Mexico Beige Mk1 Golf 1.8t 20v smoothed bay - The rebuild !

well done on the award, well deserved :-)

cheers guys

to update bought some chrome wiper arms and some chrome wiper arm caps

Things of beauty mate. Nice one.    

update gutted i didnt make the agm

went to the german show the other weekend and picked up a trophy for the peoples choice so very happy a few pics from the show

Shame you couldn't make the AGM mate. I would have put money on you winning something there too.

Congrats on another award btw    

well deserved trophy mate!!

Amazing achievement, popping over to Germany and taking the people's choice award, not surprising though, your car looks incredible. 

I really like this car. I've seen it in the tin and its one that tops the want list. Well done on the award and I'm sure they'll continue to pour in. Lastly, its good to see you kept it static.

Hi mate, just a question regarding your brakes, you still using the wilwood midilites? If so do you have to run them with wheel spacers or can you run them with out?

And it certainly has come a long way looks amazing.

Lovely mk1, and that bay is super clean!

On the underside photo, is that a light just behind the rear panel on the right hand side?

smudger said

Shame you couldn't make the AGM mate. I would have put money on you winning something there too.

Congrats on another award btw    

cheers mate always nice to win something

Melteddrummer said

well deserved trophy mate!!

pazwaa said

Amazing achievement, popping over to Germany and taking the people's choice award, not surprising though, your car looks incredible. 

thanks guys

Ian.N. said

I really like this car. I've seen it in the tin and its one that tops the want list. Well done on the award and I'm sure they'll continue to pour in. Lastly, its good to see you kept it static.

cheers mate glad you like it

it will never go on air !!!

madmk1 said

Hi mate, just a question regarding your brakes, you still using the wilwood midilites? If so do you have to run them with wheel spacers or can you run them with out?

And it certainly has come a long way looks amazing.

hi no ive sold the wilwoods they need at least a 12mm spacer to clear my old wheels they work great but are just to big to run a wheel that tucks

and thx its still progressing

redpetemk1 said

Lovely mk1, and that bay is super clean!

On the underside photo, is that a light just behind the rear panel on the right hand side?

thanks glad you like the bay there will be a few changes over winter hopefully

yes its the fog light tucked out the way

I needed to go a little lower so i had to notch the drivers side you can see the rub marks on the shaft


so i stripped that side out



what the chassis looked like


i then marked out the ares and cut all the way through the chassis leg, cut metal tube to size and began welding it in



i also welded a plate above it for extra strength


primed it and seam sealed it


and painted it

Next up was the fuel pump i was running a pump and accumilator in the boot as my lines run inside the car, this made the car smell of fuel so time to change it all

the old pump


i needed to change the fuel tank to a gti tank as it was running the old 1.1 tank with pick up pump in the tanks
so i sourced a gti tank


bought a new bosch pump this one is good to run upto 500 bhp



out came the old tank in with the new one


i made up a mounting bracket for the pump and another for the filter and added teflon braided hose


no more bad fuel smells

started to buy some parts to fit over the winter 1st was a pair of nos clear opening quarter windows



series one centre console

went to a local vw festival v-dub island theres both aircooled and watercooled its a 4 day event with show n shine on the sunday i won one of the best top ten cars there, i also won ultra vw magazines car of the show award. i was so happy that a mainly aircooled magazine had picked my car at a mainly aircooled event !!

they also did a little photo shoot of the car for the magazine

a pic of the shoot


a couple from the festival