mk1 golf R32 4WD

top work mate starting to come together by the looks of it

 

looking great joe ,,, when uve a min pop online ive find something of use for you

 

hi people have not been up to much in the past week on the car front spent most of today on it just finishing off some brackets to hold the exhaust on and getting the rear drive shafts in and repacking propshaft cv joint with new grease hopefully next week i can sort out handbrake cables dont know how to go about that yet and mouting all the fuel pump, fuel filter and resevouir

 

ive been working on mounting up all the fuel system on a plate of aluminium
as shown on pic below soz about the gaggy tape
just got to buy some fuel lines soon.
the mk5 engine originally had a flow and no return and the mk4 had a flow and return what do people think what root i should go down?????


installed hanbrake cables today forgot to take some pics soz il take some when im next down there and il take some pics of the hole underside as thats pretty much most of it done underneath at the moment.

 

Will that lot ^^ be upside down when the car is turned over? Just wondering on the fuel pot (?) if its designed to work like that?

Otherwise good work, keep it up

 

yer that will be the uther way round

done a bit of work to that pedal box i had off you lol

 

Dead-heading your fuel pumps is a fairly quick way to burn them out, as the fuel flowing through cools the pumps, & the fpr on the fuel rail limits the pressure differential (i.e. load). I'm surprised VW went back to a non-return system in the mk5 as these systems have a tendancy to suffer from heat-soak induced vapour lock. Seems like a step backwards.
If you do decide to run a non-return system I'd recommend either using the entire mk5 setup, or maybe fit an accumulator & pressure switch that turns the fuel pumps off when the accumulator's full.
Personally I'd stick to the mk4 return setup

 

ok thanks for that i think i will stick with the mk4 setup then

 

just a pis of the bottom of the mk1 still got to tiey up the handbrakes cadles
and tomoz im going to get all the fuel pipes and all that lot

 

wow! this is coming on so quickly!

 

Yeah, i noticed - would have probably been easier to make one from scratch!

Good progress too

 

yer looking bak it would have being but i could not tell from looking at pis's how it was going to end up

 

Does anybody know where the best place to get this stuff from for the wiring???

 

I get it from VWP here, use the heat shrink with glue in it to get a good seal on the ends.

 

Sorry mate I didn't reply did I!

Try

Polevolt

They do some stuff less sensitive to heat

 

got all the fuel hose and all the ends to day so started doing a bit to it. got to get the ends tigged on the resevoir

 

thanks for those links

 

Awesome.

4wd with a 24v VR6 - doesnt get much better than this.

 

thanks lol yer i so can not wate to get it on the rode

 

Has the makings of a show stopper. what are you planning for the look of the car when finished? the design 90 wheels are a good start.