My Resto 1982.... New engine start videos.

Started to fill in holes not neeeded in my engine bay today.
Was very fun untill i got very sunburnt on my face from the welding heat given out. nicee.









So t have a break from the welding i took the rocker cover off the new valver and gave it some primer ready for paint tomoro.



Not sure what colout to paint it and the whole car but im very tempted with this colour. Or just white. But i like attention so its prob gunna be the green. lol



Also i stole my friends vr6 badge and tryed it on my mk2 lol

Nice work mate !

That green mk1 is sweet - love the colour and the wheels

Is there a build thread that you know of for that one ?

CHeers
Stewart

Bloody been doing this for like 3 days non stop now and doesnt feel like ive realy achived anything!
Didnt know this would take this long to smooth and engine bay. Havnt even got filler on it yet. Maybe tomoro though.





And some seem welding to strengthan the chassis while im at it.

loved reading this man, good inspiration keeps us on our toes. keep it up cant wait to see engine bay smoothed out, and the red and green combo shall be interesting.  

Good work dude. Go for the green colour. Looks sweet :wink:

Awesome work fella!

Made abit of progress today.

SHE HAS A FACE AGAIN







Still need to finish up welding the chassis legs to the front pannel because dinner was almost ready. lol. so i couldnt finish.

Tacked in the bits of metal to smooth the bay aswell today

Good work fella,

Where did you get the replacement pannels from. Are they new ?

Got them from here a while back. http://www.golfmk1.co.uk/index.htm
I thought i would need them sooner. lol
They are a sponser for this site.
Very good fit of pannels highly recomend!

Got the wings from tsr performance though.

Cheers mate. It is hard work

Good stuff - nice to see it looking more like a car again 8)

Rich

i thort i was the only person to get burnt from my welder it realy stings dont it mate lol
cars cumin along nicely mate that green looks cool to i was guna paint mine kawasaki green.

Think i got burnt abit again yesterday. lol and prob didnt help doing more welding today.
Had realy bad arc eye last night. was horrible!!! Couldnt sleep.

Anyway enough bitching, i finished up welding on the front pannel today and welded on one of the pannels to smooth the engine bay fully and started the other but ran out of wire. So ground down all the welds to make the look pretty.

lukeybabes said

Think i got burnt abit again yesterday. lol and prob didnt help doing more welding today.
Had realy bad arc eye last night. was horrible!!! Couldnt sleep.

Anyway enough bitching, i finished up welding on the front pannel today and welded on one of the pannels to smooth the engine bay fully and started the other but ran out of wire. So ground down all the welds to make the look pretty.

What the hell are you guys using to protect yourselves, being a welder of over 16yrs I am yet to get an ARC or any form of ray burn other than a little on my wrist.

For heavens sake keep the raybans for the beach and invest in a decent mask    8)  

Great to see you sticking it out

JettaGTI said

lukeybabes said

Think i got burnt abit again yesterday. lol and prob didnt help doing more welding today.
Had realy bad arc eye last night. was horrible!!! Couldnt sleep.

Anyway enough bitching, i finished up welding on the front pannel today and welded on one of the pannels to smooth the engine bay fully and started the other but ran out of wire. So ground down all the welds to make the look pretty.

What the hell are you guys using to protect yourselves, being a welder of over 16yrs I am yet to get an ARC or any form of ray burn other than a little on my wrist.

For heavens sake keep the raybans for the beach and invest in a decent mask    8)  

Great to see you sticking it out

My welder came with some crap mask that you have to hold cuz there is nothing to strap to ur head. And me being lazy i sometimes juts close my eyes when i wana weld lol. And im to poor to buy a mask. Would rarther buy golf parts    lol
Started using the mask now though as it bloody hurt.

Finished up welding the pannels in today and grinding the welds down.
Waiting on some rust converter/primer stuff i got off ebay to come before i start filling.
Looks good in metal form though. Dont ya rekon? lol





But i cant deside weather to chop the bracket off the wiper motor becuase it seems sturdy enough with just the bolts on the spindles.
What do people think? Also it looks neater with no bracket. Will chop the part off the motor aswell btw

With

 

Without

Could you not make a custom bracket that goes down to the bulkhead so its under the motor, it'd look neater and keep the strength for the motor (if you know what i mean)

You don't need the bracket for the wipers.
I am running a mk2 motor( to speed the wipers up )and the mk2 motor doesn't  bolt to the bracket ,no problems at all.

Pm'd you, might have something you could use to protect your peepers.. No good carrying out all this work and not being able to see the finished product due to a scorched retina 8)

Pm replyed to mate  

mark83 said

You don't need the bracket for the wipers.
I am running a mk2 motor( to speed the wipers up )and the mk2 motor doesn't  bolt to the bracket ,no problems at all.

yep same here in my cabby!

Cheers for the comeback guys. Will probaly be picking up a mk2 wiper motor at some point then.

Does anyone know what radiators people genrally use to do away with the expantion tank? The braket is already gone and i know the mk1 sirocco uses one but seems quite small. (495mm mount to mount).
Not sure if it will be big enough for sufficient cooling.

Also what are the rules on relocation of the vin number? Does it have to be on view etc?
Where do people normaly weld them back to the chassis? Cheers.