Bluefox's Volkswagen Golf G60

[Bluefox]

Well, here she is!

More to follow soon

[Baker21]

So this is the new work place is it...........

Looks like it's in good condition from what I can see in the pic and your sig pic but I look forward to some updates........

[Bluefox]

So this is the new work place is it...........

Looks like it's in good condition from what I can see in the pic and your sig pic but I look forward to some updates........

Yeah, sadly that transit fell on her after I took the pic, so I'm now carless again...

[jonnycatbiscuit]

I like that... the earlier Golfs were the best!

[Bluefox]

Okay, so first proper update.

This is exactly how I got her. Picked her up last week from just outside Guildford.

She's a 1992 3-door VW Golf GTI 16v which as you can see has been converted to run a G60 (1.8 8v supercharged) engine. Her current specification is as follows:

Performance

1.8 G60 engine from VW Corrado

68mm pulley

High-lift cam

4-1 exhaust manifold

Jetex stainless manifold-back system with twin 3" pipes

K&N Induction kit

Mercedes Sprinter front mounted intercooler with custom stainless pipework

Suspension/braking

-40mm springs on Turbo Gas shocks

G60 brakes

BBS RA 15" wheels with 195/50/15 tyres

Cosmetic

Genuine "big bumper" model

Debadged and smoothed rear end

Flat rear wiper

Single front wiper conversion with Aero-Twin wiper

Mint rainbow interior

"Stealth" parcel shelf with Kenwood 6x9's

Headlamp "eyebrow" spoiler

Black front grille VW badge

Deleted front GTI badge

There's still plenty to do, but as you can see from the pics her bodywork is in excellent condition and there's the biggest pile of history paperwork I've ever seen in my life:

...even that pic doesn't do the paperwork justice.

Anyway, there's a load more to update you with but I thought I'd just wet your appetite for now

[Robshaw]

Looks amazing

[Babs]

Tidy mate

What happened with the A2?

[Yella]

Nice work on your Golf but I take it that the 5 litre V12 twin turbo charged Transit project isn't progressing so well.

What sort of power is it producing and what do those things weigh?

EDIT - The second question is about the Golf not the Transit. I made that project up you know!

[Bluefox]

Looks amazing

Cheers Rob

Hopefully you'll see her at the National Day.

[Bluefox]

Tidy mate

What happened with the A2?

Thanks

Just updated the A2's PD with the reasons. Just wanted something fun

[Bluefox]

Nice work on your Golf but I take it that the 5 litre V12 twin turbo charged Transit project isn't progressing so well.

What sort of power is it producing and what do those things weigh?

EDIT - The second question is about the Golf not the Transit. I made that project up you know!

The Transit's coming on surprisingly well, had her running last week but we've run out of the aviation fuel we need so she's on a back burner for now...

I estimate she's about 190-200bhp at the moment, and I think they weigh about 900kgs. I'm hoping for about 220 when I've sorted out a couple of things and got her properly setup, she's not breathing properly and the....

Well, see the next installment

[gmaster]

Love it! When i had my rado G60 i loved it, always thought about getting a mk2 g60 great power to weight ratio and great noise!

[Babs]

Decent spec there!

[Bluefox]

Updates:

Drove her back from Guildford, ran her to work for a couple of days, so on and so forth. Already started a list of things I wanted to change, so I could "make my mark" on her.

Few more pictures:

Nothing exciting happened, until she started leaking oil. Nothing serious, I mean it's a 17 year old car - to be expected, right? It was then I realised that this might have something to do with the slipping clutch.

Another thing I wasn't so worried about, a 94k Corrado engine with 200+ bhp and a standard clutch - not a good thing. I'd made plans to change it in the next few weeks anyway; but it was at this point I realised that I'd used a gallon of oil in two days.

Whoops. I started to worry; then I looked out the window and saw the oil slick on my flat's allocated parking... whoops again!

Anyway, with this going on she was promptly driven to work (sometimes working in a scrap yard with a tyre bay and acres of space is handy) and investigation started:

...quickly, my beautiful assistant (thanks again Dave) found out the sump bolts were loose:

So, while this was going on, I turned my attention to what was occuring up top. After the usual wipe & rub I thought the source could be part of the intercooler plumbing:

...so, I dismantled it:

Despite it looking a little shonky, the seal was good and there was very little oil in the cooler pipework. Relief.

Back together, and by this point Dave had finished under the car. Started... still leaking. I took the opportunity to fix a weeping fuel pipe with a handy length donated by an ELV Audo A6 20vT. Keeping it dub

Seriously though, still oil leaking so open came the bonnet again - first thing we saw was this hole in the cam/rocker cover:

Naturally, we looked at the flow of the oil and where it was present on the engine, and it seemed consistent with the theory that the oil I was pouring in was coming out this hole and spreading itself over the engine. A quick Google search proved this unlikely as all the G60's had this; however time on this theory was cut short as Dave saw where the oil was coming from...

[amateurstuntman]

Tell me where, I can't bear it...

[Monkey Boy]

Mk2's are a car that you have to know a bit about cars as they are never 100% running spot on there is always something thats needs looking at.

When they fitted the G60 did they fit the wide track G60 suspension?

I see it has G60 front arch trims did they modify the wings?

Looks a nice car apart from the problems.