Mexico Beige Mk1 Golf 1.8t 20v smoothed bay - The rebuild !

Just read your whole thread. Excellent work chap, very good quality! I couldn't believe how thick the paint was on the bonnet

Liking your Dad's Lotus Cortina too  

Hairyarse said

Just read your whole thread. Excellent work chap, very good quality! I couldn't believe how thick the paint was on the bonnet

Liking your Dad's Lotus Cortina too  

thanks mate although it was a clean example it was crying out for a rebuild to put right a few wrongs

dads just started to rebuild the lotus to 1st up engine overhaul

looks awesome mate, well done for all the hard work it will be worth it in the end

Rabbit82 said

looks awesome mate, well done for all the hard work it will be worth it in the end

cheers bud i cant wait to see it in paint i know all the hard work is gonna pay off

so a little update the car is still with the bodyshop i hope to have it back next weekend here are some photos of there work so far

while the shell is in ive been doing some other prep like refurbing the front number plate holder


painting the new drive shaft bolts


one of the many deliveries

including some nos genuine s1 badges

and a nice box arrived

some nice shiny parts arrived including new chrome window trim for the whole car

breather filter fitted great

i will be running a catch can in good time

engine block painted black everything else painted or pollished just waiting on chrome bolts before its all bolted up

the old chrome bumpers were just starting to show there age so i bought some polished stainless steel ones as i started to swop over the parts i decided the other old parts just werent clean enough so ibought new end caps
the problem was the rubber strip that runs through the middle werer genuine ones i couldn't bring myself to replace them with non genuine ones, after some searching i found a pair of nos genuine ones i was a very happy bunny ! as these have little tags that just go over the end caps a nice little touch

Very very nice mate. Loving this build  

Awesome work going on here!

Half makes me motivated to get on with mine again, but then again…..

David

Looking good - top work.

Beautiful!

Nice work dude, you gotta link to the stainless bumpers?









-z

small update the car is painted now pics to follow shortly

all my chrome engine bolts have arrived

my adjustable camber/caster top mounts have been deliveried im very happy with them

Where did you get the oil breather filter from mate??

smudger1980 said

Where did you get the oil breather filter from mate??

I got it from demon tweaks 

This is looking so sweet well done bud

really enjoying this one………come on higher1 lets see the painted article    

small update when i removed the engine and box i tried the turbo shaft for play and was happy with the way it felt, since then all ports throttle inlet etc have been covered up, i changed the cambelt and decided to inspect the turbo ive found 4 out of the 6 outer blades are bent ! something has been drawn in and damaged them in its life time, ive decided to upgrade to a new k04 i will be sourcing the parts needed so i can run some extra bhp!

the damage