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Mar 11, 2012 18:52:28 GMT
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Had a few hours on the golf today. Got the engine labelled up and removed pretty quickly: The set about removing the wiring - Which is surprisingly a complete ballache, cos I need to really take as much as I can, so I can get things working in the van properly. Few minor hiccups with Jon cutting through the main loom to the back of the car thinking it was just going into the passenger door (with about 40 wires? ) but we had to pack in early ish cos he was going out with his missus, and I had work to do. Decided to actually put some stuff on eBay as well rather than just offering it on here for a bit and then weighing it all in. Got £25 for the curse word spare wheel, which was a nice touch!
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Last Edit: Mar 11, 2012 19:01:17 GMT by cobblers
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Mar 10, 2012 20:54:23 GMT
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It's basically a case of "get everything out of a diesel van's engine bay and replace the block and head with the golf AGG stuff"
A lot easier if you start with a diesel van. When we did Jons, he just bought the bits we thought we needed (Engine mount bars and brackets, bellhousing, input shaft, clutch and oil pump) but it took us ages, cos we had to work out all the coolant hose plumping and bodge it together from universal silicone hoses off ebay. It works, but it's not factory and it took a lot of pissing around.
Learning from this is why I just went and got everything I could from a diesel bus. The block and head and diesel pump etc are no good to me whatsoever, but there's an untold number of little bits and bobs needed to complete it.
Annoyingly, the 2.1 has decided to work a lot better lately, now it knows it's days in the van are numbered! It pulled like a champ today and did better MPG than ever. It's still coming out though
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Mar 10, 2012 18:24:16 GMT
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Last Edit: Mar 11, 2012 17:30:23 GMT by cobblers
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Mar 10, 2012 17:54:50 GMT
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This morning I went to pick up the parts from the Diesel van that I need to fit the AGG Golf engine in. Set off at about 8AM with the van already loaded up with tools last night, picked my pal Jon up and after a quick MacDs we shot over to Nottingham for the bits - Off a bloke called James who runs Transporter Transformers. Cracking chap! Turns out the donor van already had a 1Y engine fitted, which is a 1.9 NA diesel from a Golf/Passat. I bet it was a bit of a plodder, especially with the big high roof and full of tackle! Surprisingly, the engine came out with no issues at all and was on the deck in about 90 minutes: We split it off the box and then almost killed ourselves trying to lift it into the back of my van - It's a heavy old lump compared to the (1.9 WBX) that we took out of the Caravelle we broke! Here's a picture of my van that I took while sat on the floor after almost sh itting my spine out while lumping the engine around. I thought it looked cool but it might have been my light headedness. Van loaded up with heavy bits, we removed the gear linkages, pipes and Jon the tight sod noticed the front brake pipes were braided ones so he took them off for his van! Once we'd packed up and stuff, we got on our way home and realised it was only early afternoon, so I treat us to a Family Feast from KFC at Tibshelf. We got back to the garage/Jon's back garden and unloaded the van. We thought we might as well set about stripping the golf. Jon moved it back a bit (it's final journey under it's own steam) and it started up a treat after being stood for a week, no smoke or noises or anything worrying which was nice. I thought I'd take a photo before we started taking the thing to bits. Unfortunately, the car seems to be haunted by the ghost of a Lois Theroux impersonator. I suspect this is why it was advertised for sale as "breaking" Jon was feeling lazy by now (He's not used to hard work), so we just got the front bumper and slam panel off, and dropped the oil and water along with disconnecting most of the plumbing. Tomorrow, I'm going to label all the wiring and we'll get the engine on the deck and start combining the Golf engine with the t25 ancilliaries.
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Last Edit: Mar 10, 2012 17:56:17 GMT by cobblers
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I was going to keep these, but I've realised, While they're bloody nice seats, I should really move them on and use the cash for a new set of dampers for my T25. Here's a full set of black leather, heated recaro seats removed from a mk3 golf Colour Concept. These cars had the central panels in the seats trimmed in the same colour as the car, be it blue, yellow etc. These sort of miss the point a bit, being from a black "Colour" concept but they look the best and are obviously the most sought after. They are in a 5 door golf, but the front seats tilt forward like 3 door seats. Not sure if they all came like this or what? They are heated, and I'll include the switches, relays and looms for this. I'll also include the doorcards if they are of any use to you. All are in good condition and bloody comfortable, plenty of "puff" left in the foam. The drivers bolster is a little worn, but with some black leather feed all the seats would no doubt come up more or less perfect. A set sold on eBay a few days ago, in similar/slightly worse condition for £310: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagen-VW-Golf-mk3-full-leather-heated-seats-Colour-Concept-black-interior-/170791729427?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item27c3faf913#ht_3449wt_1396 But I'd rather not have to deal with eBay, so I'll offer them on here for £250. There's room for a bit of movement in that price too. If they don't sell then I'll tart them up and brave the masses and see what they fetch! They are located in Rotherham. I'm reluctant to post them, as I have absolutely no idea how I'd pack them sufficiently, but if you can arrange your own courier or some kind of pony express who'll take them as they are, I can be available almost any time for collection. If you come along to collect, you're welcome to have any other interior trim out of the car that I don't have plans for.
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Last Edit: Mar 9, 2012 20:30:14 GMT by cobblers
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You'll deffo want a good few thick coats on to give you something to go at when sanding inevitable runs out.
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Email Gary Thomas - gar.thoms@hotmail.co.uk
He makes custom wheel adapters and did an absolutely bang up job of mine.
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Brand new lowering springs for a 106/205 are £10 on ebay. Cutting springs works great a lot of the time, but it's not ideal especially on these front struts which have shallow spring seats that are dead close to the tyre. If you must, on these it works out roughly a 3:2 ratio. (cut 60mm to get a 40mm drop)
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2012 23:31:46 GMT by cobblers
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They're pretty straightforward
Never had a problem with the exhaust knocking personally, but I could see how it's possible
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Probably the top mount - open the boot up, take the cover off and bounce the car up and down, see if there is any movement in it.
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Beaauuuutiful!
What about one of those exhausts that come out of the front of the car somehow? Then you won't need any pipes underneath. Not sure where you'd put the "tailpipe" though.
Get a stock backbox off a 600cc bike and it'll be pretty quiet, too
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Just drill a 5mm hole at the base of it and any water will drain out.
That said, it'd have to be stood for weeks or months to gather enough water to cause a problem.
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I'm all for cutting springs - but with all due respect, If you're asking questions like this you probably shouldn't be DIY engineering your suspension.
You can buy lowering springs really quite cheaply. 106 and 205 springs are interchangeable.
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2012 17:02:33 GMT by cobblers
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Nah, sold them yonks ago when I was skint
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www.brick-yard.co.uk/forum/ is an example of what happens when people just keep creating subforums. 33 subforums where they could have about 8. It's a right dogs dinner.
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2012 10:57:44 GMT by cobblers
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I did a similar thing to get the speedo going in my mates van - Gps reciever hooked to an Arduino generating the speed pulses. Took me ages to find the right "name" of thing to search for! I got the sender off ebay - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260778921588However, in hindsight I should have got the slightly more expensive www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260806652194Cos it would be easier to connect to my speedo cable. I'm gonna just use some small bore silicon tubing shoved onto the square end of the cable and the square pin on the sender to connect them together. They're a hall sender, but I don't know if theres s schmitt trigger or anything built into the thing. I suppose I'll find out when I get it. Dakota Digital make more "universal" ones that are probably even easier to mount, but they're even more money.
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2012 10:30:11 GMT by cobblers
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This turned up the other day, after a couple of risky transactions - Bought it unseen, paypalled the (slightly dodgy sounding) seller £50 deposit. Then got some random bloke off shiply to fetch it me, and bank transferred him the rest of the money to pay the seller cash when he arrived. He claimed he was going to set off and pick it up straight away (from about 10 miles away), but I didn't hear anything from him for 5 hours or so, and when I did get in touch, He kept fobbing me off. I was about 90% certain I'd just lost my money. A few hours later the car turned up and it seems to run fine - I'm glad I ended up with an AGG rather than the clunkly old 2E with it's flappy wanky airflow meter. Clutch is mega high, but that's not a problem really Bonus surprise of Air Con, which I'm looking into fitting to the van. I can get the hoses extended, and there's plenty of room for the Condensor, I just need to work out where to put the evaporator and hope the pump fits in the engine bay OK. I was going to keep my existing dials, but I changed my mind - I'm fitting the Mk3 golf clocks and I'll sell the revcounter T3 clocks. The golf clocks go in fairly easily wiring wise - Just a load of wires to extend from the back end of the van. The speedo is the main issue, being driven electronically. Since I didn't want to pissball around with magnetic pickups, or spend hundreds of euros on converter stuff from a bloke in germany, when I can make a better version of it myself, I've ordered a universal sender that I can attach to the end of my speedo cable - this will provide around 14k pulses per mile, which I'm pretty sure is nowhere near what the golf clocks or ECU need. But that's not a problem - I'll either bodge it with a frequency-voltage chip followed by a voltage-frequency chip, or more likely just use a microcontroller and completely overkill the thing with more processing power than landed most of the apollo missions. It'll probably be cheaper, and it's a lot easier to tweak. I'll also have a load of spare IO pins to use for some other "features" like snazzy interior light control that stays on until you set off or something similarly pointless.
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That does help Colin - Thanks mate!
I know a bloke that does aircon and refrigeration work for pubs etc, I'll get him on the blower and see if he knows anyone for hoses.
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Seats (inc doorcards and heated from seat switches and tackle) roughly £250. A set in worse nick went on ebay for £310 the other day - The drivers one looks worn in the pic, but it's only minor surface "fading" and it'll come up like new with some of that black leather feed tackle. The rest of them are in VGC
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Last Edit: Mar 7, 2012 20:29:05 GMT by cobblers
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How handy! This'll save me a lot of arsing around
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