The Florida blues

KevMk1Tdi said

Your car is Soooo nice……!

Have you done any more work on it lately?

I'm seriously considering air suspension: how do find it to drive? What management are you using?

Hi mate not much just had the carbs refurbished and done a few little jobs thats about it.

It drives good on air feels like its just on uprated suspension im just using manual paddel control.   

So after getting every think ready to start the engine guess what it wouldn't start thought it was the carbs so had them fully refurbed still no think turns out the piston rings have seized to the Pistons.



While the clyinder head is of be rude to not polish it up





I picked some bits from the powder coasters

 

   Wow that looks great    what did you use to polish it up like that? Those powder coated parts looks great as well.

Finally finished polishing the clyinder head

Now it's time for putting the engine back together with new head gasket and head bolts


All back together and started on the first turn of the key

I've brought some new hinges from VW heritage

And the time has come for the dreaded mot

And it passed

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Congratulations on the mot pass  

love your engine bay  

matt

Looking good and congrats.

Very cool build man! Looks amazing! 😍😍

Wow, that is clean. Same question, what did you use to polish the cylinder head and the cam cover?

Robin

Thanks guys for the positive comments

RobinFromFrance said

Wow, that is clean. Same question, what did you use to polish the cylinder head and the cam cover?

Robin

Hi I cheated on the rocker cover that has been powder coated.  on the cylinder head I started of using 80 grit sand paper moveing up to 100 200 300 550 1000 and then 2000 wet and dry and a bit of metal polish by hand to finish it of.

Wow just seen your engine mate, looks excellent! A lot of hard work gone into that! I don't think the powder coating is cheating-more like sensible

Doesn't matter how you achieved it, cause it looks awesome  

Matt

A little update I've had the gearbox mount chromed and the rear bumper chromed



And the rear bumper with the bumper mounts re powder coated


Went to my first show of the season Dubfreeze and entered show and shine with a couple of other mk1 Golf owners club cars we all ended up winning trophies 😊 few pic of the day

Lovin it big beardy boy !!

Stunning 😘

Congrats on the trophy, well deserved    

not suprised your car is winning trophies, its stunning (one of my screensaver photos)    

matt

Massbad69 said

Lovin it big beardy boy !!

Stunning 😘

Thanks mate 😎

Hairyarse said

Congrats on the trophy, well deserved    

pazwaa said

not suprised your car is winning trophies, its stunning (one of my screensaver photos)    

matt

Thanks guys but it's still not finished I think it will never be finished

beany1234 said

Thanks guys but it's still not finished I think it will never be finished

They never are!  

Well deserved…very nice car my favourite mk1 and the car that made me want a mk1 so bad

Great work
Jamie

looked amazing at dubfreeze  

still my favourite mk1  

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