VW GOLF MK1 BLACK SOY CAB (92) GTI

Just the job :y:

Excellent work…

Rich

So the last few days I've been busy pre-paring the engine bay for top coat (BLACK) and so today was the first few coats…. I let the pictures show the results….

I'll be rubbing it all down again tomorrow with 800 & 1200 wet and dry and then 2 more coats on and then it complete then its time to get the engine installed which should be this Sunday  

Good work. What you spraying with? Rattle cans or a proper comperssor & gun?

woZa said

Good work. What you spraying with? Rattle cans or a proper comperssor & gun?

Compressor and gun of course  

my guns, don't have a picture of the compressor

Thought it looked a bit too good to be from rattle cans!

woZa said

Thought it looked a bit too good to be from rattle cans!

thanks I took ages getting the prep work right… which is the key part.

well with the crap weather on my door step… no work on the engine bay  :cry:

so I thought I'd work on the getting the engine ready for putting in….

Been working on last few items that needed cleaning up and painting - horn parts, fuel filter parts and some small parts…

Here's a picture of the engine complete before I put it on the floor (on covers off course!!!) and then added the gearbox on this afternoon…. (main pictures tomorrow - I am really pleased with the end results)

Looks great but trust me… It doesn't stay looking so good for too long! Not without some seriour attention every week anyway!

woZa said

Looks great but trust me… It doesn't stay looking so good for too long! Not without some seriour attention every week anyway!

I know, thus every sunday a full cleaning session for the car from now onwards… (its properly going to become a weekend driver only)

Well that should help… Mine's a daily driver…

woZa said

Well that should help… Mine's a daily driver…

yeah I'm going to worry when it rains hard - all that crap off the road onto the nice clean engine area    lol

I've collected up alot of parts since doing this work, time to put more parts up for sale!!

hey the car looks sweet im just undertakeing a mk1 caddy project hope it turns out as cool 8O

Pic's of the complete engine…. and the completed metering head, which I completed refurb and then painted… 8)

really do love this one mate.  8)

Couple of questions, what paint did you use for the cylinder head and inlet manifold?

Also, is that not the worlds biggest fuel filter?!  8O  

Cheers mate!

marsredgti said

really do love this one mate.  8)

Couple of questions, what paint did you use for the cylinder head and inlet manifold?

Also, is that not the worlds biggest fuel filter?!  8O  

Cheers mate!

I used Hammerite high temp paint for the head and inlet manifold

Yeah I agree its the biggest fuel filter I've seen on a mk1 as well, but its the one that goes with this engine!

Nice work...

Looks great

The later cabs had a larger fuel filter for some reason  :dontknow:

Looking great Simon! 8)

dubboy said

Looking great Simon! 8)

thanks alot. how is the green mk1 coming along? I think you should update us all on its progress?!

looks fantastic mate well done