1983 Standard GTI Concours 42000miles

Nice tip, ?60 each sounds a lot but I guess it's worth paying for the original parts and the original stance! :wink:

Spent part of today restoring a fuel metering head for the Black Bullet. Rather than risk damaging the original as I'd never stripped one before I thought I'd strip out a spare one I have got.

Before….




After…….



I am quite pleased with that. I will probably try it on the car to make sure it still functions OK though don't see any reason why not. If it doesn't function then I will find out where I went wrong before attempting another.

The DIY zinc plating kit, although is a bit fiddly to get used to, I have mastered the technique although having the bead blaster at my finger tips is the key to successful plating.

Nice job yomp. What did you clean up the silver casting with?

After…….



Mint very nice  

I stripped the entire casing down and cut a small piece of wood and clamped it over the part number legend plate so as not to damaged that and then it went in the blaster. There was a small sticker on the top of it with the VW and Audi logo with the digits "67 BA". I am making enquires about getting this replicated for complete originality.

Good attention to detail! How big is your bead blasting kit?

Hairyarse said

 How big is your bead blasting kit?

Its one of these…..

http://www.vapormatt.com/products_vapormate_1_page.htm

Looks a handy bit of kit!

I spent the first 7 years of my working life restoring vintage Rolls Royce cars and we had something similar and it was a valuable piece of kit for all sorts of things. (Foreigners especially!) So when I had an opportunity to get my own I snapped it up!

The upside is its single phase. The down side is you need a decent 3 phase compressor to run it. Mine has the high power gun which is 20CFM. I have a 43CFM hydrovane running it with a 300 ltr tank.  20CFM is sufficent but you still need a 5KW motor to produce that sort of air.

Serious bit of kit then!

You must be a bit handy then if restored RR! :wink:

Hairyarse said

You must be a bit handy then if restored RR! :wink:

I like to think I can hold my own! :wink:

That was a different game to doing modernish cars. Everything was metal or wood. No silly obsolete plastic parts to replace :roll:  Had to make from scratch or repair.

Example: new distributor cap for a 1914 Silver Ghost - ?2000 + VAT 8O
and that was 20 years ago! I never forget that price because I ran one over in the workshop once. 8O  Smashed it into 1000 pieces! - Gaffer didn't see the funny side!
If I can get my scanner to work I'll post some pics up of some of my work.
Most valuble car I drove was the 3rd oldest surviving Silver Ghost chassis no. 565. That was for sale at ?3,000,000 when I drove it. Not bad when I was only 18!
We used to get to test drive them and because they were so slow revving they took ages to run in. I used to pick up my girlfriends and take them round the Cotswolds in them. Ahh, they were the days!!

Got the refurbed metering head on yesterday complete with new air intake pipe (from front panel). Runs fine so no damage done!

You could have cleaned it :wink:

Looking at all these other threads on here about with people with severe amounts of welding to do probably makes my project look a bit nancy!! - Sorry!

Anyway back to the subject in hand and the quest for total originality.

At the start of this thread I was in search of the original sticker which was located on the rocker cover.



A french company was replicating them but I never got a response after emailing them so I looked at http://volkswagenstickers.co.uk/ but he never did them either. I contacted him and he was really interested in making it for me so I sent my original off to him and he's just sent me this back.





He's going to sell them on his site along with the other warning stickers he does already so if you ever purchase one from him, it was copied from my original!!  8)  8)  :wink:

Thanks Dan at Volkswagen Stickers.

That looks fantastic Yomp, or should I say, Nancy?!!

For a while I have not been able to get the tickover down to a reasonable rpm. Even shutting the idle adjusting screw right in would only bring the revs down to about 1200.

I felt it must be an air leak but couldn't really hear anything. Been pulling and clamping various pipes on the inlet manifold to see if that would reduce the revs.

Finally sourced it to the grey "y" piece over the rocker cover tonight. Basically it had semi come apart and was allowing too much air from the atmosphere side of the throttle body into the air pipe for the warm up valve. It was an air leak but an internal one so to speak which is why I couldn't hear it.

I took a photo of another one on an old engine I have to simulate what it looked like as after I had pushed the original one back together (in my vice) I didn't fancy pulling it apart again.

Looking through my previous pics I must have pulled it apart when I stripped the inlet manifold to clean it.

Handy being able to look back through my own thread though. Its like having a pictured repair log!!

How it looked:



How it looks now with nice tickover (750-850 rpm)



Nice tickover  

what a minter,good work mate,its good to see a standard mk1 for a change.

Looking  8)  Don't forget yellow passivate on the battery clamp  :wink:

Invested in this airchamber for the winter months. Hopefully will stop any damp causing damage during the next few months as I don't plan to drive it through the winter.

 

About time for a few updates!

Can't believe its 3 years since I last posted on here but I guess thats how long since I did any major work to the car!

Anyway, major trip to Wolfsburg this year with the club :cheer: and have been meaning to change the flexi fuel lines by the pump since having the car.

Once I'd got it jacked up I noticed that some of the underseal was flaking around the edges and when I scraped at it some of it came away quite easy with small surface rust patches showing underneath.

The only real solution to this I feel is to remove the underseal and start again. However to get the underseal off means dropping all the parts off the back.

I've decided this year to concentrate from the rear axle mounts backwards.

While scraping off the underseal, I've decided to restore some of the mechanicals as well, so the axle has been off to the powder coaters and I've had all the steel parts re zinc plated.

I did buy a zinc plating kit when I did the engine but this time it wa seasier to log all the parts and send them off.

Here are some results so far……

Car having underseal removed……



Parts back from the platers….



Fuel pump assembly before…..



after…….