Popular Post ranton Posted July 10, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 10, 2015 Hey guys, So I picked up this MK2 Diesel several months ago. The specs. - 3 Door, no sunroof. - 1.6 Litre Diesel manual - 240,000km on the body. - The body itself is pretty mint, but the paint is shit The existing motor is pretty well shot now. It looks as thou someone has rolled paint on the roof and bonnet at some point in its life. So the crux of this little fix up is Make her a bit tidier, faster etc. Low Milage 1.9TDI Engine from a 2003 Golf TDI 5 Speed Transmission Quaife Limited Slip Differential. Wide track suspension with 5 Stud conversion Bigger brakes Coilovers etc Work starts tomorrow. Although today I did strip the gearbox down this afternoon and install the LSD so that worked out good. The engine bay as it is currently. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted July 11, 2015 Author Share Posted July 11, 2015 Re shimmed and re assembled the transmission and did a few odd jobs on the donor engine today. 1. Clocked around the turbo for Engine mount clearance. The turbo itself is very small but it will do for now. 2. installed the rear engine mount to suit the MK2 Platform 3. Deleted EGR and started eliminating some of the unneeded functions (anti shudder valve etc) Also yesterday I got my new Brake discs back from being Slotted 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ranton Posted July 15, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 15, 2015 The new 1.9TDI Unit Injector engine. Got my discs back from being Slotted also. Today after work the front came off & the engine, subframe and suspension all came out. That was that for the night. - Next job get the new suspension up and mounted and the body rolling again. - Strip out dash and shitty factory wiring and begin the splicing and re-looming of the car. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Just a few little things after work today. Started to weed thru the Sticky cluster fuck of Modern car loom, thankfully only about 1/10th of that will remain after I am done with it Also degreased the replacement subframes and sprayed over with some engine enamel for a quick tidy up. Stripped the brakes off and dropped them in a tub of Phosphoric acid so that they can be painted tomorrow. - Also ordered my Adjustable Coil-overs today - 22mm Master Cylinder. - New headlights. - New handbrake cables. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 After a night in the Acid bath - all the crap gone, bare metal... nice! On went caliper red. Spent a hour splitting out the various parts of the loom that I will need. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted July 18, 2015 Author Share Posted July 18, 2015 Bit of Cleaning, and stripping down today. - Soaked the Engine bay with De-greaser and then pressure blasted to clean off 20+ Years of Grime and other shit. Before After - Dash board out and factory looms stripped out, for re-routing and Splicing with the new looms - Installed the new pedal box for the Hydraulic clutch setup - Finished stripping off all the factory tape and hard plastic tubing.. heres the two looms to merge. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 Bit more necessary but dumb shit today. Mounting the Electronic throttle to the Pedal box. The E-gas pedal and bracket to be. Where the pedal needs to end up. Bracket Mostly made and welded to the Pedal box. Calipers are all done in Retina burning red! Also started on making the Gearbox mount, when i say making I mean measured and cut the steel ready to draw and cut the template on to them. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 Well since my last post, I took some time off to focus on the finer things in life... aka i was busy doing other shit to spend any time on this little nugget. any who cracked back in to it the other day. this is the progression of progress since then... -------------- Assembled and installed the new sub frames, adjustable suspension, brakes etc to get the chassis rolling again... Test Fitted the newly painted wheels ta-da she rolls again (big whoop i know) now my hoist is free again. Proceeded to test fit the new heart to make sure everything clears as it should, and to help visualize where everything will live.. sits in there nicely but unfortunately the engine cover will sit to proud to allow the bonnet to close, I CBF dropping the engine down (as the sump is low as fck any way) Few changes here and there, what to do with the Oil cooler, intercooler options water to air vs air to air etc... Have started merging the looms and tidying them up in a braided type cable conduit. The engine came back out again obviously too, far easier to work with it out.. plus the bay is getting painted this week. ECU will sit nicely in the Rain Tray here. Also powered up the ECU and ripped the standard mapping off the car and have now flashed a 140hp base map and will work on adding in things like Launch control etc with the tuning software later. Quite cool what you can edit out of these ECU's Few more annoying little jobs ahead but its really not all that far away from key turn. - Installing the Pre supply pump and wiring. - installing shifter mechanisim - fabricating downpipe - sorting out cooling system etc 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 Currently pricing up a engine upgrade kit. Now would be the time to do it before I bother making custom piping etc.. The stock power of the engine is "100hp" 250nM The small hardware and software upgrade would bring around 230hp and 500nM to the table. just trying to do the numbers to see if I can make it stack up financially. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 Well its been a little while since a update, purely because of my lack of time. - Engine is back in, starts and runs too... exhaust is too quiet... despite no mufflers... lol - Cable shifter mounted - Braking system (new lines) - Fuel Pre supply pump installed - Wiring (integration) of factory EDC15 Management complete - Interior carpets pulled out and cleaned thoroughly - Central Locking installed - 2.5 inch Downpipe and Straight pipe exhaust system made. - engine bay painted - cheers tyler. Downpipe Carpets stripped out Door cards painted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 Basically whats left... - change cam-belt and waterpump - machine chamfer on to bottom pully to accessory belts can be install removed without having to lower the engine away from the chassis leg - install front mount intercooler - plumb up intercooler piping. - plumb up cooling system - bleed up brakes - make new hydraulic line for the clutch pedal. - setup coil-overs correctly. - re install dash etc. the body will stay rough for now. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 update time. final stages and probably the most annoying part plumbing up the Cooling system and the intercooler setup. Car is running driving pulling hella hard.. for a shoddy diesel runs reallly nicely i have to say 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 engine bay is about done. just need to mount steering bottle, airfilter and boost control valve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 got a refreshed look on the gauge faces drawn up. my tdi cluster went up in smoke first time i plugged it in. pissed me off as it cost me a bomb ex the UK Ebay. so have made new faces for the gauges to make the redline reflect the diesel style rev counter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ranton Posted December 20, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 20, 2015 Did a small modification yesterday ;D Click to see vid... edc15 launch control Full strip down commenced for the up and coming panel and paint glass out... doors off etc etc for a yet to be determined colour xo xo Wagengirl 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 22, 2015 Author Share Posted December 22, 2015 here is a preview of the new colour. as you can see the colour is deep in gloss and thick with attitude 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Well this happened on the 29th #allthefilters new colour to be revealed once its re assembled. I really should get round to organising a Certifier... :-/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ranton Posted January 29, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2016 well fast forward a few weeks... its mostly done.. interior is still somewhat lacking.. but fuck what ever, haven't had much time at all to make much progress. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 Mate of a mate did some pretty swaggy photos for me to. Gonna whack this up on trade me in the next week or so a well.. And a not so great photo of the custom gauge faces haha 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranton Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 Well she went pretty well at the Nightspeed drags on friday night. Consistently ran 15.5's all afternoon and night, got to the Quarters of the DYO Category, which was a heap of fun, got knocked out when she uncharacteristically pulled a 15.3 out of no where. so close to the Semi finals yet so far haha oh well.. Quite a few of the Track staff had good comments and a little laugh about the car and the windscreen banner it was wearing. I recorded one of the qualifying runs for a laugh here it is Throw back to good old Gran Turismo music. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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