my mandarin orange mk1! project low and unbelievably slow!

Excited for this rebuild. she's gonna look great. Very much pulling up a chair for this one.

thanks Scoolblitz heres a few more pics from yesterday, not had much time to do anything today but yesterday i got the loom pretty much ready to be removed, the grille, headlights and dashboard are back out haha, looking to buy new looms as ive seen them pretty cheap! so my thinking is i may aswell re-new the two of them while i'm at it. Anyway enough chat, heres some pics!






right so heres whats happening - the engine is out of a mk2 1.3 this is going to have new… headgasket, cambelt, waterpump, valve stem seals, rocker cover gasket, spark plugs, HT leads blah blah blah basically a full head rebuild and most ancilleries including carb etc

also - as you can see from the pics, i have new braided lines

once the looms out i'm going to remove the steering rack and get to work on removing all the paint from the bay and the seam sealer then its getting trailored to the body shop for a lick of paint

opinions needed - what are the cons of removing the rain tray?

Cheers, Mike

off to the bodyshop!

cars finally back from the bodyshop!

What colour is that? (TT nimbus grey?) looks spot on if u don't mind me asking how much was It to paint the bay? Wanting mine done soon before I rebuild the engine up.

nah its just a RAL colour 7011 mate it was #150 to the bay painted!

so the cars back! heres some pics of what ive been up to !

so i got the car back from the shop like this



then put everything back together bodywork wise!



and then i got bored so i decieded to trial fit my new bbs bmw wheels!




really made up with the fitment! deffo gonna need a slight bit of arch rolling and maybe 5mm spacers because there running pretty close to the coilovers, i may even get top mount extenders and a chassis notch depending on how it all works out!


let me know what you think guys!

looking good

COOOL!

cheers guys! hopefully get the engine in place on friday night!

so i thought i best update! few things been going on! i'll just pile some pics in for you guys!

so i swapped my wheels for some 14x8 alleycats
i also got some gti seats out of a mk2
annnndddd i snapped the key way on the crank pulley which means the whole project is on hold while i wait for this new part… roll on four weeks as VW Heritage have to get it from Germany!

Looking good matey  

Looks nice mate, liking the alleycats  
you got the mk2 rear bench too? i've got the same seats to go in my golf, need to swap the rear bench cover onto the mk1s frame though     

Very nice build mate. When you hoping to have it finished for??

thats a beaut mate

thanks guys! hopefully going to have it done sometime in march, really want it done for UD but thats looking doubtful because of this crank pulley!

ned_h - yep thats what i'm going to do, just need to find the matching bench!

cheers, Mike

Right! so managed to get on with the golf today thank god! The engines now sat in place! need to get a few more parts then hopefully it should be good to go!

That looks totally brilliant mate. You have been very busy by the looks of it. Hats off to you dude.