haven't got any of them now mate,

Left my AAU on my drive whilst i was making a cup of tea, 5 minutes tops.

Come back out to find a fucking pikey theiving **** driving off down the road in the typical collapsed out flat back van.

He took the engine, and my old mans step ladders (which were fucked tbh)

My rocco was blocked in so couldnt drive after them and i was the only person in the house.

FML

Just had a read through this, dude, this is fully epic! the quality of work on this car is amazing, good job! :)

Just had a read through this, dude, this is fully epic! the quality of work on this car is amazing, good job! :)

Cheers mate,

The quality is about to go up with the new updates lol.

M

Started at 8.30 Saturday morning, Me and the old man began getting the car into position to lift the engine in.

Id also like to thank 01mlacey for the flywheel bolts, could have done all this without the pronto postage, cheers mate.

Firstly, cleaned off 20 or so years of road grime from the lower half of the inner wings and ARB mounts...

Before.

During.

And after.

Also picked up my brand new drive-shaft flange bolts as many of the old ones had to be ground off with a 2mm disk.

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After an hour or so of cleaning it was time to mate the new block with its new gearbox,

A few pic's of said block

Hello gearbox...

Alternator and nearside mount on..

Starter motor and solenoid (Gonna have to paint...)

Water pump..

And the money shots....

Washed bay..

Me and my old man then began dropping in the engine, Plan of action was to do just that. Pick the thing up and drop it in.

Didn't go too bad to be honest, the offside mount took some paint off my lovely clean bay though

Pics:

Some of you may have noticed before (wish i had) that the cam belt hasn't been put on yet, this wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't fitted the alternator belt pulley and plastic covering , which you have to pretty much take then engine out or drop it on the floor to take back off, So out came the hydraulic jack again...

Fitted..

:-D

Now onto the cylinder head, Pretty much the party piece of this build as I've put a lot of time into it.

Because it's originally from a 1988 mk2 polo, its a hydraulic tappet mechanical fuel pump head so i had to make a blanking plate for the hole...

Head on...

Carburettor on...

Caps on but have no cam to put in because of toby and how much of a bad person he is.

As much as I didn't want to get it dirty, I just had to try it...

Next weekends updates include front lower braces, hopefully GT cam and G40 manifold if toby pulls his finger out.

Also gonna try and get it fired up, will have no exhaust on though :p

Once again its looking good dude :) I've booked the back half of this week off to start getting mine done but i still need so many bits :( Weber 40's are beginning to become a pain! haha. I also need to do far too much cleaning :p When you hoping to be on the road?

As quick as possible really.

I get one day a week on it, but everything that can wait I.e. wheels, arches, interior, ICE and paint is happening when its back on the road.

Still need to sort the engine, brakes , legal tyres and wheels and put the front of the car back on.

So tbh , not too long.

M

As quick as possible really.

I get one day a week on it, but everything that can wait I.e. wheels, arches, interior, ICE and paint is happening when its back on the road.

Still need to sort the engine, brakes , legal tyres and wheels and put the front of the car back on.

So tbh , not too long.

M

I know how that feels! if the weather is nice, I'm out climbing on that one day as well!

Not much left then :) cant wait to see this thing running dude!

Yeah, its pretty far away

Suppose it gives me time to get it done.

Any more updates mate, what will be the final engine spec, were you not going GT?

Any more updates mate, what will be the final engine spec, were you not going GT?

This is pretty much GT spec now, Fitting a 3f bottom end would be pointless just for a slight increase in C/R.

Think i might build up another engine for next year whilst this is on the road.

Need to sell the rocco to fund it though

Few pictures of this weekends work...

Boootiful!

Hope you're at least running a lower cambelt cover

Good times indeed dude :)

Boootiful!

Hope you're at least running a lower cambelt cover

Cheers Jonny boy, yeah the lower one is in place and ill probably sort out the old mh top cover, it's metal so ill no doubt polish it up. Probably do the same with the cam cover.

How you getting on with yours then

Good times indeed dude :)

Very good times.

Still have a big smile on my face.

Boootiful!

Hope you're at least running a lower cambelt cover

Cheers Jonny boy, yeah the lower one is in place and ill probably sort out the old mh top cover, it's metal so ill no doubt polish it up. Probably do the same with the cam cover.

How you getting on with yours then

Great stuff

Engines done, megasquirts done, trigger wheel, wiring loom and writing base map in progress

tha looks beastly mate, love it

No pictures on your thread so It dint happen.

You making a new thread then?

I'll update it with the new car when i've done it all :-)

tha looks beastly mate, love it

Muchas gracias,

Was going to message you about some powder coating mate.

What's the going rate?

Big enough rad ?