Fresh Reflections radiator, Roose Motorsport hoses. New fuel tank painted Porsche brown, stainless tank straps. Chromed and polished engine components, polybushed front engine mount. Although the car is complete, I will always find areas to change or improve, I enjoy working on it just as much as I enjoy driving it!.Įngine – Fully rebuilt 1.8 16v engine, baffled and plated sump and 2y Gearbox.
The Golf has now been on the road for about 5 years and since has had another exterior respray in a modern paint system. I also occasionally take it to shows around the country, but then I trailer the car for these distances. So I have taken it to meets up around Bristol and down to Plymouth.
A complete car would always be far more beneficial in the long run, as you know it’s complete and you won’t be “parts hunting” for ages.ĭue to the noise I only drive the car for about an hour each way from where I live. Once the golf was painted I assembled the whole car using refurbished and new parts including all the air ride, wiring loom and interior etc.įor anyone interested in buying a Mk1 Golf, my advice would be look at a few before you commit to it, be aware they can end up being rust and money pits, however if you are prepared to get your hands dirty it can be cheaper. I smoothed the bay, modified the suspension and got it ready for a friend to paint it for me.Įssentially the only things I did not do were paint the car and rebuild the newer mk2 golf 1.8 16v engine which I decided to fit as the original 1.5 had seen better days.
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I then did all of the welding (new rear arches, new rear panel, front valance, door skin repairs etc). The car had four layers of paint on it, including the graffiti! So I stripped the whole car back to bare metal to see what I had. I dived straight in and stripped it right down. We trailered it back to a barn where I was going to work on it, a 20 minute drive from my house. We collected the Golf from my mate’s family farm where a cat had been living in it back in 2009. The story starts when my friend bought this Golf and couldn’t sell it, it was then that I knew I had to have it! My favourite part of the car is probably the distinct 80’s lines of it. After seeing a few when I was younger at Volkswagen shows and in Performance VW magazine over the years, I knew that this was the car I wanted to restore and put my own spin on one day. The car is a 1982 Volkswagen Mk1 Golf GL. However, one that always turns heads is Isaac’s Mk1 Golf GL and for good reason! So here’s Isaac to tell you more on how he transformed his Golf from a neglected shell to the show stopping car it is today! At Re:Fuel we are lucky enough to see a range of Classic VW’s. Aimed to simply be an efficient family car, Volkswagen could never have predicted the success or popularity the Golf would receive. So the moral of this useless story is that you can convert the non-Lenovo card into the correct Lenovo one using a firmware flash, but since the slot is inactive if a supported card is absent at boot time, you're stuck still needing a supported card to get things going.The launch of the Mk1 Golf in 1974 revolutionised what a small car should be. I was able to reflash the card with the firmware that had the Lenovo ID in it by booting one of the laptop with a working card, hotswapping the bad card in, then flashing the "gooder" firmware onto the card that had its Lenovo ID removed from it. They gave me several experimental builds of the firmware to try at various points, and one of those builds, they forgot to put the Lenovo ID in it. After escalating up the ladder enough, I had Lenovo techs interfacing between me and Intel's dev team in China (the Fibocom card is based on Intel hardware - note the 8086 vendor ID). I took delivery of a good number of ThinkPads that use the L850-GL, and they had really severe stability issues with the as-shipped firmware.
You need the Lenovo-specific variant of the card.įun but useless information.
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