charlie's mk1 project - engine in 03/02

nice car this one have a photo of it somewhere from 2006 will dig it out

looks really good, hats off to you for doing it yourself! Its gonna be rapid, id love a 16v tin top

cheers hardwork and sam, hoping it will surprise a couple of people IF it stays together!

sorry for the rubbish pic

taking shape nicely

havn't been on here for a while so thought i'd put a little update......Progress had really lost interest in this car with work comitments and loads of other stuff goin on but got a second wind now so might me more updates coming soon
as i mentioned when i was rebuilding the head one of the cam cap studs stripped out....the joys of an e-gay purchased engine! problem was these studs are M7 and most the local machine shops had no M7 heli-coils even my local VW specialist! so was a bit stuck for a while but found these guys G Bland and sons located in barnsley, really friendly sorted me out and very reasonable rates, picked the head up yesterday £20 for two helicoils, im happy thought it would be worth mentioning incase anyone else is in or gets in the same situation! only problem is i have now misplaced the f**king stud and vw parts aint open till monday....typical! hopefully have head rebuilt and back on the car by the end of the week so did some manifold modifying yesterday instead....



had to cut it up and shorten mounting studs/bolts



at this point you can probably guess which way i'm going with this conversion clearance issues sorted



carbs mounted up



couple of better pics to shaow the engine in the bay





not whoreing my car at all....... lol

got exhaust manifold sorted, will be attempting to make my own system and ignition wise running this





sorry for long post

hopefully will get my motivation back with more progress to follow !

need more progress and mate its march take your xmas tree down lol

Looking good matey! Cant beat a good old revvy kr! Mk1's fly with them in!

Hardwork wrote:need more progress and mate its march take your xmas tree down lol

someones not in the festive spirit! lol is an old pic

more progress definately needed, i'm working on it hopefully the light-(er) evenings will help!

ordered a new cam cap stud from vw today to pic up on weds, so hopefully have head rebuilt and in car by next wkend also got some poly engine mounts to swap over.....i really am good at doing stuff in the wrong order... haha

cheers for comments, any of you guys at the york meet yest?

Coming on well!

Wish my KR engine bay looked as clean as yours!

Nice one!

KR lump on twin webbers will sound cool

That's what I want on the KR in the Jetta... though I'm actually researching into Bike carbs...

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmm!

dsmithmobile wrote:KR lump on twin webbers will sound cool

Geeman wrote:That's what I want on the KR in the Jetta... though I'm actually researching into Bike carbs...

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmm!

haha cheers dsmith I'm hoping so Geeman i often find myself making engine noises too when working on the car lol

Think if i was going to do it again i would definately look into bike carbs prob cheaper an easier to run than the webbers... geeman do it! do it now! you know you wanna

Stop it!

I'm easily influenced by others!

I've only just finished the KR swap... this will be a winter build project for next year I think.

Yours is looking good though!

easily influenced you say...............

DO IT
DO IT
DO IT!

lol

sure you will have seen thisbut... DO IT!

edit just found a better vid click me v busy at work today

a crazed troll brought me a present today......