CurtisRider

Fitted the valance, front end is looking so much better! Next step is to sort the front panel and headlight covers out and try and touch in the wing where the paint came off This is how it looked before:

Car looks great Prawn! So after a few week holiday I was itching to get back to work on the Porsche! It welcomed me with a flat battery... Several parcels arrived whilst I was away, mostly to get the thing working again ready for the MOT, but some bits were to make the car look pretty The first job was to change the distributer cap and rotor as mine were both a bit iffy, the car seems to be running slightly smoother Then a Transformers tax disc holder, awwww yeaaaah! I then proceeded to redo the alternator wiring loom as I had been told this may be the cause of the battery draining. The wiring was all in very good condition but I have rewired and rerouted it anyway, recycling some of the heat shielding and then whacking in some cable sheathing to neaten up the wiring in the engine bay Then onto the front valance, this was VERY twisted up and bent all over the place, I straightened it out the best I could, welded up the splits, welded in 2 new brackets and gave it a light skim of filler to smooth it out. It isn't quite there yet, but ill revisit it later when I get more paint, for now it looks a heck of alot tidier! And alpine white instead of the dirt engrained white before I made an adjustable top link with rose joints for the rear gear lever, this has reduced some of the slop at the shifter and made it easier to get into 5th. To my surprise the front shifter has no noticeable wear to it, I need to remove the rear shifter assembly completely at some point and rebuild it. I removed the bump strips, this revealed that the N/S has had a respray on the lower half, so it looks like I will have to get sanding, sort out a few rust spots and dents, weld up the hole where the aerial is and give the side a respray. At least it looks marginally better as it is compared to the strips which were falling off! The O/S looks fine. Hope to get the valance back on today, and then I need to grab 2 new tyres.

I'm now back and a rather large bundle of bits arrived for my Porsche whilst I was on holiday. It's play time oh and I now have an oil leak. Yay

I got a secondhand macbook pro for £400, been alright so far after a RAM upgrade

Cheers Robin! Annoyingly they are out of stock on the bugpack bushes, ill give them a shout and find out when they will have them in again. Do you find them noisy at all? I have read of people having issues with squeaking, but I'm guessing they didn't grease them enough before installation? Out back ill wait as I'm hunting for a 944 back end so it can handle man power later on, doubt the 924 box will handle much more than what a stock 1.8t can push out Regarding the vaux diesel, 6 speed box has a weak bearing which is made worse when the engines remapped. George Seamons had that problem with his. Also other cars have cruise control

Yeah that looks just like my sat nav plug on the 9-3

Nice shots! I have always wanted to do some like that, however i'm always behind the wheel of one

I did wonder about going for standard bushes but saw the cheaper polys aren't too much more hence asking! I'm in no rush to replace (unless the MOT man says otherwise next week) and the car isn't a proper daily (got a MK5 Golf for that although the Porsche will go to work at least once a week)

So this polybush malarky, which brands are to be avoided? I'm guessing these super cheap ones on ebay are a poor fit/odd compounds? I'm wondering if I even need polybushes, how much difference will it really make to the car? Seeing as I have the highest sidewall tyres ever, i'm not sure if the extra stiffness will really do much for me?

Bring a torch with you too, and some drive on ramps if you have some spare/can borrow some

Trailer stuff?

Are you putting your right foot down hard enough?

Don't you need commercial insurance on a Caddy? That is all I could get for the T25 when I looked into it, which made it annoyingly expensive

Yeah that is what i'm thinking, should make a good deal of that back on breaking it

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-VOLKSWAGEN-PASSAT-1-8T-20V-TURBO-Spare-or-Repair-/231026346056?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item35ca3e4848 Any ideas what the fault could be and whether or not I should go for it as a donor car?

I didn't think of that, got to be worth a try! I'll get myself on the 924 forum and see if anybody has some worn out discs spare Do you know of any 4 pots that would be suitable for that size disc? Many seem to be 300mm+

Awesome, just been having a look and noting down stuff, hopefully find something a touch larger than 257mm to fit.... Limited a little by having 14s and I really want to keep it looking as stock as possible outside. I guess 280mm ish would be my maximum? Cheers for the offer on bits, much appreciated! I'm hoping that I can get a full donor car and have pretty much all I need to get going from that Edit: Eurgh my car uses stupid discs which seem to house one of the bearings, finding a match will be a slag. Looks like a caliper upgrade would be the only way to get more power without swapping to a 5 stud setup. Will I really need to upgrade my brakes that much for a 25bhp increase? Mine seem to work fine and i've never really been the kind of person to work brakes hard anyway, but at the same time I want the car to be safe... 4 pots a good plan?

Sweet cheers! I have no idea what parts i'll need yet, I guess I really need to write a list. I have a decent mill, lathe and welder at school so I can manufacture parts whilst i'm in Nottingham. Isn't your turbo an Ko4? I'm not looking for uber power, probably the same sort of thing as Robin has really as the car's never going to be able to handle decent power and its supposed to be fun and cheap. Fingers crossed I will also have a second car by then, although that may end up being the donor car haha... I really need to actually have one properly working car rather than 6 broken ones...

Fancy helping me next summer with the conversion? Planning on having everything as ready as possible so that I can get it dropped in quickly The rest of the car should be solid by then too, the amount of stuff i've bought for it recently has broken the posties back. Robin, which site did you say had the info on cars disc sizes and offsets? I can't find the post you mentioned it in

I think the 1.8T upgrade is going to have to happen, even leaving one stock will give me plenty enough smiles for a while (and give me time to find/afford upgraded drivetrain and brakes...) with the added bonus of not raping my wallet as much as the standard engine is. Anybody got a Passat/A4/VAG longitudinal 1.8T going cheap? And a broken gearbox from a transverse setup?

Really like your car Robin, just looks like it'd be awesome fun! Are you running a stage 1 map or are you still on the standard map?

Awesome! Well done

Changed my battery today (previous one was 8 years old) and noticed that my fuel filter has been pissing out petrol as the copper washer wasn't seated correctly. That partly explains my rather high fuel consumption... I also checked the cap and rotor arm whilst I was under the bonnet and they are nasty so replacements are on their way. One day maybe I can stop spending money on this car?

Mike the regulators can be a bitch, so I feel your pain. I will have another look in my shed for that locking mechanism, if I find it then it is yours for postage

Mike, what exactly are you trying to fix on your windows? Is it the regulator?