Well I\'ve not driven the golf Last week since the meet due to having other commitments but jumped back on it on Saturday.

Picked up some banded steelies (14x8 driver steels) all with 195 45 14s on, although one had suffered a blow out so has been refitted with a new 195 45 14 yoko I had lying spare.

Tooke the fuse box apart and it was a grot fest inside. Cleaned up all the contacts as best as I could and managed to get the headlights working again via the fusebox, omitting another section of sketchy wiring added by the previous owner.

However the brakes still didn\'t work boo! I\'d already tested the switch which was working fine, and if I fed power to the black/red wire of the rear loom the brakes light came on, so it must be a dodgy internal connection of the fuse box. Just rigged up a circuit from terminal 30 on the fusebox to a fuse to the pressure switch, which then feeds into the rear loom for the brake lights.

Rich kindly donated me a later blade type fusebox and hopefully a loom and I can replace the woeful s1 boxs at the fraction of price of replacing the early fusebox.

Made up an over axle bend for the exhaust as its been half finished since I put engine in and welded a flexi into the system where then downpipe meets the centre box.

The rear system is just a straight through pipe with a bastuck style upswept tip.

Wanted to weld on hangers but ran out of gas :( however the mid box is still sitting to low despite moving it further towards the front of the car to clear the handbrake cables, so think I\'m just got to fit a straight through pipe in place of the midbox and use the midbox as the rear silencer.

Finished up this evening by sticking the wheels on, will get some more gas tomorrow and crack on with the rest of the exhaust , hangers and if I get some time, some seat frame adjustments to the new seats.

I\'ll grab some pics tomo of the new wheels in the day

But for now

Edited 6 March, 201214 yr by grungeisdead

Filthy bitch love it!

Boom! Love that

Seeing you on sunday?

ollystani, aye i might be around on sunday, but thinking of giving it a miss, got more car stuff i could be getting on with. were you still planning on a shindig at yours?

Some pics :)

Ignore the wetness, thats from my Mk3 G40, the thermostat housing is leaking so is being replaced this week.

Gorgeous! Looks awesome with the driver steels

Prob just gonna stay white dude :)

Got some more gas, replaced the centre box with straight through pipe for and used the centre box as the backbox.

Loads more ground clearance :)

Need to buy some 8mm rod to weld some hangers to the exhaust but its not going anywhere in a hurry :)

So just driving and enjoying while I give the grey g a service this week and crack on with the comet blue next week

Loving this Saf!

Wheels look bang tidy, as does the exhaust <3

i love the yellow on white combo going on here. she looks tasty

Well been an interesting couple of weeks! Bumped into the back of some bird at about 5mph, cold tyres cold brakes wet tarmac and people stopping in stupid locations led to...

So parked it up for a few days while I modified and welded up the existing subframes to mount my Koenig seats.

Took the wing out and bashed out the dent out as well as semi straightening the headlight surround, but noticed a few rusty patches at the bottom of the outer sill and some on the floor panel. Welded in some new panels in place which don't look differerent from factory despite bending thick metal ( all I had at the time ) in a vice with a hammer! Now that I'm a bit more confident with welding, I got hold a front floor panel and outer sill and will fabricate my own inner sill. Also going to remove the cage and mount it a bit more sensibly than the previous owners.

So anyway got the car back on the road, running well until my biting point of the clutch was on the floor and eventually non existent! After messing about with the cable I manned up on Saturday and whipped the clutch out, pleasantly surprised to find out there was a helix organically lined clutch on there! However that made way for a helix 4 paddle clutch and new pressure plate. Stupidly I forgot to fit my new vag clutch release bearing but its cool it. Can stay on the shelf for now!

Clutch biting point restored, which means I don't have to weld a proper repair plate in the bulkhead just yet ( bolted a repair in place for the time being )

Woke up this morning to see Yousaf wash me written in the dirt in the side of the car as I haven't washed it since I first got it, so here are the pics.

If anyone has a spare passenger headlight and a front panel the hit me up :)

She tarts up well! Nice!

shame about the bump, looking fresh though!

I've had to weld in a new repair patch for my clutch over the weekend, not a fun job!

Thought passenger a drivers headlamps were the same? I've got the old drivers side one lying around if you want it, passenger one has a hole in the glass.

You do it the engine in situ? These lil clamps should make fitting quite easy for butt welding the repair panel in.

It might be dude not sure. Youve reminded me to look for some crosshairs

I still cant come to terms with the fact you washed it

That'll be the second time in history youve done it?

Must be love <3

Yea I did with the engine in, but I removed the scuttle so I could raise the front turrets, so I could access it all relatively easily. Would be far far easier with the engine out and if you wanted to keep the scuttle though.

Heritage do crosshairs, aren't cheap mind. I did want some but went for some cheap crystals in the end.

Is that rolo's mk3 turbo in the background? thought that was dead?

Yeah :) its back!

I still cant come to terms with the fact you washed it

That'll be the second time in history youve done it?

I remember back to blacking half of a bumper on something he went to Poloshow in.... it stayed like that for weeks before my half faded down again

Fucker haha

Love it Was great to see you at the weekend bro - il see you soon

Wicked weekend at all types, what a night!

On the autojumble (I actually washed it! Albeit quickly and thanks to Matt and Kim for cleaning the wheels!)

On the return trip from Wales

Had to finish off with a pub meal

Bai bai gearbox

Spare atv being whipped out

Atv tAken out of the golf

Looks like the splines on the paddle clutch are fubarred!

I only put this on 3 thou ago, replacing the helix organic clutch and uprated pressure plate that was on because the biting point was on the floor and it wouldn't engage the clutch. Didn't check in retrospect the clutch fitted the gearbox when I fitted it. I've got another paddle and a std clutch in the unit, checked them and they are nice and snug on the spline of the box this one is not surprisingly loose as fook!

During the 3k it's always been notchy in 2nd and 4th unless a blip of the throttle on gear change. And was sounding rattly with the clutch peddle out. When I was on the clutch (foot down) it would go. I meant to change the crb when I last did it but forgot and saw the brand new VW one staring at me as I was driving out of the unit!

Going to fit the new clutch release bearing and clutch, but would you change the box too? I could always have the current box inspected now which would mean it can get a clean bill of health!

Mate that looks so good.

Is it quick?