My 91 Rado G60, 1.9 rebuild finished (no 56k)

[g60greeny 0]

its good see you havent lost faith mate,looks like ya really crackin on,an can't believe u got the missus cleanin stuff for ya,quality :D

[Monzadave 0]

Thanks for the kind words people :D

 

Update:

 

Well, i took the head and bottom end down to Auto service and spares in Exeter to get the head re-built and the bottom end honed reasy for new rings :D , only to get a phone call saying the scoring on the bores of the block were too bad for just a re-hone, and i would need to bore out the block and get new pistons :( . So after a talk with Oliver we decided to strip down the original block that was in the rado and take that down to Auto service and spares and see if it could be used instead (i don't really want to be forking out £500 on new pistons :? ).

So a free night came, and i went out to see young Oliver to get some much needed work done :D

 

I got out to Cotley and i set Oliver on the old block we put it onto the engine frame, and after taking some of my skin off Oliver undid everything and had it stripped in no time :D

 

 

While Oliver was stripping the engine and didn't need someone to mangle :lol: i carried on the seemlessly endless job of cleaning lol

 

 

I got the gearbox to look like this

 

 

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So i was pretty happy, i just need to clean it off and paint it :D

 

I got bored of cleaning and couldn't be assed to paint, so i cleaned some more of the engine bay and started rubbing down some surface rust in the bay :D

 

 

I decided that i would need more then just my hands, so i am going to get my dads grinder to finish it off :D

 

Oliver had finally finished the block

 

 

and called it a day

 

 

And we went in for some well earned tea :D

 

 

Next on the list is to get the old block cheked and hopefully honed, then contine to buy bits with the money from selling Monza :( .

 

Will keep everyone posted :D

 

Cheers

Dave

[BILLCOR 1]

Great work again guys, your not havin much luck so far but seem to be in good spirit with it all :wink:

 

Personally I'd be pretty Pi**ed off havin spent that amount on what seemed to be a good car, only for this to happen 5 minutes down the road

I also find it pretty poor that the seller and fellow forum user has offered no help in the matter nor even bothered to make his own comment on the situation?

 

Good luck with the rest of the rebuild :)

[Walesy 0]

Great work again guys, your not havin much luck so far but seem to be in good spirit with it all :wink:

 

Personally I'd be pretty Pi**ed off havin spent that amount on what seemed to be a good car, only for this to happen 5 minutes down the road

I also find it pretty poor that the seller and fellow forum user has offered no help in the matter nor even bothered to make his own comment on the situation?

 

Good luck with the rest of the rebuild :)

 

 

Agreed 100%

[Monzadave 0]

another update :D

 

Went out to see Oliver and do some more painting last night, meant to only go out for a little while and do a couple of small things, but we got a bit carried away :? lol.

 

I rubbed down the cleaned inlet mani and started to spray it,

 

 

And ended up with this :D

 

 

While i was playing with the inlet, Lau primered and painted some more of the brakets and bits that are on the engine :D

 

 

they came out pretty good i thought :D

 

Oliver decided to prep the engine bay for a spray by rubbing it down and spraying on some wash primer then some normal primer :D

 

 

Then both me and Olly rubbed down the primer on both sides getting rid of any inperfections, then put on another layer of primer and it was ready for a coat of colour :D

 

 

It went on really well considering i bought the colour from halfords. Oliver gave it a couple coats of colour and we left it there for the night (mainly coz we ran out of paint lol).

I'm getting some laquor today and shoudl be able to give the bay a couple coats sometime this week :D .

 

Keep watching for more updates :D

 

Cheers

Dave

[Neil VR6 0]

Awesome rebuild thread. Looks like it's coming together really well :)

[g60greeny 0]

lookin proper smart,can't wait to see what it looks like when its complete 8)

[Toph 0]

Very impressive mate!

 

Good luck with the rest of it and look forward to seeing it develop to completion!

 

Toph

[filofilsem 0]

Mod Edit :

 

DO NOT CONTACT THIS MEMBER ABOUT BUYING PARTS OR THE CAR, AS IT IS NOT HIS CAR!

 

 

Yes, it is shocking. If i wanted to spend 6k on a car i'd have bought an S2.

Mine might be going up for sale soon. Thinking about a turbo'd E36 M3 project or Sport Quattro replica.

[herisites 0]

Yes, it is shocking. If i wanted to spend 6k on a car i'd have bought an S2.

Mine might be going up for sale soon. Thinking about a turbo'd E36 M3 project or Sport Quattro replica.

 

If i had the money i would buy your S2 ANY DAY mate, its fcuking gorgeous with some silly power to match!!

 

Oh and really enjoying watching this thread, some great progress so far! Wish i had the time/money/skill to restore a car like this! I am going to be getting an old mk1 for a uni ride soon so i am going to practise on that :D

[_leon_ 0]

love threads like this - as soon as i have a garage when down in edinburgh - i'll be doing this too. good stuff - keep the posts coming!

[g60greeny 0]

Yes, it is shocking. If i wanted to spend 6k on a car i'd have bought an S2.

Mine might be going up for sale soon. Thinking about a turbo'd E36 M3 project or Sport Quattro replica.

 

 

an what price we talkin on the s2?

[olly elworthy 0]

come on dave get some more pics up,, allot more cleaning and painting has been going on and teh engine bay has now been laquered, finishing off teh engine bay painting,,

 

tonight i will be sorting out the wiring loom, lots of soldering heat shrinking and taping,

dave has more cleaning and degreasing to do wahoo,,

 

as a little treat for dave i repainted the front cross member ove rteh weekend whilst he was out galavanting

[Monzadave 0]

Sorry for slaking on the updates, the pics are still on the camera, but will post them up soon :D.

 

Lots to do tonight, was going to get somemore LP7Z paint made up and paint the charger the same colour as the car, what do people think??

 

Bad news on the bottom end front, the other block i sent off to be honed has too much ware in one of the bores as well :( which means i am going to have to go 83mm pistons :( . more expense but has to be done.

 

Will get a load of pics and a new update tomorrow :D

[W3RKD 0]

Sorry for slaking on the updates, the pics are still on the camera, but will post them up soon :D.

 

Lots to do tonight, was going to get somemore LP7Z paint made up and paint the charger the same colour as the car, what do people think??

 

Bad news on the bottom end front, the other block i sent off to be honed has too much ware in one of the bores as well :( which means i am going to have to go 83mm pistons :( . more expense but has to be done.

 

Will get a load of pics and a new update tomorrow :D

 

Great build up here... Let me know if you want a good price on some pistons... :)

[_leon_ 0]

Great build up here... Let me know if you want a good price on some pistons... :)

 

hehe that was nicely done ;)

[Monzadave 0]

Haha, cheers Darren. I have some that i got off Monkey, and i'm going to take them down to the place doing my head to see if he thinks they are useable, if not i will be giving you a call Darren.

[W3RKD 0]

Haha, cheers Darren. I have some that i got off Monkey, and i'm going to take them down to the place doing my head to see if he thinks they are useable, if not i will be giving you a call Darren.

 

Are yes, I know those pistons well...

[Monzadave 0]

Do you think they'd be ok for charger applications?? or are they too bad do you think???

[Monzadave 0]

heres a quick (late) update,

 

Heres some nice pics of all the parts that have been cleaned and or painted so far:

 

 

Lots on there, and last night me and Lau went out to clean the rest, and i have the alt and more brakets to paint soon. Then theres just the gearbox to paint :D

 

The engine bay was given a lick of laquor the other night too :D

 

 

I don't have the cash to fit a front mount at the mo, so we are going to be using the original intercooler :( so we cleaned it up :D

 

 

I have recently aquired (cheers monkey) some 83mm pistons that i plan to use in the bottom end due to the block having too much ware to use the original 81mm pistons. they have some damage but i have been told by the guy doing the machining that they should be ok :D but i'm getting him to have a good look at them to make sure :D .

So fingers crossed all will be ok to use and i'll get the rest of the bits i need tomorrow :D .

 

Will keep you all updated.

 

Cheers

Dave

[Monzadave 0]

Another update,

 

Went round Olivers again last night to get some more work done, remembered to bring the electrical tape this time and Oliver got to work taping up the looms so it no longer looks like spaghetti scattered across the engine bay :D

 

 

I had yesterday day off work to send my porsche wheels off to there new owner, so i took the alt and some brackets home to paint them up, no pics but they are ready painted in black too :D.

 

On my day off yesterday i went down to see scratch at auto service and spares to have a chat to hime about the pistons and the block, after a talk he said they should be fine, and he would say there would be no problems using them :) so thats good enough for me :D . So he is boring out the block for the 83mm pistons and should be done soon :D .

 

I also went to gsf and vw to get the last of the parts i need, spent another £150 on parts, and the pile now look like this:

 

 

Still need some bits though, so will be ringing around today to get them :D

 

Last but not least we decided to paint the charger, after have a good look at it and opening up the boost return block off plate, we could see that the green cone filter that had been run on the car had left loads of green crap inthe charger, which had made a sort of grinding paste within the charger, so we cleaned it out best we could, and threw some primer on it :D (after cleaning it first of course)...

 

 

Then, we applied the top coat :D

 

 

Its the same colour as the paint on the car, and it has come up awesome, should be something different for the bay :D

 

Thats about it, now i'm off to spend more money on parts :( lol :D

 

Will keep you all updated :D

[vwdeviant 0]

Should have kept the Matt Bule and had it pinstriped... Hot-rod stylee.....

[Monzadave 0]

haha, it dod look awesome in primer, maybe next time (god i hope theres not a next time lol).

[Sonicriot13 0]

This thread is amazing. I'm loving it. So many people would have just given up in the face of such a challenge. Well done mate! :D

[_leon_ 0]

are you laquering all of the painted parts?