You are all probably sick of looking at these but I thought I would share my project anyway.
This is my 1985 mk2 golf CL in Quartz Grey Metallic with poop brown interior, I bought it July 2014 in a sad looking state with 120k miles on the clock, a bogging down pierburg carb, lowered on I presume Jom coilovers... Oh the fun to be had.
This is the start
The faded trim offended my eyes so out with about 5 coats of auto glym bumper gel and add one eyebrow spoiler and this was what I got.
Then I decided while gunning it around a roundabout tyres screaming that wider wheels were needed, but I needed something to suit the car down to a tee and I wanted something I wouldn't need to paint and would match the colour scheme I have in my head (grey with orange accents) luckily I found the perfect wheels on ebay and they were mine!
A set of 15x7 ATS Cups painted bronze and black with stretched 165/50/15 bridgestone potenza tyres, honestly externally apart from rust repairs the exterior is finished for me. Love the ratty look with the scruffy paint and small dents it is just what I was aiming for
My favourite pic of the Golf
All was well in the world, until one frightful morning when I went to go to work... It wouldn't start it just kept turning over and over. It wanted to run though so I got a slave battery from the my Volvo 360 and it fired up after a few seconds of cranking. But then the idle slowly started to drop? So in the end full throttle got me an idle of 300! After a minute or so though it would start to rise and in the end it was fine. This became the routine for a couple of months. I then went on a fault finding mission replacing the coil, spark plugs, ht and lt leads, rotor arm, points, condensor and after spending about £150 still nothing! Then the fuel pump died (cam operated) so I fitted a new one which died after ten mins, the coil lead broke inside the dizzy cap (all from topran so don't buy their stuff it's curse word). So I fitted a low pressure electric pump in the engine bay and yet still no luck. In the end I found the cause of the problem to be a loose corroded connection on the coil as the spade connector had slipped out of the plastic block slightly. This cured the problem for all of a few hours before the pierburg died, so I sourced an old weber 32/34 dmtl stripped it, cleaned it and rebuilt it and hacked the air box up to get it to fit the weber
Then the car was fine for a month until the problems started again and this time it just would not start it would just shoot flames and pop but never run
so this is where the good bit happens. However I need to go to work so will post the rest tonight
Thanks for reading, let me know what you think.
Cheers
Luke
This is my 1985 mk2 golf CL in Quartz Grey Metallic with poop brown interior, I bought it July 2014 in a sad looking state with 120k miles on the clock, a bogging down pierburg carb, lowered on I presume Jom coilovers... Oh the fun to be had.
This is the start
The faded trim offended my eyes so out with about 5 coats of auto glym bumper gel and add one eyebrow spoiler and this was what I got.
Then I decided while gunning it around a roundabout tyres screaming that wider wheels were needed, but I needed something to suit the car down to a tee and I wanted something I wouldn't need to paint and would match the colour scheme I have in my head (grey with orange accents) luckily I found the perfect wheels on ebay and they were mine!
A set of 15x7 ATS Cups painted bronze and black with stretched 165/50/15 bridgestone potenza tyres, honestly externally apart from rust repairs the exterior is finished for me. Love the ratty look with the scruffy paint and small dents it is just what I was aiming for
My favourite pic of the Golf
All was well in the world, until one frightful morning when I went to go to work... It wouldn't start it just kept turning over and over. It wanted to run though so I got a slave battery from the my Volvo 360 and it fired up after a few seconds of cranking. But then the idle slowly started to drop? So in the end full throttle got me an idle of 300! After a minute or so though it would start to rise and in the end it was fine. This became the routine for a couple of months. I then went on a fault finding mission replacing the coil, spark plugs, ht and lt leads, rotor arm, points, condensor and after spending about £150 still nothing! Then the fuel pump died (cam operated) so I fitted a new one which died after ten mins, the coil lead broke inside the dizzy cap (all from topran so don't buy their stuff it's curse word). So I fitted a low pressure electric pump in the engine bay and yet still no luck. In the end I found the cause of the problem to be a loose corroded connection on the coil as the spade connector had slipped out of the plastic block slightly. This cured the problem for all of a few hours before the pierburg died, so I sourced an old weber 32/34 dmtl stripped it, cleaned it and rebuilt it and hacked the air box up to get it to fit the weber
Then the car was fine for a month until the problems started again and this time it just would not start it would just shoot flames and pop but never run
so this is where the good bit happens. However I need to go to work so will post the rest tonight Thanks for reading, let me know what you think.
Cheers
Luke
