Okay, so i bought this off Sambo on monday 15th June:

Not a bad car by a long way, straight and tidy.

Howerver i already knew what i wanted to do with a GTi so the day be4 i bought these from a guy in Essex :biggrin: :

8j Front and Rear

First of all I started by refurbing the wheels, they wont be to everyones taste but i really think they work :

The test fit:

POKE!

Well as you can see they poke quite alot so as i wanted to stay as low as poss we decided on Regal Autosport ajustable camber shims and 175-50-15 tyres.

So after the camber shims arrived we went for 1.5 deg of negative camber and 0.12 deg of negative toe to clear the arches. we ajusted the front to match :-)

During fitting the shims the rear hub split and the wheel bearing when eveywhere so i got some shiney new hubs

While i was playing man game in our workshop at work my other half (Ami) had me fully strip out my A,B and C pillers and roof lining for a bit of random retriming. here ar the results:

again not to everyones taste, but i don't care :biggrin: :biggrin: (Big Big Big thanks to Ami)

Last but not least, during the wheel refurb i decided that the plastic centre caps were to badly cracked and weathered, so i sent them to a friend to have them remade in Carbon fibre (thanks stu :) )

All that was left was to finaly ajust the coilovers to sit right (big thanx to my mate Kev) and give it a clean (thanx Adski), we gave it a good wash, used Dodo Supernaturals Clay and then waxed it using Dodo Supernatural wax:

the coilovers have settled now so we lowered the back a little bit more today .

Got a few more thngs going on atm, got a splitter being made in carbon fibre and a new pin strip for the grill and a new GTi grill badge as my 'i' in a bit faded

i'm only gonna use the Bonnet bra in the winter months, but, Ami has taken it away to have our 'OEM+' club logo stitched into it in Cherry red.

hope you all like

Edited 9 October, 200916 yr by Snail Power

copy cat lol :p

looking good fella, who did you caps for you id like mine doing ?

nice to see you on here Kris looking mighty fine

Looks good, seems like you have no shortage of people doing stuff for you!

I want a cool roof lining trim :(

Edited 22 June, 200917 yr by Sentral

thanx for the comments so far

i like to say thanx when mates have helped me where they can but i dnt just sit back and watch, lol

how do you find the 175's?

mine are shite!

what make are yours?

Problem i have is there abit too balloon'y. Was thinking about 185's....

Looks nice that :) I do like the red, and your interior is cool!

Very Tidy , really like it !

carbon fibre splitter..havnt heard of that done before like

what will you be doing with the normal splitter? fansy selling me it? :p

ste

Not a fan of the headlining as I don't believe it goes with the red trim inserts, but the exterior looks mad. Love it.

What wheels are they? RM's or RS's? I don't know the difference apart from the RS are the better ones and more curvy?

What wheels are they? RM's or RS's? I don't know the difference apart from the RS are the better ones and more curvy?

look like RM's to me man

the car looks sooo sweet

ye they are rm's....

Yepp, just done some google image searches and they are RM's.

i like the colour of the wheels looks good!

awesome!

copied me with RMs tho..... red roof and mirrors?

Like the sound of colour coded mirrors and roof (Cherry Red)

and also not a fan of the headlining, doesnt match the Red interior

Black Grey camo or digital camo would of been better

but still great stuff man

looking good dude, what sort of price are camber shims

euro by numbers

looks spot on mate was crazy seeing how quick it all came together :) mine next

proper sexy mate, nice 1 :)

LEE

euro by numbers

HaHaHA too right!!!

o and camber shims are £20 but be prepared for ablout 4hours labour!!

Edited 23 June, 200917 yr by Snail Power

dude that looks great.

really nice.

we will have to meet up and go for a shoot :)

pm me if you wanna.

and where did you get the camo material from?

cheers

we will!

we could do a full VW shoot wiv Adski, Nimmy, Ami and Howler (O and Kev if we make it full VAG )

lol yea sounds great dude,

let me know when you want to do it. and where.lol

pm me about the interior dude. :)

got a splitter being made in carbon fibre

carbon splitter + low car = brave man!

thanx for the comments so far

i like to say thanx when mates have helped me where they can, i just sit back and watch, lol

Thats about right...

Looks imense mate! ill get my pics up later on chap,

Edited 24 June, 200917 yr by adskivw

nice job looks great