had to make this for it today...old exh hangers got weak and bendy

^ much better idea than what i had, may need to invest in some spring steel.....liking the heated seats too....what controls did u use for em?

the heated seats come with 2 small switches...used those in the lower dash

couple of progress pics on the abd...sumps been off and cleaned out , new gasket and the block is cleaned up and painted with halfords engine paint

was bored so decided to sand off the lettering on the indicator lenses lol

sanded the letters with 600 wet , then 1000 wet

then buffed up with g3 compound, made a nice improvement for free

got hold of some vw boot carpets but from a mk3 so they had too many holes , so made up some side carpets from automotive carpet in the same pattern

before...

after...

very nice mate

Quality little touches dude

love the keyring! got anymore?

got a couple in the clasifieds if anyone still after one

update time 

 

finnaly got round to dropping in the ABD , GK inlet and weber , also have the dual exit exh mani to fit once its running

 

so its a abd honed with new rings , shells , oil pump chain , head freshed up with lapped valves and guide seals etc 

 

Woohoo.

Hope first start goes well.

started up fine ...havent really driven it as the gears are loused up  

Brilliant to see this has happened, I was wondering when you would finish it lol. Hope all is well running in and it lasts okay. Any chance of a video link of it running sometime soon?

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its been asked several times what are the differences with the abd block

 

the only hickup i found was that the abd uses a plastic water pipe at the rear , the coolant tank hose still fits but isnt quiet right and one of the matrix ones does not fit on the mk2 , you will either need to use a 16mm-20mm adaptor to join the mk2-abd hose or im told some late mk2f have the correct hose

 

also run a tap in the threaded holes in the block as some arent used on the golf and will be rusty /full of crap 

right ive got 400 miles on it now , dual gt style exhaust manifold and downpipe on , seems like a worth while swap if you can find cheap enough

 

lots of torque around 2500-3500 and nips along nicely as the torque peaks at some usefull speeds..although runs out of puff about 5200 , i think it would probably wake up a bit with a GT cam but im reluctant to bother with the elec fuel pump and all the wiring etc  

I would say the GT cam is well worth the hassle of wiring in a leccy fuel pump having driven an AAV with and without back to back. Granted one had MPI but the driving experience was miles better and it was like a completely different engine

How you getting on for oil leaks etc? My 3F seems to be eating cam oil seals...wondering if it's to do with having no breather on the cam cover or maybe the block breather being blocked

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seems alright on the oil seals so far...blocked breathers will make them leak so well worth checking them

 

how would describe the gt cam differences ?    i guess its something i can look at or maybe a newman 

Yeah I think I better remove my breather and have a look at it, grandad said his old GT had the same problem every so many thousand miles

GT cam made it more responsive at low revs, but then after about 4k I think..(don't have a rev counter to check) it pulls almost like it found another 100cc...only way I can explain it is like a weaker version of the Vtec kick. Personally looking for a Newman now as I can rev to 8k but I have a power drop by time I get there with the standard GT cam in.

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yeah sounds like what i need tbh...does rev better than the old MH but isnt what youd call a revvy engine by any means

 

hard to find any reviews on polo newman cams ....fair bit of wedge if its not right 

On ‎14‎/‎04‎/‎2010 at 20:30, steveo3002 said:

had to make this for it today...old exh hangers got weak and bendy

what did you make this with or would you be able to make me one (at a cost of course) plz .

right updates 

over 2018 i converted to mpi , didnt go as smoothly as expected and i struggled to sort a few issues with how it ran , eventually sorted it towards the end of 2018

 

 

 

 

brand new head came up for a good price...thought why not 

then march 2019 treated myself to this...still need to fit it 

I can still hear the Haribo ear-worm jingle in German. Are you going to use them to measure the valve to piston clearance?

 

Haribo macht Kinder froh,

und Erwachsene ebenso.

Edited 5 March, 20197 yr by dvderlm

On 05/03/2019 at 19:06, steveo3002 said:

brand new head came up for a good price...thought why not

 

Did you find this on ebay? I saw a NOS head just like it and thought about getting it in a similar 'why not' mood. Be good if it was the same one!

yeah was on ebay..came with cam too but not the one i wanted