I had a g40 for a few years over 10 years ago it cost me a fortune to eep on the road and that was back then.

I have a rubber boot you can use for the boss mate

and did you get my message on instagram about the Wideband if you sell it I'm very interested

Gimmie a Whatsapp about that boot dude, I'll let you know about the wideband. Jezza seems to think the stack ones arn't up to much

New panels, going to be sorted out over the winter months for spring freshness next year.

Didn't realise how bright these are

bright like a christmas tree

Managed to scoop a facebook competition prize from here ;http://www.dirtyjoks.co.uk/

Used the Orchard Autocare Perfection product, smells awesome and produces a really good shine!

Paints all ready, just need to sort the trims the day before GTI Fest

Update;

Polo's having textured bumpers it's a nightmare to keep them looking properly black, Haslam mentioned this stuff so hopefully it lasts a while. Saying that I've only heard good things about it.

It's been a couple of months in the making but I've finally got all the pieces I needed to relocate the battery to the boot.

This is the kit car alloy battery tray which is finished in crackle black, seriously light weight and had 8 mounting points so it's fixed solid in the boot.

Used a dual 25mm connection block to join the bay wiring to the new 25mm wire I had to go the battery. Can see my brown battery tray (from the rust) which needs addressing at some point. I wrapped over the wire a few times with insulation tape to squeeze the wire into the hole I had drilled in the bulkhead, now its fixed solid so no rubbing hopefully.

I used a mega fuse holder with a 150amp fuse as this would blow before the wire would melt (200amp), bitch is that 5m of the cable just wasnt enough to route the wire round the side of the boot so at some point I'll have to extend it from the fuse terminal so it shouldn't be too messy. The battery tray came with a ratchet strap so it's held firmly down now, fingers crossed this solves a major rattle I had up front from the rusty battery tray. I did want the battery behind the passenger seat but the frames I'm using at the minute won't budge any further, at some point in the future I will fix the buckets properly and decide wether I want to move it further.

I like your tape player :p was it a tight fit?

Did you get your battery relocation as a kit? I've

Sceen the trays ect before, it's a lot of weight to be high up so your lowering your center of gravity

And putting a little weight into the light rear end :)

Nah I put the kit together myself from different suppliers, the plan was to place the battery behind the passenger seat. At the min the seat isn't fixed so its not ideal currently, when I've got my hands on the seats I want it will go there keeping the weight as low and as close to the COG as poss.

Ahh yes good idea, keep up the good work

Had a mission on tuesday through the peaks to Crewe 150 mile round trip in the G after the weekend going down to santa pod. Finally broke the 3k barrier since the rebuild. First issues appeared with the G on the way home. Speedo stopped working (dodgy cable) which had fluctuation in readings for a while so that was expected to go pop at some point, lost 1st and 2nd gear (I assumed it to be a loose gearbox mount bolt as having a subframe tends to work the bolt out) and one of the exhaust hangers snapped on the backbox. Sorted the mount issue the following day by putting a 10mm longer bolt through it, then went down to exhausts uk to sort my backbox (25 year garuntee)

They ended up doubling one mount and lowering the exhaust a bit to lose a bit of the rigidity which caused the failure. They also braced the backbox to strengthen it against flexing at the joint. More updates paydayish

So ... exhale.

This hasnt been updated since October wtf! Shit loads of bits n bobs has happened since then and I've managed to keep some pics.

Due to the impending job/house move decided after a couple of trips buckets wern't a viable option, back to the standard in my opinion;

With the need to get rid of shit for me moving away from Sheff, ended up doing a swap instead which went against the idea of selling stuff haha (cheers Martin)

Briefly took a moment to look how far I'd come in 2 years of ownership

After a trial fit I decided that seeing as I had a sunroof, I couldnt have a full cage anyway without sorting that issue or sitting the seats on the actual floorpan. So the plan was to sort out a decent half cage out,

Whilst this was happening began 40 hours of solid labour of moving and driving for 1200 miles in this beast

So now I live in Cumbria and work here

The G found its way to a new home, a little bit better than a really steep road where its had multiple gearbox and engine swaps

Old leads were looking manky on the inside so treated the G to a set of magnecores

With the Cage ready to go in it went down the other afternoon, where a nightmare went down

Hello fire and fuel lines! Good thing my fire extinguisher was to hand as my mate .Brad. put it out fairly quickly, just a bit of scorched paint and had to bridge the broken fuel lines which was very lucky really.

Turned out like this - Cheers .Brad. awesome skills man

Spotted this in Brads unit and had to have it, now got the bottle nicely in the boot!

This is currently how I'm looking, already started to re route wiring to tidy it up and I've ordered some tesa tape to re cover them too. Got some plans for before Bujam and before Action too.

It's not running properly at the min, shitting itself at 10psi so got loads of things to pick through over the next coming weeks aswell as sorting some stuff for the MOT. Worst part is the fact the pedal box (inherently a weak point on Gs) has bent and is touching the steering column, got a spare which Brad is guna stitch for me to try and prevent future failures

Till next time.

Had a fair old crack this weekend on the car, pedal box has been bent and getting worse for a while. Managed to source a used one, so had the ball ache of getting the old en off. This was the issue found with the old box;







Cracked around the spot welds, was rubbing on the steering column too which wasn't pleasant.

Used one got stitch welded around the join on one side,




Extra bracing and triangulation to stop it bending/ cracking again





Feels much better now so I can concentrate on the mods before bugjam. Its defo a job for winter sorting the full bias pedal box set up!

Cheers for the welding again Bradley!

Mot is coming up so it prompted a bit of work, well that and this.....

Happened just after a 220 mile trip so thank god i was 2 streets away from my house and I could drive in first gear there haha! Fingers crossed it was caused by the warping of the pedal box so a new cable should see the problem fixed till winter!

First job for the Mot was the handbrake/ braking system. Its been shite for a while so it needed a refurb. Driver side wasnt too bad.

Mintex shoes and new handbrake cables. Came to the passenger side, wasnt so pretty...

Clearly the cylinder is shot (hence a very spongey brake pedal and shite handbrake) . Ordered a 11mm brake pipe spanner to sort these as no where in Barrow sells it! Waiting for that to sort a new cylinder out and bleed the system.

After chucking the washer bottle in the boot, takes a while for the fluid to reach the jets. Got a tiguan 1 way valve to sort that issue

Then a school boy mod, got a section of boot to delete this properly but sorted a bung for the time being, that and swap my rear sprayed vw badge for a black plastic one.

Update soon for the front brake assembly!

Old v new

All together on the pass side

Managed to get some more new parts , Corrado 22mm master cylinder

Chucked the brake reservoir in the dish washer then assembled!

Got some new toys (H)

Been messing about with the G again today.

Old

New

Used an Ezi Bleed kit, which I might add is awesome. Looked like the fluid hadnt been changed in years

Really really nasty!

Went over a significant amount of the loom today too, included lengthening a few bits to tidy it up out the way. Tesa tape is absolutely banging, looks the business

Todays job was general tidying up, sorted the horn wiring. Found two blown fuses, stopped an oil leak at a sender then gave the old girl a full wash.

Cheers lads, MOT booked for monday. Started prodding around a few rusty holes and it got out of hand lol

1st spot

Oops!

The rest..

Plenty of late nights required this week.. ie needs to be finished thursday night! (N)

Straight 5 hour stretch tnite!

Marked out danger zones

All the shit cut out

Metal cut

Managed to do two

My appreciation for welders has gone up ten fold, I practised for about half an hour pre welding on the car and managed to find the setting I preferred. Only managed to blow a few holes but sorted em, not pretty but its solid as fuck.

Will get ground back tomorrow undersealed , high build then painted. Should manage to get to bed normal time hopefully!

Yeah , I've not enjoyed this job haha. What a ballache!!

Sorted the final two, the small one was an absolute bastard. Ran out of gas which made it difficult!!

All cleaned and undersealed,

Got the MOT monday , flew through with minors for a little bit of crumpled sill from jacking up and an oil drip.

On the way home to sheff lost all boost, got a massive blow from the turbo manifold-turbo section. Guna whip that off to check , fingers crossed its just the gasket! Polo show next week so best

Just spent the last half an hour to find this,

The old tubular - cast argument comes to mind lads!! Guna take it somewhere to get welded up prope

glad it wasn't too major of a thing to fix!

Does your down pipe have a flexi to the main system?

Yeah it does Nick, made sure of it when I had it all made. Downpipe has a bracket to the gearbox too for rigidity. Managed to get some of those higher shore engine mount bushes so hopefully that stops some of the rotation.

Managed to find some lad in Barrow to sort my manifold using a beast of a tig

He did a really good job welding from both sides!

Been a really rushed week as I'm going to the polo show on friday, sorted the manifold

All back together, had a difficulty bolting the turbo to the manifold as the welds had given less room for nuts when fully tight.

Happy I snapped these up last week, higher shore engine mount bushes and powder coated mounts

Hopefully these should minimise the engine rocking.

Also managed to put the driver sill trim back on

Might get round to chucking those mounts on and give it a wash before friday