My Golf Project

Mr Gimp · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:55

I've been following this and think it's superb

I wish I had the time and skills necessary to sort my daily driver rotbox out!

L1J · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:12

begbo said:
OMG, I so would love a beast like that looks awsome. What power you plan to be running. Standard springs, why after so much work?

Power target is about 210 BHP with similar torque

Standard springs should deal better with our roads up here, its being built to be used. The ARB should reduce the body roll when cornering and the suspension should be able to do its primary job of absorbing bumps and keeping the wheels on the tarmac!

If I'm not happy with the setup its an easy job to change everything.

I want it to be fast, not feel fast because it has hard suspension that throws you all over the road

timbob · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:43

L1J said:
Power target is about 210 BHP with similar torque

Standard springs should deal better with our roads up here, its being built to be used. The ARB should reduce the body roll when cornering and the suspension should be able to do its primary job of absorbing bumps and keeping the wheels on the tarmac!

If I'm not happy with the setup its an easy job to change everything.

I want it to be fast, not feel fast because it has hard suspension that throws you all over the road

Excellent! Building a car to be used properly on the roads it should be used on! What's happening with the dampers, using Bilstein OEM spec ones?

Grumps82 · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:57

This is a great post. I have just found it and it is very interesting. Keep up the good work and good luck .

L1J · 27 Mar 2007 at 17:03

timbob said:
Excellent! Building a car to be used properly on the roads it should be used on! What's happening with the dampers, using Bilstein OEM spec ones?

Shocks will be Koni top adjustables, so damping should be good

Spent most of this afternoon building a relayed headlight system. The Golfs standard lighting is terrible with a volt drop of 2V from the battery to the bulb terminal. Im going to be running thicker wires to each lamp, minimising this volt drop. For reliability each lamp will get its own relay. Normally on a golf when you switch on main beam, dip switches itself off. I wanted both to stay on when main beam was selected so I'm using 4 diodes.

Started by wiring one side (dip, main beam, spotlight)

Nearly finished, needs some soldering, heat shrink and cutting the alloy plate down to finish. Black cables are supply to the relays, red are feeds to the lamps.

Close up of the relays and diodes

Sargeantpepper · 27 Mar 2007 at 17:07

Someone's got skills

Top job, well impressed

pitchfork · 27 Mar 2007 at 17:52

man i'd love to be able to do stuff like that

mick1641 · 27 Mar 2007 at 18:43

Sweet project - I've been following it since you started.

I would love to be able to do what your doing.

Keep it up.

"andy" · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:37

good to see this threads still awesome

top stuff

Psycrow · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:40

Classic thread, I just painted my brake calipers which I found hard enough! I have the up most respect for trying a project like this. You seem to know what you are doing and you dont rush into things.

Lopéz · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:54

Very neat loomage there Mr Jones. You can do one for the Supra when you get a spare 10 minutes.

djjuk · 27 Mar 2007 at 20:07

Very impressed with your work here mate!

Cracking progress

L1J · 27 Mar 2007 at 21:26

Lopéz said:
Very neat loomage there Mr Jones. You can do one for the Supra when you get a spare 10 minutes.

10 minutes

Suprise update, dont think any of you will be expecting this one tonight

It's been painted under the bonnet!

Again a HUGE thanks to Alan for the paint work.

I can start putting it all back together Thursday.

helpimcrap · 27 Mar 2007 at 21:27

yay!!!!! paint!

InvaderGIR · 27 Mar 2007 at 21:27

oooooh pretty.

InvG

Scort · 27 Mar 2007 at 21:47

A cracking project, can't wait to see the end result

Scort.

Lopéz · 27 Mar 2007 at 22:32

He's very neat isn't he? Hardly any overspray there really.

Andybtsn · 27 Mar 2007 at 22:36

Amazing project, dont suppose you'd be interested in this becoming something of an article for a mag? Nothing professional but could become so, its for my girlfriends journalism degree.

Leeum · 27 Mar 2007 at 22:54

Awesome work. The MK2 is one of the best cars ever made imo :cool:

L1J · 27 Mar 2007 at 22:58

andybtsn said:
Amazing project, dont suppose you'd be interested in this becoming something of an article for a mag? Nothing professional but could become so, its for my girlfriends journalism degree.

Send me an email with some details about what she wants etc jonesol1{at}hotmail.com

Thanks for all the support guys, it's great to see it all coming together at last