kiefers mk2 8v build

Pistacheuro wrote:

Have been watching your progress with this, but not commented on it yet so its about time. As said, a vast improvement than when you first got it, and major props on doing it all yourself and Im sure it'll pay off.

Keep it up dude, will keep an eye on this.
Rob

thanks mate i appreciate the comment

Right iv finally had a chance to crack on again with the car, where it was last just got the new head on, put everything back together and couldnt get the engine to fire was turning over just not firing couldnt figure it out so when i got home bit pissed off just decided to try nd sell the engine and bought a new one, 1.6 with exhaust system for 60 quid from jackc which im yet to pick up, so continuing on with what iv done..

so engine out - is up for sale for whatever amount only 86000m on it, will come with the old cylinder head aswell.



Tidied up the bay abit, had to leave the box in as was bit of a bugger trying to take it out, plans for later on probably monday will be to take thwe box out and evrything else that i can and prep the bay to be sprayed, probably go for black.



the lip on the boonet that i started working on ruined my favourite jumper by ripping it when i got snagged on the end, so me having a hissy fit went at it with a grinder for revenge took it off completely and left some lovely little chips in the bonnets edge from when i went to far :/ cant really tell from the pic what the damage is tho, i know some of you will be quite happy to see the back of that sacriligous boser lip but unfortunatly for you i havent given up on it im going to get another bonnet later on and do it on that while leaving the red one on the golf for now.



all of this took me over an hour and half and had to chip off so decided to quickly take off the black rubber bits on the tailgate where it evend with the gti spoiler








managed to bare metal it in some places where i went to heavily handed with the DA but still all good i reckon if the weather holds for the next couple of weeks il have it all ready to be sprayed after 3 days work max so i shall update then

started on the bonnet with the primer to see how it would come out then moved onto the car



whole of the car primed





spoiler refibreglassed to tailgate



while the fibreglass was drying went over the body looking for imperfections and went at em with the filler, then wet nd dry flatted the whole body with 240 grit, except for where the fller and fibreglass was as was still drying.








you can see just how little working space i have in my unit with the merc at the back taking the majority of the room. and all the crap and engines at the side's, anyone want a transit, 2x sl500 and mk2 golf engines?



and finally the lip on the bonnet filled after chopping the boser lip off, and ther top half of it wet nd dry'd. tommorow il focus on all the filler and get them all rubbed down, featherd aand smoothed completely, same with the fibreglass, reprimer most body parts of the car and if i get a chance tidy the bay up more, key it up and primer that aswell.

bugger me this moved on fast

what colour have you decided to go to?

max wrote:

bugger me this moved on fast

what colour have you decided to go to?

yeh been putting alot of hours into it

going to be spraying it platinum grey, cant decide wether or not to mix in flake mixture with it or not tho might look girly - gay lol have you any thoughts if i should or not?

ruddy hell kiefs! get on haha shes taking shape now this is gonna look good fella! ive gotta get cracked on with the rado this months as she starting to rust a tad now lol :( but got plans for me new gti too . I cant wait to see your motor dude. Ill have a look for some mk2 parts if ya want mate as ive got a she load of mk1 and mk2 bits and pieces that couls come in handy

yeh man its all coming together finally, ahh yeh last fing ya need on the raddo is it rusting away, what sort of stuff u got planned for the gti? ahh yeh mate if u got nefing mk2 or mk1 u want rid of giv me a shout theres probs loads of bits il need in the long run so its all handy if u do

now its all one colour!!











got a shed load of bugs and spiders to polish out of the paint tho the lil f**kers :@ but the paint has come up lovely, once its been polished il wheel it outside and take some better pictures

good work, its coming along well. im glad you ditched the front end plans

cool update, keep them comeing.....

well done mate!

you are a very skilled young man who needs a good pat on the back

MarkGTX wrote:

good work, its coming along well. im glad you ditched the front end plans

Liam B wrote:

cool update, keep them comeing.....

bridgedubber wrote:

well done mate!

you are a very skilled young man who needs a good pat on the back

thanks to all for the comments but unfortunatly i havent given up on the bonnet and tailgate plans just yet lol

well wheeled it out and had lil while to put bits nd pieces back together didnt have a chance to wash it or polish it so il do it later on but in the mean time heres some more pics of it while its in the sun.

head lights in.


indicators and wing mirrors on









rear window in and the plastic thing me jig in the plate recess on, obviously wasnt put on when the car was sprayed will have to do that later on probs just do it black with halfords arosel can.


i noticed that there wasnt really any pics of the interior so heres a couple for the mo till i clean em up.







now one thing that has to be said regarding the spray job is... as much as i wanted to do it, i actually didnt the car was sprayed on friday just gone but my dad seeing as he was bored and i was at college i spose he thought he'd do it to surprise me or summit i dunno lol thanking him very much anyways, but what u cant see in the pics is the amount of bloody runs he's got in the body and on the bonnet and on the bonnet there wasnt a good enough job of wet nd drying and in some other places on the body, that being said il admit that thats probably my fault but if i where to have sprayed it i would of wet nd dryed the entire body again before i did. but anyways back to the the topic of the runs il have to use some 1600 grit on them as it is an extremely fine grit and rub em off completely then polish and buff up, so i shall update then.

to get the golf road worthy now all i need is to either get my 1300 fixed or sold so that i can buy another engine which i do have lined up from some one but im, to skint to buy at mo lol im guna save up for some half decent coilovers instead of using the lowering coils on my standard struts, i would like to get some nice alloys for it preferably ats cups or some other 7j rims but for the mo il keep the standards on it, also need to get a new grill for it as the blue one iv got is terribly ugly and needs to be burnt but is up for sale as i need the money lol also need some rear lights for it and thats alli can actually think of at mo even tho theres probs loads m,ore that i need to do lol

so yeh heres ma sprayed golf theres whats left that i need to do so what does you fine ppls think??? lol

give you dad credit thats much better then most of us could spray a car

looks good mate, to me it looks like a mixture of oak green and graphite grey. should look awesome when its all polished up

I hate to say it but its looking rather good, really like the colour !

CustomChris wrote:

I hate to say it but its looking rather good, really like the colour !

wasnt you the one that gave me the "advice" of scrapping it and getting a real golf? cuz this one was basically junk? lol well that a nice little change in comment there, im pleased with that now lol

max wrote:

give you dad credit thats much better then most of us could spray a car

looks good mate, to me it looks like a mixture of oak green and graphite grey. should look awesome when its all polished up

i will give him he's due's he is good at spraying cars, but im better lol

and yeh, the paint is more like gun metal grey when you look at it up close, but as you say will look awesome when iv polished it and also when iv removed all the little lodgers inbedded in the paint lol

sweet, still not a fan of the body kit, but i respect the working your doing your self, colour is cool too

billybug wrote:

sweet, still not a fan of the body kit, but i respect the working your doing your self, colour is cool too

dnt worry bodykit will be altered soon enough, and cheers i love the colour of it

really good project mate, coming along nicely. Keep it up!

right just to let you all know this is now up for sale as im skint and have debts to pay completely open to offers, also iv finnaly figured out the engine its the timing thats out as its a mk2 cylinder head on mk3 so thatll be sorted this weekend and dropped back in, if anyones interested drop me a pm

no way, thats shite.

you got your reasons though dude, and work was looking good.

Rob

Pistacheuro wrote:

no way, thats shite.

you got your reasons though dude, and work was looking good.

Rob

yeh completely agree it sucks but got no choice

right on half term from college so got anotha day at my unit to get bit more work done, started off with re timing the engine, was about to put the gearbox back on but the bolts on the clutch cover have gone missing and i didnt have any around so thats guna have to wait till iv got more :@ decided to put the lowering coils onto it started with the front but didnt have time for the back cuz of the bloody rain, bearing in mind theres no engine at moment its pretty low, and theres a fook load of weight in the boot as well

standard strut out.



First bilstein lowering coil on off side on a standard strut who knows how long that'll last for



Pic of the one side done



Now other side down, also with bilstein lowering coil on standard strut



Both sides done







Spose now all i gotta do is obvioulsy the rear and sort out some half decent rims for it like 16's or clean up and spray the steels on there now, opinions anyone? bearing in mind im skint .

if your that skint just re furb the current steels. same colour maybe? paint looks good though. I thought you were getting rid of that bumper