Jetta

Is coming along well.. you don't hang around with things do ya

Really like this jetta i've only seen it the once when i came round to pick up the welder but does look nice

btw are you porting the head? or is it being done somewhere? if you are doing it could i ask what your using to do it, and how much roughly you are grinding out... would be interested to know

james. wrote:

Is coming along well.. you don't hang around with things do ya

Really like this jetta i've only seen it the once when i came round to pick up the welder but does look nice

btw are you porting the head? or is it being done somewhere? if you are doing it could i ask what your using to do it, and how much roughly you are grinding out... would be interested to know

Haven't got time to hang about I've got less than 3 weeks to get it running before testing at Gti Festival...then less than 2 weeks after that before the next Drag Racing round (and the photo shoot with the other watercooled VWDRC cars for Performance VW magazine).

Cheers for the comments

Paul at Tinkler Bros (my sponsor) is porting my head for me. He has used some sort of metal drill bit to get the majority of the excess metal out...then will be using a die grinder to polish the ports. In terms of how much we are removing we used the exhaust manifold gaskets (which fit the manifold perfectly) as a template and then taking out enough metal to match the ports to the exhaust manifold. At the same time we have used a wire brush attachment on a pillar drill to remove the crap off the valves.

Paul should be porting tyeness's head and possibly Caddyrage's after mine...so if you were interested i am sure that Paul could give you a price if you didn't want to do it yourself...or if you did want to do it yourself I am sure if you popped in for a chat he could talk you through what he is doing

Looking good buddy

Gunna be 1 swift jetta

ahh right yeah that makes sense matching it up with the gasket.. will have a readup about it a bit more. May have a go myself if my headgasket goes and need the head off. Thats cursed it now

hope you get it all finished in time!

Dont be making your ports too big or you lose air speed , big ports arent the name of the game, well shaped ones with no obstructions are. If your not having bigger valves put in you dont need massive ports. Is the drill bit attachment hes using a carbide cutter?

Tiz wrote:

Dont be making your ports too big or you lose air speed , big ports arent the name of the game, well shaped ones with no obstructions are. If your not having bigger valves put in you dont need massive ports. Is the drill bit attachment hes using a carbide cutter?

Might be dude, not sure. He had done a few of his own cars, and used to work for williams f1 and one of the touring car teams so knows what he's doing
Thanks for the advice though.

VW Mike wrote:

Tiz wrote:

Dont be making your ports too big or you lose air speed , big ports arent the name of the game, well shaped ones with no obstructions are. If your not having bigger valves put in you dont need massive ports. Is the drill bit attachment hes using a carbide cutter?

Might be dude, not sure. He had done a few of his own cars, and used to work for williams f1 and one of the touring car teams so knows what he's doing
Thanks for the advice though.

ah no worries on knowing what hes doing then sounds like a good chap to have on side dude.

Tiz wrote:

VW Mike wrote:

Tiz wrote:

Dont be making your ports too big or you lose air speed , big ports arent the name of the game, well shaped ones with no obstructions are. If your not having bigger valves put in you dont need massive ports. Is the drill bit attachment hes using a carbide cutter?

Might be dude, not sure. He had done a few of his own cars, and used to work for williams f1 and one of the touring car teams so knows what he's doing
Thanks for the advice though.

ah no worries on knowing what hes doing then sounds like a good chap to have on side dude.

He is a good chap to have on side...without these guys i wouldn't be racing this year.

Saturday we got a little more done

Got the front coilovers fitted...



got the wheels refitted as well...can't see it in the picture...but i now got camber lol!



Thanks to tyeness for his help

and the best news i had all week...i can pick up the carbs on Thursday evening

CaddyRage wrote:

Looking good buddy

Gunna be 1 swift jetta

Cheers dude

Hopefully she will be quick

coming together nicely mike as lee said not going to be slow.

Lupton_20vt wrote:

coming together nicely mike as lee said not going to be slow.

Cheers dude...and hopefully she won' t be ...hoping to have it back together and ready to attempt starting on Saturday

Will post a video when she does fire

good luck with that mike i hope it doesent give you too much trouble.

Lupton_20vt wrote:

good luck with that mike i hope it doesent give you too much trouble.

Yeah i hope not either

Got some more done last night...stayed later at the garage and tackled the engine bay wiring....just forgot to take a pic before i started where you can see the wiring close up...needless to say anyone who had seen my engine bay will know it was a mess.

This is what i stated with...can just about see the mess



and after 1 - 1.5 hrs this is what i was left with



You can't really see from the pics...but i guarantee it looks a million times better (oh and the electrical tape is to satisfy the scrutineers at Santa Pod)

the die grinder finally turned up on Monday...so the head went from like this last week



to this yesterday...with just the polishing to go



All ports are matched to the corresponding manifolds

And the Classics sold yesterday...so until i get back tonight for the new tyres...this is how she will be rolling

i know those steels!

looking sweet mate keep up the progress

max wrote:

i know those steels!

looking sweet mate keep up the progress

LOL!! cheers for the loan of them dude You can have them back next time i see you

VW Mike wrote:

max wrote:

i know those steels!

looking sweet mate keep up the progress

LOL!! cheers for the loan of them dude You can have them back next time i see you

lol na its fine mate you can borrow them as long as you need them for. there just going to end up in my shed as spares anyway.

Well the tyres for my 14 inch steels arrive today so hopefully i will get chance to fit them this afternoon

a small update...

No carbs today, the guy im getting them from put them back together and found the bearings for the throttle had a minute amount of play in them and wasnt happy with that so has some new bearings coming for them.
He hopes to have them rebuilt and be happy with them over the weekend. To be fair though im getting a bargain so dont mind waiting a little longer

Sounds like a good chap. Better to get things spot on the first time rather than have to replace things later on.

did you get your tyres fitted?

james. wrote:

Sounds like a good chap. Better to get things spot on the first time rather than have to replace things later on.

did you get your tyres fitted?

Yeah got the tyres fitted thanks dude, having issues getting them to fit though as the camber and tracking needs setting. Spacers should be here tomorrow...so will get some pics up then

Got a little more done yesterday...built up the inlet manifold ready for the carbs



and tidied up the birds nest of multicoloured wiring under the dash



Oh and Wednesday night i won a brand new set of Magnecor leads for £25 which should be here today.

Gad! Progress progress progress. Going to be awesome.

Be around tomorrow for a peek and some chat dude

tyeness wrote:

Gad! Progress progress progress. Going to be awesome.

Be around tomorrow for a peek and some chat dude

Sounds good to me dude Haven't got much time to hang around...only 19 days until i leave for Bug Jam