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Nice looking motor. Congrats.

[Junebug85]

Welcome! Congrats, nice looking car. Great spec and some great mods too

[P-ToK72]

Originally Posted by richyhill

Yep the Golf is mine mate, build thread for it in my original post.

I've had a few, bit of a passion of mine

Always wanted a Mk1 Golf but haven't got the time or skills to build and maintain one.

If I had the cash I would have to find one already more or less how I wanted it (but I guess that's cutting out half of the fun).

[ZigmundUK]

Originally Posted by richyhill

With Bristol's great roads , i ended up hitting a sunken drain this week and blowing one tyre and having a bulge in another, so its now sitting on 4 new Bridgestone Potenzas all the way round

Were you running runflats?

[richyhill]

Originally Posted by P-ToK72

Always wanted a Mk1 Golf but haven't got the time or skills to build and maintain one.

If I had the cash I would have to find one already more or less how I wanted it (but I guess that's cutting out half of the fun).

It is easier that way.

If you look at my thread link, I bought this Mk1 with the engine conversion already done, then added some touches as saved a lot of cost and time

[richyhill]

Originally Posted by ZigmundUK

Were you running runflats?

It was on runflats on the front and non runflats on the back when I got it

Now on Bridgestone Potenza "TFL" non run flats all round

[ZigmundUK]

Originally Posted by richyhill

It was on runflats on the front and non runflats on the back when I got it

Now on Bridgestone Potenza "TFL" non run flats all round

so were the bulge and blowout on the non RFTs?

[richyhill]

Originally Posted by ZigmundUK

so were the bulge and blowout on the non RFTs?

ZigmundUK blow out was on run flat, bulge was on non run flat

[ZigmundUK]

Originally Posted by richyhill

ZigmundUK blow out was on run flat, bulge was on non run flat

My experience was that bulges were much more easily obtained on non rft than rft. I ran the same tyre on my car with and without RFT and the potholes caused bulges much more easily on the non rft. We had two bulges - one of them ended up blowing on the non rft. on the RFTs - nothing...

[Willsy33]

A bit late to the party, but that’s a very smart looking car you have there. I was after that same colour combination myself, but the few I looked at weren’t quite right. I ended up spotting an EB that had slightly higher mileage with a slightly better spec so opted for that instead. Hopefully you’re still enjoying it, I know I can’t stop grinning when I give it a boot.