Frah2o Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 I remade the hoses coolant. I simulated the use of metal hose with silicone joint After this I started to made the first part of engine harness. I self made the bracket fixed on gearbox to fix the plug of harness To this connection i plugged the wire for: - oil pressure - oil temperatur - knocking sensor - alternator cable - water temperatur - engine temperatur - distributor cable I also self made another wiring part totally missed - idle motor cable - water tempaeratur head - rail injection cable To this harness i also add the wiring of MAF sensor Finally i added the wiring to starter motor 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 I start to work on radiator. In the kit the radiator was totally absent, just only fairing and fan. Watching the engine is really poor and bad view. On the real radiator fairing the vent are opened. I opened these vents hole to evacuate the cold air (in the future i’ll decide if mantein rubber flap with alu stopper like on original vw fairing or selfmade a new exhaust vent as i saw in some vw meetings) I used a radiator from an 1/10 rc and i adapted it with lego brick to the shape of fairing....now it seems just little bit a cooling radiator I modified the radiator for the future extra air inlet hose for the extra oil cooler. The cut side of radiator will be remodeled with some styrene I holed inside engine bay for front brake lines and fuel lines Finally i give 2 primer coats to underbody and engine bay for next future new color: sky blue ral 5015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors54 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Great work. She must be a bit of a monster size wise. Looking at that superb engine takes me back to an earlier time when we were gas flowing GTi heads, overboring blocks and lowering the suspension with strut braces and silicon bushes. A 1900cc engine with high lift cam, big valve head and stainless steel exhaust in a Forest Green, big Bumper MkII was the Holy Grail. Happy Days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 11 hours ago, Coors54 said: Great work. She must be a bit of a monster size wise. Looking at that superb engine takes me back to an earlier time when we were gas flowing GTi heads, overboring blocks and lowering the suspension with strut braces and silicon bushes. A 1900cc engine with high lift cam, big valve head and stainless steel exhaust in a Forest Green, big Bumper MkII was the Holy Grail. Happy Days. Cool Coors54. I'm 41 years old, and i'm still driving mk3 from 20 and still lovin only these old vw. Great work on your mk2! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 Before to paint chassis in blue, i tried to selfmade and replicate with iron wire the brake lines. Now that I find the correct shape of brake lines, i come back to work on master brake cylinder to add some joint and a better finish look. Suddendly the 3 paint coat of blue to chassis and engine bay. I choose this color because is too similar to "Blau color concept golf MK3" and because i like it very much. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 I continued the work on engine. After adding the 3 missing exhaust ducts, i painted the manifold in alu and 2 final smoke coats. To give some burn look i used tamiya powder wheatering. I also wrapped the warm air filter duct with aluminium foil. I started the modded work on radiator fairing. With modified lego brick i selfmade a new cold air extractor. I also add weld lines, new joint hose and metal mesh. I little detailed the cranck, waterpump and alternator pulley. With insulating tape i self made the belt. Finally i holed and insert some pins for the new hose connection for MAF sensor. Finally a pre test fitting un engine bay. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 That is looking marvelous. Your wiring is excellent. I like how you use Lego and other stuff to simulate pieces of the engine. It certainly looks right sitting in the engine bay like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 1 hour ago, JeroenS said: That is looking marvelous. Your wiring is excellent. I like how you use Lego and other stuff to simulate pieces of the engine. It certainly looks right sitting in the engine bay like that. Thanks Jeron, lego are very useful to reproduce some shapes without getting mad. 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 Some few progress but a big solving problem with engine (the extra add coolant hose to heater core) In the kit was present only one hose that have a particular shape. This hose creates some impeding (specially to extra brake lines to add in the future) So i decided to remade the new hoses using a sprue. To maintain the hose in position, i made a hole and i insert a pin in each hose (after a little moulding job) I dry fitted the hose and i checked the clearance on firewall for extra add of brake lines. It’s seems fits good, next step painting and adding silicone hose joint. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 I finally fitted engine inside bay. Before fitting engine i finished job on master cylinder brake. I add some nuts to ricreate the nut joint for brake lines I used some stripes of insulating tape to create fixing grommet for brake lines mounted on firewall. With styrene i selfmade the exhaust heat shield and finally i taped it with alu tapes. I also selfmade the bracket for vapor oil canister, and i also added 2 nuts. I used tamiya braided hose for 2 fuel lines, and i holed the firewall to insert the first part of engine wiring. Finally i fixxed the engine and i connected the vapor oil canister to vent joint on rocker cover. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 Before continuing with engine, i made with insulating tape the inside mudguard. If was a oem ride eight i could use a 0.25 mm styrene sheet. But if I used it, my chassis would be raised....and this is not good. I fitted the selfmade hoses for heater core. Remembering the Delta HF WRC water canister, I decided to reproduce it also in my GTI. I started my work using a dummy batteries. After some work, I obtained the wanted shape. I holed the tank for future connection and future bracket on engine struct. Finally i coated it with bare metal foil and i added hoses using a tube with same color of G12 liquid. I repainted the fan with gray haze, and i add some detail to radiator fairing (some alu tape on top face of radiator, some alu tape on fan motor and connection for hose to canister and temp sensor) I also fitted the selfmade clutch cable. To maintain a little bit clean engine bay, I decided to build a partially hidden engine wiring (all the invisible wiring run inside the chassis) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 I quite finished engine coolant system. Just only the final hose from canister to radiator. I also create another partially hidden engine wiring (it runs nearly the struct and hides inside the left chassis spar) I cabled the rear light switch, the speedo cable and the oli temp sendor for gearbox and differential (this last is my add and not present on real GTI) Then i worked for fitting the hose from canister to radiator: With insulating tape i selfmade grommet to fix hose on side left structs. This hose will be partially hidden from extra oil cooler and battery (battery will be lifted to permit the run of other wiring) Finally i made new bracket for extra oil cooler (i used the present hole inside the engine bay) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Fabulous. Either you have a Golf next to your model table or you model in the garage. It's so realistic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoly Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 On 25/10/2019 at 16:51, Frah2o said: I continued the work on engine. After adding the 3 missing exhaust ducts, i painted the manifold in alu and 2 final smoke coats. To give some burn look i used tamiya powder wheatering. I also wrapped the warm air filter duct with aluminium foil. I started the modded work on radiator fairing. With modified lego brick i selfmade a new cold air extractor. I also add weld lines, new joint hose and metal mesh. I little detailed the cranck, waterpump and alternator pulley. With insulating tape i self made the belt. Finally i holed and insert some pins for the new hose connection for MAF sensor. Finally a pre test fitting un engine bay. i was going to cry at this point, but then i realized that's not a Lego piece. i am loving the level of detail you are adding. have you thought about including comparison shots with the real car? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 1 hour ago, spoly said: i was going to cry at this point, but then i realized that's not a Lego piece. i am loving the level of detail you are adding. have you thought about including comparison shots with the real car? 🤣 Spoly i' not so blasfemy to cut a original lego brick....I always use Lepin. Thanks to much. I saw this modify on radiator fairing many years ago to VW Woerthersee treffen....i don't have pics, just a remenber in my mind. This procject is like i would to tune the dad's mk2...but my father want it oem.....so I begin with 1:8 to arrive one day to 1:1 10 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: Fabulous. Either you have a Golf next to your model table or you model in the garage. It's so realistic. Thank Pete and yes. My lucky is that Mk2 had the same engine component of mk3 (the mk2 PB engine is 99% identicallu to 2E mk3 engine). I have two MK3 (GTI and TDI) and daddy have a restored 1.3 GL '83 MK2. With my golf, dad's golf, etka and elsa (electronic spare catalog and workshop manual) ia have quite data references Here my two ride 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 Engine 90% completed: just to finish carbon coating of bmc cda airbox, carbon fairing of extra oil cooler and some waterslide decal for engine. I lifted the battery to permit the housing of coolant pipe and wiring of fan and water temp radiator bulb. I full remade the throttle cable bracket and new cable with adjusting nut. Remade the vacuum hose for servobrake. I connected with braided hose the extra oil cooler radiator I added the heatshield for all exhaust system (the exhaust is only to show the line....will be total remade) Finally my PB vs the “out of box” 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 I carbon decal the CDA filter airbox and the oil cooler fairing. Also i add the oil filter decal. Other engine decals will come later 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 It still looks real. And then your hand was in shot which proves how the eye can fool the brain. Fabulous stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 11 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: It still looks real. And then your hand was in shot which proves how the eye can fool the brain. Fabulous stuff. Thanks so much Pete Finished the engine, my attention swing to one of my preferite parts of car: the exhaust system Like on my real gti i deleted central an middle silincer to obtain a direct flow exhaust I also deleted the oem twin tailpipes and added a big bore tailpipe like sport inox exhaust N group (like Bastuck sport auspuff) I used the chassis as template to find correct shape of my new exhaust system I coated it with a first primer coat to check anything to rework. Then putty and a new paper sanding. Then i reprimered, i coated with white aluminium paint and a final smoke TS71 coat (specially in the first section of the system) While I'm waiting the drying of exhaust paint, i redid all the brake lines fitted on underbody. I fitted the chassis grommet and i uses 1 mm metal wire for new brake lines. I self made new hydraulic joint for brake lines and i jointed them on new rear braking distributor. I also added new selfmade alu clamps with bolts on exhaust, i added some weld lines. I finished the work on manifold with thermal banding. To reach the right color i painted it with a first coat of titanium gold and finally a smoke coat Suddendly i used the tamiya powdwers to light the exhaust point (blu and red burn effect). I also lighted the tailpipe to simulate the heating due backfires. I also wheatered the chassis heatshield and finally i fitted my full illegal exhaust system..😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 I continuing with pics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 FInal work on new exhaust system 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted October 31, 2019 Author Share Posted October 31, 2019 I full remade the fuel pump and filter. I added new top studio joint and i repainted all fuel pump and filter I differently painted the joint for inlet and return in red and blu metallic I added some photo etched bolt to head of fuel pump I also changed all hoses with braided hoses. I self made new hose from fuel pump to engine. Finally i revisited the fuel tank working on stripes in bare metal and adding some fixing bolts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted November 4, 2019 Author Share Posted November 4, 2019 I full repainted in matt black (2 final clear coat matt) the subframe, arms, rear axle and front engine bar I detailed some bolts and added fixing nuts for the arms In the past months i mistakenly painted in gun metal the bracket for rear axle. In the real gti this piece is part of the chassis....so i repainted in new blu color like frame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin1962 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Quite possibly the most detailed, accurate and realistic model I have ever seen. Truly inspiring. Fantastic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frah2o Posted November 6, 2019 Author Share Posted November 6, 2019 9 hours ago, Martin1962 said: Quite possibly the most detailed, accurate and realistic model I have ever seen. Truly inspiring. Fantastic. Many thanks Martin for appreciation. My lucky is to quite know the real car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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