Building a S2 mk2 golf

[4WheelDrifter]

Oops.

Good looking welds on that plenum. Good_looking_ design, let's just keep our fingers crossed, that it won't explode in first testdrives.

[gnutz2]

Ok dont rub it in

The welds did hold but the backfire was enought to bend a thick throttle plate also pushed the fuel rail into the bonnet and bent the both

Forgot to add, i put it on the weigh bridge at work and it came in at 1140kg with about 15l of petrol

[G60Rallye]

Sorry to hear about the damage fella. Looks like its all sorted out for the better now though!

Hope the mapping goes well, cant wait to see what power it makes. Who is mapping it out of interest?

[gnutz2]

Motoscope, they have a v good 4 wheel drive rolling road

[volcano rs]

what thickness alloy did you use for you manifold ?

[gnutz2]

6mm back plate, everything else 2.5mm but the design was flawed before i started it needed to be conical.

[G60Rallye]

I thought thats who you would be using for the rolling road. I had mine on there rolling road at the start of the year and they were saying about your previous mk2. So i told them wait till you see what you were building now!

[Jamo]

Shame about the manifold, the design was similar to the old Hacke manifolds which had the same problem.

New one looks very strudy, you don't mess about! nice one

[Larry Carr]

Excellent work, Golfnutz!

[G60Rallye]

I hope there is an update on how the mapping went today!

[TuningBrasil]

Wow! Sick project, gnutz2. Congrats from Brasil.

[TuningBrasil]

the bonnet will need a bulge, i'll probably make this from glass fibre, for now

Our (brazilian) VW 2.0 16V had sucha bulge...STD feature, btw.




Andre Stein

[gnutz2]

Its not pretty. no 3 piston decided to detonate

Im going to pick up a block from sal asap so i should be back up and running soon.

I think there was a short in the +12v to no1 coil making it fail under load, causing the lambda's to read rich when the others were dangerously lean.

Apparently its not uncommon for a coilpack failure to destroy an engine.

[andyg plym]

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[denniselbows]

gutted for you looks well ****ed i take it the block is a wright off then