[trackday_prep] Paul's Gti6

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

No too happy with these hub bolts off a 306 member, way too bloody long

 

 

Due to this:

 

 

I now have these:

 

 

Fitted

 

 

Cam cover

 

 

Blanking plate, thorttle body heater and oil recirculation bit removed. catch tank to be fitted.

 

 

Couple of jubilee clips to fit and the engine ready to go in

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Taa daa, a bit of wrestling, blood, sweat and strops and it's in Thanks to Will, Mikey, Greig and Ben for their help

 

 

Just put some new gaitors on the driveshafts (cheers for those Anthony)

 

 

Tomorrow get the rest of the car toegther. Need to sort out rust under neath the car

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Just been sorting out rust on the underside, there's a few holes in the floor pan in the rear passenger footwell Job for the future.

All the rust has been treated with kurust, painted then underseal applied pretty thickly.

 

The inner wing has had the repair patch welded in, all sealed and painted.

 

Part of the engine loom is on, clutch cable, inlet and rad next.

 

Nearly there

[Tom Fenton 1,526]

I have correct length hub clamp and balljoint clamp bolts if needed.

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

I have correct length hub clamp and balljoint clamp bolts if needed.

 

Ooo yes please, how much?

[Tom Fenton 1,526]

Pass, I bought a load for my own use. Tell me what the going rate is and I'll do them for that minus 10% ?

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Inlet on and torqued up, loom connected

 

 

ECU box, need a cover for it.

 

 

Which way does this go up? my mate is convinced its the opposite way to what I had it.

 

 

Cold air intake mocked up

 

 

 

Underside rust removed and waxoil'd

 

 

Fancy hub nuts

 

 

Reflective lagging tape to keep the heat away, just an experiment see if it works

 

 

[SurGie 54]

Love the air intake thats the kind of thing im aiming for once iv had it sorted for a while, it will have just filter on the inlet for a while until i get round to getting what you have fitted, where did you get that from Paul ?

[harryskid 193]

Can see why you have been so busy now mate, looks good.

Jeff

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Love the air intake thats the kind of thing im aiming for once iv had it sorted for a while, it will have just filter on the inlet for a while until i get round to getting what you have fitted, where did you get that from Paul ?

 

I got it off of Cheesegrater on here, not sure where he got it from though. I'm quite happy with it, hopefully keep temps down on the air intake side of things

 

 

Can see why you have been so busy now mate, looks good.Jeff

 

Yep, sorry about the delay buying the ecu. Recieved it now thanks

[harryskid 193]

No problem mate keep up the good work.

Jeff

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Intake on and secured.... with cable ties

 

 

Exhaust on

 

 

Sneaky back box

 

 

Mates new car

 

[harryskid 193]

Are you going to get enough cold air down there, i found it played up but i did have extreme under bonnet temps.

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

 

That's what the intake near the number plates for mate, I've wrapped some heat reflective tape around the airfilter inbetween the rad and filter.

 

Got the rad in place with minimum fuss, wired the rad plug back up and found a broken wire on the rad fan plug. The wire was broken right next to the spade terminal i've cut the plug off used a connector block with insulation tape. Used the test plug and the low speed and high speed fan work, Hurrah!

 

Driving lamp plug needed a wiggle and thats working. Fog light, indicators, sidelights, washer bottle pump all work. only thing that doesn't is the reverse light. Damn. Need a new one.

[SurGie 54]

Good work

 

When the filter is close to the inlet it gives more start up torque and further away give more at top end, at least i think thats how it works and i will find out for my self once mine is sorted.

 

I use that Ferrosol/WD40 spray inside my plugs, it helps them work and work better iv found.

Edited August 16, 2011 by SurGie

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Cheers.

 

Im wrapped some around the carbon bit (shouldnt really need it there) and the two alloy ends which face the rad.

 

Metal water pipe in arch and fill/bleed coolant system, then a brief start up to see if it fires. I'll disconnect double ignition relay and crank a few times before hand of course.

Thats the job for tonight

[harryskid 193]

That's what the intake near the number plates for mate, I've wrapped some heat reflective tape around the airfilter inbetween the rad and filter.

 

Got the rad in place with minimum fuss, wired the rad plug back up and found a broken wire on the rad fan plug. The wire was broken right next to the spade terminal i've cut the plug off used a connector block with insulation tape. Used the test plug and the low speed and high speed fan work, Hurrah!

 

Driving lamp plug needed a wiggle and thats working. Fog light, indicators, sidelights, washer bottle pump all work. only thing that doesn't is the reverse light. Damn. Need a new one.

 

Nice one

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

Fair play paul. It's looking good in there!

 

Whats the plan for MOT etc? Are you going to run it over winter?

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Will be in for MOT next weekend hopefully Just need someone to hurry up with a gear linkage

 

It will have it's days out in winter, as the weathers bound to be better than summer in this country!

 

Dash back together need to sort out coin tray unless someone has one spare in black...

 

 

Damn it looks red on camera, far from the reality!

 

 

Just to lower the beam and install the brake bias valve. Also the MOT tester pointed out that the rear OS was weeping slightly so will remake that.

 

Also will be getting rid of the blanking plate, perspex and sunroof trims back on, or carbon skin

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

 

Finishing touches

 

Just need to lower rear beam 20mm and sort the brakes out.

The brake pedal is clicking which is a bit odd, must be air in the lines.

[SurGie 54]

Looking good, did you end up fitting a modified 6 heat shield to protect the rubber the UJ ?

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Just extended the original one, went to nick Hovis's heat shield but the clip snapped off

I'm going to look into protecting it more, don't want it setting on fire like VW's

I have got the rubber boot like you do, just the grommet that goes through the bulkhead/UJ

 

Looking like a real car again

 

Edited August 21, 2011 by Paul_13

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Lowered rear today to match the front, looks much better

 

 

 

 

Make shift bar puller, worked nicely

 

 

No wonder my rear brakes were acting odd, I had the disc on the left (205) on the back instead of 306 (RHD) on. You can notice the offset clearly. I had no idea of this when these went on over a year ago, mind you other factors came into play A thread a while back bought this to my attention and though I better sort it.

 

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Catch tank in place Gave it a clean as there was loads of crap in there.