It's been some time since I've logged in on here, but here are some of the most recent up-date's:
-Picked up my "new" front and rear bumper last night, nothing "spectacular" when it comes to polyfibre bumpers (which seem to be hot at the moment here in The Netherlands :unsure: ) Just the regular ol' 16v one's, but with smoothed license plate and tow-eye up front, and a smoothed tow-eye on the rear :ph34r:
What some fooking about with a plastic-weld-machine and some hard work by my body-shop can do ay?
So it's just the good ol'fashion original OEM 16v VW one's, with a little bit of smoothing. Nothing stunning, but more stylish then any polyfibre bumper can ever be :wub:
Some steps taken:
-bottom-end was brought over to the refurbisher (if that's the correct elgish word for it
) to get the bore redone and all parts cleaned/flushed (bottom-end, crank, pistons etc.)
-new bearings (crank-main, piston, axials) and pistonrings are purchased
-the new brake set-up (Polo GTI hubs with G60 brackets for 280mm up front, and Golf mk3 16v calipers with mk2 discs on the back) completely cleaned out, got some maintenance and is now waiting to get sandblasted in order to get resprayed in black (stealthy look)
-and ordered a set of Goodridge braided hoses for the brakes:
Make a quick start sand-blasting the new brake-parts, on the left a caliper-holder waiting to get blasted away, on the right one that's nearly finished, some minor spots left, but at least it's identifiable as a Lucas-part though
All brake-parts are sandblasted, degreased and sprayed them this morning:
Before:
After:
And pushed in the new front wheel-bearings:
Hubs done, with the bearings and all in, I'll put on the Zimmermann drilled G60 discs and Ferodo DS Performance pads this week:
Just fancied the black, dark, non-suspicious colour, no shouting colour, just OEM-looking, stealthish for a mk4 Polo B)
Got the engine back from it's cleaning, re-bored the piston-holes, cleaned/flushed everything out, checked all bearing-insert, all is a 101% again B)
And engine-plans have changed along the way as can be seen, no more AEE 1.6 8v, precise details will be posted up lateron B)
Some more up-dates!
Quickly assembled to front brakes, have to admit it's quit a lot bigger then the original 8v discs
Also my Goodridge braided hosing set came in yesterday.
And had some bits, bobs and bolts treated together with the stuff of a mate of mine, here's an overview of our bits and pieces after treatment:
Mailman came around my house again today, he's starting to become one of the family by the judge of how many times he's coming around lately
Sachs reinforced clutch kit, with plates, pressuregroup, bearing and lightened flywheel
Better start with putting that damn engine back together now B)
And finally ordered me some stuff at the VW dealership, nice freshly new parts