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RE1900 8v Mk1 Campaign
By: mitlom Date: August 27, 2012, 8:43 am
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After much nagging from Jason I thought I would start a mini
build thread for my 1983 Diamond Silver Mk1 Campaign.
I've owned the car since 2000, having stumbled across it for
sale down in Bristol in the local rag.....it was advertised as
an accident damaged Mk1 GTI for £600 so I thought it was worth
taking the short drive from the Forest of Dean down to take a
look. Story was his girlfriend had been driving it and had hit
a curb and he thought the chassis was bent, he clearly didn't
know much about Mk1s as the chassis wasn't damaged at all....the
wishbone had taken full impact and buckled pushing the front
wheel back against rear of front wing......after a bit of
bartering I secured the car for £440 and said I would pick it up
the next day!
Got back and dug out a spare wishbone and wheel I had knocking
about. I made the journey back down the next morning with a
friend armed with the replacement parts, a trolley jack, some
spanners and borrowed trade plates. 20mins later I was driving
it home :D Oh and did I mention the chassis number identified
it as a Campaign model and it came with all the standard
Campaign goodies ;)
Anyway I had the damaged wing replaced and painted by a friend
and drove about in it like this for while....I even did a couple
of track days in it at Donington and Cadwell ;)
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When I did Donington the car was completely standard in every
way, with the exception of the front spoiler. While it went OK
and was a fun day it made me want more power.....so for Cadwell
I procurred a St3 bg valve head and Kent GS3 cam (the same one
now fitted to the red car on my other thread)....I decided the
car looked a little more purposeful with the bumpers
removed....the car went even better than before and had some fun
chasing down some VR6 engined cars ;D Oh yeah and I also
fitted an uprated servo and master cylinder as car was only
running the standard setup and provided me with a few brown
trouser moments at Donny LOL
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It was clear following Cadwell that I needed to do something
about the suspension and also by this time the bodywork was
starting to look a little tired, so the decision was made to
send the car off for a bit of a freshen up back in 2009 and as
the tired old 1800 was breathing quite heavily I decided an
engine re-build wouldn't go amiss while the shell was off being
down.....it was then that I stumbled across a RE1900 for sale on
ebay, the only problem was that some muppet had started to strip
it down with a view to re-building it and had lost one of the
cam caps :( The good bit is that this meant nobody was really
bidding on it.....I ended up winning the auction for the
princely sum of £60 ;D
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After stripping and cleaning everything I found that the pistons
were in perfect condition as was the crank, due in the main to
the car having been run on Mobil 1 since new!
I proceeded to fit new rings, hone the bores and fit new gasket
and bearings all round along with a new oil pump and water pump,
I also took the opportunity of fitting a baffled sump and
windage tray. As for the head I sent that down to my friend
Mart down in Bridgend and he found a spare cap and re-worked it
until a good fit was acheived, it was then given a quick cleanup
skim, fitted with new guides and had the seats re-cut to match.
The engine was then built back up with the original Schrick cam
and given a coat of blue paint ;D
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While Mart was sorting the head I thought it'd be rude not to
get a gearbox re-built by him as well as the one I removed had a
dodgy synchro on 2nd & 3rd. Once I got the car back I decided I
would fit a set of OE type side transfers, I got these from
Daniel at www.volkswagenstickers.co.uk and have got to say they
are great quality and have since fitted a set to the red track
car as well ;)
Since then the car has sat on my drive collecting dirt and
grime, the only work completed being fitting of the engine and
gearbox and treating it to a set of Pro-Sport uprated shocks and
springs (used to be Jamex) complete with new Febi top mounts as
well.
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Time and space have played a part in not getting it all back
together and finished, not to mention that I was made redundant
in 2010 so funds have been a bit tight, especially considering I
decided to by the red track car and all my money and time got
sunk in to that for the past 18mths or so....with that now
complete though my attention has now turned back to the Siver
one ;)
As you can see she's looking a little sorry for herself and was
covered with grime and green grunge :(
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So I spent a few hours yesterday and all morning this morning
giving the car a thorough wash and then hit it with the machine
polisher and some Farecla G3 followed by some G10......I started
to give it a coat of polish after this but then the rain came
>:(
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A hint to what lies under the bonnet...... ;D
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Next up is get all the plastic trim cleaned, treated and back on
and then move on to the interior........as you can see I've got
a fair bit of work to do there.....spent quite a few hours on
Saturday sorting some electrical gremlins that were causing the
dash to throw a wobbly, god I hate auto electrics ::) LOL
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Those eagle eyed of you will see that as well as the GTI
Engineering RE1900 engine I have also got a GTI Engineering
steering wheel 8)
The plan at the moment is get the car all back together, get it
MOTd and then make some use of it for a while ;D Ultimately
this one may well be going up for sale along with the red Track
car to frre up some cash to finish the 'proper' track car ;)
Hope you enjoyed the read, if anyone has any comments or
questions let me know.
Tim
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Re: RE1900 8v Mk1 Campaign
By: Stooza Date: August 27, 2012, 2:47 pm
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If this is going up for sale then we need a selling section on
here so we get first dibs lol Great thread matey :)
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Re: RE1900 8v Mk1 Campaign
By: mitlom Date: August 27, 2012, 2:53 pm
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[quote author=Stooza link=topic=67.msg359#msg359
date=1346096822]
If this is going up for sale then we need a selling section on
here so we get first dibs lol Great thread matey :)
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Cheers Stu ;D
I did make that suggestion to Jason.....
Jason get it sorted...LOL
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Re: RE1900 8v Mk1 Campaign
By: JMR Date: August 30, 2012, 4:16 pm
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Request duly noted! 8)
Looks very good Tim. .I really enjoyed my mk1 as a road car.
.that will make a decent road tool when finished.
Love the "3-wheeling"...you loony!... :D
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Re: RE1900 8v Mk1 Campaign
By: chrismc Date: October 22, 2012, 1:32 pm
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Love it- looks like great fun ;D
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