I am returning to the board after a long absence with a new project. I gave away my original Rabbit GTD after it sat in an idle state of restoration in my garage for 2 years (stripped out for body work). Discouraged by the amount of work I had into the car and the amount of work needed to complete it and distracted by numerous other projects and running my business, I handed it off to my friend Jay who is working on building her up on his own.
In the subsequent months I missed my old rabbit project but filled the void with my Golf TDI and diesel Mini, until last month when the Golf went up in flames. Unfortunately the insurance settlement won’t buy me a new Golf but in an effort to turn lemons to lemonade I figured it offered a good opportunity, scrap parts and budget to build a decent Rabbit TDI.
Over the next few months the plan is to salvage what I can from the burnt out Golf and build those modern comforts and power into my first love the MK1 Golf (Rabbit).
I found a decent old diesel Rabbit 2-door near by which I paid way too much money for. When I was originally into this you could get these for a few hundred bucks, my last one was $100 and I even bought an original ’84 Rabbit TD for $900. In any case excitement and impulse took over and next thing I know I’m bombing my new turd 2-door up I-91 with tie-rods rattling, bearings humming and brake lights about the only working electrical item.
Since the plan is to salvage and re-assemble the TDI from the Golf there is little concern about the long-term durability of the stock N/A 1.6l and because it is going to take a few months to get the TDI engine back together and prepped for installation I figured we’d have a bit of fun.
I forget how to properly post a photo but here's my try.
These are the remains of my poor Golf TDI:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd32/Greasecar/golf005.jpg :cry:
That timing belt has had it :roll:
Good luck with the mk1 golf best car in the world :wink:
Bert
Nice, a Citi. Mine is a 2-door of the same color as the first photo with those same wheels.