Todds Tornado 'Two

Yes they are the 8.3mm and there isn't room to drill them out to the standard size. I might paint them but I could paint the whole wheels now I'm waiting for the valves

todd wrote:

Yes they are the 8.3mm and there isn't room to drill them out to the standard size. I might paint them but I could paint the whole wheels now I'm waiting for the valves

hope they hurry up, it'll be nice to see these wheels with some rubber on!

Had the tyres 2 weeks and still waiting for valves to come. Ive got 2 of the wheels painted now.

A pic with the back lower from vw action a few weeks back:



I think the coilovers have settled down a little bit now because it seems to rub a lot more than when I first put them on.

I've painted my wheels up and got the tyres on





I'll get some better pics when it stops raining!
I've got some 20mm spacers each side at rear.
The front needs to go down a bit now for more tuck.

I got a new ariel today because mine was snapped. Not very exciting but I can get Radio 4 now

The bloke in motorspares gave me a flier for a new vw website/group he's started for people in Bury.
www.burydubs.webs.com
Just thought Id put it up because it's quite far from the Fendubbers meet and isn't in Cambridgeshire anyway!

you can listen to Kiss FM now )

Good shout on Bury Forum, i've joined up. missed first meet last night tho.... :(

nelds wrote:

you can listen to Kiss FM now )

Good shout on Bury Forum, i've joined up. missed first meet last night tho.... :(

oh yeah, i forgot to tell you about this
check my groups on facebook

17th member on burydubs

p.s u can borrow those 10mm spacers

nice looking mk2

Cheers Bridgedubber





These pics are when I first put the wheels on. Ive wound the front down another 25mm now so it looks better since these pics. I think Im going to change the splitter to a small one because this one scuffs constantly and the small ones look better.
It's sugar beet season starting now so really dirty roads and big lumps of beet to dodge around Bury country roads

i likee, yup needs a small splitter, and the exhaust hangs a bit lowwww

The exhaust is too low. The middle box scrapes on bumps so I'm going to have to sort it out. Maybe lose the middle box or get it to sit up a bit better. Pics of how it is now

loving it !!!........good luck with the splitter...lol

Seen this twice in the past week Todd. First was parked in Tuddenham during the week and then saw it parked near Juniper??? drive in Mildenhall yesterday. Looks nice

Cheers I'm always near Mildenhall because that's where my parents live and where the barn is where I work on the cars.

looks amazing, i miss my tornado red gti when looking at this!

I got my heater working this morning
I just had to take the bypass valve out and replace it with a bit of pipe and it's working perfectly. I'm sure it's running cooler now too so I'm chuffed. Should have done it ages ago but you don't get round to it until winter starts to get close. It was just the same last year with the caddy.

Gone back to standard height now for winter so I can get down the track to the barn. It's getting grubby now!





before:



after:





It had the handbrake frozen on this morning and then I found a nail in the edge of the tyre. I have had 3 nails in my tyres on this car in the little time I've had it. I'm lucky I had just taken the wheels with new tyres off though!

MOT this week fingers crossed

love the first picture!

Fail

Rear brakes recording little or no effort

mk2 rears always fail.

bloody things

sucks about the mot dude at least its an easy fix
loving the red bbs suit it down to the ground

im also running the same winters as you

It now has a new rear caliper and new handbrake cables and an odd steely on the back.
Seriously thinking about selling this at the moment
I want a dirty diesel again or a mk1 or a mk5. I can't decide but once you start looking....

I'm hanging on to the golf for now but still planning to sell fairly soon.

Not too much exciting has happened with it recently. I have changed the ignition switch because it decided to break and changed the oil. That's it but we had a few sunny days so Ive decided it's summer and put the BBS back on today.

I changed the front splitter for a small one because the original one was on the road constantly scuffing. It was fairly annoying in town. Ive put the front down 10mm more than before and it doesn't scuff plastic at all. Just the exhaust sometimes now. Still got 15mm of thread left for when I get bored and want it lower.

Before the splitter was dragging:



Now it has a bit more space and it's a bit lower:



I have also changed the BBS centre badges for some others that I had lying around that are not as worn out looking.
These are the old ones I changed over.

I really like this, the non gti splitter looks better imo anyway! don't sell it todd !