A589 VGB (The Blue Beast)
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A589 VGB (The Blue Beast)
So I bought this car in August 2008, it's a 1.3L but the engine is shot so the plan is to put a 2L 16V in it on twin weber carbs.
This is how it arrived,
I then got some wheels from Mike B on here and had them refurbed and got some new tires stuck on them.
So the first job was to get them on the car and the body kit off off the car.
While I was on with it I stripped the dirty white roof ligning out and scraped the old sound proofing off.
More updates coming soon.
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I stripped the axel down witch took around 4 hours due to the drums being a nightmare to get off. The last time I drove it the rear whell locked up at 60mph and I had to get it recovered. When I finally got the drums off I found the bearing had collapsed and welded it's self to the stub axel. Hence why it was so hard to get the drums off. With the axel stripped I bolted on the Mk2 golf rear disc stub axels and sent it off to get shot blasted an powdercoated. I then started preppeing the rear disc conversion.
New calipers, discs, pads and shot blasted carriers, all painted in black brake paint.
Comming off for refurb this week will be the tank and front running gear. Stay tuned.
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Craig.
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Feedback is allways appreciated, good or bad, lets me know if I am doing things right or not lol.
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Having a look under the car it has had a new floor plan in at some point. However it was not painted so is now rusty, lucky enough it looks just to be surface rust.
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The first job was to get the old bushes out and some new poly ones in.
This ended up taking ages as I really struggled getting the new bushes in, but eventually managed to press them in with a hydraulic press.
Next up I got the rear Hot Tuning coilovers on.
Then on with the rear disc conversion that I had prepped previously.
Once I had assembled it all I then realised I had to get it back on the car by myself wich was a real struggle. But eventually ………
All that is left is to get the axel bush's tightened up, this should be done when the car is sat back on it's wheels to prevent the bush being over stressed.
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Not complaining though still some good info here. keep the pics still comingChidz said
Yeah I should really start using my camera rather then my phone .
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Yep you guessed it, it's an under dash pedal box.
Big shout out to Martin for getting it fabricated up for me.
It may take me a while to get in tho because I need to work out witch master clyinders/clyinder size/rod length and the likes so watch this space.
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Due to a long term illness, I have been feeling under the weather this week so have not been able to work on the car.
However I have ordered some AP Racing master clyinders and romote reservoirs.
They are AP Racing CP2623 M/C's
14mm bore for the front
15.9mm bore for the back
115mm rod length
5/16 thread.
Here is a pic of them off the internet. As you can see they are very compact.
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Pete.
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