22-01-2014, 12:30 PM
So I went to Ace Cafe on Monday evening and picked up a few goodies. I now have my GTi6 head and gearbox! 
The gearbox needs cleaning up and painting and I need to get the reverse cable for it. Should probably look into replacing a few things on it too.
The head has the old style cam gears so i need to get some later ones which are apparently more reliable. I also need to clean up and paint the head. Ill probably start with the cam covers as they should be easy to paint. I literally know nothing about heads so this should be interesting seeing as its in pieces. Apparently it has been rebuilt by Miles so hopefully that will be good. Lifters need putting in which I am getting off Niall and also hopefully Niall will be able to give me a hand with everything else D:
With the head, gearbox, throttle bodies and suspension in the boot of my car there was about 2mm of clearance on the rear! D:
Also we had a brain storm about why I was experiencing unpredictable steering and movement under acceleration and braking. After all of ten seconds Jonny came to the conclusion of knackered wishbones so sure enough we went out to the car park and Jonny drove it whilst I watched. Sure enough when he braked the wheel moved backwards in the arch. Not good. So now I can add new wishbones to the ever expanding list.
The gearbox needs cleaning up and painting and I need to get the reverse cable for it. Should probably look into replacing a few things on it too.
The head has the old style cam gears so i need to get some later ones which are apparently more reliable. I also need to clean up and paint the head. Ill probably start with the cam covers as they should be easy to paint. I literally know nothing about heads so this should be interesting seeing as its in pieces. Apparently it has been rebuilt by Miles so hopefully that will be good. Lifters need putting in which I am getting off Niall and also hopefully Niall will be able to give me a hand with everything else D:
With the head, gearbox, throttle bodies and suspension in the boot of my car there was about 2mm of clearance on the rear! D:
Also we had a brain storm about why I was experiencing unpredictable steering and movement under acceleration and braking. After all of ten seconds Jonny came to the conclusion of knackered wishbones so sure enough we went out to the car park and Jonny drove it whilst I watched. Sure enough when he braked the wheel moved backwards in the arch. Not good. So now I can add new wishbones to the ever expanding list.