2002 VW Lupo Cambridge - JDO

[DawsonLiri]

What a mess!

PS: what manifold is that?

[Deaky97]

Afternoon all,

So the fronts off, all i'm left to do now is put the engine and gearbox back together, then it's good to go in!





With the slam panel and rad off, i've made a start of lable'ing up the engine harness, just so i can copy everything over onto the 1.4 loom. This will save me hours of head scratching.



By rights, with the driveshafts out it's literally a case of getting an engine crane in place, taking the support bolts and exhaust off, then pulling the engine out from the front with a pallet truck..

[Deaky97]

Damn, this gear post reminded me why I love this build thread so much. Very interesting to see this explained to a buffoon like me!

Also, if you don't make any attempts to somewhat smooth the bay once the engine is out I will be very disappointed! Make the most of that space once it's out

It's all quite simple tbh, i'll show you with my spare gears when i see you for my birthday!

Meh, that's all a question of time, and how long i can keep my car where it is. Without the workshop and tools at work i'm bollocks'd, so smoothing the bay isn't really on the list. Wire tucking however, that is something i can do.

I support the bay shave idea

See, great minds think alike. We'll just have to see how i do for time. Either way, it's getting the biggest clean and detail of it's life when the engines out.

They're even more rare here, never see one around!

24 left on UK roads. Shame really, most Lupo GTI's end up being owned by chavs, wrapped around tree's or sat on an Omex limiters in a mcdonalds car parks.

[DawsonLiri]

Hahahaha it took some abuse to say the least. They're super rare over here! I'm pretty sure this is one of 23 left in Raven blue!

They're even more rare here, never see one around!

[Fruttolo]

I support the bay shave idea

[Mehowski]

Damn, this gear post reminded me why I love this build thread so much. Very interesting to see this explained to a buffoon like me!

Also, if you don't make any attempts to somewhat smooth the bay once the engine is out I will be very disappointed! Make the most of that space once it's out

[Deaky97]

And now, some maths.

So, i've got this 1.4 16v Sport gearbox. They differ from the 75BHP box as they are geared for economy, whereas the 100 BHP box is geared for acceleration. Now when my 75BHP box exploded on my Polo, i kept the 5th gear from it. So here's what i've done.

This is the 75BHP gear setup.



Tooth count taken on the 75 BHP gears

Input - 50 Teeth
Output - 37 Teeth
37/50 = 0.74 5th gear ratio

This is the 100 BHP Gear setup.





Tooth count taken on the 100 BHP Gears

Input - 46 Teeth
Output 41 Teehth
41/46 = 0.89 5th gear ratio

So by putting my Longer 5th gear on, i'll roughly see a drop of 20.5% RPM across the gear. Which roughly calculated means the top end is pushed from 124 MPH to 149MPH. This means mega fuel economy at 5th gear, allowing me to cruise at about 2800 RPM at 70, instead of about 3700 RPM at 70.

So thats now on, i'm about to stick the box in the paraffin washer and clean it up before i dust some paint over it!

[Deaky97]

They look better on the blue one!

You know what i think i agree tbh!!Just wish they were 8J instead of 7!

That blue GTi is penggggggggggg.

I love it man! I need to give it more appreciation really, i never really use it!

RIP mighty 1.0, you're never gonna be forgotten!

Damn, the blue one looks so great, send me one of those!

Hahahaha it took some abuse to say the least. They're super rare over here! I'm pretty sure this is one of 23 left in Raven blue!

[DawsonLiri]

After 17 years, 119,596 miles, an horrific amount of burnouts, abuse and noise, the 1.0 is done. Here's the replacement, a nice 1.4 100 bhp lump. 75K miles, complete with gearbox, loom and various other supporting components.. I'm so excited to begin the conversion. I'm hoping with the addition of my GTI injectors, Throttle body, inlet and 4-2-1 manifold followed by a map that i'll have in the region of 130 ish bhp.... that will be much better than the sub 45 i have now

RIP mighty 1.0, you're never gonna be forgotten!

Damn, the blue one looks so great, send me one of those!

[Benjaholic]

That blue GTi is penggggggggggg.

[Fruttolo]

They look better on the blue one!

[Deaky97]

Dropped my bumpers off saturday, hopefully should have them back in 3/4 weeks!! In the meantime, i made the daily look a bit cooler.

[Deaky97]

Made a start of stripping the car this week, bumper and crash beam off, ready for the bumper to go down to Exeter tomorrow for my friend Kurt to do some body work for me...*

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It's going out to be made to look like this (Excuse the v poor render) which i'm right in thinking will b the first time it's actually ever been done, to my knowledge at least anyway!*

I also split the engine and box last night, and removed the fly wheel so i can get the engine on a stand and begin checking it over, refreshing and servicing it.*

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So thats where i'm at this week. I'm not going to bother pulling the engine and box out just yet, i thought it'd make sense to get the 1.4 engine and box built up correctly and ready, meaning i can just pull one setup out and drop another in, instead of leaving the car around with no front end on it.... I'm going to pull some of the interior out today, and hand that over to my friend Mikey for some fresh trimming... i'm getting very very excited now.

I really really need to make time to get onto my splits now too, i just don't know what colour to go with!!! I'm honestly thinking about doing them body colour tbh, i can picture it looking super clean.*

[Deaky97]

Well, let me start with happy new year to you all. What an amazing year. Seriously excited for what this year will bring!



Here's me on Monday evening after far too many shots

In other news







After 17 years, 119,596 miles, an horrific amount of burnouts, abuse and noise, the 1.0 is done. Here's the replacement, a nice 1.4 100 bhp lump. 75K miles, complete with gearbox, loom and various other supporting components.. I'm so excited to begin the conversion. I'm hoping with the addition of my GTI injectors, Throttle body, inlet and 4-2-1 manifold followed by a map that i'll have in the region of 130 ish bhp.... that will be much better than the sub 45 i have now

[Deaky97]

This cracked me up! Nice video

Always had a soft spot for small cars. Good job on that one

|Glad you enjoyed it man! Was a right laugh making it hahahaha

I saw the video the other, hilarious af! You guys are crazy

We don't mess about lol, you wait for what we have lined up next year

This is rad! Love the Xmas themed shots too!

Michal always rocks out some banging shots man!