Carsnz123
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I thought I might be able to get a bit more power out of a boosted 1.6 over the 1.3. also if anything goes pear shaped ill still have a motor to bolt back in. I wonder if the little 190mm clutch will handle 160+hp.
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Whats the company you work for?
Do you know what grade of cast iron they used?
I work for the Bentley service agent in Ashburton. Not sure about the grade of iron. One of the guys was telling me the cast iron produced today is different to the stuff used back in the 20s and 30s. you might want to find out what Bugatti were using back in the day and compare it to your local foundry. It will be a shit of a job if you have to put hardened valve seats in.
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Awesome project. going to be keeping an eye on this. The company I work for built a couple of 4 1/2 liter Bentley engines from scratch before i started there. Its interesting to see the process of recreating the parts. You want to be sure the grade of cast iron is up to scratch as you'll run into valve recession problems if its a little soft.
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I was thinking of finding a 1.6 out of a polo and slapping an SC14 supercharger on it. Everyone has 1.8Ts so i'm going to be a difficult bastard and be different. massive turbo does sound tempting though.....
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Another Mk2 3 door came up for sale in Nelson with straight(ish) panles and as every panel on mine is dented I jumped at it. It was a wreck, 1.6 diesel manual with a run big end. A few bits had already been taken including the trans and front guards dammit. My brother and I went for a road trip with the car trailer to get it. There was a few unexpected goodies in the diesel including factory central locking, powersteering and A/C. Those might make it into the 1.3.At some stage a resonator had been added to the exhaust system but the car still sounded weak so in the spirit of stupidity the back half of the exhaust and the muffler were cut off and replaced with 2” pipe. Now it sounds good.
The interior gutting continued with nasty carpet lifting which revealed damp and mouldy sound proofing. All of which was promptly put in the bin cause weight reduction bro.-
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The front struts were shot, there were no exterior door handles and the only key I had was for the ignition. There is a fantastic website https://www.vwheritage.com/ which sells genuin and repro parts for old vdubs at very reasonable prices. So new front struts, locks and door handles came from the UK.
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“I have no idea why why i'm doing this, it was a good idea at the time.” The story of this project begins with a little 1.3 Mk2 golf 3 door with a 4 speed manual delivered to MR J.G. Morton of London on the 4th of April 1984. The car was then imported into New Zealand in 1987 with 23000 miles on the clock. It enjoyed regular servicing and maintenance right up until a couple of years ago when someone decided the car was totally worthless and used it as a piss wagon. They drove it up a beach path and into a tree. It was green stickered, dereged and stuck on facebook for $300 which is where I come into the picture. I bought it to nab the trans and make an auto 1800 Mk2 golf a manual. When it was bought home we had a good look and realised the engine blocks were different. Wrong box...shit. A few bits were taken off it to make the auto pass a warrant and the little 1.3 was parked at mums and forgotten about for six months.Now I want to get it on the road. So, are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then we shall begin.First step was to clean the inside of the car out as it was foul. I picked up The seats and door cards out of a GTI off trademe so that saves me getting the originals fixed but the rest of the interior still needes work. Ill get to that later.
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Bit of an old photo, Saw this Century in Ashburton a couple months back. Its a hearse.
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people on dirty south be like: ran when parked, not been sitting long, needs a little tlc to go mint, perfect project car.
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Name: William
Location: Ashburton
Cars/Bike You Own: 1984 Volkswagen golf 3 door
1925 Chrysler 70
1986 Honda Rebel 450
Mods: The Chrysler is going to be a boat-tail speedster with an underslung rear axle and a 1955 Dodge truck flathead six. The golf is a hot daily build under construction, Bike has loud pipes, lower handle bars and a compression bump up.
How you found out about oldschool: Saw a meetup on Facebook
Anything else you want to add: I have lots of Grand (pronounced "silly") ideas but not enough money to do them and JustHarry's Older Brother
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Bugatti T57/59 engine
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Everything was new except the magnetos and their mounts. As far as I'm aware a number of blocks, crankcases and crankshafts have been made but only one complete engine has been produced.