dont wanna satin black them, they are fine underneath the paint. id much rather just strip the paint back however and then just heatgun then to bring out zee blackness.

if i do paint them, id do it with vht vinyl dye, which is fooooooking mint tbf

tried that! they were painted bloody well!

saf, please put a clip of it dumping air on here

last time we drove up to you during crimbo. me and walsh got stuck hahahaha!

i shall get a video up over the weekend, need to decide whether or not I can be bothered going up to the unit tonight to paint the lucas 54 calipers or not, otherwise it'll be a job for friday, as i shall be getting pissed at a company do tomorrow!

if you ladies are bored this weekend, come over!

might just pop up, show you the new 250quid tank

Edited 7 December, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491

Yes! Vulva few!

Bought me some blue caliper paint and nitromors on the way home from work. Will give the arches a go. Got some spares in the cupboard at home if all goes pear so no sweat. Not bothering tonight just gonna have a few ciders n play some eggbox!

Mate i.deiced the window all the way home! Was fakkin stupid!

Awesomness!!!!! :-D

yeah man its all good, i was away all weekend anyway, got back up to the unit on sunday lunchtime to grab me calipers, cleaned them up at matt n chris's yard, and then brought them home to paint! so didnt spend too long up there!

stripped the paint off the arches with a heatgun, but was a bit of a pain in the arse, probably just gonna flat em back and get some texture paint on the barstewards!

mutttttttttthhhhhhhhhafuckaaaaaaaaaaas!

Bluey meets Bluey!

The turbo is an absolute winner! Love it! Only drove it 37 miles and 31 of them involved a massive smile on my face! Woop Woop! Shame it got driven to its graveyard today!

please dont kill it! i'd give an arm and a leg for a mk2 g40 turbo in that colour! but of course i wouldnt be able to drive it then so is this the end of the build thread?

I want a unit like that

please dont kill it! i'd give an arm and a leg for a mk2 g40 turbo in that colour! but of course i wouldnt be able to drive it then so is this the end of the build thread?

Hahahaha! Yeah man!

I love comet blue, its my favourite colour on a coupe s, but i cant bear to part with the yellow peril after owning it for nearly 3 years and it being my real labour of love, that and the epic roadtrip around europe.

the build thread will continue in the mk1 golf thread, which the coupes heart will be donated to.

as for the coupe, I'm selling the rolling shell hopefully to a friend, if not ill put the HK engine in, get a couple of spots welded up on it and sell it on running.

engine comes out tomorrow!

love this car but the next should be even better :-D

Looks a spot on unit that one saf Il be up for a proper look round at the weekend - will give you a hollaaaaaaa

See you Sunday geez

Started working on this again, welded in a large piece of box section in between the front chassis legs to replace the removed cross-member and welded brackets to the box section to mount a new top fill rad I had kicking out.

Got hold of a load of sheet metal today so armed with that fact I was ready to tackle the rotten battery tray.

First job was to remove a previous owners battery tray bodge which involved an unpainted bit of mild steel and seal household screws! As they hadn't cut out the rot, before screwing this it, it had spread out under the underseal. Eeejets!

Wire brushed off all the underseal, revealing the extent of the rot, ultimately entailing in the arch liner and arch coming off as part to get access to the inner wing for repair.

need to get some card, marker pens and a flap wheel after work tomorrow and I can start making up some repair sections.

Had a session a couple of weeks ago at cleaning up the golfs old lump for a lick of por 15 before going up, but gave up as it was manky and I'm lazy!

Got a clutch to replace the slipping one that's currently on the 4 speed lump, however I do need a 4 speed mount if anyone has one to spare?

Unfortunatly I've left my phone at the unit so pics will have to wait until tomorrow.

need to get some card, marker pens and a flap wheel after work tomorrow and I can start making up some repair sections.

Use steel and mig wire, it'll last loads longer, won't be as many pretty colours though :p

Made me chuckle that haha! You keepin well Steve?

Oh has the etc mk1 gone now? Sure I saw it if not a spit, in a build thread recently

Edited 13 March, 201214 yr by grungeisdead

Wax crayons - better rustproofing because the water beads off!

Aye all good here. Sold the Mk1 last year to Marshall and his lad who are giving it the time it deserves. My current lawn ornament's the 1990 Audi which is giving me the 5 cylinders I deserve :)

Holy moly!

Crept into the inner wing!

First attempt at welding car panels!

Inside!

Ground a few of the welds back and coated with weld thru primer, gotta cut out the centre section for the curved piece, and a few bits need grinding back and welding.

Looking back at the pics, would it be better to make a piece repair section, or cut out a section from a donor car without rot?

All well and good practising welding and anything can be better than what I cut out, but I don't want it to be structurally unsound. Opinions, criticism and tips welcome :)

amature pikey

Nay! Lamp?

been doing lots of reading up on it over the last couple of days,

got a big gas bottle today and regulator so i dont have to fuck about with disposables and apparantly one of the best ways of stopping blow throughs is to put a block of copper at the rear of the surface your welding, helps stop the pool falling thru, which is good for filling gaps too.

<3 welding, hate welding blobs in your ear tho! OWWWW

SIP Migmate 105 d00d