my valver

i have owned this car for years

it has seen different sets of wheels, exhausts and bits n bobs but now it has:

4-1 4 branch manifold
6x4 oval magnex exhaust (not by choice it was all i had spare)
14" original wheels painted white (which people seemed to like)
pipercross induction box
coilovers
brembo grooved discs
green stuff pads
2 front leather corrado seats (i like to sit low)
stripped out back
dvd player with basically no speakers as the car is stripped out
german plates

oh and power steering that i fitted myself...not a nice job

it will soon have a 2l 16v engine and afresh lick of paint....hopefully...and a set of king 7x15" old school wheels if i can be bothered to refurb them

here are some pics


at vw players


wih new german plates


on the drive


at the F1 hotel in pbo with my mates and there mk1 (he is a fendubbers member) and corrado



on the drive with my mk2 8v and my £200 mk3 16v donor car


there have been many times when i have wanted to get rid of it because it has caused me so much grief like having it vandalised more than once by jealous people and then it sat in a barn for 6months due to the bottom end being f*cked and leaking oil from absoutely everywhere.

but now i am growing to like it again...its just the power, speed an the noise the thing makes when its at high revs

the car is not perfect but she owes me to much to ever get rid of so i figured i might aswell pour more money into it

looking good, what are the wheels like your thinking of refurbing?

ill post some pics of the wheels

sort off BBS style

sweet mk2 i like!

wow thats going to be a challange when u come to mask those up to detail the black back in!

have fun cleanin those! i no wat ya will b thinkin wen ya r coz i think it all the time wen i bother to do mine properly lol

Wheyyy nice rims, yup, they'll be an absolute bitch to clean, mine are too. Mesh'd BBS Rims like these make VW's though in my opinion.

nice looking. I have a spare one of those bottle top wheels if you would like to make a set of five good price

sweet looking mk2 bud

just a quick update.

ive been to the local bodyshop thats done brilliant work for me over the years and had a chat and it seems that he can do my respray, new metal arches, smoothing tc within the budget i got which is GREAT

all ive got to do is drop the 2l 16v in and get it working lovely, strip the exterior of all plastic and get it to him in january,.

SHITE the heat is on.

now ive got to find a decent single wiper kit that lays flat!
anybody got any ideas?

so its now time for the ball to start rolling.

i bought a mk3 16v for the engine; the engine currently sits stripped on my garage floor waitin for the kr bits to be put on it.

so thats what im bout to do but today ive done this;

pictures of how it looked this morning...for the last time











and this afternoons work






and i thought i would share the pic of my 4branch just because it come undone very easily for once...bout 10 minutes work instead of a whole day




tomorrow i am undoing the driveshafts, engine mounts and the other power steering pipe, which is being an arse, and the engine is coming out

Love seeing build threads like this where people get hands on. Good luck with the conversion.

I am liking the white rims. Not so sure on the exhaust!

what colour is it going to be? or is that a secret.

looks like your getting on well with it, although i know what you mean about some jobs that should take 10mins taking a whole day

MarkGTX wrote:

what colour is it going to be? or is that a secret.

looks like your getting on well with it, although i know what you mean about some jobs that should take 10mins taking a whole day

same colour black, cant remeber the code!

ive come accross loads of jobs like that mark!

Ian83 wrote:

Love seeing build threads like this where people get hands on. Good luck with the conversion.

I am liking the white rims. Not so sure on the exhaust!

exhaust is going to be changed

did some more today. some good photos some boring ones but basically im gonna take loads of pics to detail what ive done (plus to show the future kiddies)

so here we go

undone the drive shafts



undid the engine mounts



then pulled it out




then me and dave cleaned down the bay






so now its time to swap the kr bits onto the abf while the bay is given a fresh coat of paint

the car has gone to the bodyshop for the first bit of work and should be back on friday



it took ages to get the car off of the truck because its low

any pictures of the golf infront of yours in the picture with your bonnet up mate?

jellyb30 wrote:

any pictures of the golf infront of yours in the picture with your bonnet up mate?

thats my daily ride, my other mk2 gti with new colour scheme, one of these days ill take some pics of it....altho im sure people wont like what ive done but i dont care

y wots the new colour scheme??

an abf'd mk2 gti would be my dream car! that's why I bought a mk2 ibiza 16v cos it's the closest thing to it! mk3 golf is too heavy to really make good use of the power. your car is looking reall nice!

cupra16vgeezer wrote:

an abf'd mk2 gti would be my dream car! that's why I bought a mk2 ibiza 16v cos it's the closest thing to it! mk3 golf is too heavy to really make good use of the power. your car is looking reall nice!

cheers

im hoping its gonna be rapid but reliable.

oh its a pretty tidy car but in a few months time it will be sweet as fuuuk

the last mk2 abf I went in was most definately rapid!