Not much of an update but one never the less.

All the brake pipes are finished and were covered in Thermo tech heat sheet along with the bulkhead. Picked up my Air set up last week so stuck the struts on for now, stuck the engine in on 2 mounts for good measure too.

Rear beam and subframe are at the powdercoaters and wont get them till friday so no updates probably untill next week.

heres some pictures to keep you happy.

Air-Lift Struts, 2 x ViAir compressors, AutoPilot V1 Digital Managments and a 2 Gallon Tank.

WP_20121128_001 by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

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Engine in for now, might have to come back out again for some tweaking, thinking about redesigning the passenger mount too as it looks shit to be honest.

WP_20121203_003 by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

WP_20121203_001 by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

Sweet, slowly buy surely coming together nice. Will the bags take the power of the engine? I've always been told not to go with air as there no good for handling. Is this right?

Sweet, slowly buy surely coming together nice. Will the bags take the power of the engine? I've always been told not to go with air as there no good for handling. Is this right?

I've heard abit if everything to be honest, saying there good saying its not worth it. But only one way to find out eh? If it doesn't work out then ill sell it on and spend about a grand on some top spec coilies.

Sweet, slowly buy surely coming together nice. Will the bags take the power of the engine? I've always been told not to go with air as there no good for handling. Is this right?

I've heard abit if everything to be honest, saying there good saying its not worth it. But only one way to find out eh? If it doesn't work out then ill sell it on and spend about a grand on some top spec coilies.

Yep only one way to find out ha, ill keep an eye out to see if they're any good. If they are i might buy a set, i've always been steered away from them so will be interesting to see if its all a myth lol.

now then do you have the part number on the aux belt

nice one

Very, Very, Very Nice Build!... Quite Jealous :p

Those rear struts look a bit long... They from a mk3 Golf by any chance?

keep it up dude

now then do you have the part number on the aux belt

nice one

Its just a normal off the shelf item, not from vw unfortunatley.

Very, Very, Very Nice Build!... Quite Jealous :p

Those rear struts look a bit long... They from a mk3 Golf by any chance?

keep it up dude

Yeah on full drop they are the same as my coilovers with no helpers in though. There actually from a mk2 golf.

Sweet, slowly buy surely coming together nice. Will the bags take the power of the engine? I've always been told not to go with air as there no good for handling. Is this right?

I've heard abit if everything to be honest, saying there good saying its not worth it. But only one way to find out eh? If it doesn't work out then ill sell it on and spend about a grand on some top spec coilies.

Yep only one way to find out ha, ill keep an eye out to see if they're any good. If they are i might buy a set, i've always been steered away from them so will be interesting to see if its all a myth lol.

It could well be a myth! We'll see!

Well a small pictureless update, played around with the Air then decided i didnt want to run it so that got sold and picked up saturday. Just ordered a set of KW Variant 1 Inox-Line coilovers which will be coming to me late next week so just a waiting game for them but i can still get the rear beam etc on when my polybushed turn up...

I picked up the rear beam and subframe from the powdercoaters on friday looking all very nice in gloss black, built up the subframe with lower arms and the Polo GTI ARB with all new drops links, bushes bolts and nuts etc then bolted it up to the car.

Gear linkage is bolted to the car and the gearbox, tried to fit the clutch cable but doesnt fit quite how i want it so getting one made up by a local firm.

Just a waiting game on bits again at the moment but going smoothly nevertheless.

cheers

Okay about time i chucked up some pictures...

Chucked the engine loom in...

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Went a little mad last night and decided to get the DA out on my inlet and my ECU for some reason, hit them with various grades of paper then got the buffer out with some G3 as i couldnt find my polish...

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WP_20121217_003 by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

Polished my inlet manifold and dusted the bottom half in alu silver paint i wet/dried the masking line out after that...

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Fitted up the inlet

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Rear beam got built up the other day so fitted the powerflex bushes and banged that in/on.

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WP_20121217_007 by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

Thats all for now waiting on bits as usual. Seeya soon.

Not much progress been helping friends on with other cars such as converting my mates 8v mk2 gti to a VR6 and helping my mate get his Golf Rallye back together for the show season and I'm waiting on a few parts as follows...

-KW Variant 1 Inox Coilies

-Front brake pads (my mate stole mine for his Rallye)

-New machined front brake mounts (others werent quite right)

-Rear brake hoses

-2013 Vibra-Tecnics Drivers engine mount

So waiting on a few bits to turn up...

But so you get a picture ill just leave this one here...

bayyyy by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

Love the seats, love the engine work and progress - keep it up mate, should be an absolute stunner!

Love the seats, love the engine work and progress - keep it up mate, should be an absolute stunner!

Thanks mate just trying to peice it all together just got hold of my wiring diagrams now though so can start on getting all the lighting plugs, indicator stalk, wiper stalk etc working.

Not gonna rush this for UD no point.

never rush - you only get disappointed in a rush job which takes longer to put right. with the electrics you cant afford to do it badly - an electrical fire will spread so quick that the car will be up in flames before you can shout "fire extinguisher!"

never rush - you only get disappointed in a rush job which takes longer to put right. with the electrics you cant afford to do it badly - an electrical fire will spread so quick that the car will be up in flames before you can shout "fire extinguisher!"

Haha yeah very true Kiz. Ill be fitting a plumbed in extinguisher and a small hand held in the passenger footwell too.

So not a massive update still waiting on my coilies which is the main thing to get me going.

But a couple of pictures:

Bought some more Compomotive TH Mono's but in a 15 by 8J flavour with brand new 195/50 Toyo proxies so have my old tyre set up for sale if anyone wants some 165/50/15 toyo R888's!

These will be getting painted a Dark satin Grey.

The fitment is bang on aswell at Et25!

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WP_20121226_007 by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

My brand new 2013 Vibra-Technics engine mount came for the drivers side, they re-designed it from the old type and my god its stiff

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Oh and ordered one of these from Mugly can't wait to get it! Carbon fibre passenger mirror blank!

mirror blank by Mattie20vt, on Flickr

Like i said still waiting on new brake mounts and hose parts from goodridge as they foobar'd up my order. So been getting back into downhill riding on my commencal

Update next week...maybe...

Carbon skinned? Cost you a fiver to make :-/ hope it wasent much, money bags!

Carbon skinned? Cost you a fiver to make :-/ hope it wasent much, money bags!

Fully carbon

Then i admire your attempt to make this lightweight

Then i admire your attempt to make this lightweight

Hell yeah. I'm not that bothered just no need running a p/s mirror and saw the blanks and though...they look cool.

Very nice build mate, doing it proper, like the last few up dates, what colours your bay? BlackBerry? Keep up the work

Very nice build mate, doing it proper, like the last few up dates, what colours your bay? BlackBerry? Keep up the work

Cheers mate, not had alot of comments recently but its not massive updates which is my guess why.

My bay and roof are Nissan Midnight Purple mate.

cheers

She's coming on well Matt keep up the work.. I think i should pop up one weekend next month and see it :).. Quality work dude

Midnight purple? That's seriously not cheap haha.

Is it the standard shade from the R33s?

Midnight purple? That's seriously not cheap haha.

Is it the standard shade from the R33s?

Was just about 2 say that lol also you doing hole car that colour