Jason Moyle Racing

In 2004 i owned a very nippy 200sx and only covering 1k in miles in the last year of ownership (2004) it needed to be sold. after a few years of owning standard cars and seeing lots of cars that inspired me i decided i needed something to keep the petrol head inside happy. 2010 I asked a mate who worked at a local scrappy if he ever came across a mk1 to give me a shout and within 3 hours on the same day (fate some would say or good luck) i had a picture message showing me a ratty looking but solid mk1 5dr in mars red that only needed a horn fixing and 2 cv boots to get it a test ticket.



I got the golf on the road for christmas 2010 after a few weeks of owning it and getting to know some info on the various forums i had big plans, but my heart just wasnt in it i was longing for a 2dr gti so feb2011 i sold the little red 5dr to a mate for his wife to use as a daily (which she did for a year untill the engine dropped its oil all over there driveway) and started searching.

After missing out on a 1.9 tsr black mk1 that was only 40miles away my friend had found a possible mk1 on ebay trouble was it was 305miles away in bristol i was unsucessful but got a 2nd chance offer due to the 1st person not been able to insure it

Ebay add



After a deal was made it was time for the long journey home the engine didnt seem to bad until i opened it up on the motorway and it turns out it was burning oil quite badly when anything but a steady right foot was applied. however no problems occured on the way home that is untill the main road coming into where i live (4miles from my house) the fuel pump died so was stuck waiting for a tow after a very long day the golf was home and getting tucked up in the garage till i had some time to work on it

after fixing the fuel pump with help of my now good vw buddy carl the golf was on the road again just burning oil like a chain smoker

heres a few pics i took after i had got the new fuel pump on



i put the red grill on that smartend it up a bit



and changed passenger door to one that wasnt full of filler



plans were to get the engine rebuilt and just tidy up what was a very sad looking mk1

after a few weeks of driving it about i came across an engine in york that had only done roughly 25-30 miles since a 1.4k rebuilt so deposit was put down and i started taking engine out of my golf april 2010



picked up the engine from york with a the original rebuild reciept and was eager to get it in and going




i took this on with it been the very first engine swap i had ever done and was bit new to it all (still got mechanical skills just bit weak) progress was slow waiting on few daft bits and working shifts and it wasnt until august 2010 that i finaly got it all connected up and running......



after getting it in and running i was having issues with only having 3 gears.
i had replaced the linkage with a new bush kit and forgot to mark where everything went i was able to get it into 3rd 4th and 5th enough to drive it in and out of garage to work on

having had a few days doing the odd bit i went to start it up to have one big go at getting all the teething problems sorted truned the key and nothing!!!! went over checking everything and turns out it had gone thru another fuel pump!!!!! so i was sat in the garage pissed off and deided to get on the hunt for bike carbs as it would get rid of the kr injection and it was something i was aiming to do in the future



i purchased these carbs advertised as r1 carbs with everything needed for the conversion 5hr round trip to pick them up and over the next week i had them fitted was just waiting to fit fuel pump and things. i decided to test the fuel pump to see if it was working before i plumbed it in and it turns out it was a duffa so i saved up and purchased a facet

mouted this and wired in my own fuel pump switch as i think the old circuit was the problem with the injection pumps breaking

I didnt like the chopped down kr manifold as it just didnt make the carbs sit right under the bonnet so i took it to work to fine tune it and just ended up getting frustraded with how bodged it had been in the first place. so i got in contact with a guy forum edition 38 and mk1oc called Phataz and he made me a manifold up (it was the first 16v mani he had done)

2nd attempt got the manifold spot on and got to say the guy is a top fabricator will deffinatley be using him again in the future
heres his work



after collecting the mani off him it wasnt until a few weeks later that i had chance to fit the carbs



in this time i had been to the classic car show at the NEC and had been talking to 2 guys from H+H ignitions solutions i had already heard a bit about them and decided that this was the ignition set up i was going to use



picture with it all on



i was having trouble tho regarding the dizzy cap fauling the bigger servo and mc so just to see if we could get the car running i unbolted the mc and mounted the h+h with the longer dizzy which it pretty much fired up first time.

i didnt have a rad connected so only ran it to see if it would go. untill i had time to mount the rad and the slim line fans

corsa rad with slim line fans



all piping to plumb the corsa rad in



after mounting them and doing all the plumbing i was still having issuses with the dizzy fouling the mc after a lot of reseach and coming up with not many solutions i found a 205 gti dizzy cap fitted but needed the connections changing so sent leads to magnecor where they swapped them over and gave leads a once over all for £25

now this was done it was a case of getting it running and then going thru the check list