My mk1 resto

Stunning just stunning. Been following this since you started on practical performance mag website and must say it is one of my favourite restos and is truly inspirational.. well done mate cracking job!  

 :clap:

well what can i say brilliant if mine is half as good as yours i will be happy


 :notworthy: :notworthy: we praise you sir :notworthy: :notworthy:


p.s what size steel was you car frame/roller made out of    

As always, it looks stunning 8)

What have you got planned next - another resto?

Rich

Thanks guys

re more projects - our first baby is due in a few weeks - so no doubt that will keep me busy of an evening!  

Truely stunning resto, totally gobsmacked at the attention to detail and quality of finish on everything.
hope you have many years of fun with it.  

Amazing!!!!!  8)

well done carbs. ye got there man

Kick ass man.

This is awesome…. Looks ………. :notworthy:

absolutely fantastic mate, looks spot on amazing, love the seats too.


very good point about not being forced to work on the car…wish i had the choice!
enjoy!

YEAH!!!!!!!

Well done mate, looks spot on, and the workmanship on everthing you have done is always spot on, and a credit to you.

Have been watching this for a few years now, and it's great to see it finished :wink:

Now you can enjoy it.

Well done!

Pete.

How much time and money did it cost you mate ?? :wink:

holy cow that looks great - good work mate  8)

Thanks for the comments guys  8)

Regarding time and money allana13…. time was always the problem that's why it took so long but i enjoyed the process and met a lot of nice people through it….

Money  8O - well as it was stretched over such a long period and i drive an old mk3 gti everyday which only cost a couple of grand - i sort of treated the mk1 like i was building a new car rather than buying one…. iykwim

That is a superb car!  Well done. You thoroughly deserve every single rubber-necking stare you get whenever you drive that car, and I'm sure there'll be thousands!  

Just got the car taxed there last week but with work etc I haven't been able to get much work done on it. With baby and all never got looking at it much since I tucked it up for winter… but the sun has returned so better get it ready again for the road!

I got a Zeitronix system for it from the wife for Christmas which was great   so I have been fitting it when I get the chance - almost finished….

This is the system - measures all sorts from EGT - AFR to air temp/oil temp / revs etc even has alarm for which can be used to alert to low oil pressure or exhaust gasses going too high - and it can also trigger a relay to either switch something on or off! Quare and nifty! It also plots all this information on the laptop and records hours of information - will be great for checking fuelling across the rev range

I opted for Lamda/AFR - fuel pressure - air temperature and exhaust gas temperature and  the alarm/trigger box and bought it through Chris at EFI parts in England.




First job was removing exhaust system to get lambda probe boss welded in - note mahoosive drill bit - da had this one hiding away



Then four branch needed drilled and welded on no.1 primary for the Exhuast Temp probe boss - which was also tigged by big Glen in GM Tyres - he's a useful character



He even made it look nice….







Then exhaust back in place with probes installed and I figured rather than have that mass of cable running under the car I could coil it up under the centre console and it would be away from heat etc - so just made a small cut in the gear stick plate to allow cable to lay flat on top of the tunnel.



Then everyone's favourite - the wiring! Made a loom up to go in the engine bay to feed the air temp sensor which will be mounted in the air box and the fuel pressure sender - EGT wire is kept separate to avoid any interference. Routed all this out of site and through a bung in the bulkhead then under carpet to center console



And you know me - if it can be polished it will be polished - so buffed up the wee adapter for the fuel pressure sensor - it's basically a 3.5 bar boost sensor which you can programme the zeitronix to read psi and therefore read fluid pressures too - and installed it just after the Filter King regulator.



In place


Then soldered on plugs to the ends of each wire feeding the zeitronix unit so that it could be removed if necessary without any hassle and got my switched live and system earth sorted and gave it a try! Woopee it worked first time - that was a pic before connecting the lamda and switching on fuel pump - but everything is working!!! Great having real time fuel pressure read outs etc - finally will be able to see if the pump struggles on WOT.



So now just tidying the wiring under the centre console and will get a wee place for the usb connecter to attach for handy plotting on the lap top - also think I will not mount the lcd screen and will keep it free on the lead so it can sit anywhere when driving….

Stunning car and work, you must have done this before or be a fully qualified mech and then a good one.
On page 19 you mention this
Steering now

….You may have noticed that in your mk1 golf the steering wheel has a knock in it and can be rattled in the column?
More than likely it will be either the bearing within the ignition barrel or the little bush that the bearing locates on?

To remove locking barrel just follow the Haynes and bore a small hole ? this allows you to press in the little sprung clip and with the key in the lock just pull the barrel out

Hole bored and lock removed …

I have looked in my Haynes book and cannot find info on this can you give more information and part numbers of bearings/seals needed?

The little plastic bush is

part no.

171 419 341 - bearing ring - 1.16+VAT

The plastic locating bush should be all you need - unless of course you think the copper bearing is damaged within the iginition housing - mine had been chisled inwards to close the gap between the bearing and the steering column which was the wrong thing to do - there is supposed to be a gap and the bush takes up the slack to prevent vibration etc - the complete new housing can be bought from vw but i don't have the part number

Thanks for info

Got system fully installed and running yesterday!

Mounted the controller on the back of the centre console to keep it out of the way



Then everything else put back in place and got the thing running on the computer - rpm is a bit spikey (see blue line on screen below) so needs calibrating - also need to get the boost sensor (which is reading fuel pressure) properly calibrated on the software - but other than that a grand invention!  Not gonna mount the lcd read out screen as such - just keep it free on the lead for handiness - sits fine in the wee pocket in the console




Thanks for looking!

Just thought I would keep the thread updated as I go!

Attended my first show with the mk1 on Saturday in Lisburn - 'Harmony Hill 4' - great selection of cars from a 1000bhp evo (which had turbo the size of a dinner plate) to a V8 Model T hot rod - and of course a great selection of Volkswagens in between!

Went along with my local club www.clubgti.net and we had 15 cars out in total - which must have impressed the judges as we got 'Club of the Show' award!!!  

And to top it off - I was seriously delighted when they read out my reg for 'Best Engine Bay'!!!

On the club stand


Bonnet up!




Best Bay trophy!!!  I'm still smiling!