My Ongoing Project/Daily Driver

[MacColl]

Ben the machine in action..


Bens coilovers are clearly wound down..



The Four Silver Surfers..

[bengould]

Back in for a re-test this morning, and finally got it through. Another 12 months on the road. .

Ben

[Old Mac Rocco]

Well done Ben.

[ianaudia4]

Good to hear, coming to Biggar in May?

Was that Gayle, in the second picture, pink hair is a give away?

[bengould]

Yeah will be at biggar this year, I've missed out the last 2 years due to work so got it booked off nice and early this time.
I might even clean the car for it.

And yes that is Gayle lurking in the shadows.

Ben

[ianaudia4]

Good, yet another Scirocco, we may beat the 10 cars last year?

That is a decent sized garage you have access to, how jealous am I!!!

[bengould]

Bad news, on the way to work this morning and the clutch cable pulled through the bulkhead.

Gonna have a look at making a repair plate tomorrow.

[bengould]

Successful day today...

Had a look at the damage...


Had some steel lying around so after several dremel bits managed to make this....


3mm thick steel bar so should be more than up to the job

And after a bit of dodgy welding and a good coating of primer


Not perfect but I'll be surprised if it pulls through that.

Ben

[MacColl]

No messing about, back on the road more than I can say for my car.

It's no Oil Painting but I reckon it is a better design than the plates you can buy which seem to need quite a bit of cutting. I like how it clearly transfers pressure reasonably wide across that area of the bulkhead and it's thicker metal. I think it's a lesson for all of us who still have an intact bulkhead to do something preventative.

[bengould]

Hey all,

Been busy playing with some old head units I had lying around. Since my center console is pretty badly cracked I had no problem getting the dremmel out.


Also had a nice letter from the postman.


Will be the first show I've managed to get to in a scirocco so am looking forward to it and hoping for a bit of nice weather.

Ben.

[bengould]

Been a while since I've posted anything, but have been busy, just too lazy to get round to writing about it.

Decided to bin my old sub/amp setup and make something a little more permanent and better fitted. So out came the rear seats and in went a nice solid frame around the spare wheel well topped off with a sheet of MDF cut to size...



I have since carpeted it and removed the slightly wonky bars from in front of the sub.

Have put up with this for far too long...



So a trip to a scrappys recently came up with a new set of clocks, unfortunately of the MFA variety.
Stripped them down and put the rev counter/LCD bit into my case to keep the non-MFA look since none of it will work anyway, and got a bit creative with some blue LED bulbs and orange paint for all the needles.





Also picked up a rear screen pump so now have full wash and wipe capabilities again. .


Ben.

[Mr Funk]

Top work.
Any shows this year?

[bengould]

Cheers.
Going to volksfling at Biggar next weekend. Not sure if I'll make it to any others tho.

Ben.

[bengould]

Sooo... I've been playing. .

Found something on eBay that I couldn't resist. It was relatively cheap so thought I'd have a go especially since I've never seen or heard of anything like it in the past.


I needed to get a second weber to match my current one, so back on ebay and I managed to find one. Lucky for me it was removed off a 1.8 Mk2 Golf, was near Biggar and ended on the friday just after we arrived for volksfling. You can see where this is going. .



Collected on the saturday afternoon, and then the fun began.

I decided to make some one piece mounting plates out of 20mm aluminium instead of using the standard rubber gasket and weber adapter.
Fitted it all to the manifold and made a linkage to join the both carbs together.

Pretty much just threw it at the car and hoped for the best.



Unfortunately, It didn't work.

It ran, but not well.

Took all the jets out and found out that the new carb was jetted totally differently to my old one. So ordered a load to make a matched pair.

That is about it for now, It's running, but still not too well. Looks like I need to get more main and idle jets and then just a lot of trial and error to get the combinations right.
It sounds awesome though. .

Ben.

[Risocco]

Nice one, was watching that manifold too. Glad it went to a good home. Hope you get it running sweet.