Adi's GTD :)

Well some of you are aware that I sold my GL project to move onto something new. This is my 9th mk2 now, and it's my 1st diesel one. This came up at the right price (those who know me will know it wasn't a lot), come with Tax till end of July and MOT till the end of September, and 218k on it. It drives spot on, is on early hottuning coilovers, and its true what they say, the earlier ones are a much nicer ride, it doesn't crash and knock your teeth out, the ride is actually superb! It has remote central locking, red stripe 90 spec GTI interior, and surprisingly the intercooler has ALL its plastic shrouds
3 things broke on the ride home though, a fuel tank strap, the backbox fell apart, and a plastic arch trim nearly went flying! I've since screwed on the arch trim, removed the backbox and I'm picking up a gti one tonight, and removed the hanging tank strap. Only other thing to sort is the rev counter, as the wire has broken off the alternator. This is how I got it...








Then today it went down another inch or so and I've red striped the bumpers. You may notice its missing a backbox, I took it off today cuz it was falling apart, GTI one will be on it tomorrow. Also picking up a mk3 shift rod and small splitter on sunday, and hopefully new wheels this weekend. Heres how it looks now...




The shell is fairly rusty and IMO some bits aren't really worth repairing, so when the MOT runs out I may look into buying a cheap GTI with no engine and re-shell it

as you know mate, lovin this car... and for what you paid for it you cant argue at a little bit of rust Hopefully I'll see it on sunday, I'll be interested to see how it sounds/drives

At the minute it has no backbox and is pretty loud and the turbo is whistling its tits off I think theres more rust on the chassis than is visible to the eye, not really structural rust but its there and its not pretty. I can see a re-shell on the cards tbh. I polished it today and the rust shows up pretty badly! I don't think I'l be polishing it too often!

major major win

Its amazing what a new face and some black treatment does!

just noticed the (US?) side markers

and the number plate

Yes it has a "non transferable" plate, maybe it has something to do with a certain racist group of people? Funnily enough I got it from Huddersfield so I'm surprised it still has windows! They are indeed US side markers, no bulb holders in them though, might make them work at some point. I managed to get most of the paint off that grille, its never gonna compare to the 4 lamp cuz that grille is MINT, but I prefer the twin lamp anyways so it'l do

I got up really early this morning to sort my exhaust out and cut the valance out for the gti backbox. Picked up a splitter and mk3 shift rod off Jacko today, so I'm happy And in other happy news, I found these in a bag under my boot carpet this morning...



Anyways here's some pics I've just taken

Looking good adi, not sure if it just me but i am thinking that if it wasnt for that gti backbox the car wouldnt get so much attention

Thats cuz I've been telling everyone its off a G60

are you living a secret double life?

I might be

was very impressed with this yesterday Adi beast of a car in both looks and sounds, that turbo whistle is cool as f**k lol

Its even louder now, I've just been brave and turned the fuel up on the pump, goes a bit quicker and makes a really loud "whoooosh" on boost

*thumbs up*

boost ftw

Love this mate

Cheers. Had a bit of a boo boo with it earlier, the alternator belt snapped! Luckily wasn't far from home as it was dark (had lights on) and the temperature started creeping up! (it runs the water pump too) I only tightened it the other day but I didn't overtighten it and its been fine for about 100 miles, and its a brand new one! I gave it some hard boost and the battery light came on Maybe it was the added torque since I tweaked the pump?

Fitted my boost guage roughly today, I'm not happy with it in the centre as its too low and I can't read the notches between 10-20psi, so I'l move it to the driver's side vent. The car peaks at 10psi, will be seeing 17psi when I finally get hold of an MBC 8-)

y dont u get one of those pods that are made to house a boost gauge. i expected more than 17psi of boost when u were done playing though. have u thought about a black box

A black box would be nothing short of useless on a 1.6 IDI engine

1.2 bar is the limit without fitting a 1.9 HG, but even then when I've shimmed the governor and turned the boost up it'l be good for 120bhp @ the wheels

its only a little more than a 8v that. you'll have to see how it compaires to the valver on a private runway obvously

Its a lot more than an 8v GTI! They're 112bhp @ the FLYWHEEL, Mine will be seeing more than that @ the WHEELS. Should be around 130bhp @ the flywheel if I get it set up right, but I think I'm defo gonna have to have an FMIC to run 130bhp. We'l see anyways. They say a well tuned GTD can blow a 16v away from a rolling start, and the yanks on the vwdiesel.net really know theyre stuff about these engines. I'd be happy with 8v gti power from it tbh, even thats a massive improvement on the 70bhp standard tune. But they are massively down-tuned as standard, hence why they can make such good power with a tweak and they manage 60+ mpg in standard tune.

but that would be a standard valver. so i think i deserved lay should be in order when u have got it to ur desired bhp

This is why I LOVE old skool TD's...



2 litres of filtered vegetable oil out of our little deep fat fryer

And some new stickerage