My 1983 Golf CL AFH conversion

Great looking car that!

Stayed on schedule and for the first time since July 2019 she moves under her own power…

A friend of mine with a 3D printer made up a set of covers for the strut towers. The OEM style covers don't fit my coilovers, but these snap into the strut tower and not onto the suspension.

I put on a set of RZs today and a GTI spoiler. Unfortunately the spoiler keeps me from clearing the speed bumps going to work so it's got to come back off. I may try to make some craziness that tilts the spoiler when I pull the old choke cable… Raising the car is off the table for now.

Took out the race seats and put some more street oriented in… I'm really happy with them, Leaves a bit more room for the dice to roll as well. 

Looks awesome!

Love the wheels and the splitter. I have a front splitter that is half way between CL and gti in size. Drop me a message if you'd like one.

Those suspension caps are awesome too, me likey muchly!

Such a great colour too.

Ian

borednow said

… I have a front splitter that is half way between CL and gti in size. Drop me a message if you'd like one…

You have my attention, message sent…

The Golf is all back together and goes really well. So time to swap in another gearbox and a stroked 1.6 AFH… getting started.

Currently traveling for work but that didn't stop me from my wheel habit… I did get most of the bottom end of the new motor together, I'll finish it up when I get home.



 

Back to the dyno one last time with the original 1.4. I had a bit of a miss up high so we didn't do an "all-in" full pull to 7700rpm. It did make more power sooner with the Weber 45s versus the 40s. Previously, with the 40s it made 142bhp @ 7300 rpm. With the 45s it made 150bhp @ 6820 rpm. There's a bit more left in it since it easily spins hard to 7700 but it wasn't worth walking home. Now that I've run it, this motor will come out and I'll put the 1.6 stroker in. The 1.6 had the stock 1.4 top end and a mix of VW 1.6 8V and 16V bottom end. If it runs good, I have a refreshed top end with Schrick cams and valve springs that's ready to go.

There's a video of this run on my youtube channel…

Bit of an embarrising face palm moment for me.The nut holding the battery cable to the stater went for a vacation to parts unknown. The cable is fitted pretty well so it didn't come off, just was rattling on the post. My ignition system wasn't to happy with that… Went for a ride and a fuel line to one of the carbs came loose and starting spraying fuel all over the bay just as I got home. I promptly bought 2 new fire extinguishers, for the car and garage. At the moment it's pretty happy.

 The world being what it is keeps me busy at work so no new motor install yet.

So, the 1.6 AFH hybrid is built, installed and has about 2000 km on it. It's definitely a different animal, second and third gear rolling burnouts are a thing now. I picked up at least a point in compression along with the CCs. Traveling for work at the moment but plan to get back to the dyno as soon as possible.

This hybrid has a standard AFH block and cams and head. The crank is from an AEE, which is a drop in for chain driven oil pump motors. It accepts all the standard AFH pulleys and hardware without modification. The rods are BCB, rod bearings are 1.9 TDI tri-metal, rod bolts are also from a diesel. Pistons are BUD, 2005ish Golf 1.6, same 17mm pins but 60 grams lighter per piston. Flywheel is from Epytec, lighter but not the lightest they offer. Everything else is stock AFH. Pistons are the same compression height, valve relief is cut shallower, a touch less dish as well. They don't come up flush to the deck like the original AFH pistons about 0.7-1mm lower in the block. I'm a bit nervous if the high lift Schrick cams, 10.5mm versus 8.5, would work with these. I've also backed my redline down to 7k, from 7700, since piston speed is a lot higher. I had to back the timing down a few degrees, because is was startings to knock, presumably from the compression ratio jump. The jetting changes for the Webers was minor, a bit thinner emulsion tunes and bigger pump jets because it revs quick and is thirsty…

160hp at the motor… I was hoping for a handful more but it'll do. The video isn't the dyno pull, just getting set up to run. It picked up 30Nm at the wheels and made peak power 700rpm sooner than the 1.4. This is with original AFH cams.

…now coming to the end of my fuel injection conversion.

I still have the 1.6 stroker motor installed for the time being. Had to replace the fuel hard lines with 8mm versions, coil on plug coversion, Jenvey heritage throttle bodies, Haltech Elite 1500 ECU, wideband controller, PD-16, IC7 dash, FITech surge tank, a self made wiring harness…and a lot more. Should be trying for a first start in a couple days.