My 1982 Mars Red Resto....

Sorry to those that might have already seen these pics on CGTI etc but thought I would add them anyway as there seems to be alot of different users  

The story began as my brother inlaw got offered a tidyish 1.1 Mk1, he bought it with the intention of sticking in a valver or a G, unfortunatly my sister told him that having a Mk2 8v, 16v and a Mk3 VR was enough golfs for anyone and to get shot of this new money pit!    

He offered it to me and I thought I may as well buy it stick on an MOT and use it until I could afford a nice Mk2…

When I got it home it really was in good condition for a 20year old car!



Although the engine was abit lame (even for a 1100) it was loosing abit of oil and didnt run well   

At this point I knew nothing much about engines but with my dads help and CGTI and the haynes close at hand I decided to rebuild the engine to make sure its reliable and to learn something!










(excuse the old towel, tried to keep myself clean!    )

And voila an dirty, empty, dirty engine bay  



Decided once I had got the engine down it wasnt leaking abit, it was leaking quite alot!   :?   



Was quite worried at this point that I had no clue what I was doing but my dad talked me through it and the haynes came in quite helpful  

The engine stand I bought was a real life saver, would recommend anyone doing the same to get one!



And the strip down began   

Good work in progress.  Keep us all posted with lots of pics

:mrgreen: 'lo andy.

nice to see another 1300 getting the treatment!

i have got in stock a 1300 engine which has only done 40000 miles and sounds spot on it is still in the car so still running if your intrested

scouse said

i have got in stock a 1300 engine which has only done 4000 miles and sounds spot on it is still in the car so still running if your intrested

4000 miles  8O  8O  8O  8O  8O

:roll:

Cheers for the replys guys, sorry I havent added any more pics, ive got most of the car back together now but thanks for the offer of the engine  

(mine is actually an 1100!  ops:   )

I stripped the engine down and replaced every nut, bolt, seal, gasket etc!  Took for ages to source some of the parts because it isnt a GTI  :roll:



turned out that oil leak was down to a crappy old gasket and a sump bolt going walk about!  







Then after it was back together I cleaned it up and painted it silver (might be abit chav but its grown on me!)  







Back into place    With a much cleaner engine bay!  




And I fitted a 9" servo and 22mm MC too  



At this point I realised I had fallen in love with the Mk1 shape and didnt want to just botch her up to buy a Mk2 I was gonna spend some more money and try and make this a special little car  

As the car had sat for awhile the brake disks and pads needed replacing but I noticed that the previous owner had two differnt styles of calipers on the car!  :dontknow:

So I dumped those in the bin and replaced them with GTI calipers and new vented GTI disks and pads  





I also got some new suspension dropping the car 40/45mm and new VAG top mounts, I also replaced the wishbone bushes and tierods etc while I was there  8)



The old stuff removed…


New poly bushes…


I also decided to replace the rear beam bushes with poly bushes and generally clean up that whole area



Also got new wheel cylinders etc for the rear drums along with new brake pipes and hoses all round  8)

Waxoiled…


Removed the rubbish and road dirt from rear beam…



Then becuase I bought some silver hamerite I decided to paint the rear beam in it!      The shiniest part of the car and youll never see it!

looking very good there Andy, them poly bushes should make a world of difference 8)

Excellent work so far Andy. It's nice to hear you're keeping it reasonably standard  8)

Thanks for the comments guys  

Here are a few more pics of what ive been upto…..

My attention turned to the bodywork next, this is really the area I was dreading not becuase there was much wrong just because I had never tried anything like this before!  :?

As I said the car was solid but had a few little niggly problems, the main one the rear arches…



Bubbling rust was like that on both sides    So I sanded it down with some sand paper and hit metal quickly so thought I had done my job    I applied some Krust and anti rust primer and they looked like this…







Then after this I decided that I wanted to change a few little things like install Audi handles, remove the bottom side trim, badges on the boot and the rear wiper.  So I got a guy to come round and do some welding…







Scary sight!!  8O