Roll-A-Rat Gti

Mot till october and tax till may, central locking alarm etc etc.. 130,000 miles the engine is sweet and it goes off the clock so definately a good one.

Looked like this when i got it :




Then after 2 days of messing around and fitting bits i had laying around, coilovers etc etc. looks like this:

you got it ok then! u stil up for a bonnet piece dude? thaught u was goin green on the wheels?

Done a few more bits to it.. Forgot to mention the ratty style wont be here long.. Come summer i will be respraying her and she will probably be rocking some BBS RMs... yes i know im a sheep but they look sick so yeah lol... anyway while funds are low lol :







120mm coilovers wound all the way down... And thought i would jump on the bandwagon and add some rear negative camber

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Fixed a water leak, sorted out the stupid plug leads and a few other little niggles and the engine runs sweet as now, absolutely flys and goes straight off the clock and keeps going no problems.

looking good mate u should keep it as a rat
rust the whole car

temptation got the better of me so i broke out the roller and mixed up some paint lol, savanah beige + diamond white = sandy colour lol. Needs some interesting wheels now.

oh no! was it that bad of condition?

Whitegt wrote:

oh no! was it that bad of condition?

what?

Me and joe decided it needed a hotrod style shifter as its gonna be rat rod style more than the usual dub rats you see.. So things are starting to develop a bit more american.. REALLY needs an oldskool wheel to pull the shifter off properly but im loving it so far... Broken torque wrench =




In other news, at the show yesterday it was decided it wasnt low enough and a bit of a sniffer look was needed lol so out came the front assister springs and the arches were pulled so we could get some lock on it.. Dont have any pics of the arches etc but its pretty low at the front now... Last night taking joe back to cambridge we saw a massive white object in the middle of the road but it was too late we both freaked out when we hit it and dragged it for a couple of hundred yards, got out and found out it was some massive bird that had been killed in the road, hit it doing like 80mph and it was pretty scary lol.. damn low cars, bent my splitter, moved the exhaust and dented the sump.

thats the biggest dam bird i have ever seen! it smelt bad after we hit it aswel! did you drive back home real slow after dude? stil not sure how it managed to escape the sump and exhasut and come out of the back!

also that shifter is much beta than the first few ideas we had! whats it like changin gear with it?

wat the f*** did u hit an osterich lol thats 1 big bird man i hit a rat n broke me retainer clip n caliper ur lucky lol

dunno, bloody terodactile i think it was lmao.. was bloody huge before i hit it.

Tiz wrote:

dunno, bloody terodactile i think it was lmao..

haha the shifter is genious , love rat/hotrod style

Right, Everybody, I have officially had enough for rat look.. I didnt understand lee when he said rat look is doing nothing for him at the minute but i know what he means now i am actually fed up of this little phase and tbh im going to jump OFF the bandwagon.... Over the next couple of weeks the golf is going to under go a make over going to sort as many dents as possible, a few minor bits of smoothing and the golf is going to go Bright metallic Blue(Very rare 16v GTi colour) shot over a diamond white base so the blue should really pop. The makeover will start tomorrow and as i will be working on it for a whole week for MANY hours it should be done by next weekend which will be perfect to get the golf out of the dub shed and put em-dubs's rocco in.

Although.... I REALLY do love a white golf... so do i go diamond white or deep metallic blue? Putting a Poll up in VAG chit chat in a minute, please vote.

remember next cambs meet is the 28th. thought you wanna turn up in a vw this time lol

it will be done man, have faith old boy, that is 2 weeks away.

not going to spray it till after the meet now, waiting for better weather to come and for me to have more money so i can do it properly rather than a quick job that will disappoint me. BUT i have done a lot of tidying up on it today to make it a lot less ratty. Pics to follow.

Looks so much better tidyied up, all the rust patches gone, rusty bonnet gone and cleaned up a lot.

looks sweet dude, those arches turned out gd!

Needs wide wheels mate

yeah it does mate, as soon as funds become avaliable wheels will be bought

That looks good dude

Decided that the Orange trims didnt really suit the colour anymore... So decided to clean the wheels up and satin black them with a couple coats of laquer . Also rewelded my exhaust hanger so it hangs a bit lower and stops it rubbing on the back. Welded up my front mount so thats now solid makes a massive difference to throttle response and doesnt add much more vibration.










REALLY need to stop being lazy and change the cambelt, i have the belt and tensioner, might do it tomorrow if the weather is ok. Anyway on a little run to cambridge to pick emma up the other day i got a good MPG figure

looking good dude, looks a lot tidier with the black wheels! not bad for your mpg hey.

whens the respray due? your black wheels will look good with the blue colour too or will you got plans to change the wheels when you change the colour??

i take it this was an engine conversion? because its all like CL spec

i love the whole ratlook side of things, but fake ratlook im not so keen on, looked like it had a fairly decent paint job??. glad your going back on your idea, tidy paint for the win. still looks kool tho.