mk1 golf 1.1c, now with added ALT 2.0 20v on 48's!

Some good work going on there!.

 

Loving this thread. It's refreshing to see someone taking a different route!

 

Cool thread, was the accident at flyover near ripple road? Shame about what happened to the wheels!!

 

I have a set of gixxer tapered throttle bodies, 42mm at the smallest point from my old ABF. pm me if they are of any use

 

yeah exactly there. wouldn't recommend old mag wheels to anyone after seeing how they failed

 

thanks, i'm after something a little bigger, hopefully going to 45's

*might* be reverting back to a 16v head (FSI) if i can find one cheap enough, i work with Toyotec on here and he's fairly knowledgeable on the subject and highly recommends doing it!

 

there's a set of e36 m3 throttlebodies on ebay today, look like they are paired like webers, they were 180 the lot earlier

 

thanks Prof, they are definitely a nice looking body, any idea on the dimensions?

long way off the intake side of things at the minute, trying not to hoard bits unless they come at a good price

 

UPDATES

decided that in order to make the front panel truely detachable i'd need a radiator and oil cooler support panel. so i went to work and made just that. came in handy when making the custom headlight bowls needed for the westmoreland grill....

had a new radiator made up by a friend to the spec i wanted. after trying to find something similar dimension wise and coming unstuck. was 200 with a fan in the end and the quality is excellent






found a GTi box crate westmoreland grill too!

 

PTII
first things first, i've decided i really really really miss the sound of carbs, and the power delivery, and the smell of bad fuel mixture, so i bought a set of 48's, you can actually get an off the shelf big port 20v to DCOE manifold from a company called Rowland in South Africa, quite cheap too! so yeah, that's the intention now, alongside ignition only management and keeping the coil on plug



another thing that i've thought of is that with everything mounted to the new front frame there's very little reason to keep the slam panel, so i've got rid of that to open things up a bit for the air intake etc



intention is to run bonnet pins, and i've got a few ideas for mounting the grill and airbox but that will come later



moving round to the back i was unhappy with how i'd filled in the boot floor (call it a learning curve i guess) and figured it'd be better to just go completely flat, much simpler and far less fussy

so out with the old



and using my new sheet roller, in with the new




happy with that, specially as a first attempt at sheet metal rolling anyway

talking about first attempts, i've been putting in quite a bit of aluminium welding practise lately, and figured it was about time i dare step up and actually utilise some of the things i'd learnt myself, i reshaped the intake and outlet on the radiator to suit the routing of my hoses a little better, it's not the neatest bit of welding but it's a start, for that i can only apologise,

started off with a bit of measuring,



then a bit of cutting and beading



then put the torch to it and joined everything together



bottom one was a bit more tricky as it needed to go through a couple of turns, but will do the trick!



all fitted up to the car -





one last thing i did manage to fit in is finishing off the brake linkage, as i'm keeping the servo in the stock location the linkage needed a bit of beefing up

 

Nice work. There is loads of mileage on detachable front grilles/slam panels to be had - mine is part detachable - and making the headlamp holders has just expanded the potential

 

Thanks Chris,

feel free to put some pics of other people's versions if you have any

next on the list is all the lines for vacuum, oil, fuel and brakes, i've been looking at a lot of airride installs lately and some of the ideas translate neatly into the engine bay, i've bought some fancy bending and flaring equipment and the intention is to create everything from stainless or aluminum tubing with appropriate flex sections where necessary

 

This is my version here - a link rather than OT your thread

Essentially trying to get what the Mk2 onward -> has on a Mk1

 

excellent

the entire front panel is bolted on (see page 1) and i don't intend to run a slam panel at all, as the steel frame will support everything and take up less space, which will become more useful as the area around the front of the engine fills up! a large section is going to become an alloy airbox to feed the carbs, which can run all the way to the grill and have a neat section that meets the bonnet

 

My apologies, i didn't actually include pics of the detachable lower half!

 

small update as i've been busy moving house, talking of which, moving cars too, the golf is tucked away in another new home




the next big project to undertake is to take my hand to exhaust manifold design, so armed with the knowledge i picked up from a Philip Hubert Smith book, i bought some prototyping equipment and a bit of software -





the prototyping kit i picked up when i was in detroit last month, it's essentially lego for exhaust manifolds, each section has a CLR and diameter, and markings on the parts to let you know how the alignment angle between each section, alongside that the kit comes with clamps to aid tack welding each section and a jig to allow for accurate cutting on the bandsaw to the correct angle. also connectors to tie into pipework, so you can make a hybrid as you're going along



i'll put up a post later with the output information from the software, but essentially i'll be building a 4 to 1 manifold and keeping it relatively short, and of course equal length, i've gone through a couple of designs, but keeping the stock brake location meant i lost some package space, i kept it simple to begin with and came up with this design -



although it looks relatively straight forward, getting the primaries to collect into one stock location that kept them short was impossible, so i moved onto the next design



still coming a little too close to everything i scrapped off the simple approach, inspired with pictures of stuff i'd seen on the internet i managed to squeeze it all in real close and get each branch equal, and kept the package space to a minimum. excellent!



only problem i have with this now is the collector will be sitting quite far towards the gearbox end of the engine and there might be difficulty fitting it in around the brake booster and gear linkages. but for now i've at least come up with a solution

 

That's an epic man cave

Infinity made up a monster collector, his thread is about on here or you may know him on FB also

You could always go pedal box and lose all the servo parts?

 

unfortunately i couldn't get the collector in the right place on that design so back to the drawing board!

i moved the collector to the other side of the bay now and worked my way backwards up from the collector, getting there slowly, made a design last night that was 2" too long on one of the primaries haha. i can see me spending the whole weekend trying to get a design that works!

 

Really nice work interesting read
Thanks for sharing you fun/ heartache lol

 

love this thread