Yeah it's running, it was running well until I drove home from the engineers. I don't understand exactly what happened but was driving from derrimut to vermont sth, I gave it a little in second (love the sound of the pod filter sucking in air) and it just wouldn't boost, the motor seemed to bog down and lose power. Pulled up at a set of lights and stalled. After 5 mins the car started again and drove fine. Now whenever I give it a little in 1st 2nd and 3rd it bogs down, and doesn't boost properly. Rpms don't seem to want to go over 4000. I've not dealt with this type of problem before but I'll speak to my tuner. Hopefully it's a simple fix. Anyway when it was going well I was pretty happy, numbers aren't huge but in a car this size....wow!
The rear seat was quite a pain, because it was hard, and the amount of ideas I went through to find something that would work and an engineer would hopefully pass.
I did this around the time my father passed away so I didn't take any photos of the cutting and shaping, sorry.
Please be advised fuel tank should be removed for this and it would be easier to re-upholster an original seat.
Rear seat base: stripped all the material and padding off both the golf and the1600 seat.
Cut the wire frame of the gti to match the 1600 seat, then put the 1600 frame on top of the golf frame or vice versa. They lock in together with a little manipulation.
Put the golf padding on and trip the excess off with a Stanley knife, go slow don't want to cut too much off.
Once trimmed and happy, wrap the material around and use the plastic clips that are sewn into the material to stretch and clip it onto the the steel frame. I also used stainless steel cable ties to tie the 2 frames together.
Rear seat upright: this was the part that took a while to think of. Especially because it's a split seat and actually not as wide as the Datsun. I had to make in-fills for each side of the seat.
I pretty much pulled the seat apart completely so I had the 2 metal backs, which had a square tube welded to it (from factory) for strength.
I then cut the backs down to the height that suited me because they are pretty tall. I may have cut off up to 5". Can't remember exactly. Then sat them exactly where I wanted them to sit. Marked where the wheel arches fouled and trimmed away with my trusty grinder.
I then sat the backs where I wanted them (an extra set of hands to hold things would be great here) now go to the boot and mark the Datsun frame outline onto the back of the golf seats.
Take the seat back out and where the square tube intersects where the Datsun frame outline is, mark and drill a 12mm hole all the way through. Do this in 4 or 5 different places on each half of the seat. Then put them back where you want them to sit in the car, mark the holes on the rear seat support frame of the Datsun and drill.
Stainless bolts 12mm× 75mm long with flat square washers 50mm by 50mm were then installed through the seat. All foam and padding was put back on to the seat back and trimmed to suit. Re- covered the seat, cut excess material off and used velcro to hold parts of it in place.
Mounted the seat backs and used another square washer with a round washer, spring washer and nut.
As you can see, pain. I wish I had opted for an easier option. The fronts, no problem go for it, rears re-uphoster something that fits easier.
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Well I went to get a roadworthy today, my front tyres stick out too far...... fair enough. While trying to source rims to put on the car, I found the problem with my fuel issue. Rookie error, mental note: always make sure that you use a gasket goo that is fuel resistant. 