So the Breadvan is still out cold and my mk2f wasn't up to scratch being a daily so I sold it pretty shortly after getting it as it was too much work and besides, it was ugly.

After months of looking around and becoming fed up of my lovely lady's pug 106 I stumbled across this gem.

89000 miles on the clock, one owner from new and garaged every night - as well as having some nice 80's fitting extras, such as chrome strips on the bumpers, windows (faded unfortunately), adjustable mirrors, rear headrests and cassette holders in the centre console.

A very happy purchase for a sweet £600.

Paintwork is lovely and clean throughout, little to no scratches on most panels and overall very well preserved.

Because of how remarkably clean this car is, the only planned modifications will be clean and tasteful.

Plans:

Exterior

- Lower a comfortable 60/40

- VW hockenhiem wheels

- GT/S front splitter

- 2.5" straight cut exhaust tip

Engine

- 1.4 ABD

- Sorg airbox if possible

- Newman 262 camshaft

- Twin 40 Weber/Dellortos

- 4-2-1 mani

- Full stainless 2.5" exhaust system with nice burbly back box

- GT or G40 box

- Polished rocker cover √

Handling

- ARB blocks

- Poly bushings √

- Poly engine mounts

- maybe a stage 3 subframe.

- maybe GT rear axle.

- upgraded brakes

I will get more pictures of the stunning interior at some point :)

Edited 17 October, 201312 yr by samwii

as always the first thing first is a good polish.

Engine bay turned out lovely:

after giving it a good wash I found the radiator has a slight leak, will investigate over the weekend but for the time being will just be sure to carry a big bottle of water.

So first priorities:

- fix the leak

- replace chrome strips around the window seals

- respray badges silver

- replace boot lock rubber

nice - have fun.

After a long-ish drive home from Thorpe Park engine loses power and backfires causing a fist size hole in the backbox. Sounds fantastic although I should probably change it at some point. The radiator has been swapped for the one out the breadvan, and I've stuck some redex in the fuel tank to hopefully help it out.

Looking at something along the lines of this:

Hopefully looking at some wheels by the end of this week if they sell in my price range.

Got bored, decided to do stuff.

Wheels from Budapest and some other shizzle I intend to put on.

some purdy tyres turned up

Fitted, will be going low soon enough

some four pots to go on

256x20mm Black Diamond discs with Yellowstuff pads for the fourpots, hopefully getting some passat 200mm drums at the back

Arse end (chunky monkey!)

and finally some fun with cones. How about that for the first update in a year.

nice car man! Are the brakes a straight swap on to the standard carriers or do they need adapters made up?

Cheers dude, I've got a couple of sets of adaptors to go with the calipers, they're second hand so I cant say if they were bought that way or machined down to size, I'll take a closer look and see if it's obvious. Discs are from a lupo and are all the same dimensions hub and centre bore etc bar the width and diameter of the disc itself

Edited 16 July, 201412 yr by samwii

Hmm very nice. Cant wait to see pictures of these on the car, would probably have to look into doing something similar with mine.

Not really got much on the go however slowly been building up a nice collection.

Cleaned up and built my suspension with the 4 pots. required 15mm spacers to allow clearance for the wheels, so unfortunately they wont tuck meaning wider arches, however are looking the bollocks -

Also bought some double valve springs (however no longer need them, more on that in a bit) which has left my interior with a nice lil german sticker from a company I've never heard of lol, as well as finally putting in a new head unit and nicer Edge rear speakers, but with the original speaker covers siliconed on for the original look (nice momo steering wheel too)

Bought some CBR600 carbs and some cone filters (I still need to mount up), and a lovely manifold made up

More importantly though, I've bought a new engine I'm collecting next weekend from mattieboi6n with the following spec:

-1.4 ABD bottom end

- Ported Polished GT head

- 272 Cam

- Vernier pulley (I believe)

- GT gearbox

- Double valve springs

- lightened flywheel

However I'm going to be rebuilding it with a knife edged crank I've already purchased, with some titanium double valve springs and retainers for good measure. Probably will be a couple of months of not much happening as I will save to get my insurance for this engine before anything else, ideally I want it in christmas time.

For now though just enjoying keeping her clean

So I've been working on this for a bit now, I unfortunately blew her up in November, and have since been slowly but surely making her a fair bit more exciting.

Having been hoarding parts for a good two years I felt it was finally time to crack on. this is what I've been up to.

4 Pot calipers on larger 256 x 20 mm Black Diamond Discs with EBC yellowstuff pads, cleaned up and resprayed with Galvanise effect paint, on budget coileys with 15mm spacers up front.

CBR 600 Carbs with some cheapo Chinese cone filters for good measure, on a mild steel manifold with 90mm runners;

Picked up a engine which damn near fitted my specification from Mattiboi6n;

1.4 ABD bottom end,

1.3 GT head,

272 Newmann camshaft,

double valve springs

took the popped 1.3 out of the loon

and started to get to work on stripping and rebuilding the engine to how I wanted it, including a knife edged and balanced crank

I started to add a bit of flavour, perhaps a little bit lairy but it's for an idea I've had in mind

Popped the engine back into place

and starting fitting the suspension parts and wheels

I've always loved race cars, however I like subtlety, so to keep the car race pedigree I painted the inside of my tyres...

Which I think is pretty mean. I only painted the 'Toyo' and 'proxes' in white on the outer sidewalls as I don't want it to be over the top.

I've made my own exhaust using 2" tubing and a heat wrapped 4-2-1 manifold. The exit is a 3" megaphone for a cafe racer motorbike. This is how it looks:

and that is all! So I've been a busy bunny, she's booked in with Austec Racing on the 6th of march for her initial fire up and tune! Videos shall be posted as and when :)

Awesome, nice to see a conversion that isn't 16v

Awesome, nice to see a conversion that isn't 16v

Yeah man, I didn't want a 16 valve because I think that it looks a bit too obvious if that makes sense, where's I wanted to make it look 'suped up' rather than 'swapped'... kinda doesn't make sense but it does in my mind haha. Hot rod is what I'm going for I suppose.

anyways; I test fitted the exhaust and.. well it didn't fit. So today has been getting sun burnt with welding and completely redoing the lot. fits snug now and the 3" exit looks mean in my opinion

So as always things get held up because fuckups occur - was close to completion but like a dick I put the gearbox oil in the inspection hole, so new clutch was needed, whipped the engine out, put the new one in - now booked for the 13th april. bummer.

either way though, it's given me time to leisurely crack on.

wrapped the exhaust and more tyre paint

sits lovely

badges back on with my ironcross volkswagen badge

original idea for the engine bay

and how it's looking (all hosed up now mind you) - also waiting on a pipercross px600 airbox which is leading to a NACA vent on the bonnet

cheeky bit of camber up front

bought the uprated headlight loom with Osram Nightbreakers from James125 (rayne automotive) and it's fucking brilliant

dipped

Full

She starts! tune up on monday to get her running sweet and smooth and roadworthy

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1552068818388585&l=4876824932241865607

So the car's now roadworthy, I took her to the dyno however she's still not making the power I'm hoping for - around 65 at the wheels - should be more like 85/90 I would have thought.

The AFR was too lean though on wide open throttle and changing the jets from 150 to 165 made very little difference to the AFR - so it was suspected to be an airleak somewhere.

in the mean time though I purchased an AFR gauge and better clips to secure the carbs. The AFR gauge is reading 14.7/14.8 now, however I can't tell if this is a difference in instruments or if securing the carbs with better clips has fixed a leak - to give you an idea, they were falling off when I went over a big enough bump!

It does feel a little more punchy now it's reading 14.7/14.8 however I understand really you should be in low 14's to be making power - so I have purchased a stage two carb kit from DynoJet, with adjustable needles, stiffer springs and the likes - hopefully allowing me to richen it up the necessary amount.

In the mean time, I've been enjoying driving her again - however the wheel suspension setup is pretty harsh and proving to be incredibly twitchy. The brakes are great but she's a little bit too keen to turn, and with the road conditions near me it's less than ideal.

Also, I've mounted a NACA duct in the bonnet so I can have Ram Air some point down the line, however since she's running lean as it is at them moment I have it disconnected.

SO that's where I am at. Awaiting the stage 2 kit to proceed, plus bought an ally header and radiator to help keep things cool.

How have I only just seen this thread!!

That looks sooo cool! :)

Damn, boy!

thats a really poor bhp for the work done, should be alot higher. lookforward to seeing what it can do once adjusted. top build by the way

65bhp equates to about 85 at the flywheel?? So I would have thought it should be 100-110bhp at the fly.

This might sound daft but is the throttle being opened fully when you put the pedal to the floor?

thats a really poor bhp for the work done, should be alot higher. lookforward to seeing what it can do once adjusted. top build by the way

That's exactly what I have thought - I have been hoping to get around 130bhp at the fly which I guess is around 100 or so at the wheels - few bits on their way which will hopefully sort this issue out. Thanks though man.

65bhp equates to about 85 at the flywheel?? So I would have thought it should be 100-110bhp at the fly.

This might sound daft but is the throttle being opened fully when you put the pedal to the floor?

I must admit - I don't know if it is or not.

I've used the same method of attaching the cable to the pedal and carbs as other's on the forum so I don't see why I wouldn't be - I'd have to figure out a way of seeing if it is or not; perhaps remove the carb and see where abouts the cable ends up in relation to full throttle and then test it on the car.

It currently doesn't have the Vernier Pulley attached so the timing isn't spot on however I doubt that would make such a big difference.

Either way, there's a bit of jiggery pokery to do as she's certainly not running to her full potential, and I'm very much looking forward to when she is

You can do it on the car it's how I did mine. Get someone to put the pedal to the floor and then see if you can turn the throttle wheel any further with your finger. If Its happened to a few people :)

So I have a week off and decided to get on with some bits - finally decided to sort out my cooling and hoses - I've spent the last 1000 miles driving with the header tank just kinda sitting nestled in the engine bay not attached to anything. Also bought myself a nice shiny radiator (50mm core I believe) which needed some brackets made up to mount. My fabricating skills aren't exactly top notch however it is nice and secure.

nice new header tank

old vs. new

mocking up the location

all mounted and hosed up

another angle - just have to mount the coil a little bit further back in the bay and it's all good. also made a hose to go to the NACA duct in the bonnet for fresh air

bought this gem from germany:

and on the car mocked up:

so on my to do list for the remainder of my holiday:

- replace front wheel bearing

- mount kamie splitter

- wire up rev counter

- wire up rev limiter

- get the carbs running right

how much for the kamei splitter if you don't mind me asking? do you have plans for a full kit?

€160 posted - bit pricey but being in unused condition I thought it was justifiable - I'd like to at least get the skirts, been sketching up ideas for the back end :)

€160 posted - bit pricey but being in unused condition I thought it was justifiable - I'd like to at least get the skirts, been sketching up ideas for the back end :)

Will everything be colour coded with the kit or staying black?