VW Golf MKII 16v 3 door

[russ979]

Crikey im shocked! What happened to the black one? I though you only got that a couple of months ago?
Did you sell it complete or break it up?
I`m still after a good passenger door if you know where there is one?

[Mr Fletcher]

looks a tidy job russ i reckon trev shifts more motors than you:D

[russ979]

i reckon trev shifts more motors than you:D

You`re too right!:)

Emma has given the golf a name tonight... "fred":D

[russ979]

Today was another day spent grinding, chopping, Cutting and welding Fred.
So same as the drivers side. Side skirt and arches off....Then attack anything that looks remotely flakey.
This was the rear of the sill.

And this was not what i was expecting to find in the floor..........Bollock!

Chopped out.


New plates welded in and ground flat.

Then rust treaded everything and plastic coated.


I will pop the bungs out tomorrow and flood it all with wax then i will feel happy that fred is bloody rock solid underneath.
The lower quarter panel will also have to get filled and painted before it get put back together.

[Rob S]

Bloody good work Russ

[Ben]

bloody good job

[Ben]

Ive had a little play with the golf today with many thanks to mike b for the parts.
As im sure ben will be able to confirm the old gal has always been a pig to start when its stone cold. So with the realy cold mornings just around the corner i thought it was time to do the cold start injector. After speaking to mike i thought "Sod it" Lets change the whole inlet manifold for his system. So i done a little detour on my way down to london yesturday and picked up the whole injection system from mikes place along with a few other bits.
So today i whipped off the old manifold.

And found half the garden lying on inner wing under the old air box.
The new system with the WUR mod and K&N filter fitted was a very straight forward re-fit even though the air-box was completly different from my old one.
So from this...

To this.....

I know i had said this was going to stay totally standard. But "bollocks" I reserve the right to bend the rules at my own descrecion!:D
Oh my word has it made a difference!:hurray: It pulls so strong now i can`t quite get my head around the fact that, that little work can transform the driveability and overall performance.
I took it for a quick blast and when i got home Em was waiting in the drive for her turn. She said she was only going upto the next village and would be back in 5mins......:toetap05:A very, very long time later....Em pulls into the drive grinning from ear to ear! I truely belive she see`s the scoob as my toy and the golf as hers!:)
The car now pulls so strong and even torque steers that it has flagged up some new areas that realy need addressing ie:- I must now get round to fitting the poly bushed subframe - that was also one of mikes cast offs along with the switches etc that ben had already collected and fitted before i got her. Maybe this thread should be called mr blackmores 16v left-overs?:D
So ive still got the subframe to do and fit the new dash parts. Then fit the poly bush kit that ben supplied with the car.

Can't believe I missed this post ! .. great work on the Golf buddy

[russ979]

Had one of those strange days the other day, One of those "how the f&#k did that happen?" sort of days. It started off with me talking to the emma about how i must get a couple of jobs done on `ol yella and get it taxed as i am having major withdrawals! Em said she too was missing the (her) golf as its been parked up in the barn since the tax ran out at the end of september. From that point i am still not sure what happened? Next thing is a tax disc had been purchased and i was un-covering it from its winter slumber.


I did get chance to give it a quick wash over.............

Before.........

My dear wife was gone, out for a play and has barely been seen since!
And poor `ol yella and myself still haven`t been re-united.

[Tk]

hahahahaha
brilliant

[pablo]

That is such a tv add for VW