Turbo'd Mk1 G60.

This is my mk1

I havent made a build thread yet, but i bought it pretty much stock, other than some coilovers and some shitty wheels and other bits and bobs.

I immediatly built up some BBS rms and put them on






this is it at the September meet



i had a day off work today, so i thought i would use it wisely

the car had a mk2 dash fitted, i took that out and was faced with this;




cut a load of it out, as it was all rubbish.

I dont know what mug put the dash in, but i wouldnt employ him.

Tidied it up so it looked like this



then put the new one in. This is all i have atm, so i need the rest of the trim if anyone has it? im keeping the mk2 clocks though, but i may print a white face for them. i dont know what i am going to do with the switches, i could keep them, or swap them for mk1 ones. I also wired some switches in for fan, fuel pump, and interior light.



then the postman came, who brought me some goodies.



Dizzy arm, rotor cap, leads and a coil. the coil was black and silver in the photo and came in yellow and blue! so i sanded the coil down to bare metal which looks much better, then fitted them all.

Along with these came new indicator lenses, so i put them on which look sick compared to the orange ones.



also fitted a duckbill spoiler which mk1g60phil gave to me ;-)



I think it looks sick. I am also thinking about taking the red trim off the grill (even though i only just refurbed it!)

Took the alternater off,

took it apart, wire brushed the f**k out of it, painted some bits then put it back together

before and after




pleased with my work, i thought i would refurb the bracket too, so i took it off and realized how unnessacarily heavy it was, so i gave it to my mate to turn down on a mill

and now its dark and im cold ;-(

looks good mate keep up the good work

looking good mr tom. Get it done BIG inprovement on that dash wiring!

Look at those bags of scotch clips, how very dare you


Looking good mate

Got a new duckbill to fit on mine too, was going to wait til after rolling road session though.

CaddyRage wrote:

Look at those bags of scotch clips, how very dare you

my old boss would fire me for using scotch clips ;-(

i only needed a couple, but its much cheaper to buy in bulk...

Tidying up that dash loom must be a great relief, when I do mine I know who I'm gonna blag to come give me hand to tidy it up !

Good work tom its amazeing what you can do when you take a day off work.I have two dash clock surrounds if you need one and keep the red grill trim on

mk1g60phill wrote:

Good work tom its amazeing what you can do when you take a day off work.I have two dash clock surrounds if you need one and keep the red grill trim on

yes mate! i do

cheers for the splitter bro, im in love with how the front end looks now

is there anything you need? as i feel i owe you ;-)

came home early today to find myself with this



spal fan, cost £28 off ebay, about £90 rrp! bargain.

so i pulled the old one off and popped it on, the thermostat has never worked so its just on a switch with a water temp gauge.

looks so much better. the flow is ridiculous, much better than the £30 ones off ebay which i had on my old car.

the fan is silent in operation, but pulls so much air that it is infact loud as f**k!



old massive which one came off



Fitted the new coil, and took the misbehaving old on off



Did a bit more work on the dash tidying wires



then my mate came round and gave me this which was supposedly fucked and beyond repair,



popped it apart, and it had no grease, and the seals were perished.

went down to a place in royston, who managed to find some replacement seals and spring

cleaned it, greased it and rebuilt it




Dont have any use for it atm though, but i may do in the future

and i leave you with this

thermal wrote:

mk1g60phill wrote:

Good work tom its amazeing what you can do when you take a day off work.I have two dash clock surrounds if you need one and keep the red grill trim on

yes mate! i do

cheers for the splitter bro, im in love with how the front end looks now

is there anything you need? as i feel i owe you ;-)

Na m8 dont worry! i have a red trim or chrome trim dash face here if you need one. The golf is looking good keep up the good work.What rad is that on there?

mk1g60phill wrote:

Na m8 dont worry! i have a red trim or crome trim dash face here if you need one. The golf is looking good keep up the good work.What rad is that on there?

yea man the red one would be mint

the rads off a rallye, my dads mate has a rally spec one, and he sells me all the parts which he has upgraded.

ive got the brakes and engine off it, which i will fit at some point ;-)

O right its just that i have the same rad it must be the same as the g60 raddo one on the rallyes.U got any pics of the rallye?

mk1g60phill wrote:

O right its just that i have the same rad it must be the same as the g60 raddo one on the rallyes.U got any pics of the rallye?

i think they use the same rad mate on all the mk2s

got a shift light the other day, so i wired it in.

its a bit annoying to set up, but the wirings not too bad



Wired it up and mounted it



ive got a rev limiter and launch control on order, so i made a harness so i can just pop those in without having to cut anything when they arrive

put more of the interior back together.

im still missing some trim, so once i get it i will cut some carbon pannels to mount the gauges and switches



Also fixed the tail lights which were being a b***h before!

still need to fix one of the sidelights which is tempermental

That looks like a nice mk1 you got there matey

looks good mate when do you think it will be done by? May pop over on the ninja sometime in the week.

Lupton_20vt wrote:

looks good mate when do you think it will be done by? May pop over on the ninja sometime in the week.

I fell of my p7f on my gravel drive ;-(

thermal wrote:

Lupton_20vt wrote:

looks good mate when do you think it will be done by? May pop over on the ninja sometime in the week.

I fell of my p7f on my gravel drive ;-(

today?

no when i had it

like a year ago.

it was meant as a gravel drive and motorbike warning

thermal wrote:

no when i had it

like a year ago.

it was meant as a gravel drive and motorbike warning

im used to mine on my drive dude its lethal

ive been off fendubbers for a weekend and toms pretty much rebuilt his car ! lol

good work dude, its looking sweet. what engines it go in it though?

woke up early again,

fabbed up a bracket for an oil old cooler that i had lying around



and fitted it



im going to cut the inside off the grille to allow for more airflow to it

its pretty old as it came on my old car, but its mocal and its not like it could break over time

took the wiperblades off and cut off the little 'spoiler'

though i may aswell refurb those too, but i only had hammerite rust paint so they may not turn out that well



also here is a pic of my homemade exhaust for those who havent seen it. did it about a month ago



Now i have to go to work for 2 ;-(

I also lowered the front and raised the back ;-)

looking dope thomas when are you not working this week?

came home early

3 hour days ftw ;-)

some new milling bits arrived the other day so i got my dremel out and cut the inside of the grille out

looks the same from the outside, but should let way more air through



then resprayed the grille surrounds mars red

but i may not even use them