Engine bay smoothing

[Scotty_b]

Im a great fan of the smooth and subtle engine bays in the old golfs and would really love to do this to my LCR. But is it really practicle? I wouldnt know where to start or is it a lot of one off fabrication? Would i need to speak to a auto electricain or a body shop or both?! Any ideas of people i could speak to about this?

 

[Feel]

Lots of threads on vwvortex about this.

 

[m0rk]

remove engine, and wiring - then start the work.....

not easy to do with a 'messy' 20VT running OE management

 

[Scotty_b]

But has anyone done this to a leon yet or is it follow the principle and adapt it?

Will have a look over on vortex, cheers.

 

[m0rk]

rip the bumper off a leon & it'll look just like a mk4 golf really. chassis legs will all look the same

 

[Scotty_b]

Cheers, think it owuld look spot on in the engine bay.
Are there any gurus in smoothing the bay?

 

[PhilW]

If you find any pics on it can you post them up in here, be interesting to see what people have done especially in the new cars where the dont run management etc...

 

[WeeJase]

i'd be looking towards european sites.

 

[Scotty_b]

Signed up to vortex and looking now, cant get my head around the search as its different to the main forum

 

[dj_hektik]

have a look at www.cleaned.be

 

[Scotty_b]

Cheers, thats a bit confusing tho as some is in english and some is in germany

 

[Dennis]

Smoothed engine bay???? I'm showing my age, please explain in words and pictures

 

[Scotty_b]

http://www.thegolf.co.uk/sample_feature.pdf

Look at page two at the top left. Not the nicest ive seen but thats the idea. Its basicly removing and hiding all teh wires and pipes etc

 

[Dennis]

Looks quite good but where does it all go?

 

[Scotty_b]

Thats what i was hoping to find out but so far its, Wires through chassi legs, battery in boot, loose as much cr4p to small boxes and sell

 

[WeeJase]

looks good on a mk1/2 golf,but not sure how you'd get away with much on a modern car ,with climate and god knows how many wires and cabls running about.
think thats why our cars come with great big plastic engine covers,hodes all the crap.good luck though scotty

 

[Scotty_b]

I know its not going to be 100% gone but id like to try and get rid of most of the clutter to give it a less spagetti junction look. Shame i dont have a bigger engine cover to try and hide it!

Anyone have a list of bits i can do away with? As i see some of the beezer boys lose the reservior etc

 

[paul26982]

you guna be trying to do somthing very hard work that would take agers if you atempted

 

[Icecavern]

Not a job to tackle yourself unless you're good at bodywork. Premier or somewhere like that will do it but I doubt it'll be cheap.

 

[dj_hektik]

I looked in an old issue of Performance VW i have - theres a great example of an older Passat with a VR6. The engine bay is just perfect.

Theres also a mk.2 Golf which has also been cleaned. Sorry i've been searching for 15 mins now and I can't find anything at all.

Basically the most you can do seems to be removing the wiring loom, lengthening it and routing it through the chassis legs. Also I suppose you could remove the secondary air pump and plug it up. smooth and paint the engine covers and battery cover? or relocating the battery to the boot would be easy, but underneath the battery is not pretty ...

anyway if you want the issue i have is PVW issue 10, 2005.