my G40 project She runs YAY YAY new pics

i used the full gti system tank and all

well i have ow done 50 miles in her and she hasnt snapped any belts or the like  :twisted: so now shes running on full boost
Went chav hunting last night and it was a dead heat with a almera gti  :twisted:
Also if your building one then add your name to list in golf chat

i will soon be  undergoing the task of putting a eaton charged g40 into a mk1 van. the van is currently a 1.5 diesel (i think). are there gonna be any major issues i come up against with regards to engine mounts? or anything else for that matter? the engine is quite high powered for a g40, running an estimated 220 to 240 bhp.

Just make some decent ones. Don't use the 1.3 parts as the rubbers are usually very old and smaller than the big block bushes. If your's is a diesel, then you will need to move the driverside engine mount to the small block position. The gearchange will be different too. I think the exhaust and tank will be OK as I'm sure they are the same as the GTi.

with regard to mounts you have 2 options for the off side mount either way you will have to cut up your chassis  :roll: so i would just weld the polo mount in but if not then you can weld the small block mount in and make up a mount out of polo and golf some thing like this :roll:

but u will have to add another pulley in i used a cabelt tesioner wheel from a escort 16v and a flat piece of metal to act as another tensioner also you will have to use longer belts 8X1050 are perfect but if you running an eaton you may need longer :dontknow:

but belive me well worth it  :twisted:

My old ride.

I didn't know this was going on!

Absolute quality!

you are on here then :mrgreen:

Yep!

You ever wanna sell it back to me I have cash waiting, holidays are overrated anyway!

Sleeper-tastic!

aposegil said

 I am cheating Im going turbo so I can use the standard mounts well except gearbox which Ill have to make something up from gti and g40 one I have sitting here.

what engine is he talking about?? as i dont want to change my engine mounts?? thanks

replied to your pm because the turbo mount to the exhast you can use the standard mount
any way heres some more recent pics



o a one of my little dub family and my genuine 49k jetta :mrgreen:

well she failed the mot today  :roll:  but it wasnt too bad a ball joint, rear brake binding, and the heaqdlights aim too low.

so i headed off home to fix her and whilst gunning it off a round about
part of the exhaust popped out so it sounded like a rally car which i thought was awesome but the copper in front of me didn't  
so i ended up with my mot costing ?114 and i haven't bought the parts yet
 
 

Ooops - was that ?54 MOT + a ?60 fine?

Rich

yeah because it had a defect which happened after the mot so a ?60 fine  

well done on fitting the engine especially as you never done anything like this before, im only in colchester fancy a challenge of fitting a 1.8T in mine  

hmm from what i have read a 1.8t seems a bit tricky for my liking maybe g60 :mrgreen:

ok wel my simple "its only a ball joint and rear brake binding"

well i tackled the ball joint first which ment replacing the wish bone as it was looking a bit worse for wear so for that it was new wish bones on both side with poly bushes new ball joints and all the mounts for my arb now  :roll:

and the rear brake binding i thought may have been a seize hand brake part either the cable or the mech as it hadnt been use for a bit :evil:
but it was the cylinder and after leaving the brake pipes in wd40 all night i put spanner on them and snap

so now i have fully rebuilt rear drum new hand brake cables and rebuilt wishbones and arb

why do little job always turn out to be big ones ????  

Wow nice  job very original, looks good! bet you can wait to start zooooming round in that!!!

Bloody coppers jokers - Can you upload a video????

yeah will try to later

Oh hard luck mate, i got a R300 fine for my handbrake not working properly…
Great work though, it must be a street sleeper of note!  :y:

Hello, I?m from Portugal and I?m doing the same thing to my GTI, but I can?t find the engine mounts from a MK1 1.1 or 1.3, can you help me with that??
I closed tank in and out lines because the G40 pump is inside the tank, and I install the electric system from the G40. I have some problems getting the engine mounts and with the transmissions because I have a G40 and a GTI, so probably I will hate to stretch  one or both.