Untill then, i've made the stainless steel downpipe, aluminized rear silencer original for mk1 gti (need stainless) and mounted the tailgate. unfortunatly i had to remove rear part of the headliner but it's okay, i can live with that mistake  

Very nice!

Exhaust looking good, see you have not used a centre silencer - I had my stainless system made up with a smaller centre silencer as there is so little space and the old system always used to rattle.  However, it's very loud wonder what yours will sound like? Have you left enough room for the gear linkage boot, my exhaust had to curve just after the down pipe to get round it can't see from your picture that you have fitted it yet.

Are you going to make the rear box out of stainless as well?

RichardHall I think it's gonna be loud too but i hope it will be okay since i have standard muffler. if not, i will put smaller middle silencer ( i wanted to put one but i couldn't find new and original). And about the gear linkage boot i've noticed  that it is too tight and i told the guy who welded the exhaust to redo that part sincce i can't put the boot at all.