my new project.....mk1 Golf Driver

where did u find that? when u were fishing??? looks like its covered in pond slime! good luck,with u n ure bro on it,it shouldnt take long to get it sorted!

Flippin' heck Paul! Lol!

been sat in a field for around 5 years

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update.......got quite a bit of the muck off it, but it got dark and i could'nt see the bits i'd missed

made a start jet-washing the wheel wells tonight.......no were near as much mud in them as i was expecting

only got the drivers side wells done tonight










got the dash & soundproofing out



custom lightweight doorcards to come.......passenger side card is still on cos i can't get the winder off, will have to drill the top of the screw off



lights off for cleaning

i forgot about the work our Matt did on the car for me last night

he made up a lockset for me.......1 key fits all

he dug through all the bits we have at my house, found a lot of the bits we will need

& he found/fitted a good set of front door window rubbers

carry on at this rate bud, you'll have it finished this time next week!!

beese wrote:

carry on at this rate bud, you'll have it finished this time next week!!

getting a shift on before the weather turns

then got onto the engine bay.....only had time to pull the motor out

Personally, it looks fooked and only worthy of breaking but big respect for taking the resto on and saving the old girl.
Keep up the hard work mate

caddyrage wrote:

Personally, it looks fooked and only worthy of breaking but big respect for taking the resto on and saving the old girl.
Keep up the hard work mate

only taking it on cos our Matt does paint and bodywork for a living.....and he's willing to do it

if i had to get a paint/bodyshop to do the work it would'nt be worth doing

the main mk1 Golf problem area's are OK..........once the hole in the sill and the rear arches are repaired it will start looking something like

it was pointless me finding a complete, taxed, MOT'ed car cos i'm changing nearly everything in the car

the only thing thats staying is the colour

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i'd deserve a slap if i converted a standard, good condition mk1 Driver to a trackday car

no pic's from today..........been round scrapyard looking for suitable airbox's and washer bottles.......could'nt find anything of any use

the airbox from a Polo GT doesn't fit between the inner wing & cambelt cover..........& any airbox i fit needs to be were the current washer bottle is

then we got on with stripping a mk3 Polo our Matt has at his unit that we're using as a donor for some of the fuel injection & wiring parts, also using the engine/interior from this car to put my Orange Polo back to standard so i can sell it to fund this project

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the plan we had for converting the car to fuel injection was to chop a Polo GT engine bay wiring loom down to just the bits needed for the engine & then splice this into the current mk1 Golf loom

Today we desided not to do this.........

we thought it would be easier to fit a full wiring loom & fusebox from a mk3 Polo

but Matt was talking to our mate Spen tonight and he's recomended we fit a mk2 Polo interior loom & fusebox with a mk3 GT engine bay loom

This way all the mk1 Golf dash switches & stalks will work (with the mk2 Polo wiring)

so our Matt's off to scrapyard in the morning to get the bit's we need off a squareback mk2 Polo thats in there

"your" matt's a fooking legend!

What you done eith the old engine outta the 1.4 GT square BTW paul?

Jon wrote:

"your" matt's a fooking legend!

yer he is

Jon wrote:

What you done eith the old engine outta the 1.4 GT square BTW paul?

it's going in this gold Driver

OMG you have dont a shit loads of work in such little time.
I cant wait to see it this time next week i bet it will be ready for its MOT

Look like it survive quite well despite lying in a field. Making some nice progress there mate!

wow it looks loads better i dont suppose your matt fancies doing some filling and spraying on my mk3 golf i has a few rust patches which i would like sorting out and spraying if you could have a word with him or summets cheers

Bloody hell you and Matt don't mess around lol! It will be finished soon at this rate!

Damn u have some serious shine comin there now man i wish mine was that clean:(

is Matt sorting the rust and painting it?

that colours gonna look well nice!

any ideas on wheels yet??

Jon wrote:

is Matt sorting the rust and painting it?

yup......just doing the minimum needed til summer 08, then its full respray time (in the same colour)

sorry for taking ages to reply