Welcome to all Mk 1 Golf Hillclimbers

[JJGOLF77]

Hey come and feel free to totally "Hijack" my thread and dribble about hill climbing Mk 1 Golfs. Keep it clean and have a laugh. Ask questions and put ya two bobs worth in. Cheers JJ

[Jarred]

alright then, I'll start :P

what's the go with your car? what's the mods that you have and/or are going to do to it?

and how can I get out there and start doing hillclimbs?

[gtimk5]

I had great success in hillclimbs down here in my Mk1 twincam. Only things that ever bothered me were a couple of jap cars, GTR's, no Subies, an Evo and a Cosworth Escort. In the wet, I mean pouring rain the only thing that beat me in one hillclimb was a sole GTR with a bucket load of money spent on it.
I used my car as a parts pickup car for my business and ran it in all types of motorsport., well, not speedway or gravel rallies...
You probably havent seen pics of the car...
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2009/03/DSC_1784-2.jpg

[16v_kid]

im in...

when i get the 2L in my mk1.


cheers

[16v_kid]

andrew...thats a mint mk1 dude..

i never new you had one.

What motor are you running.


cheers

[gtimk5]

Hey 16vkid, go through my past posts and there are hundreds of pics of "Gunter".
I still have him in my shed in the country but is less the motor, gearbox and rollcage.
I ran a 1.8 twincam for the first 4 years and then switched to a 9A TC with no mods, just a lightened flywheel, homemade extractors and altered cam timing. It went perfectly and I had no problems until my second last event, The Rallye of Burnie where I snapped the exhaust cam into 3 pieces. Still drove it 380 kms home like that and had it running on the monday morning again. Took out 4th place outright in the following weekends hillclimb and then dropped out of motorsport... :frown:
Revnit now has that motor and is getting good drag times out of it for what it is.
Cheers, Andrew :)

[Water Boy]

My Daddy has a Mk1 it goes fast :driver:

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2009/03/bbbm-2.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2009/03/1a-2.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/untitled-1.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/air-1.jpg

[16v_kid]

My Daddy has a Mk1 it goes fast :driver:

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2009/03/bbbm-2.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2009/03/1a-2.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/untitled-1.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/air-1.jpg

lol my oldman was going to buy this car..no joke but he didt want to sell it because waterboy had to drive it or something like that..

thinking about selling dude..


thats bad luck andrew about the mk1..

she must of been a beast before..

also what are you going to do with the shell.


cheers guys

[golf3]

lol my oldman was going to buy this car..no joke but he didt want to sell it because waterboy had to drive it or something like that..

thinking about selling dude..


thats bad luck andrew about the mk1..

she must of been a beast before..

also what are you going to do with the shell.


cheers guys

I don't believe this for a second...

And "no joke", he's my uncle...

[gtimk5]

Oops, you might have meant, would have liked to buy the white Golf maybe??? :eek:
Seems like you or your uncle would like to buy a lot of different Golfs??? :duh:

[16v_kid]

He was thinking of it. He said around 10k with my motor, but he officiously changed his mind.

[WABIT]

i dont get it;

he built this mk1 for himself to race and professionaly compete in, spent big dollars on the WHOLE!!! setup, buying parts, testing, swapping stuff to make this car perfect to drive to his spec, YET! he was thinking of breaking it and selling the rolling shell for 10k and have a very very expensive motor just sitting there doing nothing?

i doubt hed ever consider selling this mk1, someone offering money for it initally, then yes! thats a diffrent story, but actually himself putting it on the market...... i highly doubt it

dom

[JJGOLF77]

Hey guys great to see some Mk 1 action out there. Taylor my mate and I are working furiously to get our Mk 1s ready for the Adelaide Hillclimb season. Taylor is running a KR 1.8 TC and I run the 1.6 with a blower. Keep the chats coming and enjoy your Golfs lads.

Cheers

JJ
:vw:

[SUMO MK1]

And i am nearly ready too. Going to hit the collingrove hillclimb for the first time on sunday the 26th, come and try day. I am trying to get the $'s together for tires, some nice fat sticky's to go on a set of mk2 14's but at this stage i am a bit short so it looks like i will be rolling on 175 70 13 stock road tires :duh: . . . should be interesting. Fingers crossed i have better rubber by then :biggrin:

[SUMO MK1]

I forgot to post this up and its a couple of months old now but anyway hope you enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1a233As-j8

[static1800]

Nice work mate, that's a tight little track! no room for error.

[GoLfMan]

im trying to get my mk1 ready for an upcoming hillclimb!

its got a worked JH 1.8 on a single 45 DCOE Weber. Hopefully should go orite :)!