Derek my Dub!

hey all, i have had this car since October last year and have been driving it since March due to be turning 19 on the 4th March.

it is a mk2 gti 16v
royal blue mettalic
rainbow interior

ok, this is how i bought the car:









with my german plates on:












1st of all had a problem with the heater matrix:





out it came, got a new one, all back together:



alarm, immboliser fitted next:



under bonnet padding was next, must have got super hot so changed that over:





was from a mk2 td.

next i re.sprayed my front bumper as it had a slight scuff:





New arch cover as one was split and could have caused a punture with sharp plastic:



next up with smoked indicators and yellow fogs, took a while to find the right ones;



fitted with laser bulbs:



then my headlight lens fell out and smashed when i braked once at home. so new headlight bought and fitted and adjusted:





new windscreen next from scrappers, a really mint one, not one mark:



mine has two large stone chips. haven't fitted this as yet.

wheels clean:



next pain was one of my tail pipes fell off!





ordered a new one now, in the post!

next job was rear bumper as had a hole cut for a tow bar at some point during his life, so picked up this peeling black one:



re.sprayed by myself:



and fitted on the car:



nice n low!



lately the rocker cover gasket was leaking oil, so decided to do that:













cleaned and back on the car:





while i had the cover off, new HT leads were added and an oil change and filter were done.

so modifications so far are:

yellow smoked fogs,
smoked indicators
slimline wiper blades,
lowered on weitec springs on g.max shocks
zimmerman cross drilled disks
pagid fast roads pads
flexy hoses
road/race willwood brake bias valve (next to handbrake in car)
laser bulbs
straight through exhaust with standard back box
larger inlet manifold
corrado injectors
drilled air box
port and polished
new strut top mounts front and rear
wax oiled
re-built from cross member
complete rear axle
new PAS rack
new flywheel
LUK sports clutch
Audi sport gearbox
short shift

all new wheel bearings
camber adjusted due to lowering
new ball pins
new track rod ends
recon brake calipers
new tyres all round

and boy it goes! haha

not bad for a car with currently 209,400 on the clock!

You Know i love this Garath, cool update pics of the work you carried out! would never of known its done the 209k miles! and especially the price you picked it up for!

keep us posted on the updates.

you got any plans for it next?

Dubsy

here the latest pic of the car at the swansea classic and vintage show yesterday:



dubsy: plans now is sort the drivers seat out - worn bolster, the norm!

Wow! thats in very good condition for the mileage..... you wouldnt think it!!! wicked car man!

gota love a mk 2!!!

poor thing just needed a bit of TLC

she's lovely, my legs need rubbin

bit of an update!!

Here's the new look:

stripped out with strut brace:



Sabelt harness in:



then i bought a replacement bushing kit off 'the bay' as my gears were wobbling all over the shop. haha



dont have a during pic, but here's an after:



Pretty tricky to do really. not as easy as it may seem. everything needs to go bak inline, otherwise i would have no gears!

Luckily all was cool

The next step!

OK

I decided that the red strip around my grill wasn't red enough, so i took it off and have re.sprayed it using:



MARS RED! This is the red the mk1 golf gti's come in.

Here's the grill prepped! took me 3 days to prep it as the line is so thin!!



During:



After!!





Much cleaner, fresher and much brighter red! chuffed!!

Car has been rolling about for the past couple of days like this:



Notice the drivers side headlight:



Smashed!

Happened while parked in pembs college. Don't think someone did it as no damage to the bumper. i think it was the heat re.acting with the super glue and the pressure built up and it went!!

Not too fussed, as now i have bought these!!!!!!!!!



mwahaha!

Bit of an update.

here's a pic of the new headlights on:



Shocker! sticker on the back window. excuse the dirt!




another problem i had was that while going along the road about 20 miles away from my house. was in 4th gear and went to go into 5th but couldn't. so pulled over and realised one of the gear linkage bars has snapped and had fallen off in the road somewhere...couldn't find it. so had to pull off in 3rd gear!! bit of smelly clutch but by 10 mph good old 'derek' could pull on fine. had only 3rd and 4th. so at 60 then i put the car is neutral and free flowed for a while until it came back to a reasonable 4th gear without revving like a mad man.

dad drove me to VW and couple of days later! all sorted.

cool updates dude!

All you need now is some smoked crystal inners

Yeah inner lights is the next step. they are just slightly harder to find and the cost is quite a bit!

Good update mate. Know the inners are expensive but venom and volksbits do them.

Arr mate its lookin so good... keep up the top work there fella!

nice, cross hairs are very nice....... single headlight conversion?

im jealous you can do all that work yourself. i wouldnt know where to start or what to do!

Took some updated piccies 2day! i know you all love 'em!!

wicked picks of the valver dude! really coming on well my welsh friend!

here dude, you going to try and get to E38? if you get there early enuf you can park and camp with us lot repping NOMADS. up to you maaaaaan!

Dubsy

Liam_R wrote:

im jealous you can do all that work yourself. i wouldnt know where to start or what to do!

you'll get there, best thing to do is have someone who knows what there doing but you get deep into the job so you can get the hands on experience!!

hey. just thought i'd update this a bit! Been a while as up at Aberystwyth uni now so it makes things harder to do on car without ramps, tools etc.

What i have got though is a pair of polished door handle inserts:



Then i have now decided to go back to the standard headlamps: A, because it looks more original and B, as the beam is rubbish with the cross hairs, so made it hard driving at night, even with adjustments.



I have also focused on getting my drivers seat re.done as the foam and material has gone. So picked up a rainbow interior:



What's cool is, the drivers seat is mint, no tears or sagging, plus i will use the rear bench material to do my drivers seat which is the car now.

The latest ebay purchase was this:



A Remus stainless manifold. Being fitted tuesday, then that will make exhaust system complete.

Peace out!

Looking good dude, let us know if there's any difference with the manifold.

My old 8v was as clean as that, your car is excellent.

Makes me want another Golf.

that starting to look sweet , i am lovin the OEM ting,and the lights EXACTLY WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE BB MK2

grill sweet too,

quad lights underrated look and with yellow fogs YYEAAAHHHH!

its also BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS DUDE its very good work

I'm gonna take mine back to standard grill, it's got a debadged crystal eyes one fitted but you're right, f*@! knows what's so popular about them - the beams are s*@!.