Dans MK1 Golf - 2.0 ABF 16v, ZX9R Bike Carbs, Ibis White

Cheers peeps! I'm off to the big show in Worthersee sunday, can't wait! I'm hoping I can get my series 1 rear panel welded in soon too

such a nice car, make me some end caps ££

danosborne661 said

Sorry for the late reply! Yea I go to those from time to time but don't usually drive to be honest, I might do now I got a few things sorted, take a look

AWESOME!!!!
 

nice effort :clap:  :clap:
your car will be more enjoyable with 16v :wink:

Not much progress, engine has come quite away, expecting delivery of my custom bike carb manifold this week! Still gathering parts Other than that thinking of switching to 14's, I really like my wheels but at the moment I'm running 175/60's. I'd like to run less rubber but I don't want the dreaded arch gap you get with 175/50's

Not really that keen on most of the 14's made though.. Anyways heres a pic after it was clean at Bristol Volksfest!

Wow haven't posted in a while, last time I did it was on the road lol. Well I took it off about a year a go to start the conversion so here's my progress.

Received my custom made ZX9R carb manifold made by a mate


Also overall progress on the engine


CV's (before refurb)


Exhaust mani (Ignore other bits)


The last of the 1.3!


Also had these arch spats made out of fibreglass






BUH BYE


Smelly engine bay

Car day!


Requested some help from my Dad trying to seperate pedal box from steering column


Loom removed and labeled


Getting cleaner


Wilwood pedal box


Cleaning off the factory seal


Damaged to be repaired


Getting cleaner

CVD's refurbed, waiting for boots


Car day again


MK4 Shifter in


Dash out, feels like im going backwards


CLUTCH


Sanded back more


Bit of primer


Changing clutch


fitted


Wings coming off


Ready for holes to be welded up


Sound deadened and hammerited


Half the smoothing done!


Looking better


Bracket drawings for my pedal box


That's where I'm at so far

Treating the rusty parts of the bay with rust treatment. Turns where there was rust to good solid metal


Got bored of working on the engine bay so thought I'd clean up the rear turrets


Primered so I can test painting the interior before I do the engine bay


Also made rear blanks when doing the interior


Sanded back primered areas that needed it




Fillered in key areas and reapplied the primer




Will sand back the fillered areas tomorrow

I don't usually post on here really but I might start doing so, looks like a lot of links from my car have died. Anyways thought I'd post you an update

To cut a long story short, this was the car two years ago


Smoothed and painted which took forever


Engine first in


Other bits bolted up, now I'm trying to work out the wiring

Wow what a transformation mate. Top job. Good luck sorting the wiring.

Looking forward to updates.

Smudger

looking good dan! hopefully wiring shouldnt be too hard.. hopefully crack on with mine over xmas

Cheers James!

I'm back on here because I seen your status on facebook lol. Hoping wiring will be ok but at the moment I'm struggling to find a perfect wiring diagram as the ones in the haynes are meant for a 1980's car which seems to have a slightly different set-up.

ha yea.. ive been on here a while but never used it up untill recently cos im now trying to sort stuff out! and got a list of stuff i need from crazy quiffs and the members discount makes abit of a difference! yea im not looking forward to mine my old engine was bodged in and i didnt record wires.. may just be a case of plug em in sumwere and see what happens?

Sweet progress today, started the fun which is wiring Big shout out to rubjonny who pointed me in the right direction a few times. Was much easier actually splicing the loom up and getting to it then trying to work things out in theory, turns out it isn't too bad to do Here it is anyway.



Cut cut cut, extend extend extend


The routing




Finished for the day Looking SWEET!

Top work mate. Like the routing thing you're doing with the car. It's going to look brilliant when finished.  

when u looking to have it done by dan? u gonna take it to worthersee next year?

Hey guys, not long time no speak! My first post back on here in 7 years!

I haven’t touched the car in a while after finishing my build, I used to post on edition38 but noticed the forum has disappeared since getting my car back out. I thought I should resurrect this one.

Here’s a couple of posts from my absence -

Cut and welded an S1 panel into place, what a pig


Car was then resprayed in ibis white


Cheeky


Decided hidden reservoirs in the dash was a pain, made a mount to get them in the bay

Engine bay, I have a larger alloy rad since then but you get the idea


Sweeeeeeeeeet


Maintenance day


I then took the car off the road winter of 2018, stripped the interior carpets and repainted it myself, fitted flexi brake lines through out and rewired the engine into a MIL-C quick release connector that went through the bulkhead


Final interior shot. Looking for a replacement wheel but was testing this one for its depth


So why am I resurrecting this thread? I’m going to be doing a few bits to the car after the last few years in storage - here’s what’s coming.

- The gearing on 13’s is terrible, so I have just ordered 15” Ronal turbos and 175/55 tyres
- The standard 239mm brakes are also terrible, so I will be upgrading to a 280mm G60 set-up
- I’ll be ordering some velocity stacks and tuning to the carbs up