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Members' Cars / Re: LUCY ‘91 Mk2 Golf GTI Alpine White
Headlining looks great, this is definitely something I want to buy. Mine fell down ages ago and I DIY'd using acoustic carpet.
Lucky you spotted that fuel pipe. Mine must be at least  3 years old now, based on others finding I should probably inspect them again!
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I made a phone call to Stealth Racing a few weeks ago to enquire about putting my car on their dyno. I am merely curious to know that the car is healthy and get some figures to measure future progress against. Time has passed quickly and I was there today. It was quite exciting, I've not put any of my previous cars on the dyno. I told myself as long as it makes standard abf numbers I would have no complaints but the results were very surprising to say the least.
This was the best run. 192bhp & 168 lbft

I actually took 2 ecus one was a generic ebay "blitz" chip and the other mapped by Adlai Philip aka Toyotec. The latter making better numbers.

They were good enough to let me stand in the workshop to take a few photos and videos.


https://youtu.be/U4-vGoX1yww
https://youtu.be/y7Gq-EnQze4
 It was alot of fun to be there and watch. I asked for some feedback on anything I could look to improve it and the concensus was leave it alone and enjoy it. Obviously there are alot of things that can be done but not without great expense given my capabilities and I really would like to keep the car within a sensible budget.
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I made it back from France! The car didn't have any issues and covered nearly 700 miles. VW Days is a fantastic show and well worth a long weekend away if you get the chance.
The guys I went over with all had stunning cars so felt like the odd one out. Here are a few photos
Waiting for our train

Loaded on

Crusing down the toll road

Gutted I missed photos at this old race track, I was too tired from driving... next year hopefully

Stuck in a nearly 2 hour queue to get in the show 😫

My favourite photo someone took of my car.

Found a layby as the sun was coming down

Before I knew it the weekend was over and we were crusijg back home.

Really happy that the car behaved and I've got no real complaints with it. Hopefully I can now just enjoy it for the summer and make some decisions on what the next steps will be for over the winter
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I've been doing a few bits to the car before I take it to France with some mates at the end of the week. Probably not time to be tampering!
I've had ago at making a cold air feed to my airbox. Probably not worth the effort but ah well.


If anyone can give me a reason that this is a bad idea I'll happily rip it out ?🤣


I'm not massively into loud music but on the odd occasion I've turned it up the components begin to distort so I've decided to amplify them and see what happens from there. I really don't know alot about car audio so if it looks wrong... it probably is 😅
I cut a piece of ply and self tapped behind where the first aid kit would have been. It's half black just to disguise where the house in the carpet are

Alpine 4 channel amp, wiring and rcas ready to go in

Amp mounted. I couldn't think of a better place for it, I initially planned to go beneath the passenger seat bit there isn't much room under there and thibk my kids would kick it if it was there.

I was planning to run the front 3.5 inch and tweeters in parallel amd the rear 6x4's on the other side. I wouldnhave liked some 6x9s but can't bring myself to cut my parcel shelf or try and make a shelf.
Not sure if these are acceptable for the speaker cable?

I've got JBL speakers all round at the moment, I'll see how these sound after but I may well upgrade to some else if I'm not satisfied

I really can't face getting the seats and carpets up to get all the wiring in so this will happen when I can build some motivation!
Not sure if mentioned but I've bought a Corrado vr6 front crossmember. The front mounts are supposed to be alot stronger than the mk2 ones as the sit within the crossmember.
I was going to fit it as it is but decided I really should tidy it up a bit

I got a wire wheel on it and some rust converter

Applied to some black paint to try and smarten it up. Don't zoom in it's really not the best! Also did the anf bracket.

I had been considering using hockey pucks on the front mount to help stiffen things up but I was concerned with the vibration at idle so might get another mount so I can reverse it if I don't like it. Sounds like a bodge but the feedback I've had is very positive.

Also fitted this diagnostic port that has been in my car since it was converted a few years back. I went to my mates for some help as I felt uncertain but in hindsight it was an easy job. A live, earth and k line soldered and heatshrinked, that was it. We scanned it on Dan's laptop of thankfully no fault codes were showing. I was keen to get this fitted before France as I've booked in for a run on my local rolling road- Stealth Racing the week after.
Literally no photos other than this

I've got it fed through my centre console behind my Fischer cassette so well hidden but easily accessible when I need it.
Back to the crossmember, honestly thought I'd have this fitted in an hour but it was alot harder than I though to balance it and fix it in place on my own 😳
Old one out

Comparison, corrado vr6 at the top and mk2 golf at the bottom

I really made hard work of this but got there in the end. I slackened the rear engine bracket off the mount to help me line the front bracket. When I tightened the rear up I managed to strip the the threads on the Vibratechnics ally 😔 I really didn't want to go back to my oe mount as I was worried the extra engine movement would shorten the life of my Miltek manifold
Luckily more help from mates saved the day? I took the car over to Henry and he helicoiled the fixing holes for me. I had ago at one and absolutely fluffed it but fortunately he managed to rescue me again 🤦‍♂️ whilst we were there we made some 4mm plates to help space the mount up for extra manifold clearance against my steering rack. Sadly no photos as there wasn't much spare time. But I now have everything back in one piece ready for VW Days in France 😁
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Members' Cars / Re: My very ambitious project mk2
I keep meaning to comment on this, it's come such along way in a short amount of time. You have been grafting!
Did I see you have a 2.0 8 valve for it on Facebook?
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Members' Cars / Re: LUCY ‘91 Mk2 Golf GTI Alpine White
Good idea with the ramps. I have some that I don't use so will be stealing your idea!
I want to say you're meant to oil those filters. Mine is K&N bit I have a pipercross clean/oil kit.
I am curious to know what's in the big box. A headliner?
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Members' Cars / Re: Cope's GTI
I love how you always drive this on its limit! I did an evening at Donington the other year and had a great time,  I'm quite cautious and found I was busy stayout of others way 😳 but it's great when you find something to battle with
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
Thanks Monkey!

Badge is from oem car stickers in France. It was the closest they did to original,  that i could find.

I'm tempted by a coolerworx bottom mount shifters longer term.
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
Quote from: AndyBa on
Nice pic of the burger but what do the rear wheels look like in the arches  :D
The Burger was amazing!

This is before the spacers

This is an after photo with the spacers. It's a minor difference but they were a tiny bit too far tucked in for my liking

Also i have swapped the gearstick badge as the old one span and the plastic cracked which was drive mental

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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I booked today off work to do a few jobs to the golf, the first one being a polo gti stub axel conversion. This turned out to be the only job and took the whole day! I has planned on fitting my corrado crossmember, resealing my rocker cover too but these will have to wait.

I didn't take many photos as I was in my mates workshop and time was precious. It was quite stressful as everything was seized on. Where the carrier bolts to the stub axel were Allen heads which 2 out 4 rounded off on the car. Interestingly the same 2 rounded on the polo stubs too 🤔 only 1 of 8 bolts snapped that hold the stub axels on and luckily there was enough left on it once everything was off to extract.
I bought some Sayner Works 10mm stub axel spacers with longer high tensile bolts to help pull the wheels out in the arches better.

 Cheeky Mexican burger for lunch

Fitted some new mk4 calipers with Hel conversion hoses and new copper lines. I tried to buy reasonable brands where I can Ferrodo pads etc

Might have let the brake fluid run abit low when doing the rears pipes/hoses. Ran out of time amd brake fluid so need to go round and re-bleed everything.

My mate said after what have you actually gained? And I guess the answer is nothing, maybe future proofed 🤷‍♂️
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Members' Cars / Re: LUCY ‘91 Mk2 Golf GTI Alpine White
They're lovely seats mate. Do you have head rest for the rear? Occasionally I sensible priced colour concept fronts but they're always miles away! I also need to start clearing stuff, it's amazing how quickly ot all accumulates
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
Was a funny feeling tipping a cardboard box of oil into the engine! But yeah makes sense to use as its cheaper.

Thanks, i would like some Compomotive's like yours but these will do for now. Haven't seen any updates on yours, how are you getting on?
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Mk2 Golf Chat / Re: Best 16 Valve Mechanic
I havent used him myself but Martin Challice at Grey Goose Restorations seems to post a lot of mk2 golf maintenance and owns a stunning 16v. If I were looking for someone I would definitely give him try
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I've covered a fair few miles this past month in the golf about 1000 miles of which nearly 500 were in 2 journeys. Really pleased with my suspension especially, and the car hasn't given me any issues. I've tired to do a few more little things that either needed looking or have been bothering me.

My Miltek manifold has been occasionally hitting the steering rack which really isn't that bad but I've focused quite alot of time into working out why. I've spoken to so many people checking and double checking. I've definitely used the correct engine mounts and brackets so seems strange that the manifold- which is made specifically for abf mk2 would catch. And then after chatting to @Barn.mk2 at London Cartel meet he mentioned something that I had missed. I bought my Vibratechnics rear mount off a mate ages ago 2nd hand. What I didn't  know was this has had the top face machined down 10-15mm. This wasn't an issue when I had the oe downpipe fitted but now I've swapped to a Miltek I really need that little bit of material back 😅

Here is how my manifold sits

Here's is my rear mount

Here is how they look new

So the plan is to play around with some washers to get the desired height back and Barney has offered to me a plate to suit which is absolutely fantastic 😁
Before I knew this I've been clicking buy now on various oe bits to to try and help.
This is a g60 front mount bracket which is supposed to tilt the engine forward slightly. I thought this may help

...but it didn't and has actually made it far worse 🤦‍♂️

I've also bought a Corrado vr6 crossmember and an abf front bracket which is meant to help too but if nothing else  is a definite upgrade on the mk2 front mounts
Photos borrowed of a mate. Corrado crossmember is the cleaner one

The plan is to cut the rubber off the mount and use ice hockey pucks I there place. I'm reliably informed this is a decent way of improving it further and allow me to trim the pucks to suit and help tilt the engine

This is going to be a job for next Friday hopefully along with polo stubs and mk4 rear calipers.
 I've also replaced my backbox from a comfort 2.25 trackslag to a performance one as I prefer the noise they make..I noticed the diameter of the tailpipes has visibly reduced so looks a bit more subtle maybe

Whilst the front bracket was out I thought it was a good time to change the oil and filter. First time I've seen a cardboard box of oil 🤣

 Also managed a clean recently, it's been over a year since paint and it's hurts to see the odd stone chip 😫 bit still.clean up nicely.

I also sold my bbs rcs, which I feel quite sad about but this has freed some funds up for other stuff.
I went to the Cartel cruise the other evening, ther was so really nice cars there and good people. I'd recommend that if anyone hasn't done it before.