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ENGINES / Re: Is it worth porting an otherwise standard engine?
« on: December 24, 2015, 05:39:14 pm »
Couple of things to report.  The GF became the ex-GF,  and the car turned out great.  Goes like a train,  better than it ever did.

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THE WELCOMING COMMITTEE / Re: Hello from Norfolk
« on: September 08, 2015, 10:14:08 am »
Welcome!

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ENGINES / Re: Is it worth porting an otherwise standard engine?
« on: August 27, 2015, 08:59:26 am »
Weeeellll...  This spiralled!  Pulled out the engine,  then spent a few months chasing rot and rust vl :'(

But it's in, and running smoothly. Just need to adjust the CO,  and fuelling / timing. 



Invested in this,  to help.



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ENGINES / Re: Is it worth porting an otherwise standard engine?
« on: April 13, 2015, 07:47:55 pm »
work is ongoing! Bored it +1.0mm  , polished the crank and all new bearings and seals , oil pump , windage tray too. I'd have it back together aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages ago only for every single part is scrupously cleaned , and then media blasted and painted or treated after , depending on whether it's ally or steel/iron.  Sump , rocker cover , bracketry etc , gloss black , block = satin black , ally parts , blasted clean and coated with ACF 50 .

Head is getting a quick tidy up around the throats and ports as planned , the finish where the seats are was horrendous! 3 angle seats obviously too .
Popped on a HotGolf flywheel too , and new breather and fluid hoses , and mounts . After looking online for weeks , I ended up getting the best deals from my local motorfactors , and VW heritage m, which was a pleasant surprise .

Pics can follow if anyone cares to see a standard + clean 8v! lol

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JMR CUSTOMER CARS / Re: Long overdue engine refresh
« on: February 08, 2015, 02:40:36 am »
Decent figures! What's the spec?

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ENGINES / Re: Is it worth porting an otherwise standard engine?
« on: January 20, 2015, 03:32:14 pm »
Surely you can appreciate that woman and logic are two forces that shall never mix.

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ENGINES / Re: Is it worth porting an otherwise standard engine?
« on: January 20, 2015, 01:23:13 pm »
I know its not the cheapest way, but it's her pride and joy, she she makes the call. And She has said a vehement No to stuff like that head, Jon. Sadly.... I think she likes the fact the car will keep the head and block it came with. It was a struggle to get her to agree to mk3 top amounts and G60 brakes!

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ENGINES / Is it worth porting an otherwise standard engine?
« on: January 20, 2015, 12:28:02 am »
 Here's the deal , the G/F has a 1990 mk2 8v that she adores , lots of family history etc and has it since 1996 . After a layup of 3 years or so , I re-commisioned it , lots of tidying , vac hoses etc.

Now , despite running ok , it's in need of a freshen up . Definitely needs valve stem seals , and realistically rings too . My question is.... are there any gains to be made to an 8v PB , with no mads at all (and none allowed either!) ? As in , must keep stock quiet exhaust system , standard valves and cam , no high compression pistons , no tubular mani etc. , and must keep original head and block , and stock crank.

I'll get away with a slight overbore , and as it happens I have new KS 0.5 or 1.0mm 8v pistons going spare (need to check which!) , and I have told her about "blue-printing" , telling her it's just making the best of the standard parts.
I was thinking of a slight head skim , advisable anyways no doubt , and gain a wee bit of compression ,   back cutting the valves and a bit of tidying around the seats and throats , and just cleaning up the ports and inlet mani . 

Or is that a waste on a stock engine? I don't mind putting in effort for small reward . Or is there anything else worth doing? Any gains to be had in the exhaust manifold? or in the OE airbox? I could probably get away with taking a kilo off the flywheel too ?  the car gets used for commuting in the summer months so has to stay traffic friendly.

all advice gratefully received.

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ENGINES / Re: Can you run a hydraulic cam with mech lifters?
« on: January 02, 2015, 03:12:35 pm »
Fairly sure Danster on cgti posted about doing this a few years ago.

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THE WELCOMING COMMITTEE / Re: Hello!
« on: December 31, 2014, 01:34:19 pm »
Hullo Jon.

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MEMBERS MOTORS / Re: Going grey on top.
« on: December 30, 2014, 01:06:11 pm »
I can't remember exactly,I think about 1 degree only.

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ENGINES / Re: 2ltr 16v trackday engine
« on: December 30, 2014, 12:16:11 am »
Does that mani fit a stock engine bay?

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MEMBERS MOTORS / Re: Going grey on top.
« on: December 29, 2014, 11:41:48 pm »
Caster now , I really wanted that spot on as it's very hard to adjust on a mk1 .

This looks crude , but appearances can be deceptive! First , recheck all was level , no harm to recheck... then I ran a plumb line (ok , a piece of baling twine weighted down with big sockets!) down through each top mount hole. look closely here and you'll just see it.

I clamped a hefty bit of angle iron across the car , onto the lower suspension legs . The plumb line hung just beside it , giving me something to measure to , in the front to rear line of the car.





I put on the wishbones , lhs on the rhs and vice versa and upside down , and measured from the string to the balljoint . I stayed tweaking top top mount plates til I had the same measurement each side , from balljoint centre to string. Which meant in effect , the caster was the same . A final recheck of the plates diagonally and front to back to be certain the camber was ok too , and then a few more tacks of the welder , to hold them in place.

remove all the "measuring instruments" (!) , and weld , weld , weld..... luckily , one of the lads is a highly skilled engineer and welder , to oversee that operation .

Now that took only a couple of minutes to type...and a full evening to do in reality! But as said already , I really didn't want this to go wrong!

and what did I end up with for my labours? A mk1 with raised front turrets , which in effect lowers the car on stock struts about 1.5 inches , with extra caster and ready for using the vastly superior mk4 top mounts , and still fits under a stock bonnet.





I reckon when it all gets a lick of the sander , some seam sealer and paint , most people won't notice the difference.

I was wary about posting the pics as it's pure dog rough , country style harmless looking stuff , baling twine and angle iron...But , as I said already , straight is straight , level is level , so if you work carefully AND TAKE YOUR TIME, you can get away without all the fancy stuff.
Thanks for looking.

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MEMBERS MOTORS / Re: Going grey on top.
« on: December 29, 2014, 11:37:23 pm »
I spent a loooooooooooong time , thinking , scratching my chin , measuring... thinking some more....measuring some more...


then eventually I bit the bullet and picked up the angry grinder for a fairly serious decision on the front suspension....



the legend that is my mate Paul , aka Plane donated 2 good strut tops from another shell , in return for a wee favour I did him .
these were painstakingly measured , then cut to fit the inner wings , and to sit on top of the original turrets . I also cut the raised lip off , where the top mount comes through.


as simple as it looks , I spent bloody ages measuring and levelling them , so they were perfectly in line with the original ones .


One of the reasons for messing with the strut tops was to use Mk4 Golf style top mounts . VW will sell you the steel plates that are welded into a mk4 turret that the mounts press against , for little more than E10 each . Beats chopping them out of a scrapper mk4!


These will fit straight in , but me being me , I trimmed them so as to be able to fit them as rearward as possible , and slightly inward , to add some caster and a little negative camber .

I put them in roughly where I thought they'd fit best , and then put on a wishbone and a front hub and strut , without a spring. That way I could check that the strut wouldn't foul on anything . I trimmed a coil spring into a few sections , so to make sure it would fit too.

Now , you can spend thousands on fancy measuring gear , to jig a shell , but I don't have thousands! So I used builders tools I had around the shed! Crude , but a measuring instrument is a measuring instrument , and gravity is always the same , so a Spirit Level and a good quality tape measure can work well if you're patient.

AS the shell is on a rotisserie , I can rotate it to level it , so I picked 4 spots , across the front panel , across the front chassis legs and the front suspension legs , and across the rear floor . I tweaked the rotisserie til the car was "true" and clamped it in place.



Now that the car was level , I could set the height of the top mounts , using a straight edge over the turret area , and measuring down to the mounts.


then , picking as many reference points as I could think of , I measured each side from side to side , diagonally and from the bulkhead .


getting close now , I was happy the camber would be pretty equal both sides , so they got a tack to hold them .





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MEMBERS MOTORS / Re: Going grey on top.
« on: December 29, 2014, 11:23:53 pm »
so this was the view from my back kitchen.... no excuse for progress!



soooo... the night before the VW show in Cork , my mate Dent Doc decided he was staying in my place . They say there's no such thing as a free lunch , so he was directed to bring his Spray gun!

Enter the man behind the mask lol


I'm going to try "dry build" the car , so it won't see paint til next year most likely . To help it last the winter , Derek rubbed it down , gave it a quick blast of Por-15...




We decided to just do the inside , the underside and in the arches , as the outside will be getting sanding and filling . And the bay was left alone too as I'm still tidying that up. With that , after the Por-15 had dried enough to put a top coat over , (and more honestly , we were back from gorging ourselves on burgers and chips! lol) we decided to give it a lash of some 2k white I had lying around . A happy side effect of this is that it makes it easier to work on the car as it makes everything so clean , and bright looking .





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