205 DT sleeper - boosting video pg10 and pg11

[ginge191]

Interesting day today;

Spent the day early with Max aiming to - 1) change the rear beam, 2)sort the non-working brake lights and 3) replace the leaky rad

1) went to the scrap yard and got hold of a rear beam which according to the dash had only done 55k; happy days! So got that up on a stand and got this, also got the rad off this car (gti spec rad)...slight mayo as it drained, so flushed it all out.

2) got back and checked the working order of the switch behind the pedal; that worked, checked the connection at the back, that worked, put it all back together and it voila! it worked /standardfrench

3) drained the old rad, fitted the new one to find there was another leak and pretty ruined metal pipe... gah!
So a bit of bodging later we were set!









As for the rear beam, we started taking apart nipples (giggedy), lines and hoses to see what would move freely and what was stubborn and find the easiest parts to use etc. Bad news; all the lines were just cheesing and grinding themselves OR spinning the line also. FML.
One nipple snapped in the cylinder and gah, just a f*cking nightmare. So, going to order new cylinders the drums, speak to KrisB and see if he's able to knock some lines up have another crack at it next week..


On the plus side, had a tweek with the fueling and got some interesting results; 'nice' power and epic coaling.



And a video from today

http://s1071.beta.photobucket.com/user/g...5.mp4.html


Removed the hub caps as they were annoying me and i think i'll keep this as a sleeper throughout it's build... keeping the steelies, perhaps in a simple and budget black.



Future plan is to get an entire GTI suspension and subframe setup to get rid of the shot TRE and f*cked front bearing, and introduce a T2 we have ready to bolt on (just need to find an oil feed)