got some recaros today yummmmm, got either bucket seat subframes or 2 spare seats in my garden i can rob subframes from.

anyone got any idea what car they could have come out off?

also the proper ball joints have arrived, hurrah

MK1 astra or mk2 cav me thinks .....good to see carbs there N/A FTW

good to see carbs there N/A FTW

too fooking right borticus!

boooooo today has been a good and bad day,

got the passenger side brakes and wishbones off, got the new wishbone fitted and got the 270mm brakes and braided hoses hooked up on that side,

got round to doing the drivers side, got the old wishbone off and brakes off, fitted the new wishbone but went to tighten up the front wishbone nut (where the strut brace would attach but the bolt wouldnt tighten up for love nor money!

so whipped off the new wishbone to ensure that the bolt was actually screwing into the chassis (as it just bolt sits in the bush and tightens up into the chassis) but low and behold its not!

so I'm kinda stuck, pissed off and knackered!

i may attempt it one day this week but I'm not really sure of what can actually be done, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! could this be the end of the muppet?! i sincerely hope not!

wicked mate, i have used matlab before, we had to create a back-propagation network to automatically classify loan applications for a german bank, that gave me enough of the backgruond knowledge to tackle the problem of adapting the matlab implementation to a java implementation and then actually getting the robot to do something with it.

what year are you in mate? I'm in my final year of artificial intelligence and cybernetics, its been a good laugh, not done nearly as much work as i should had done but I've been lucky with firsts in all but one bit of coursework (that i only got 40 for) but fook it a pass is a pass :)

Thats some good shit man ! I reken u gonna get a 1st for you are degree man! yeah matlab can do anything u want! been using it for 4 years now and still suprises me with its shit!

well i graduated in my under grad degree last july, so I'm doing this masters now, its a full september till september course........I'm thinking to do a phd lol ....just to stay at uni longer !!! lol !

yeah man pass is a pass.....thats what i was like when it came to engineering maths lol its a killer!!

our engineering dept is closely related to informatics and cybernetics had a few modules with em for my undergrad....its all good :-D

aye do the phd lad, quite of few of my mates are staying at the uni to teach, jokers, i cant wait to get out bum around for the summer and then get a job. matlab is tech and took me ages to get my head around it but its pretty sweet, i program in prolog alot too for uni and we've done some smart stuff with that but theres no real world uses in this day and age so its pretty pointless but still all helps i spose

and good news about the car, ill just get a tap set and sort it out, mosey on down to the motorfactors tomorrow i think

also managed to get a brand new golf mk4 lucas caliper for 25 quid

can afford to get the other side new from gsf for like 50 quid, since everywher was asking 50-60 quid for 4-5 year old calipers

Edited 12 April, 200818 yr by grungeisdead

And the collection grows

Shame about the holy situation atleast you can sort it though :-D

And lmao, that calipay looks like the terminators hand not suprising if it is with all your robot business going on

LOL i was watching robocop 3 earlier too cheesecake at its best boyo!

CHEESE - CAKE?!! cake and cheese?!

Not in my life

aye do the phd lad, quite of few of my mates are staying at the uni to teach, jokers, i cant wait to get out bum around for the summer and then get a job. matlab is tech and took me ages to get my head around it but its pretty sweet, i program in prolog alot too for uni and we've done some smart stuff with that but theres no real world uses in this day and age so its pretty pointless but still all helps i spose

and good news about the car, ill just get a tap set and sort it out, mosey on down to the motorfactors tomorrow i think

also managed to get a brand new golf mk4 lucas caliper for 25 quid

can afford to get the other side new from gsf for like 50 quid, since everywher was asking 50-60 quid for 4-5 year old calipers

hehehe yeah matlab is a bit funky to get you are head round but once u do its all good. never head of prolog but sounds interesting. yeah i no what u mean about getting out iv got to that stage too lol so after masters i wanna chill, me and old man are planning on driving to kenya lol !

anyway you are project looks da bomb ! hope u get the bolt situation sorted !

and LOL at the terminator hand !!

Edited 13 April, 200818 yr by phatali

And the collection grows

Shame about the holy situation atleast you can sort it though :-D

And lmao, that calipay looks like the terminators hand not suprising if it is with all your robot business going on

hahahahahahahahahahhahaha I nearly SOILED myself (alan partridge stylee) hahaha

got a tap and die set this morning and managed to sort the wishbone thread out woohoo!

so got the wishbone and carrier on, and tie rod and hub attached

disc and caliper attached

needed 3mm spacers to clear the calipay but job done, centre caps in the house

then decided to strip all the gear linkages

cleaned them up with de-gunk and a wire drill

painting them up

once theyve had a few coats ill re-fit it all with new bushes and the short shift kit

Loving your enthusiasm with the muppet dude loads of progress in a short time

Sal thanks for that GROSS mental picture

Watch this Walsh and you'll see what i mean haha

Edited 14 April, 200818 yr by DubLass

got the shift rod linkages all painted up and sorted, just awaiting a goodie pack from missing linkz with a teflon accelerator pedal push, shift rod bush, headlight wiring relay and weighted shift rod that just takes the place

Shift rod linkages painted, all new bushes and tsr linkage

The top golden bar is being replaced with a weighted shift rod from missing linkz, also coming is a teflon shift rod bush and accelerator pedal bushing, and an uprated headlight wiring loom.

some shiney bits - top radiator cover, coil cover and brand new fuel pump (it wont be used on the engine but will just look nice and shiney on the block)

Some odds n sods, service related parts (all new bar the leads - coil, 22.2 passat mc, sparks, gaskets, tie rod ends and belts)

new water pump and 90a alternator (needs cleaning up)

Stuff to do

Stuft to get - Pre MOT

* Backbox

Brakes - Pre MOT

* Enlarge Bulkhead Hole

* Fit 22.2mm Master Cylinder

* Plumb Brake lines and brake switch

* Bleed Brakes

Other Pre MOT Jobs to fit

* Refit Gearlinkage

* Fit Coil/Sparks/Belts/Leads

* Plug Expansion Tank Hole

* Fit Facet Pump & Filter

* Fit new mech pump and block off outlets

* Fit Inlet Manifold

* Fit Carbs

* Plumb fuel lines

* Fit throttle linkages

* Mount Oil Cooler

* Change Oil

* Fit Front Splitter

turns out the new master cylinder isnt really suitable for my application and without a servo will make it harder to stamp on the brakes so teh std one just went back on.

re-fitted the gear linkage, but its super stiff now, too stiff for my liking, its coming off again, gotta do a few tweeks and rebuild teh shifter base and drill out the rivits that hold the shift rod bush in place

fitted new sparks, leads, dizzy cap, rotor arm, clutch cable, and chucked 3 litres of fresh oil in there (previously put half a litre in the new filter when that was fitted and drained the oil the other day

chopped down some manifold studs to mount the inlet manifold but two were bent and by that time i was bored so gonna chop some more up and test fit on the head in the house and have the carbs on for tuesday/wednesday. need to get some aluminium sheeting cos i want to make a bracket mounts the bulkhead where the coil resides to mount the pump/reg and coil

and the recaros came, subframes are gettin welded in the next week or so, gotta pass them on to a mate

got pally with mr hacksaw again today and cut down some more manifold bolts that werent bent this time fookers

bolted it up to the head in the house to check it all fitted ok, jobs a good un

you can just see to the right that I've blocked off the vacuum take off, ill be pluggin two vacuum lines into this for the vacuum guage in the car and one to the dizzy

stuck the carbs on so i could get the fuel lines measured up, the one of the left is a bit short so ill be sorting that oot.

spent a while working out where i wanted to mount the filter king for neatness of the plumbing in the bay and noticed too coincedentally placed holes, so ill be cutting the mounting plate that came with it and drilling some new holes in it to mount it to the carb, should look pretty cool when its all fitted.

means i can also retain the original coils placement and just mount the fuel pump on the bulkhead next to it.

when i get round to doing the bay I'm either going to chop out the rain tray completely or thinking of louvering the panel so its open in front of the carbs, and incorate vents in the sides of the wings to vent air into the rain tray and into the path of the carbs. not sure out much air would be sucked in from the vents being placed so far up the wing (right next to the doors/windscreen) but will be interesting anyway if i do it

got my angle grinder today happy days

first to get chopped up was the throttle pedal for fit the 2-1 adaptor

sytec one fitted, got a weber one coming instead cos it uses grub screws instead of this one which i think uses the solderless nipples but either way its shite

broom broooom

drilled out the rivits for the shift rod bush

painted up the new rear ally caliper i got

whipped some bits off beena and painted them up, rear wishbone mounts with arb brackets and the rear arb and all those brackets

few bits to fit tomorrow :-

refit all the gear linkage

plug expansion tank hole

fit uprated wiring loom and smoked indis

also gotta get angle grinder happy on the short shift adaptor to shave a few mm off the edges to clear the block.

got a sheet of metal to make a bracket for the throttle cable holders, will cut that out tomorrow and drill holes for the throttle cable adjusters.

might mount the filter king and pump if i get round to it.

ordered a few more bits to finish the carb assembly, alot more bits were needed than i first anticipated but better doing it all now that fannying around later.

anyway quick list of those bits

fuel pump inertia switch

weber pedal block

heatwrap and stainless ties

2ms of overbraided fuel lines

and need to find a relay in the house to wire up the pump from the igntion, big thanks for mk1nath on the mk1 owners club for loads of advice and pictures and stuff while I've been gettin me head round this all.

woohoo

PGR4 in the Recaros FTW!

Can't believe the amount of work thats gone into this, and you still say there's more to do

Keep it up dude

looking amazing safmeister

A man seriously on a mission !

Cant believe you wrote your disitation over the past few weeks aswell .

You my friend are a legand !

great thred geeeza

liking all the progress pics....my kinda thred!!

twas raining on and off today but got a fair few odds n sods done

made up the bracket for the throttle cables and had to file a wee bit of the throttle cable hole so it fitted properly

you can just see it fitted in the far left

oil cooler fitted and a few wires tidied out the way, fitted the headlight loom

fitted the front wishbone mounts from the gti for the arb mounts, refitted the gearlinkage and shift rod bush housing, cleaned up and flushed rad, fitted new lower hose as the old one was cracked and blocked off the expansion tank hole

oh also fitted smoked indis

tomorrow i gotta

set the shift finger stop gap and fit weighted shift rod

wrap the 4 branch in heatwrap

fit pump, reg, relay and then get the inlet manifold and carbs on if all goes well

oh and chin splitter woot

still waiting on an inertia switch which should be here tomorrow hopefully.

PGR4 in the Recaros FTW!

Can't believe the amount of work thats gone into this, and you still say there's more to do

Keep it up dude

hahaha trying to drive a w12-650 round the ring no chance hahahahha, cheers karlita, it shall meet the M.R.S. sooon

looking amazing safmeister

cheers Gaz w00t

A man seriously on a mission !

Cant believe you wrote your disitation over the past few weeks aswell .

You my friend are a legand !

i iz going to space and beyond :-/ hhahahaha safe as furks stavs

great thred geeeza

liking all the progress pics....my kinda thred!!

hahaha safe as fuck my brother in name hahaaha

Edited 24 April, 200818 yr by grungeisdead

nice golf indeed safington, keep up the great work. so much gone into this yet u still have more to do! AMAZING! good luck with it

cheers homeslice

is there really much more to take apart n rebuild

FFBM

Ooooh getting close to bringing it to life :-D

We`ll have to go for a FFB drive M (see what i did there ) when nana loon is working :-D i`ll take you on my getway mooch

is there really much more to take apart n rebuild

FFBM

shoooooshmealsonwheelsdubgt

Ooooh getting close to bringing it to life :-D

We`ll have to go for a FFB drive M (see what i did there ) when nana loon is working :-D i`ll take you on my getway mooch

hahahahah too fookin right, we can attempt to drive over to a leeds meet over the hills and make it further than frankie and bennys :p