I'm well confused with what the fook your up to anyway, the wheels are going on the gtd/ arent you sticking the gtd in that shell?

right one last time just for saf...

THE GTD ENGINE IS GOING IN THE GREY MK2 SHELL THATS BEEN REPEATEDLY POSTED IN THIS THREAD, EVERY THING I AM DOING IN THIS THREAD IS BEING DONE TO THE GREY (SOON TO BE GTD), ALTHOUGH SOME THINGS ARE BEING TRIALED ON MY BLACK GTI.

i hope that clears up the confusion safron

let me know when your down this way so i know to keep my kids where you can't get hold of them

Edited 21 June, 200818 yr by modest mouse

Saf - peado

Guy - peado finger

the dirt pixes didn't tell you that did they?

hahahhaha i just looked back at the photos now and realised the black car is actually black and not grey.

i did wonder why tehre was rust on the front wing and i never saw that on the atlas jobbie, i thought it aint as clean as i first thought but kids thats what happens when you smoke drugs in the morning

and guy your kids, your missus and your mum have already tasted my bratwurst, infact you are your own grandpa

SWEEET! glad you got them dude, look pimp!

today i've mostly been waiting for the rain to fuck off

at around 4.30 i decided enough is enough and got stuck in any way. took about 3 hours to get the sub frame and every thing attached to it out of the 16v, and the GTD sub frame fitted to it. heres some random pics of the progress.

finally got it towed to my house ready for tomorrow, hoping to get every thing done ready for the engine to go in.

heres the back box i'm gonna bodge on, i might chop the upsweep bits of it tho so its just a normal twin one.

and this one's all for Danny Lee

looking goooood dude, erm but fatima? :lol:and reverse rake ftw :p

Anyone wondering who fatima was:

ahhh you girlfriend! everything falls into place now

girlfriend? mate if that was his girlfriend he'd be arrested for incest.

update time.

today was a shit one, i was hoping to get most of this sorted today and have it ready for the engine to go in, but thanks to some prick on the design team at vw that wasn't meant to be. instead i spent most of the day fucking about removing bits from another golf (dash board and steering column, plus fucking about with the ignition) and replacing them with bits from mine.

i had a lot of hassle off the wiring loom as well, even though the loom was from the gtd so it should of just been plug and play i still wasted a piss load of time trying to figour out where loose wires went to, (i hate wiring ), but i did eventully get some stuff done, heres a few random pictures.

good work !! Nice when its done!!

wow you dont hang about do you good luck with it dude, and glad the weathers decentish by you had rain and 75 mph winds here, and here was me trying to work on the merc BAAAD IDEA!

i got home from work today and decided to go on a one man wreaking spree, the result was i fitted the engine single handed and with nothing more than a jack, 2 slabs and a front shock

heres some pics of the days progress although i didn't get many pics of the engine fitting as the battery's went in the camera and by the time the misses got back from the shop i had got most of it done

i've tried and failed to get it running but looking back now i think i may have put the fuel pipes on the wrong way around which would explain alot tbh

theres still a fair bit to do (including a new CV joint ), tidy the wiring up and lots of other shit, but its getting there.

Edited 28 June, 200818 yr by modest mouse

but thanks to some prick on the design team at vw that wasn't meant to be.

great progress but that sentence ^^^^^ made me laugh ha ha

works looking good lad, your a dynamo when fuelled up with stella. keep up the good work and i know the feeling of an ever expanding list of work to do.

are you rocking the black bonnet on the grey un, and did you manage to get rid of the red shell now

very good progress dude!

works looking good lad, your a dynamo when fuelled up with stella. keep up the good work and i know the feeling of an ever expanding list of work to do.

are you rocking the black bonnet on the grey un, and did you manage to get rid of the red shell now

stella is the key to sorting any problem. and yeah i'm rocking the matt black bonnet on the grey car (theres a few other matt bits to go on as well, plus thinking of a boosh motiff on the bonnet). and yeah the red shell has gone now, ended up with a couple of pikeys with a still saw cutting it up. god bless picky twats.

have you got much left of the gti you were breaking? theres some bits and bobs i need, was yours a late or early spec btw?

and now an update...

today was spent trying to get the car running (turns out i didn't realise you had to bleed the fuel system on a diesel ). then spent a shit load of time trying to refit the down pipe (i think that prick from the vw design team rearerd his head again), but after that things moved on well, heres a few pics...

it don't show up too well, but that funny looking thing in the fog light is the indicator bulb (looks a shit load bettter in the flesh), i tried fitting a rear bumper on the front to get rid of the indicator and number plate recess, but it was too wide so now i have to fill it and texture paint it as planed.

rest of the pics speak for themselfs...

i doubt the back box will stay, had it running today with nothing after the turbo and it wasn't too bad so i might just hook up a straight though pipe to a side exit.

i did a bit more today, mainly just general tidying up and fitting door cards and shit, heres a few pics but they are hardly exiting tbh.

i sprayed the arch trim matt black (well most of it i ran out of spray after doing most of it)

i also fitted all the trim to it, the fronts don't stick out too far tbh, the rears do poke out a bit more but hay hoe

then i was distracted by this (probably chasing kids on mopeds)

tidied up the bay a bit and stole the alloy washer bottle off the 16v

a few few random pics

had it running today and it seems fine, there was a load inconsistent noise (which could be felt though the whole car), ran it for a few mins and it went and seems fine now. over the next week i hope to get a rear break pipe off that been giving me shit and get the breaks working, hook up the speedo and tidy dash board wiring, fit exhurst and then i think its ready for the mot

then i was distracted by this (probably chasing kids on mopeds)

Now there's something y'see everyday!

yeah, normally above my house, its worse when they get there chopper out at silly o'clock in the morning in the summer (old bill helicopter above your house and your windows wide open at 3am is a proper piss take :( ).

looking good dude, and nice work fittin that seen as youve done it on you own! just needs tekin out and tidyin up now ay...

yeah, normally above my house, its worse when they get there chopper out at silly o'clock in the morning in the summer (old bill helicopter above your house and your windows wide open at 3am is a proper piss take :( ).

here here, except i dont mind much as I'm normally awake and on here

Good progress in short amount of time

so today i had to go pick a drive shaft up for it, while i was at it i tried playing with the camber on the front (cheers toby for the heads up on that), so now i have one wheel thats legal (no tread sticking out) heres a pic

much better than before, gonna look into camber shims for the rears as well so they should be legal as well (hopefully ).

most of the stuff today was stuff you can't see like sorting the breaks and power steering and the drive shaft, but today was the first time it drove under its own power so i was well chuffed.

i also fitted the steering wheel from the 16v

and just a few random pics i took today

it finally sunk in today that i need to start thinking about selling the 16v so i can get the coilovers for this, so if any body wants a low millage 16v golf let me know

Thats an awesome car dude! Well done! Bet it feels damn good to actually be driving it?