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hi i seen your post and was wondering if you could offer any advice. i bought a golf 1.8 20 vt golf and use parts for my 1.4 lupo.,the mechanic has had both cars for nearly 4 months and the problem he has at the min is the liwer engine mounts from the golf wont fit the lupo. if u can offer any advice i would be grateful.

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Quick silly question, but how much roughly did it cost you in total? As im looking at doing this at some point! Thanks Dan

if you search this its something about a million people have asked.

bearing in mind I got all the welding for free it cost about 4.5k... still no quite finished though!

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ahh man really impressed with all the work you have done! looks completely mental well done :D!! hows it all running now?

cheers bro!

well I have had it off the road sine UD really as I went up north and smashed the lower gearbox mount and the sump.

I have replaced the sump but lokoing at a better way of locatign the mount, hopefully doing this next week!

then just have to fit a few new pipes and sort out a bit of wiring and she will be my daily! wooo!

Well Done

cheers!

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havent updated on here for ages! sorry guys!

after a the taks of replacign the sump numerous times and smashing it twice I have invested in a shallow sump!

got the car back on the road last night and she is pulling well.

I have a small n249 valve problem (I think) to sort this weekend and hopefully she will be running to her full potential!

I cannot wait!

nothign much has changed to the looks of the car, but I will get some pics up if I manage to clean her this weekend!

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So, edition done and I think it was a massive success! best year yet and I think we can all agree some quality cars!

managed to get the car painted and reasonably clean haha!

below are a few photos of the little one! hope you approve! I definately prefer the red bonnet!

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but I must not forget to mention my mate steve (steveewonder32 on edition)

you probably know him, he built the mk1 in the photos next to my car above!

managed to go home with sponsors choice, which he was a little overwhelmed with to say the least haha!

he even had the head off is engine 2 days before the show!

congrats to the big man! one great car and hopefully plenty more wins to come!

few pics of the way home!

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and the win!

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almost forgot .. I picked this little beaut up on saturday ..

mk3 gti 16v .... £500! ... 114k on the clock! such a steel!

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may have a few ideas in mind for when I have finished the loop :ph34r:

anyway! hope to see some of you at players!!!

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I like those wheels! Maybe that's because I have a flash red Lupo on silver steelies too haha :)

haha!

the wheels arent all bad just with all the sump smashing i would love some 16's and want a little bit of width on them too!

hopefully it wont take too long to get them :D

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So its been a while guys.

The car is not for sale anymore (unless anyone wants to make me a very nice offer)

Last Friday I took her down to AMD to have a look at the running problems as after endless searching I couldnt find a thing.

after they had inspected it for 5 mins they told me it was the MAF ..... I said it was impossible as I ha already replaced it(the first thing I did replace) ... However, of course they were correct!

so now she is running great!

As well as this I have a new dump valve (just standard but working properly)

anyway! ... a couple of flicks to keep you all happy :) ...

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I havent cleaned the car yet haha!

BUT.... I have had a very productive weekend thanks to the lads!

got the speedo working.

stopped the engine hitting the chassis leg by making a spacer for one of the mounts ( cheers steve! )

car is finally running great!!!!

anyway ... some cool pics from today!

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super long extention ont he ratchet! ...

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at the end of the evening! ....

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celebration of the days work! ..

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So I have some news.

I cleaned her! ... but haven't taken any pictures haha! .. .nor have I taken any videos :( ....

HOWEVER!

I did have to take her for an MOT today and a few things had to be delt with first!

an indicator had been ripped off... no idea how!

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so I got some bits ...

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and fixed it! (sorry for the sidways pic)

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I then went to a breakers to fins a steering wheel squib so I would have a horn that worked, I found one and picked up some extra little items....all for £10.. forgot to take a pic of the squib :(

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once the squib was fitted it was time for the MOT..

aannd...

SHE PASSED!!! .. no advisories either :D

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for now peace!

promise to have more pics and videos soon!

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