4 door golf, my first VW

[shwak23]

Cliffhanger!

Sent from my DROID X2

[Truckinduc]

Oh well I guess I should update this. The car is ok. I patched the melted fuel lines and built a temporary exhaust from an Mitsubishi evo 8 aftermarket exhaust. Ya its 3.5" diameter now..... huge.

The fire destroyed the emergency brake cables and some other small crap that ill have to fix later. If I had not had a fire extinguisher the car would have quickly turned into a massive fireball. Carpet in the back also caught fire and melted my tig welder leads. Ill post a few pictures later.

I took my little brother down to sowo on Saturday. Missed the show but still got to see tons of awesome cars. I really wish I were able to meet up with more mk 2 people.

If anyone see's any photos of my car at sowo could you please post them up. Tons of people took photos but I'm having a hard time finding any.

[Truckinduc]

whats left of the carbon muffler



undercoating burns well, Who knew?



starting the temporary exhaust



I built a full LS1 exhaust for an e30 bmw

[Project_2501]

Nice, glad to hear it's still kicking!

What did you use for flares? I'm trying to sort something for my '85 2dr Jetta.

[odj]

Only time I saw your car was on our way out of Helen, driving down Main. I almost didn't recognize it, since I saw the right side (without the janky rear door).

[Truckinduc]

Nice, glad to hear it's still kicking!

What did you use for flares? I'm trying to sort something for my '85 2dr Jetta.

The flares are off of a mk I car. You have to trim them a tad but they fit. There a hair smaller than mk II flares.

[Truckinduc]

Drove it down to the lake through the woods and DIDNT get stuck. Great success.









and my oil drain notch actually worked as I had planned. Awesome.

[Truckinduc]

Now im off to cut a big hole in my hood.

[Truckinduc]

Forgot to mention my starter died on Me the other day. Had to push start it a fewtimes. I put a vr6 automatic starter on it which has twice the cranking power and weighs 2 pounds less. Hopefully that will help if I ever go hi comp.

[odj]

Hey btw - I've seen a few photos of your car in or linked from this thread: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...Picture-Thread

[sin bar]

[Mean 'n Green86]

Way to set the bar for lowered off roading haha

[bmxguy]

wait so how did the vr starter mount up?

[Truckinduc]

wait so how did the vr starter mount up?

Bolts right up like its meant to. Its from a 99 golf vr6 automatic. It doesn't have the stub at the end for the bushing. One less thing to go wrong.

[Truckinduc]

Way to set the bar for lowered off roading haha

I should take some pictures of the hard stuff. We have had six or seven stock vehicles get stuck down at the bottom of the hill.

[Truckinduc]

I decided to get in the lake with my camera in my pocket on Memorial day, whoops. Got it all fixed now though.

NACA duct instal.



ignore the strings, they are there to let me see the air movement.

[Truckinduc]

How about some fully adjustable cromoly tubular control arms? This is just the start obviously.



better picture of the NACA duct



and a light weight low offset underdrive pulley to slow my alternator down. Ill make the crank pulley and waterpump pulley next.

[dub01]

I found this thread the other day and went through the whole thing. This is some excellent work! I love the innovation and fab work. Keep the updates coming, please!

[Truckinduc]

lightweight underdrive pulley is on. Here is a comparison.

[Truckinduc]

So for the last month and a half ive been daily driving this thing without a radiator fan. Never had a problem, even stuck in traffic at sowo.

I finally found a fan and made a shroud for it. Now i just have to wire it and mount it.

[Project_2501]

If you weren't having any issues with cooling, why not mount it under the rad support pushing air through instead of taking up visual engine bay space? Just curious, that shroud looks very nice.

[Truckinduc]

If you weren't having any issues with cooling, why not mount it under the rad support pushing air through instead of taking up visual engine bay space? Just curious, that shroud looks very nice.

Because I hate pusher fans, and they work much less efficient. Especially at any speed above say 20 mph they block vital air flow.

[mellbergVWfan]

In. Your fabrication skills are incredibly impressive. Even more so that you're putting all this work into such a well used car.

[Truckinduc]

I found this thread the other day and went through the whole thing. This is some excellent work! I love the innovation and fab work. Keep the updates coming, please!

In. Your fabrication skills are incredibly impressive. Even more so that you're putting all this work into such a well used car.

Thanks guys. I appreciate it.

[Truckinduc]

Here is a daytime photo of the fan and shroud. Note the sweet bungee cord mounting system. We will see if its still there after the road trip im about to take.

[sin bar]

yep, still enjoying this.

[Mean 'n Green86]

yep, still enjoying this.

what he said^

[Truckinduc]

finally got my powerslot rotors so I can start on my brakes. These measure 11.35" btw.

[bmxguy]

alot more brakes than that lil 8v will need.

[Truckinduc]

TrTruTrue, but not once its 24v rwd in the not so distant future.

[Project_2501]

Happy to see that the sudden down-time didn't mean the end of this project.

I was about to ask for the ball joint spacers and drop plates. :p

[Truckinduc]

Integral stub axle drops with 1 degree of camber.





with wilwood forged dynalight caliper mounts.



And the front calipers fit.... Kinda.

[EastCoastVeeDub]

Brakes look great!

This thread needs a new page. Come on page 15!

[Truckinduc]

Rear brakes came in. Tiny 11" 2 piece rotors and forged dynalight 4 pot calipers.

[Truckinduc]

I need new front and rear wheel bearings, and rear disk brake hubs in 4x100. Anyone know where I can get this stuff from 1 supplier?