hi Memphis I am from South Africa. love your golf. I also have a golf Mk1 which i converted from a 1300 to a 2l 8v . But now my external fuel pump makes a loud humming and knocking noises when I drive . Any advice on how to fix it?
It is good to see how you praise your old school and its teachers. There is something nostalgic about it. At my age, entering the holy grounds of the place where I spent a significant part of my youth makes me rather emotional. In 20 or more years you will probable feel the same way.
Friend: "Why are looking through your carbs like a binocular?" Memphis - "Looking for more power!" :) Love how the car chirped the tires in 2nd gear! As for a camshaft change - don't go too crazy. A hotter cam moves the power range further up the rev range. You'll make more power, but it won't be there off-idle (1500-2500 rpm) where you do 95% of your driving. It will be sluggish up to the point when it "gets on the cam". Somewhere around a 270 degree cam with .430" to .450" valve lift will be ideal. Keep up the great content! Cheers from Canada!
Impressive stuff all around. Great detail work on the carbs and timing. I’m knocked over by the schools facility. I’ll bet it’s a blast to drive as well. Better than my TDI i’ll bet. A really great story about a really great car. Congratulations for the results of all your work. I hope the school was as impressed as I am. I’ve been driving and messing with cars for about 61 years…many VW’s. 👍🏽
Thank you for linking to your old school. Have shown their website to my son, who is now very interested. We’re in northern France, only a few hours away, and this could be the perfect fit for a car mad teenager.
This engine needs a 288* cam, upgraded springs, and a HEALTHY compression bump (at least up to 10.5:1). This should net you at least 12-17kW to the wheels.
@@daalhoffarm You arent allowed aftermarket camshaft upgrades? What about if you swapped in a cam from a different VW head? Brazil used a 268* cam in one of their cars. Its the same cam profile that Techtonic Tuning uses for their 268* cam option.
@@daalhoffarm but he can swap a whole different engine in his car and put carbs on it which makes it way less fuel efficient but he can’t put a cam in it?
In South Africa the Golf 1 has a huge following, as it was locally manufactured until December 2008. Spares are plentiful and cheaply available. Your Golf is a pristine example and greatly to be admired. Keep up the good work. It is great to see a young guy with such a passion for cars.
She sounds awesome! In my opinion, one of your greatest accomplishments is being humble. You could have edited out the fails, but you admitted faults. That’s rare on these types of videos. I appreciate your honesty. Great build man!!
Zo weer genoten van een voor mij zeer ingewikkelde materie ! Maar na al die techniek tekst en uitleg was het een groot plezier de Golf over de straat te zien racen ! En dat was toch het uiteindelijk doel van de Dyno proof en het verder afstellen van de motor. Hoewel ik er geen snars van begreep was het toch interessant te zien hoe door middel van afstelling het optimale uit de motor te halen. Met name om met de stroboscooplamp iets af te lezen was wel het hoogtepunt in het gehele abracadabra verhaal !'Fijn nu deze auto weer optimaal functioneert met de nieuwe motor en wens je er ontzettend veel plezier ermee !! Hoop weer snel een episode te zien en dit ditmaal met en over de BMW !! Tot dan !
I've seen numerous motorcycle carbs, but never car's ones, super interesting ! And all the dyno part was really educational, with all the tuning and so 😁 And boy she looks fast 🤩
Great video. Beautiful car. What a hoot watching it blast down the road. Respect for the shout out to your old school. Nice of them to let you use the facility.
Excellent. Good job. What a great school too. I wish I could have been to somewhere like that back in the seventies when I was an apprentice in the UK. Mind you, I did get my first job at the local Mercedes/Ferrari/Porsche dealer so I'm not complaining too much.
this and your old engine are very tunned here in Brazil, especially with turbos. I have a 1.8 N/A prep installed in my vw voyage, shirick cam, 13,5:1 compression, running on etanol, using audi a3 turbo connecting rods. i use a fueltech ecu and 4x1 exhaust manifold. I got 110whp out of it using a conservative timing. love your channel dude. subscribed.
She sounds feisty now - great job! Can't wait to get mine to sound like that. Mk1s are the best, endlessly customisable and they just ooze cool. Maybe it's time for another trip to Nürburg?
Nice video the car pures like a kitten ;) ,im working as a bike cycle mechanic here in Denmark and I startet the eutication in January 2000 and I was finish in October 2003 and I have been in that ever since, I allso repair my own mopeds/scooters, last summer I swaped the broken air cooled engien on my Gilera Runner Sp 50 from 2006 to a licquid cooled engien and allready I had a new wirering harness installed some years ago, so it was ready to get licquid cooled, but the whole cooling system had to be installed that was a big job to do, but it runs like a dream now, I bought a Piaggio Nrg DD 50cc that I took the engien from, I only use that Gilera Runner Sp 50 in the spring and summer and autum then it stayes in my garage in the winther, it coud allso be fun to see how much power it makes on a dyno run, the only issue I got is if I drive on coppel stones or wery uneaven surface the engien stutters sets out but I have installed a real dellorto 17,5mm carburator and I have ajustet it and put in the biggest main jet that it can take and the colour on the spark plug is brown, ohh the engien is two stroke by the way, but it's so nice to do the work and knowing what parts is used and knowing what is done and save monny at the same time :) ,I like to take long trips on my scooter I got 3 and im doing all the mechanic stuff in my garage, in Denmark where I was to school for bike cycle mechanic there is allso car mechanics and motor cycle mechanics and other lines of work much similar to that in Belgum :)
@Memphis, you've done a great job, the car is a dream now! I hope You are now going to make a review of how the car runs, stops and accelerates, 0 to 100km/h etc.
Good figures Memphis, I can appreciate your excitement in getting it on the rolling road. My Mk1 is going to the dyno for setup next tuesday, I'll be happy with similar figures to you. Overbored 1900cc DX GTI on GSXR 600 SRAD carbs with electronic timing control (Nodiz) - fingers crossed
So thrilled by seeing this episode, really enjoyed it, but left me wondering: Isn't it time for a another trip to that Nordschleife famous circuit with the little rabbit? XD Anyway, really good job man !
Hey man, those hose clamps look really bad. I suggest that you replace them with better ones. Especially on the coolant hoses. After some heat cycles, the cheap ones lose the clamping force and can cause a leak. Plus, once you tighten them, then loosen and you go back to tighten them, it will never clamp as hard and you can also "strip" the clamping band. Edit: I recommend Oetiker clamps.
The Golf looks and sounds awesome and now it goes like stink too. Really great result after all your hard work Memphis (or should I call you little Simba?)! You’re a true engine whisperer. So stoked it’s exceeded your expectations 👏👏👏
Awesome video. I miss my Mk1 swallow tail even more. Talk about trips down memory lane. I think I mentioned I swapped the 1.6L for a 2.0L, later bored it out to 2.2L, and still added a turbo. In those days, we had slalom competitions at our local city college parking lot. Sadly, our schools in most of the US, no longer teach anything automotive. Please consider filing in content gaps with journeys in the Golf. I love looking at her lines and hearing her sing.
Great job, but ... Your AFRs are too rich. For NA you should aim at 12.2-12.8. I know that it is hard to tune carbs, but you can sacrifice low rpm and have there AFR 14-15, and focus on rpms after 3000. At this moment you have 10,7-11 AFR - this is too rich. Maybe next project will be with fuel injection and stand alone ECU ? ;-)
Not ludicrous amounts of power (still more than the stock fuel injected 8 valve tho lol), but holy jesus does it sound meaty and probably is an absolute pocket rocket now. I have been waiting for this vid!
Very nice and interesting video again! It seems a long time ago that you drove your mk1 down our street?!? We live 500m from eachother! We can start a small meeting some day ;-) but only after I found a 1.8l EX engine for my mk1 cabriolet... I you know one, would be wonderful. Keep up the good work Memphis!
Side draft Webers etc can be very expensive to set expensive, most people would surprised that late model SU,s HIF ( high air flow, they are more square at the top, earlier ones were more rounded ) can FLOW as much air and fuel as Webers for LESS money!!
Oops made a mistake, it is ofcourse part 6
Where is the mini Cooper
hi Memphis I am from South Africa. love your golf. I also have a golf Mk1 which i converted from a 1300 to a 2l 8v . But now my external fuel pump makes a loud humming and knocking noises when I drive . Any advice on how to fix it?
It is good to see how you praise your old school and its teachers. There is something nostalgic about it. At my age, entering the holy grounds of the place where I spent a significant part of my youth makes me rather emotional. In 20 or more years you will probable feel the same way.
The Golf is nearing completion, congrats on how far she's come Memphis! Cannot wait to see how the E28 turns out as well!
Friend: "Why are looking through your carbs like a binocular?"
Memphis - "Looking for more power!" :)
Love how the car chirped the tires in 2nd gear! As for a camshaft change - don't go too crazy. A hotter cam moves the power range further up the rev range. You'll make more power, but it won't be there off-idle (1500-2500 rpm) where you do 95% of your driving. It will be sluggish up to the point when it "gets on the cam". Somewhere around a 270 degree cam with .430" to .450" valve lift will be ideal. Keep up the great content! Cheers from Canada!
Memphis and M539, best car channels on youtube today! Greetz from Mechelen Memphis! :D
Sweet papaya
Impressive stuff all around. Great detail work on the carbs and timing. I’m knocked over by the schools facility. I’ll bet it’s a blast to drive as well. Better than my TDI i’ll bet. A really great story about a really great car. Congratulations for the results of all your work. I hope the school was as impressed as I am. I’ve been driving and messing with cars for about 61 years…many VW’s. 👍🏽
Im so glad the golf is driving super clean now. Looks like an absolute blast to drive!
Thank you for linking to your old school. Have shown their website to my son, who is now very interested. We’re in northern France, only a few hours away, and this could be the perfect fit for a car mad teenager.
i love what you are doing there. getting an old car and building it near perfection. I LOVE IT!
Thanks!
This engine needs a 288* cam, upgraded springs, and a HEALTHY compression bump (at least up to 10.5:1). This should net you at least 12-17kW to the wheels.
A cam would also increase the intake noise as well and make it sound extra throaty!!
The problem is non of those things are allowed in Belgium
Why you gotta tell the authorities..... Just shhhhh
@@daalhoffarm You arent allowed aftermarket camshaft upgrades? What about if you swapped in a cam from a different VW head? Brazil used a 268* cam in one of their cars. Its the same cam profile that Techtonic Tuning uses for their 268* cam option.
@@daalhoffarm but he can swap a whole different engine in his car and put carbs on it which makes it way less fuel efficient but he can’t put a cam in it?
In South Africa the Golf 1 has a huge following, as it was locally manufactured until December 2008. Spares are plentiful and cheaply available. Your Golf is a pristine example and greatly to be admired. Keep up the good work. It is great to see a young guy with such a passion for cars.
Greetings from Chiang Mai. Very enjoyable segment! Especially appreciated you including mention of Thomas More. Wishing you continued success.
Well done. A great result. Thomas More is worth its weight in gold!
Very nicely explained! Nice to see the Golf pulling so nicely!!
Je maakt me zo blij! Heb zelf een Pirelli uit '83. Dankjewel!
Looking like a champ on the rolling road ✌
She sounds awesome! In my opinion, one of your greatest accomplishments is being humble. You could have edited out the fails, but you admitted faults. That’s rare on these types of videos. I appreciate your honesty.
Great build man!!
Congratulations! Your Golf is more alive then it was ever before 🥳
Best series on yt hands down 🤤
There is that Jetta again! A 5 Zyl. Engine Swap would be awesome.
Nice work btw
Zo weer genoten van een voor mij zeer ingewikkelde materie ! Maar na al die techniek tekst en uitleg was het een groot plezier de Golf over de straat te zien racen ! En dat was toch het uiteindelijk doel van de Dyno proof en het verder afstellen van de motor. Hoewel ik er geen snars van begreep was het toch interessant te zien hoe door middel van afstelling het optimale uit de motor te halen. Met name om met de stroboscooplamp iets af te lezen was wel het hoogtepunt in het gehele abracadabra verhaal !'Fijn nu deze auto weer optimaal functioneert met de nieuwe motor en wens je er ontzettend veel plezier ermee !! Hoop weer snel een episode te zien en dit ditmaal met en over de BMW !! Tot dan !
The car sounds great. Love the school. Stay well
Amazing sound made this "little" golf !
Engine sound was perfect. What music!
Wonderful job! This was a fantastic group of videos to watch. Thank you for this.
Epic work
Car is running healthy
I've seen numerous motorcycle carbs, but never car's ones, super interesting ! And all the dyno part was really educational, with all the tuning and so 😁 And boy she looks fast 🤩
Great video. Beautiful car. What a hoot watching it blast down the road. Respect for the shout out to your old school. Nice of them to let you use the facility.
Excellent. Good job. What a great school too. I wish I could have been to somewhere like that back in the seventies when I was an apprentice in the UK. Mind you, I did get my first job at the local Mercedes/Ferrari/Porsche dealer so I'm not complaining too much.
Project complete... Big ups to you.. Very well done!!
That thing's a damn rocket ship now!!
this and your old engine are very tunned here in Brazil, especially with turbos. I have a 1.8 N/A prep installed in my vw voyage, shirick cam, 13,5:1 compression, running on etanol, using audi a3 turbo connecting rods. i use a fueltech ecu and 4x1 exhaust manifold. I got 110whp out of it using a conservative timing. love your channel dude. subscribed.
Love to listen to the special sound only carburetors - cars make 🤩 great vid and also nice performance mate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The high rpm's are so wonderfully throaty on that engine. I'd add a small fartcan close to the exhaust tip just to get it rumbling a tiny bit more.
Hi Memphis the golf looks and sounds really cool
Love this channel and can’t wait to see your next video
This is an excellent video Memphis. The Induction Roar on that engine sounds nice and 'Growly'. 1st class content! 👏
procrastinating installing bigger injectors and a turbo inlet pipe on my mk4 to watch this. loving the content, keep it up!
Echt een hele leuke Golf... blij voor je dat ie eindelijk goed loopt... Succes met je TH-cam Kanaal!!
Hello Haico Vos
What a great video... nice to see the Mk1 running so sweet 👍
Finally! Couldn't wait for this video
It just looks the part, especially in the first when it's sitting half way in the garage. And a nice introduction btw of your school.
Very nice, Memphis, thank you for the new episodes!
She sounds feisty now - great job! Can't wait to get mine to sound like that. Mk1s are the best, endlessly customisable and they just ooze cool. Maybe it's time for another trip to Nürburg?
I've thoroughly enjoyed watching the golf progress and see it come so far. Congrats!
Sounds awesome, well done 👍
That's one awesome looking school. Lucky you!
Welcome back Memphis, couldn't wait for this video📸. Love your channel bro, all the way from south Africa ✌️
Great job on the Golf! I think it sounds amazing too.
Awesome video, sounds amazing!
Dude that school looks cool as hell
Great stuff Memphis. It makes me remember my Golf 1 with p p in my eyes...a Big like from me..👍
Sounds fantastic, well done
Tuning is my life
Great sound!
Awesome videos! Would love that volvo!!
@2:51 I felt that! 😁
Nice video the car pures like a kitten ;) ,im working as a bike cycle mechanic here in Denmark and I startet the eutication in January 2000 and I was finish in October 2003 and I have been in that ever since, I allso repair my own mopeds/scooters, last summer I swaped the broken air cooled engien on my Gilera Runner Sp 50 from 2006 to a licquid cooled engien and allready I had a new wirering harness installed some years ago, so it was ready to get licquid cooled, but the whole cooling system had to be installed that was a big job to do, but it runs like a dream now, I bought a Piaggio Nrg DD 50cc that I took the engien from, I only use that Gilera Runner Sp 50 in the spring and summer and autum then it stayes in my garage in the winther, it coud allso be fun to see how much power it makes on a dyno run, the only issue I got is if I drive on coppel stones or wery uneaven surface the engien stutters sets out but I have installed a real dellorto 17,5mm carburator and I have ajustet it and put in the biggest main jet that it can take and the colour on the spark plug is brown, ohh the engien is two stroke by the way, but it's so nice to do the work and knowing what parts is used and knowing what is done and save monny at the same time :) ,I like to take long trips on my scooter I got 3 and im doing all the mechanic stuff in my garage, in Denmark where I was to school for bike cycle mechanic there is allso car mechanics and motor cycle mechanics and other lines of work much similar to that in Belgum :)
Very nice Video!!! Love your school!!! And your Golf is fantastic!!! This is a hell of a drive!!! Well done!!!!! Bravo 👍👍👍👍
@Memphis, you've done a great job, the car is a dream now! I hope You are now going to make a review of how the car runs, stops and accelerates, 0 to 100km/h etc.
Awesome video, as usual! Thanks for your amazing content, I really enjoy watching your videos! Keep them coming!
Good figures Memphis, I can appreciate your excitement in getting it on the rolling road. My Mk1 is going to the dyno for setup next tuesday, I'll be happy with similar figures to you. Overbored 1900cc DX GTI on GSXR 600 SRAD carbs with electronic timing control (Nodiz) - fingers crossed
Just back from my rolling road tune - end result 122bhp/187Nm. Happy enough with that on my cabriolet!
So thrilled by seeing this episode, really enjoyed it, but left me wondering: Isn't it time for a another trip to that Nordschleife famous circuit with the little rabbit? XD
Anyway, really good job man !
Congratulations well done!
So good.
I'm happy that you got things sorted out
👍🏼👍🏼
love to see new content from you
Hey man, those hose clamps look really bad. I suggest that you replace them with better ones. Especially on the coolant hoses. After some heat cycles, the cheap ones lose the clamping force and can cause a leak. Plus, once you tighten them, then loosen and you go back to tighten them, it will never clamp as hard and you can also "strip" the clamping band.
Edit: I recommend Oetiker clamps.
The Golf looks and sounds awesome and now it goes like stink too. Really great result after all your hard work Memphis (or should I call you little Simba?)! You’re a true engine whisperer. So stoked it’s exceeded your expectations 👏👏👏
Very nice sound! Good job!
That engine sound is awesome! Congrats on the car! (imo, I think it looks better without the GTI lip)
Looking good and running great. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.👌🏾😎👍🏽
Starting to like this car more and more. Nice.
oh man I've been waiting for this.
Sweet sound! Great work!
Awesome video! Thanks for all your hard work👍👍
Proficiat! Gewoon uitstekend
... Netjes, dit klinkt heel erg lekker voor een EA827 motorblok
Nice Citroen C6 at 8:42 !
Awesome video. I miss my Mk1 swallow tail even more. Talk about trips down memory lane. I think I mentioned I swapped the 1.6L for a 2.0L, later bored it out to 2.2L, and still added a turbo. In those days, we had slalom competitions at our local city college parking lot. Sadly, our schools in most of the US, no longer teach anything automotive. Please consider filing in content gaps with journeys in the Golf. I love looking at her lines and hearing her sing.
2.2 is not possible, you mean 2.1
@@mikejohnson699 correct, it was like 2180 which some round up to 2.2
@@vwfanatic2390 so you used a TDI crank?
@@mikejohnson699 I don’t remember the details it was more than 20 years ago, and mechanic pal did all the maths I just got to help him build it.
Quedó bien chingon tu golf .. bien 👍
Love it my friend
Looks and sounds superb. Well done. Question is. Do you stick or twist for more power?
Always thought Volkswagen should of got more than 115bhp out of the 2.0 8V engine. Low down torque was pretty good tho.
You are right. It should make 100whp on a stock motor. The torque numbers are great.
Great job, but ... Your AFRs are too rich. For NA you should aim at 12.2-12.8. I know that it is hard to tune carbs, but you can sacrifice low rpm and have there AFR 14-15, and focus on rpms after 3000. At this moment you have 10,7-11 AFR - this is too rich. Maybe next project will be with fuel injection and stand alone ECU ? ;-)
you are on point.
Those Webers sound great
Nice facility at Thomas More
Heel mooi gedaan man! Serieus net resultaat en dat geluid 🥰👍🏻
Not ludicrous amounts of power (still more than the stock fuel injected 8 valve tho lol), but holy jesus does it sound meaty and probably is an absolute pocket rocket now. I have been waiting for this vid!
Can upgrade fuel injection and pump loads better than carbs. Sorry to burst your bubbles lol
"After bruising my left hand ... the next step is to bruise my right hand" :D :D I really thought you would say that! :D
Great work , just gotta love golf gti 🚗👍😊 thx
Great intake sound 💪🏻
With cold air going into your carbs you will gain about 15HP, move them up towards the hood away from the radiator air stream
Very nice and interesting video again! It seems a long time ago that you drove your mk1 down our street?!? We live 500m from eachother! We can start a small meeting some day ;-) but only after I found a 1.8l EX engine for my mk1 cabriolet... I you know one, would be wonderful. Keep up the good work Memphis!
Muy chingon quedo tu golf bro felicidades ✌️😎
Top man such a great guy😊
What a machine🔥
Supergaaf! Je wordt nog eens docent met je instructies en films.. Hopelijk kun je nog vele jaren genieten van je golf👍
als onze keuring niet moeilijk doet, :(
thanks to u I am now a fan of MK1 rabbits
That school looks like the absolute dream of every petrolhead.
What where the final HP numbers after the tunning?
123hp
Side draft Webers etc can be very expensive to set expensive, most people would surprised that late model SU,s HIF ( high air flow, they are more square at the top, earlier ones were more rounded ) can FLOW as much air and fuel as Webers for LESS money!!