My mk1 resto

don't worry Carbs your not alone!  :wink:

while my car was being done I kept going home at lunch just to look at it  ops:    no excuse for me! I'm just sad!

I am not the only one then!

me too mm shiney

Wicked job, makes me wanna go work on mine right now

Really good work, i love it  More pics, do sum more!  :wink:

Amazing detail on this project and amazing results - well done - can't wait to see the car completed. Makes me feel bad for not working on my old skool car!

Dont worry haven't forgot the project - just not getting a lot of time atm - the tank in the picture which i got renued isn't going back in - i told them not to shutz the outside but they did and i went to put it in last sat and i noticed it was rusting under the shutz on the outside surface (and this is sitting indoors 8O ) i guess they never rust primed the steel before putting that muck on it)- so i sourced a very low mile carb tank ?20 which is mint and still has a fresh factory look inside! so saturday now consists of resisting efforts to coax me to the shops for christmas shopping and buffing the outside of the tank zinc'ing it and putting a few coats of gloss and laquer on it - it will look miles better than that old rough shutzy finish in the pics there…

at the minute i have the brake mech installed and all new cunifer lines - disks and pads should be here today and then over Christmas hols i should get her on here NEW RIMS  8) then i'll take a load of pics! wife says no more spending till end of Jan  :dontknow: r u 4 real! better agree though….. black eyes and all that…

Carbs4ever said

wife says no more spending till end of Jan  :dontknow: r u 4 real! better agree though….. black eyes and all that…

Get yourself an egg card technically you won't be spending any money till after January!

Btw - can't wait for more pics - just reread the whole thread and I have been inspired once again to get cracking :y:

Ohhhh whats in here???



My brakes disk and pads finally arrived??. another black eye!
20 groove red dot disks and fast road pads in 256mm

Made stands for the car ? which as you can see are out of box section with smaller sections to make like a telescopic thing and its held to the car with old bumper brackets welded to the box section ? on the other movable jig/frame you couldn?t fit axle/w?bones etc as the jig was fixed to those points on the floor pan.





Then got the brake mechanism fitted and me and my brother run the lines in ? (haven?t nipped up connectors yet incase something needs altered)




Ran just two lines from the master cylinder and blanked the other two off to have less clearance problems with clearing the distributor. There were actually two holes already drilled in the base that the servo bolts too which were just right to bolt the T-pieces to, then ran the lines to the four corners and put one brake light switch on the front passenger circuit. Used Kunifer lines ? they don?t go green like copper or rust like the steel ones and are very strong. Just bent the curves in them by putting a socket in the vice and bending the line round the socket ? small bends small socket bigger bends use a bigger socket



so that?s the brakes done basically just need to nip up the fittings etc?

Then at the weekend past there I started on another petrol tank ? the other one in the pics from ages ago was done with a renew service ? but I told them not to shutz the outside which they did L that was like early 2005 so when I went to fit it a week ago ? I noticed rusty streaks on the outside and I buffed off a bit of the shutz and found it was rusting on the outside badly(and it was stored in doors!) so they obviously didn?t rust proof the steal before shutzin it so it would have looked pants against all the other shiney parts.

Got a real good low mileage tank from ?20 which was as new on the inside (where it counts) and I wanted to clean it up on the outside?

Some nitromors ? great stuff



Then washed it off with thinners ? you see some pitting in it in the mid section ? I buffed this rust out




Then I zinc?d the outside and its now dry and ready to etch prime and spray on some gloss black and lacquer ? which will be done some night this week?



Will hopefully be on its wheels over Christmas and I?ll update with pics in New Year!



some parts prep'd and waiting to go on.

Cracking idea with the telescopic stands/legs

IMO will be one of the best Mk1's!
it better be at Gaydon 2006 if it's finished :wink:

Cheers Phil :wink:  - id love to go to Gaydon - though with Twin 45's i'd need a shell tanker following me!

Rent a trailer!  

mega bucks on the HSS - it would be like ?300 quid just to cross the Irish Sea!

OUCH!.. don't blame you   :wink:

Move to England  

Wow, that shell looks stunning mate! Is it silver or a gun metal, or???!! 8)

Carbs4ever i have to hand it to you thats going to be one nice motor , i just wish i had the time and enthusiasm . Your brake upgrade i like especially the inline brake light switch  :notworthy:

What is your master cylinder off ?

Shame we will never see it in Blighty ??



Cheers………

The colour is BMW Sterling Grey i loved that colour in the big 5 series and in the X5's and it suits the black plastic trim too - X5 has black trim so it was easy to tell if the colour would suit the plastic bumpers etc - but also it goes nice with chrome as the 5 series had chrome hanles etc!  

Master Cylinder is 16v golf item 22mm - euro car parts servo is 9" of a golf too…


cheers for comments guys more updates soon!

Its a damn nice colour Carbs, and looks like a real good paint job!

Wot wheels are you fitting out of interest?

wheels… i'm fitting


14x7 !"?%%^&%^


oops keeyboard malfunction….


you'll see em soon! they aren't rare or anything but i haven't seen too many people runnin them… they are at home and im not allowed them to Christmas Day says the wife!