jakes mk1 jetta project
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im new on this forum so thought i'd put up a project thread on my mk1 jetta
thought i'd start a project thread for my mk1 jettaso it all started was a peacefull sunday and remebered that bury dubs where having a meet/autojumble so collared a mate and we went over seeing as there was nothing better to do on a sunday, so pulling into the car park saw this little mk1 jetta on the back of a trailer fell in love with her. knowing that i wouldnt walk away without here after a bit of disscuion with the owner we came to a agreement on a price heres a few pics of her when i first saw her looking sorry for herself
the shoes she came with needed tlc tho
so finally got her back to mine last december and got to work
set about riping the engine ready to remove
front coilovers need a bit of a clean but might just invest in new ones
got one of the lips on the ally cats polished to see what they came up like
got bored one evening and decided to trawl the net see if i could find any info on her came up as the first picture on google images
then i got her taken down to my mates so i could use his pit and got the engine out
then she went of for bodywork and paint went and saw how things where coming along, they have been a bit slow as the bloke that has been doing it has had some family problems, managed to get a few snaps of her, she had two new rear arches put it all the bodywork sorted and the passenger door has been saved as it was really badly dented ill let the pics do the talking, I mainly uploads most of the photos on instagram my name is jake1404
got her back in primer so i could move the engine mount to fit a standard 1.3 engine in
she then went back of the paint for the final time hopefully
affter a week of him having it thought id pop round and see how he was getting on
things where coming along nicely but then he went a dropped the bombshell that he smashed the windscreen when removing so there goes all the orginal glass :( but he offered to buy me a new screen
so got to work putting here back together and this is ho she sits at the minute
thought id snap a picture of the project and daily together
thanks ajke
any comments welcome
thought i'd start a project thread for my mk1 jettaso it all started was a peacefull sunday and remebered that bury dubs where having a meet/autojumble so collared a mate and we went over seeing as there was nothing better to do on a sunday, so pulling into the car park saw this little mk1 jetta on the back of a trailer fell in love with her. knowing that i wouldnt walk away without here after a bit of disscuion with the owner we came to a agreement on a price heres a few pics of her when i first saw her looking sorry for herself
the shoes she came with needed tlc tho
so finally got her back to mine last december and got to work
set about riping the engine ready to remove
front coilovers need a bit of a clean but might just invest in new ones
got one of the lips on the ally cats polished to see what they came up like
got bored one evening and decided to trawl the net see if i could find any info on her came up as the first picture on google images
then i got her taken down to my mates so i could use his pit and got the engine out
then she went of for bodywork and paint went and saw how things where coming along, they have been a bit slow as the bloke that has been doing it has had some family problems, managed to get a few snaps of her, she had two new rear arches put it all the bodywork sorted and the passenger door has been saved as it was really badly dented ill let the pics do the talking, I mainly uploads most of the photos on instagram my name is jake1404
got her back in primer so i could move the engine mount to fit a standard 1.3 engine in
she then went back of the paint for the final time hopefully
affter a week of him having it thought id pop round and see how he was getting on
things where coming along nicely but then he went a dropped the bombshell that he smashed the windscreen when removing so there goes all the orginal glass :( but he offered to buy me a new screen
so got to work putting here back together and this is ho she sits at the minute
thought id snap a picture of the project and daily together
thanks ajke
any comments welcome
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nice one, what other plans have you got for the old girl?
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Once I've got it running I will be saving for air ride and look into a engine swap
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nice looking jetta, any progress with it?
fan of those allycats too, very nice
fan of those allycats too, very nice
'83 formel e
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Sweet
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Nice car mate.
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thought i best update this ;)
well ive had the ally cats fully refurbed also picked up a pair of 7j ally cats
these are the other wheels i have for her schmidt 3 piece ssplits 14" 9j and 8.5j currently awaiting refurb and smaller baskets
got round to cleaning the engine up and sprayed but no during pictures, started last monday on cleaning up and spraying
spent all day in bed wednesday and thursday due to that dreaded man flu :( anway i had friday booked off worked anyway and i thought i sed to everyone that it would be in friday so dragged myself out and this happened
bolted it all back together and dropped it in
still need to spray or polish rocker cover sort the wiring out and source some engine hoses and tidy a few more bits in the bay up
was trawling the local club sites on fb and found a few pics of her, she looked rough :(
any comments welcome
thanks jake
well ive had the ally cats fully refurbed also picked up a pair of 7j ally cats
these are the other wheels i have for her schmidt 3 piece ssplits 14" 9j and 8.5j currently awaiting refurb and smaller baskets
got round to cleaning the engine up and sprayed but no during pictures, started last monday on cleaning up and spraying
spent all day in bed wednesday and thursday due to that dreaded man flu :( anway i had friday booked off worked anyway and i thought i sed to everyone that it would be in friday so dragged myself out and this happened
bolted it all back together and dropped it in
still need to spray or polish rocker cover sort the wiring out and source some engine hoses and tidy a few more bits in the bay up
was trawling the local club sites on fb and found a few pics of her, she looked rough :(
any comments welcome
thanks jake
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looking good jake, coming together nicely. When you hoping to have her finished by?
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Hopping to have it done for next year
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jake42 said
Hopping to have it done for next year
Nice one. Good luck with it
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Duno where to start with the wiring tho in useless when I comes to wiring
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jake42 said
Duno where to start with the wiring tho in useless when I comes to wiring
I know the feeling mate. Plenty of wiring gurus on here if you get stuck mate.
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Looking good Jake, nice to see another red one that's clearly being tidied up well.
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Cheers mate, yeah she's getting there just concentrating on getting the engine sorted and running now
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a little update
got the inlet manifold all cleaned up and sprayed
before and after
got the carb bolted back onto the manifold an bolted it to the block
thought i'd take a sneaky photo seeing as the sun was out
got the inlet manifold all cleaned up and sprayed
before and after
got the carb bolted back onto the manifold an bolted it to the block
thought i'd take a sneaky photo seeing as the sun was out
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looks great, love the colour. Jetta's are so cool I had a 16v early mk2 back in the day - wish I had kept hold of it.
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Yeah love the mars red mate, got any pics of it mate?
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picked up a windscreen from a mate during the week and fitted it this morning
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just finished spraying rocker cover and also picked up a polished oil cap
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looking good mate time to go on the bay and fid me one
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