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General Information => General => Topic started by: zyewdall on February 04, 2006, 06:53:42 pm
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I took the GTI for the first real test drive today, about 25 minutes. Runs nice! For 52HP I think it has alot of power -- No trouble reaching 70 on the highway (well, the speedometer said 70, not sure if it really was, as I switched from the 185/60/R14's to 185/70/R13's). And that was with probably 200 lbs of car parts in the back too. Only mod so far is the 3" cold air intake. Pretty quiet on the highway too -- it's the original GTI exhaust system on there still. I don't have the tach hooked up yet, so a little engine sound is good. The 1.6 sure does like revving compared to my truck, but its still got decent low end torque. Still needs a proper fuel system and lot of little things, but it's on the road now 8)
Any guess where I got the new paint scheme from?
(http://images5.theimagehosting.com/vwgti.jpg) (http://www.theimagehosting.com)
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is that the wrong picture? definetly not a rabbit. but for the N/A idi thumbs up
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Any guess where I got the new paint scheme from?
Scooby Doo?
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Looks like a John Deere.
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Yeah, I know they weren't called rabbits any more by '91, but I still call it one.
The colors are john deere green, but that's not where I got the inspiration. The first place I saw diesel cars (and decided I wanted one), about half the cars in the country were painted green and yellow like that. Mostly Mercedes and Peugots and Toyotas, but a few VW's. Although most were also pretty beat up...
(http://www.douala.paris.online.fr/album/mauritanie/03150006.JPG)
(http://www.landofafrica.ch/images/album/109.jpg)
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It looks like a deer but does it run like a deer :D
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i once saw a ghia restoration where he used john deere green for all the underpinnings.... but then purple for the actual car colour. looks good with the green/yellow deere combo.
they were only called rabbits for north american market. they have always been a 'golf' to everyone else in the world from 1974 on.
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looks good with the green/yellow deere combo.
they were only called rabbits for north american market. they have always been a 'golf' to everyone else in the world from 1974 on.
It certainly looks alot better than the old white/black with chipped primer look when I got it with a gas engine full of sludge. I am still having fuel problems though (new thread).
Yeah, I know they were normally called Golfs, but that would remind me of the game with the same name which I can't stand :o
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i guess you don't have a golf ball shift knob then!! :lol:
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i guess you don't have a golf ball shift knob then!! :lol:
HeHe. Can't say that I do... :P
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hey dont rip on deeres,,ive seen them run a long time,very durable engines,,,,rebuilt a 6076 in a steel mill had 16,000 hours,,aircleaner suckin dirt,had a intake leak,,,and it had that kind of time on it,,imagine if it didnt have that air cleaner leakin,,,,,superior colors!!!!!
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As a local farmer always tells me; "Nothing runs like a Deere"
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love the paint job. I got a '43 JD all fuel, that means it is supposed to run on kerosene, wich in kaliforinia costs $5+ a gal :( . so it gets run on a mix of gas and diesel (mostly diesel!) , it starts on gas to warm up . starts by spining the flywheel by hand . don't make 'em the way they used to , thank god....... :D
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As a local farmer always tells me; "Nothing runs like a Deere"
yup yup :D
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love the paint job. I got a '43 JD all fuel, that means it is supposed to run on kerosene, wich in kaliforinia costs $5+ a gal :( . so it gets run on a mix of gas and diesel (mostly diesel!) , it starts on gas to warm up . starts by spining the flywheel by hand . don't make 'em the way they used to , thank god....... :D
What model? We owned a '43 model B narrow front for a long time when I was growing up. It was a good tractor, but 18 horsepower wasn't quite enough to pull an overloaded trailer of firewood up the 26% grade up to the house. Needed the model A... It started on gas, and could theoretically run on kerosene, but gas was cheaper. Wouldn't run on #2 diesel. We sold it this year to a restorer, and got a '53 allis chalmers bulldozer instead -- 2 cycle, 2 cylinder, detroit diesel in it.
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my dad has an obsession with the creme and yellow tractors.
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my JD is a 'AW all fuel' S# says it's a '43. :D just like the one that I drove when I was 10 yrs old...... I was soo little that I couldn't start it.... dad would spin the flywheel , close the cyl petcoks, I climbed up to the seat and stuffed it into 4 th and pulled the throttle ALL the way back and took off across the field w the sickel cutter chopping hay as fast as it could go........ :D no problem starting now .....I'm 6'5" and bearly fit 'tween the wheels :lol: I would love to have a 820 or 70WD ( for those not aflicted w this sickness, a 820 is a 75hp 2 cyl diesel w a 10" cyl bore!! that means BANG---------BANG------------BANG------------BANG!!!!!!!! ) :twisted:
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I think that an interest in early iron and 'unusual' (at least over here in NA) transport like a diesel car must go hand in hand. I'd love to have a vintage tractor, but have to content myself with a small collection of stationary and marine engines. Nothing like an engine where you can see all the parts moving and it runs slow enough to actually hear each stroke!
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I had a 1949 John Deere Model M up until a few years ago. New tractors may be nicer, but I love that 2-cylinder shuffle.
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I had a 1949 John Deere Model M up until a few years ago. New tractors may be nicer, but I love that 2-cylinder shuffle.
,get a few of those engines in workonce ina while for rebuild,,,,,,,,,,nice+simple,,,,im tellin ya,thats when you could fix something without plugging in a scan tool etc,jus use some chewing gum :shock: ,,i wonder if anyone under the age of 30 has ever seen or adjusted a set of points,,except in a museum,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
:wink: old stuff rocks
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can you honestly look at anything new today,,and imagine something new being found in a barn in 50-60 years,, (wow martha,thats an 03 focus,,call the smithsonian,its numbers matching),,,,throw in a battery+ gas+drive it?? all the little electrons in the black boxes wouldnt know what to do,,,,,,,, :roll:
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yah, I pulled a Fairbanks Morse Model Z out of an abandoned oyster cannery from where it had been sitting above tidal water for 35 years. Pounded the piston out, quick hone to get the rust, slapped a big speaker magnet on the magneto to improve a weak spark, few flips of the flywheel and off she went!
Old lady that owned the property (and gave me permission to take what I wanted) said that engine was old when they got it in the '40s, they used it up until the early '70s to run conveyors and pumps, then the whole outfit was shut down due to pollution contaminating the oyster beds. FM-Z was designed in like the 1920s and sold for something like 30 yrs
Some of my younger friends are afraid of carburators! imagine that!!
I gotta say that one the things I like about my TD is the lack of electricory under the hood. I run computer networks for a living, so I'm not a total caveman where technology is concerned. Even the dealers seem to often resort to the 'swapping parts until its fixed' type of diagnosis these days.
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yea,,,ido electronic/electrical troubleshooting at work all day,so idont wanna deal with it at home,,im basically the only guy there doin it,,or can do it,,they still wanna play with jumper wires and test lights,,, some lilelectrical thing gets wacky,,im the goto guy,,trucks,genetators,allkinds of equipment,,our boss doesnt turn down anything,nomatter how screwed up it is,,,,,right now im ticked at cummins,,we are a b+c dealer,,and supposidly our insite update( cummins,laptop diagnostic program) we just got,is corrupting whatever i plug into,and ihave to recalibrate the ecm,,,heh,its turning on fan controls at startup,and shutting off at 205,for example,,bassackwards,thats not the only issue with them,,but i did like cummins,,but if you want one that will last get an old school mechanical, thos are for me,the new b is freakin nuts,,if i was to have a truckengine new,,it would be a 60 series,,theyare fairly simple for new stuff,i like them,,,ooh i was at the factory(dd) in99 for trainingwhen theywere shutting down the 2 stroke line into just 1 line,,it was sad :cry: ,and ithink ireally did get a little choked up walking thru there ,,i love dat 2 stroke cackle,,wish i could fit a lil 4 53 inmy bunny,,thad be cool
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can you honestly look at anything new today,,and imagine something new being found in a barn in 50-60 years,, (wow martha,thats an 03 focus,,call the smithsonian,its numbers matching),,,,throw in a battery+ gas+drive it?? all the little electrons in the black boxes wouldnt know what to do,,,,,,,, :roll:
who would save a focus, i think anyone that saw it would run thinking one of the cows mutated.
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i just said focus,,insert any ugly new hateful car you can think of,,like an azteck,whatever piece of crap,freakin scionbox,,and what the heck is an avalanche??useless junk,,isaw one of those honda ridgeline crap things the other day,then i noticed,,,i probably can almost fit as much stuff in my rabbit with the seat out,,,,what a joke,,,i freakin laugh at all the hybrids i pass on the way towork, dunno if an echo is hybrid,ugly tinbox too cheaplookin bucket,geeky tooor what geeky used to mean,,ok dorky,i always give em a flatfoot puff,cause ill run 100 in the 1/4,and get low 50s for mileage on the hiway :twisted: :twisted: :oops: im sorry i tried to keep my language sorta tame :oops: ,,,,man did this subject get off track,,what was the orig.question,and was it answered??? :idea:
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ijust said focus,,insert any ugly new hateful car you can think of,,like an azteck,whatever piece of crap,freakin scionbox,,and what the heckis an avalanche??useless junk,,isaw one of those honda ridgeline crap things the other day,then i noticed,,,i probably can almost fit as much stuff in my rabbit with the seat out,,,,what a joke,,,i freakin laugh at all the hybrids i pass on the way towork, dunno if an echois hybrid,ugly tinbox too cheaplookin bucket,geeky tooor what geeky used to mean,,ok dorky,i always give em a flatfoot puff,cause ill run 100 in the 1/4,and get low 50s for mileage on the hiway :twisted: :twisted: :oops: im sorry i tried to keep my language sorta tame :oops: ,,,,man did this subject get off track,,what was the orig.question,and was it answered??? :idea:
:shock: :shock: WOW, my first encounter with "Redneckus Extremus" :shock: