Picked this car up saturday for $400.(1985 rabbit convertible, the last year the rabbit model was used for convertibles[single round headlights].)Models after this year received duel headlights and are called cabriolets. The owner was nice enough to give me a good amount of extra parts, all new gaskets,o-rings,seals , along with other nos parts still in boxes with rabbit shipping tape on them. New front and rear side markers and a collection of other misc parts. The car sat for 17 years, last owner said he put a gti engine in it but never finished the project.
I put in the new fuel pump he gave me , injectors from my other car along with a few other things. My battery seams to be trash as it hardly turns over. Using alittle starter fluid it dose try to start and run though. Took a good amount of opening and closing but the top dose like to go up and down now. Interior is in decent shape, had a few new parts for it like the plastic trim and lever for the sides of the seats to bend them forward along with other parts of the same nature.
Where the car was when I got it.
The owner wanted to keep his rims so I brought mine with me.
Got the car home and quickly started tearing into it.
Under the Karman badges it has round wolfsburg badges. the authentication of this is still undetermined.
Got most of the interior back together.
Need to get tail lights haha but I guess like this works for awhile.
This is how the car currently sits.
this months progress =
-cv axles were torn down, cleaned, regressed and reinstalled.
-after sitting for 17 years, redid the timing, put in injectors,few other fuel related parts and she runs! Not vary well and the idle is all over the place.
-found my first leak! the oil filter housing was cracked in half...walked 8 ft to the parts car .
-second leak, the cis knock box is leaking fuel. Will tackle that in the next few days
-rigged up solutions to all the vacuum leaks and fuel vapor return lines aannd she runs quite strong and extremely loud.
-Yea loud, there is only exhaust headers on the car. Tried fitting the downpipe on today and it wants to hit the rack'N'pinion and sit about 3 inches below the exhaust channel. So took the exhaust header off the parts car and now got to get the full exhaust off it.
Now we are caught up