Go easy on cutting the paintwork back. In my case I uncovered the white undercoat beneath the tornado pink on the edge of my bonnet! It's a shame that certain red cars of the 90s suffered with colour fade.
Sorry about very very late answer but yeah I was careful when cutting the paintwork and will be if it needs to be done again :-)
Not much has happened with the Golf, I've just been enjoying driving it daily :-D
Tell me more about the law with regard modifying cars. You wrote a Mk2 VR6 is a dream... Is it illegal to change the engine to non-standard?
Sorry about late answer, have been busy with life.. But yeah, it's not illegal to change the engine in Finland but the laws and regulations are very strict. I just found out that a new regulation is about to be added so for example a vr6 mk2 would be a possibility in the future :-)
On the language issue - I think it's quite embarrassing how so much of the world have a second(and beyond) language and so much of the UK just doesn't. I think it's almost an arrogance, "well everyone knows English, so what's the point?" sort of thing? I wish I'd taken language more seriously at school - My French is "tourist-plus" so I can get by, but that's about it! Your grasp of the English language Bamppa puts many English people I know to shame....
Washed the interior from top to bottom, what a job...:
I found a antenna to fit the existing holes on C-pillar!! I'm so happy that the holes are in use now and not pointing out ugly
Changed plate lights into led ones, looks nicely modern but not too much imo: The new non-euro plates arrived too, happy with how they look now!
Also going to dump the 3rd party pooty topran thermostat, replacing with a new BorgWarner/Wahler OE-spec:
I've now driven about 2000km with the Golf and it has worked flawlesly! Only problem I can say is that the drivers (left) front tire is slowly deflating and has to be filled every 3rd day Going to change the valve on friday and see if that helps.
Any thoughts on anything? Feel free to suggest modifications and changes
If the white mark is highlighting the factory TDC mark, it's not in the right place, should be lined up with the top of the head casting.
So I'm going for not at TDC?
It's not factory mark, I made my own marks to the old belt which I transfered to the new belt so it could be installed at exaclty same way :-)
I gotta reveal the mistake I made:
It's the tensioner pulley which I turned the wrong way (anti-clockwise) when tensioning the new belt. I fought for like 15 minutes with the lower timing cover and sweared a lot because I had no idea why it was hitting the tensioner pulley Then I realised that the tensioner had to be turned clockwise so it sits higher and the timing cover fits below it..
......someone has put Tip-ex graffiti all over your nice new timing belt? But seriously I can't tell 'cos the marks aren't lined-up to tdc. But that might be because you've rotated the engine to check all is good before starting up.
I'll let more people to guess before I reveal what was wrong :-) I can say it was not the timing that was put on wrong hehe..
And yes I like to mark the old belt + pulleys and transfer the marks to new belt, so I know I have installed it exactly the same way. I don't even know if I removed it at TDC but its back the same way and the ignition timing did not change so I guess it went as planned The flywheel mark was in centre of the checkhole and cam sprocket mark on the inside was leveled with rocker cover, this is the right way if I understood right? :thinking:
Your grasp of the English language Bamppa puts many English people I know to shame....
Going to change the valve on friday and see if that helps.
