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 Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:42 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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Aye the rear windows still work Andy!
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:07 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
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Location: VVT Land, Fife
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I enjoyed driving the 309 over the summer but i must say I am getting a bit fed up of the 1.9 engine. Not because the engine itself is knackered etc - far from it in fact - it's running sweet as a nut at the moment. But it's underpowered, the management's iffy and guzzles loads of fuel and I know for a fact i get better MPG from my 180 - so why wouldn't i get similarly good mpg from another 16v engine? My original future plan was to remove the engine, paint it and put it back in all nice and shiny. But it seems like an opportunity missed to do something a bit more special. Plus...after seeing Kev's old car in the flesh i decided that I wanted a slice of that action!
This is "Kev's car" by the way folks, which has recently been sold onto another member on 309oc.
So i've been doing a lot of reading and chatting to Kev over the past few months and funnily enough, Kev spotted a cheap gti-6 loom going on eBay.
So here we have a gti-6 loom...it's not perfect but it was only £22.50 delivered to my door step.
Not sure what this is off of but it's a simple solder them back on fix. Not sure what they're for yet though it was described in the ebay advert as " fuel canister thingy near the engine mount" not sure what this means. I'm not sure if he meant the charcoal canister "thingy" in which case it wouldn't be needed anyway?
Apparently this holds (sump plug) but i hear they're available from pug so i'll re-new it.
and a 309 loom but not from this car i might add!
So far so good, after a bit of inspection of the 309 loom, it seems that the wires are exactly the same as the diagrams over on 205gti drivers. So it should be relatively straight forward! 
Now i must go and find some solder and get those wiring diagrams out 
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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:25 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
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Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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Going to view a gti-6 engine on saturday!
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:03 pm |
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Joined: Jan 26, 2010
Posts: 3432
Trade Rating: +1
Location: Kent
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Hello! 16v.. now this is going to take up a bit of your time! full polished effort?
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:30 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
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Location: VVT Land, Fife
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Hey stranger. Yeah it won't be done overnight and yes, this will be because i want it to look mint like the white one up there ^^^ Only with much less red hosing!
It will primarily take a long time as i need to ask my dad very kindly if i can borrow a corner of his drive for err...a few months. Over the winter I want to gather all the bits.
The car needs a re-spray first including the engine bay before I do anything so we're talking quite a long time away to be quite honest. Other alternative is to get the engine bay painted along, engine in. Then get the rest of the car done at another date but then the engine would get COVERED in dust etc from the re-spray and that would be a bit heartbreaking!
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:37 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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The seller turned out to be a time wasting (probably dodgy) bumface.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:42 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 3666
Trade Rating: +59
Location: Scotland
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| Brian wrote: |
| The seller turned out to be a time wasting (probably dodgy) bumface. |
Talk about calling a spade a spade eh 
I'm sure you'll get what your after matey 
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:06 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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Ken, lesson learned though - buy from someone through a club rather than faffing about on ebay!
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:00 pm |
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Joined: Jan 26, 2010
Posts: 3432
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Location: Kent
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T16....
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:28 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
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Location: VVT Land, Fife
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I wish! It would be like 2-3 grand for the engine alone.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:41 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 7209
Trade Rating: +14
Location: Stevenage
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Carlos is selling his B
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:30 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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I know, and he's not THAT far away. But tbh, the engines worth £X but the rest of the car isn't worth £Y! Not to mention that he's not breaking the car for bits.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:51 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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A package arrived this morning with some gti-6 calipers in it! £55 delivered off ebay, for that money I was expecting them to be absolute mince but was worth a go! On first inspection they seem to be fine, there's even still signs of the original zinc coating in areas so all is well so far. Will take them apart anyway and see what the full story is though!
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:25 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 3497
Trade Rating: +31
Location: VVT Land, Fife
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:37 am |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
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Location: VVT Land, Fife
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