Thought I may as well stick up a thread seeing as I've been on here a good while and got to know a lot of you now :-D

Here is my mk1 Golf Driver, my first car bought in 2004, and it will also be my last car I will die in this car :-D

The reason its called "The Bluesmobile" is cos it has a black and white theme going on like the Blues Brothers car, plus I love that film

There's too many pictures for me to be arsed copying all the links over from E38 so I'll just skim past the boring ones and just show the less boring ones Kind of like a timeline since I first got my hands on it. You can see it gradually become lower and lower in the pictures as the years go by and the urge to be the lowest gets worse

How it was when I bought it

Small changes

After a couple of years ended up like this

Early 2007, got hold of some new wheels off a bloke in Wales

Another few months and I decided to bite the bullet and get the welding done and a respray, so, stripped;

Early 2008, backfrom painting and built back up;

Then, after having numerous problems with the original engine, I was offered a 3F bottom end off a mate which I could mate to a Polo Coupe S head I randomly had lying around, but decided to smooth the engine bay before fitting the new engine.

Bracketry removed;

Rain tray removed;

Battery Tray;

Bitumen removal frenzy;

Got hold of an engine crane, so yanked it out;

Lovely 25 years of shit stuck to the bay

Edited 5 July, 201115 yr by Phataz1

Some bay stripping and priming

Had a guy come and weld all the necessary holes

Grinding and fillering

Photobucket is being an utter bastard right now so there might be a delay till I post up the rest

OMG that's like when a porn film stops buffering in the middle of a quickie!

Hurry up and get the rest or the pics up!

Mk1 golfs always seem to do it for me, looks like youve put a lot of work in to it as well, looks cool bud.

It's looking good man keep up the work

Edited 4 July, 201115 yr by Stevo-trendy

Hi Build primer

My mate Jimmy staring to top coat it

Looked fucking lush in the daylight Even with all the runs in the paint

Painted some shit black

Coupe S/GT engine built up and painted with 5 speed box

Battery moved to boot

BAM! In the car

Unfortunately I didn't realise the fuel pump blocked the carbs so until I bought an electric one and blanked off the original I decided to throw on a single Weber I had

Looking more like a car again;

Mid 2008 and it was back on the road

Few months later I decided to try my hand at wrapping something in carbon. Being my stupid impatient self I decided to try doing my dash rather than do something simple to start

As I'd got rid of the heater I smoothed off the heater vents on the dash, along with the glovebox

Due to impatience, lack of planning, and jumping in above my head, it turned out shit But I still fitted it anyway and it still looked shit. But at the time I thought it was good

Then went on to do the door cappings, which also turned out shit for the same reasons, but were better than the dash

Rocking it with no wipers at GTI International 2008 :-D

OMG that's like when a porn film stops buffering in the middle of a quickie!

True story haha!

And I've already seen the finished product.

Carbon stuff is immense.

Late 2008 I got hold of some new wheels off German Ebay, which finally arrived after about 4 months of thinking I'd been ripped off

8x13" and 10x13" PLS Hockenheims off an Opel Manta

Dunno how the fuck I expected them to fit

Split, polished, powdercoated, and rebuilt

Managed to convince my local tyre fitters to try and stretch some 195/45s onto them They told me to come back in a couple of hours.

Came back in a couple of hours to find...

BUZZIN.

Banged em straight on the car

Poked FAR too much, but at the time I thought it looked mint

Off they came soon after for winter 2008, replaced by chavvy 15s

Stripped down my original seats so that I could adapt the bases to fit my new buckets :-D

Swiftly after bolting them into the car, I did a silly and reversed past a lamppost with my door open I was trying to watch the kerb as I parked, and due to having no wing mirror I did it with the door open. And struggling to lean out of the car with the new body hugging seats I forgot about the door...

So a replacement door was found because the original one would no longer close

But the replacement door was also shit so I didn't bother rushing to paint it white, and it stayed that way for 2 years!

New buckets

Edited 4 July, 201115 yr by Phataz1

The Coupe S/GT engine had been smoking and throwing oil out of the breather since the day I fitted it, so it was evident that the piston rings were fucked when my mate sold it to me I'd had enough of it eventually, so I sourced another GT engine from MrP off here, and decided to finally fit the bike carbs with the manifold my mate had given me along with the engine...

So out came the shit box and in went MrPs engine

Fuel pump wired up and carbs fitted, and the engine started up. No smoke from the exhaust, no oil coming from the breather Massive thanks to MrP

Had it set up at Bogg Bros

After that it purred like a kitten and in hindsight was the best engine I've ever had

Until one day on the motorway I heard a funny noise. Pulled into a service station for a piss and when I returned to the car and turned the ignition... And nothng... The engine wouldn't turn over at all. I thought it was a flat battery, but after numerous embarrassing failed bump starts, it was clear that the engine was locked solid. I thought "That bastard MrP has sold me a shit engine thats seized" lol, and how wrong I was

Got the car towed home and took the head off for a gander...

It was then apparant that a bolt had been sucked through the carbs and locked the piston against the head! It was one of the little tiny bolts that hold the velocity stacks to the ends of the carbs. But because I only had two stacks I had removed them all and tightened the bolts back in. Even if I had been running filters this still could have happened because the bolts were located inside the carb throat Lesson learnt and the rest of the bolts removed.

For christmas I was given a MIG welder, and whilst the car was immobile I decided to get a bit of practice.

Made a lower strut brace using parts of an old one my mate gave me. They usually only fit the large block Golfs because the exhaust on the small blocks is in the way, so I made one that cleared it.

Bolted the ends of the old brace in place, and cut and shaped the new brace so it fitted tightly in place

Tacked in place and removed for welding

Then I randomly won an award for "Best Stance" at the DubClub MegaMeet in Coventry, fuck knows how as the stance was shit But the prize was £100 to spend with PureKlas, so whilst the PLSs were off the car for winter I decided to get the front dishes polished as they had become shit.

They came back mint!

Then I decided to get my carbon fibre-ing on again to make some centre caps as it looked a bit bare without any

Got some aerosol caps that fitted in the wheel centre bore

Wrapped some carbon over em and held it in place with an elastic band

Threw some resin at them

Dried, sanded, trimmed and polished

Fitted perfectly and finished off the wheels nicely

Back on the car

I decided that I no longer like he poke on the wheels so I fixed the GTI arch trims further down the arches to cover up the wheels more, and it improved it loads

To replace the bolted induced engine failure engine I sourced an ABD from a breakers in Oldham, and wang'd that in to get me mobile again.

Edited 4 July, 201115 yr by Phataz1

Couple of months later into 2009 I started to get cocky with my welder and decided to raise the front turrets on the car, partly to go lower, but mainly to stop the car crashing about over bumps, because the coilovers were sat on the bumpstops

After chatting about it with my mate, we arrived at an idea to use a turret from another mk1, and weld it on top of the existing turret, that way it'll be raised, yet original top mounts can be used. Off to Leeds to cut the turrets out of some lads mk1 he was breaking!

New turret in place

tacked

Welded

Copy and pasted onto the other side

Acheived a lovely gash whilst cleaning the welded area, from a wire knot wheel attached to a grinder. Caught my sleeve during an awkward position and ripped some skin off

Strapped that shit up with kitchen roll and duct tape and continued on my way. Couldn't let that nice person stop me finishing this

Painted

Car sat nice and low, tucking tyre

Took it for a drive and it was totally transformed! Absorbed bumps properly and the car felt more in control

Edited 4 July, 201115 yr by Phataz1

Its actually what i think it is, isnt it?

is was hoping it was piston rings with a silly name :(

Edited 4 July, 201115 yr by Polio

Absolute beast!!!

Later into 2009 after a few months enjoying the raised turrets I decided I no longer wanted so much poke on the rear, so I sourced a ream beam to narrow and replace mine with :-D

Found one

Cut off the stub axle mount

Cut away an inch of trailing arm and tacked stub axle plate back on

Welded

Due to the width of the wheels I had to notch the trailing arm to stop the inner rim rubing against it

Gave the insides of the trailing arms some bracing to stop the shape collapsing

But I was still worried about the notch I had cut out for the inner rims. After a chat with the electrician who happened to be working at my dads house at the time, he gave me an idea how to strengthen the trailing arm again

Done and painted

Look where the wheel sat with it fitted

Too much tuck! So fitted some 15mm stub axle spacers on until I could find some suitable tyres to fill that gap

Its actually what i think it is, isnt it?

is was hoping it was piston rings with a silly name :(

You caught me!

Car porn love mk1s cant decide if i like the bannded better than the alloys both look dope as fook tho top work

Took some pics with my mates missus' newly acquired standard mk1

Had to notch the drivers side chassis leg too because the increase suspension travel on the front meant the driveshaft was knocking against it

Also, the Kirket buckets were vibrating me to peices so I decided to make some damped mounts for them using a pair of old bump stops and exhaust clamps :-D

Solved the constant vibration problem, but the seats still jolt you quite bad

Edited 4 July, 201115 yr by Phataz1

New steering wheel given to me by a mate

Also, I was fed up of the constant air leaks and shite running of the engine using the carb manifold my mate gave me, so I went about adapting it to use the bike mounting rubbers

Drew up a flange

Had it cut, and welded it to the existing manifold flanges

With the rubbers bolted on

Completely solved the air leaks, and stopped the carbs falling off mid driving like what happened numerous times with the rubber hoses.

Winter 2009 and the snow arrived

i've seen this for a while on ed38 but not recently, i can remember one pic of this epic so i had it as my desktop!

alot of mk1's are too clean and too smoothed, i love how this looks

boom found it:

just to add, this is damn low.

I think I've crashed the internet with the longest forum page in history

amazing build, small block mk1s <3

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