mossy Posted April 28, 2011 Author Posted April 28, 2011 I've got a current golf gti as well Tim which i back in to the garage and it just scrapes on the way out, I think I may get the factory valance and the aftermarket spoiler painted so i have the option anyway. Quote
acf321 Posted April 29, 2011 Posted April 29, 2011 Mossy Love the teaser shot of the wheels. Any chance you can take some of the front setup / offset and also of the rear and car side on? I want to get a perspective of the tyre height relative to the body and wheels (as do i suspect about 800 other blokes!). Looking super too, the car and engine that is! Cheers Adam. Quote
mossy Posted April 30, 2011 Author Posted April 30, 2011 Will do Adam, just don't have the panels at the moment, when i get them back i will take a pic then. Quote
mossy Posted April 30, 2011 Author Posted April 30, 2011 Painted the gearbox today, gave it a good degreasing a few times as the crud was in all the pits, then went over it a few times with wax and grease remover and then painted aluminium, came up pretty good i think. Quote
benny Posted April 30, 2011 Posted April 30, 2011 Hey Mossy, Any reason why you painted instead of blasting or something?? Quote
mossy Posted April 30, 2011 Author Posted April 30, 2011 If I bead blast the box i would want to get the whole thing stripped down and rebuilt, but it worked fine when i was driving it so a nice paint job and some seals will do for now , the other major factor is money is getting tight at the moment with our baby coming so I will have to watch the cash flow, or at least hide it from the missus Quote
peter mc Posted April 30, 2011 Posted April 30, 2011 Just a few pics of the motor going togethet Mossy. The pic of the crank shows the screw in plugs and the ARP studs. Quote
peter mc Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Hi mossy just need to no if you are runing a electric pump on it or not .hope you like the pics Quote
Scoota G Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Niice, looks like the cam is yet to be dialed in. Quote
mossy Posted May 7, 2011 Author Posted May 7, 2011 Thats gonna look sweet in my orange engine bay Quote
peter mc Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 No that's the position it been dialed in ,will be a tuff L28 580th at the valve 280deg wade cam 45mmOTR carbs 10.5 comp all the good stuff will be a fast road car. this is number 10 . 10 l28s this year so far only 4 more in the shed to go ..... arrr Quote
Scoota G Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Gee those carbs and sump look HoT, pure Porn. Stuff the EFI. Quote
Sirpent Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Great work Pete. For someone that can get the best out of these motors, you also make them look simple but sweet from the outside also. Quote
mossy Posted May 9, 2011 Author Posted May 9, 2011 Looks great Peter look forward to picking it up soon Quote
mossy Posted September 3, 2011 Author Posted September 3, 2011 Time to get back on this project or I'll never get it finished, so i bolted up the panels today to see if the gaps were good before the rest of the filler work is done on the body, as you can imagine it needs some tweaking but hopefully the beater can finish it off nicely. I also took off the front r33 caliper front disc conversion and placed the standard calipers with slotted rotors back on, the bigger setup was originally made for my 16x9 watanabes but I'm only going to use this on the street now so there's no need for it, I'll still be using the r31 disc conversion though. Quote
Sirpent Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Looks sensational Mossy even in its pre-paint form. Quote
mossy Posted September 3, 2011 Author Posted September 3, 2011 Thanks mate. I hope to have it painted by the end of the year Quote
KatoKid Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Looks great Mossy.....getting closer so good motivation, Quote
acf321 Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 ditto Mark ... Your car looks like a monster. Engine looks ridiculous too. Looking fwd to seeing it.... in my rear view mirror Quote
mossy Posted December 10, 2011 Author Posted December 10, 2011 We started working on the 240 again this week so happy to report progress is being made, looking like it will be in primer by xmas. Not sure if I'm being too fussy about gaps though, the door and gaps were being worked on today (aftermarket dog legs not helping the matter) got the gap uniform at the fender but the rear qtr was proving a pain, got to the stage were I was pretty happy with it but now I'm having second thoughts as it tapers out slightly at the top. Quote
Moderators Zedman240® Posted December 10, 2011 Moderators Posted December 10, 2011 Don't forget these cars were hand made new so door and other panel gaps weren't up to today's standard! Get them as close as you can but don't stress. Quote
zzzzed Posted December 10, 2011 Posted December 10, 2011 yes panel gaps are shocking on these cars from the factory. I wouldn't be over concerned. I got mine better than standard. I didnt realise this until i started checking out other peoples gaps. I ended up splitting and re welding the dog legs to make the door gaps better. But if i hat have realised how bad they were from the factory i would not have bothered Quote
mossy Posted December 10, 2011 Author Posted December 10, 2011 Had to do the same split and reweld to the dog leg as it off from the door. I might go to the garage and stare at the gap a bit more to see if I'm happy with, better to change my mind now than when its painted Quote
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