I've killed my car!!!

Had a bit of a water pump/ dashboard/ Head gasket problem in my beloved Mk1 Cabby on Saturday night!!!
Still every clowd has a silver lining & it just so happened that 'Breadvanman' was part way through his 2.0 16v Engine conversion on his Bready when we realised that without a major overhaul of the bay, there was no way that engine was gonna fit in his car!!! Lucky me!!!

So needless to say i've now got a bit of a project on the go!!!

The car got towed this morning in to the hands of Tinkler Brother in Ramsey and the new engine follows on saturday morning!!
Will try and get some photo's uploaded asap. & keep daily updates.

Will keep you posted with it dude

and photos will be taken as we go along

Nice 1 Mike, i'll try & pop round today mate. Getting now!!!
Just to let you all know i've ordered a new Ashley 16v Conversion Manifold that should be delivered on monday.

Greeny wrote:

Nice 1 Mike, i'll try & pop round today mate. Getting now!!!
Just to let you all know i've ordered a new Ashley 16v Conversion Manifold that should be delivered on monday.

Sweet...will let the garage know

I spoke with Caddyrage yesterday about it & came to the decision that buying new was the way forward!! We couldn't find any second hand one's online and the project would have just stopped without it.

Greeny wrote:

I spoke with Caddyrage yesterday about it & came to the decision that buying new was the way forward!! We couldn't find any second hand one's online and the project would have just stopped without it.

he does talk sense sometimes

When it comes to something like this...unfortunately new is best :(

I'll have to agree with you there! Not sure my wallet does though!!
The way i see it, you may aswell replace as many bits for new as possible while the engine's out....could save a lot of agro and money in the long run!! Or thats what i keep telling the Mrs anyway.!
So far the new parts consist of:

16v Conversion Exhaust manifold
Clutch
Cam Belt
All new gaskets.

I did ask someone about a 4 branch on your behalf james as a guy i know is pulling his 16v out to fit a vr6 instead. He's keeping the 16v conversion for another mk1 so its probs a good job you ordered new as there hard to find used.

I seen the holes in the 8v block , front and back of number 1 chamber. Thats good going lol.
Nevermind, you'll soon have a respectable 160bhp under the bonnet soon

CaddyRage wrote:

I did ask someone about a 4 branch on your behalf james as a guy i know is pulling his 16v out to fit a vr6 instead. He's keeping the 16v conversion for another mk1 so its probs a good job you ordered new as there hard to find used.

I seen the holes in the 8v block , front and back of number 1 chamber. Thats good going lol.
Nevermind, you'll soon have a respectable 160bhp under the bonnet soon

Yeah the holes are good ones!

Only a shame it's 160ish bhp with 16 valves :(

Had to laugh last night watching slips on sky...the guys racing a 1.6 honda civic against a mk2 golf 8v...the guy racing the civic said it was obvious they would win as they had 16 valves

Now how did i know you'd say something about the power

CaddyRage wrote:

Now how did i know you'd say something about the power

because i always do We're both biased though

VW Mike wrote:

CaddyRage wrote:

Now how did i know you'd say something about the power

because i always do We're both biased though

Well thats true but we'll see what my golf does next year down the pod

CaddyRage wrote:

VW Mike wrote:

CaddyRage wrote:

Now how did i know you'd say something about the power

because i always do We're both biased though

Well thats true but we'll see what my golf does next year down the pod

8v vs 8v FTW

I seen the holes in the 8v block , front and back of number 1 chamber. Thats good going lol.


I know i cant believe how much damage ive done!!! still it makes me feel a lot better about having to put the new engine in, as there really is no hope left for the old one now! although put a piece of glass on top and it could make a pretty wicked coffee table!!

Get those pics up Greeny!!!! You need to show off them holes dude!!

10 points

The Morning the car got picked up, on the way to Tinkler Bros.

Just arrived!!! Now the fun begins!

Me & Breadvanman get to work on giving the new 2.0 16v engine a bit of a clean

In the end we kinda gave up with attempting to clean the block, as we just didn't have half the tools we needed to get bit off & give it a good clean.
So we concentrated on the Inlet Manifold & Rocker Cover.





I'll get some more pics on as we go

Hopefully the new Exhaust manifold will turn up tomorrow, fingers crossed!!

Head looks sweet man

thats one way of doing lettering with paint lol

Check out these holes!! Not sure that was meant to happen!! With the old DEAD 1.8 8v out and on the floor we realised just how much i'd screwed it!!



Saturday morning VW Mike picked the new engine up in his T5 and i popped over to see how things were coming along with the car at the garage. With it up on the ramp i could really have a good look round it and was suprised at how clean it was. Which is nice!!!

What paint did you use on the inlet james? looks like chalkboard paint

Looks similar to mine, i like it

Awesome work dude Can't wait to have this running!