Ratty Mk1 Golf

[RatJack]

So, the only thing stopping me from being on the road is some $2 Welch plugs. I bought 35mm plugs hoping they were right but they're 36mm. Dang. To get to them we have to drop the entire engine as there's just not enough room behind the engine. Double dang. I guess this is what you get when you park a car for 7 years without draining any fluids. Also found some loose bolts everywhere, including missing bolts on the driveshafts :/


On the other hand, I acquired a passenger guard from a great friend and fellow Team floG member and got mum to paint it up for me inspired by Sharpie art

[RatJack]

So, many MANY things have happened since the last update.

We picked up the rust bucket







And then I made the heartbreaking decision.

I decided to cut my losses with my beloved Golf. But not entirely...

The plan now evolved to have my defected Golf as our racecar and to put all of the good bits out of it into the rusty shell as 90% of the rust was surface. Queue the montage





Full dash swap







Seats swapped





Passenger guard had at one stage had rust cut out and duct tape put over top so that guard had to go and will be replaced shortly



Swapped the grille and a headlight



Found a leaking rear Welch plug



And made a silly exhaust tip



Once the leaks are fixed and the guard is replaced I shall be mobile once more

[RatJack]

i came.

Cheers

Update!

Not really.

I **** my car.



Since getting defected, the injector pump has started leaking diesel and a fiddly little coolant hose has decided to leak, along with my rocker cover gasket. :/

But I did install a shitty CD player I got for free



But the big update is this





This beautiful piece of diesel rust is the new racecar for us here at Team flog Motorsport ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-...362617373&_rdr ) but it will also supply bits to my Golf my friend Taylor started this team just for a bit of fun, and here is his Mk1

[coronaboner]

i came.

[RatJack]

that is one dusty motor.

It's now been stripped of all even slightly useful bits and thrown down the back of the shed haha

[Minty_Fresh]

that is one dusty motor.

[RatJack]

heef why u do dis ;~;

[heef]

Jackson pls.

[RatJack]

Replaced the gear linkage bushes and took it for a test drive on a dirt road and my exhaust fell off :/ sounds meaty as though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ar-e2VdVfU&feature=youtube_gdata_player&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7ar-e2VdVfU%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

[RatJack]

New Zealand is getting just as bad man My mate drove my car the other night and got pulled over 3 times in one hour and they checked my car all three times for modifications lucky i had everything back to stock then :|

:/ fuck that man, sounds just like over here. Treated like bloody criminals.

Anyway, on a change of note, Mk1 stuff is hard to come by in Australia. Diesel Mk1 stuff? Impossibru! So imagine my surprise when a mate has a diesel Mk1 engine in amongst his dozens of Holden engines in a shed in a paddock. Mine now

[Evilist]

I would, but New Zealand is more promising haha. Plus then I could bring the Golf with me, as well as the missus having family there.

On the upside, the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party has managed to score the Victorian seat in our Senate, meaning we may actually get to influence something! Yay!

Also, I bought a phone with a decent camera

But, I'm moving, so the static scenery of the current photos will change to some shit country Australian backdrop aha. Currently the canola is flowering so we have nothing but seas of yellow paddocks to look at. Might take a photo or two of me driving out there (our local cop said I can drive the car defected to our new house but if I get pulled over I tell them I'm meeting a mechanic there)

New Zealand is getting just as bad man My mate drove my car the other night and got pulled over 3 times in one hour and they checked my car all three times for modifications lucky i had everything back to stock then :|

[RatJack]

Moved house so the Golf naturally moved with me.

Have some photos of it including obligatory nozzle-in-filler neck pics

[RatJack]

Sheesh.. that blows, man.


I laughed at "tooting" the horn. lol.


My car has no washer bottle, no cat, no muffler, no emissions equipment of any sort, and a fox tail blocking my view.

My friend Stuarts car has... well.... it would get a defect too.

So yes, move here. Be our friend.

I would, but New Zealand is more promising haha. Plus then I could bring the Golf with me, as well as the missus having family there.

On the upside, the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party has managed to score the Victorian seat in our Senate, meaning we may actually get to influence something! Yay!

Also, I bought a phone with a decent camera

But, I'm moving, so the static scenery of the current photos will change to some shit country Australian backdrop aha. Currently the canola is flowering so we have nothing but seas of yellow paddocks to look at. Might take a photo or two of me driving out there (our local cop said I can drive the car defected to our new house but if I get pulled over I tell them I'm meeting a mechanic there)

[M.Doban]

Sheesh.. that blows, man.


I laughed at "tooting" the horn. lol.


My car has no washer bottle, no cat, no muffler, no emissions equipment of any sort, and a fox tail blocking my view.

My friend Stuarts car has... well.... it would get a defect too.

So yes, move here. Be our friend.

[RatJack]

Stock height