Angry Bee

Rain rain rain,

Well I haven't been able to do much as the rain is making to hard for me to do my bits, I have received back to hubs and driveshafts now separated.

And I have finished my air intake apart from the crankcase breather which I've ordered a golf part which should be able to bring it together.

Engine is running nicely now, I think I have a bit of old fuel in the tank but I will add more new fuel before it goes on the road. Hopefully Wednesday will be a nice day and I can take a few hours from work to do my driveshafts. I'm not sure if I will do the suspension at the same time now as I'm running out of time personally and professionally until the new baby comes. It must be driver-able by then otherwise its going to be sometime before it can be done, a few bits won't be an issue but it must have an MOT and be usable. I think I will use it to commute in and give the TDi a rest, at least it will get nice and warm quickly!!
 
This evening I have been tidying wires, repacked all the wires under the passages foot well, not looking too bad god bless Tesa tape.

I also replaced the coil pack as these are quite cheap on autodoc my new favourite website and they go so I thought might as well.

Yesterday I did one driveshaft back on to the gearbox turns out the lupo gearbox cups are 94mm and the a2 ones are something like 100mm so this is why I couldn’t get them on!
So I ordered a lupo inner CV which fits. Haven’t been able to full put this side back together as the outer cv now needs doing as it was damaged splitting the hub from the shaft. That’s going to be a fun one.

Going to take a few hours tomorrow and try and do the driveshaft on the other side and maybe try to do the outer cv.




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So after the last few days I have fitted on driveshaft, I’ve had the take the radiator off along with the front of the car again to fit all the aircon pipes, only to find the bolts on the aircon compressor weren’t there so I have to source one of the bolts as I could a spare.


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Today I had a spare hour while that little one was sleep, changed the tie rod ends and did the driveshaft and the passage side. Need to pay for some bolts with VW to get the new splash guards fitted


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So I’ve been doing a few bits, hubs are back on. Brake are all together. Errors are cleared from the abs sensors, I now only need to bleed the clutch and put the front wheels on and I can test drive!

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A2Steve said:
Well done, exciting times, maybe this weekend?
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Maybe tomorrow, weekends are unfortunately less productive as my little one is attached to me most of the time so can’t do anything like this as she will want to do it too.
I normally have 50 minutes a day where I can do this type of work and this is reducing with the light.

Then it will be off for an MOT


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Edwrai said:
Maybe tomorrow, weekends are unfortunately less productive as my little one is attached to me most of the time so can’t do anything like this as she will want to do it too.
I normally have 50 minutes a day where I can do this type of work and this is reducing with the light.

Then it will be off for an MOT


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I know exactly where you are coming from. Most of my breaking is done from about 9pm until 11pm after the kids go to bed, its otherwise impossible. Felicity asked to help when I was just washing the car on sunday and had decided to draw pictures in the side of the car with a screwdriver.....luckily it was the breaker.
 
Loving this project, a true testament to determination...I said it earlier in the thread, but I truly doff my cap to you sir...looking forward to seeing in the flesh one day hopefully...
 
It drives!! So today I got back quickly from work mindful that Sunday the clocks go back and I won’t have the light as work on the drive!

Used my newly acquired brake system pressuring thing, bled the clutch in less than 5 minutes amazing. Then put the wheels on! Removed all my tools from the drives foot well. And decided to move the car! Drove to the end of my drive and..... no power steering oh dear, turn it off go to restart.... nothing dead oh no! Get out the car. And realise that I left the charging wires connected in my haste to go for a test drive these had pinged the battery wires off as I drove off.... oops!

Battery reconnected and go for a drive, All seems fine, rear brakes dragging but expected from standing for what must have been 2 years!

Got back and even found the clip I lost while doing the gear selector yay, @A2Steve don’t need this now ;)

So just the windscreen wiper needs to go on. A tidy of the junk in the car. Couple of little bits and it’s ready for the MOT.

Very happy.

Me and this car have a bit of history, over 2 years ago I was looking for a yellow one, someone on the forum messaged me and said there is a yellow 1.6fsi that going to be broken can you save it. I messaged the guy and he said it has a head gasket failure etc. And I really didn’t want to get into, so I didn’t take it any further.

In February, I saw someone was breaking a yellow 1.6fsi I didn’t put 2 and 2 together but it turns out it was the same car, after a little chat with him, very nice guy, not far from you in fact Steve. It turns out his mate had a spare lupo gti engine after doing a 1.8t swap, he had thought about doing the conversation himself but decided against it as he had other projects. I still didn’t want to take it on really, but after talking to my friend with a industrial unit for hobby stuff who said he would do it for me and it would be fairly easy, so I went ahead and bought the complete engine and gearbox and ecu for £500 and the car for £300.

So I go down and get it with a trailer and bring it back. It drove okish. Loosing coolant every warning light on etc. And it gets parked up, months go by and nothing happening, my friend was busy with other projects, I then get the news he’s leaving his unit and we have 1 night to swap the engine, so one late night later the engine is in, but have no where to store the old engine this goes to scrap along with load of other I now realise very useful bits I would need for the build. So it goes back onto a lorry and is moved to my house.

And hear we are a fully working driving car, oh the joys... just the air con needs to be figured out now, and I’m sure countless bits as and when.... it maybe driving but we will see where this one goes....




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Fantastic, well done. As for the clip, it’s all packed and on its way to you along with about 5kg of screws fixings and other bits and bobs you may need lol
 
As for the car, it really is a small world. I had spoken to the guy when he first put it up for sale and asked about buying it. He then decided to break it and I heard no note about it. Really glad it came to you, you really did save it.

Trouble is now, do you keep both yellow colour storms?
 
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As for the car, it really is a small world. I had spoken to the guy when he first put it up for sale and asked about buying it. He then decided to break it and I heard no note about it. Really glad it came to you, you really did save it.

Trouble is now, do you keep both yellow colour storms?
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Certainly one is my partners car which she loves very much so it will be staying. My 90 does most of the dirty work and is cheap to run. The odd one out is my 330k one this one doesn’t do anything at the moment but it’s lovely and don’t really want to let it go.


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Edwrai said:
Certainly one is my partners car which she loves very much so it will be staying. My 90 does most of the dirty work and is cheap to run. The odd one out is my 330k one this one doesn’t do anything at the moment but it’s lovely and don’t really want to let it go.


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A2BA :)
 
One oil refill pipe repaired, will put jubilee clips on it but it’s very firm as it is.

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It’s been a while, well yesterday she passed her MOT with no advisories, and I’ve been driving her ever since! More power than I was expecting, really takes off over 4k rpm and the gearbox matching is so perfect can even pull 6th at 25mph. Such a flexible engine. Just a couple of wiring issues to sort out, with a couple of intermittent issues on the rear lambda and I the throttle sense that can but it into a serious limp mode with seems to cap it at 20bhp but I know the 4 wires this could be and will take a look today. Also the temp gauge and an intermittent on the camsensor but apart from this she’s tuning great. Sit a little high on her B3s and b6 stocks but the handling with the these and the rear antiroll bar is amazing it makes my 90 look like a pig.

Also have a squeak on the front brakes most likely need cleaning up.

But she is everything I was expecting and has created something that really is lovely to drive and just wants to take off all the time!


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I know a guy in Germany who has done this conversion. After much discussion he advised fuel consumption is poor..... because he can't help squirting it everywhere. He has never driven it carefully to see what he could achieve!

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