Hi I'm carl iv just joined as iv now got myself a nice project car and before i start any work on it I'm putting some photos up to show how it is when i got it.

To night i have started to strip it out so it is ready for the work to begin, iv stripped all of the back of the cars interia.

I took the rub stripps off but the bits on the front wings are moulded to the arches and i want to keep them is there anything you can surgest?

Thanks.

My plans for the car is;

Smooth the bumpers, arches, doors, wings, filler cap, boot and the seems under the rear lights.

respray roof, bumpers and arches Black and the body in Candy Blue ( the darker blue)

Leather retrim, cage, short shifter, and possabley an Audi TT dashboard.

Alloys iv not chosen yet.

Engine;

Lightened flywheel and crank

LSD

Performance cams

Full custom s/s exhaust system

Ext.......

Coments welcome :-D

Edited 9 May, 200818 yr by c4a8lGTT

Looks like a decent little car.

Only thing you can really do if you wanna keep the arches is chop the stubby bits off and plastic weld the holes up.

LOL, brilliant.

when you fit these performance cams id love to see how you manage it.

Looks like a decent little car.

Only thing you can really do if you wanna keep the arches is chop the stubby bits off and plastic weld the holes up.

DON'T GIVE OUT DUFF ADVICE. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER THEN DON'T ANSWER - SIMPLE!!!

^^ tongue in cheek lol. You can get them plastic welded and smoothed, to hide the welding marks like Yoofs GT (in the mk3 section of photo gallery). Alternatively, you can remove the arch trims that are on and use mk2 coupe S items, stuck on with Tigerseal or sikaflex etc. Finally, it has been said that you can somehow cut up rear arch trims to fit on the front.

[smartass mode] So plastic welding ISNT the only thing you can do. [/smartass mode]

Edited 5 February, 200818 yr by skatty_01

turboing a GT? i'd like to see a turbo 3f engine running... lots of people post saying about turboing a gt; i haven't seen a 3f engine turbo'd.

car looks smart, best colour for a mk3 i think

looks like rolo's ex girlfriends GT...did you get it off ebay???i saw it on there a couple of months back...would love to see a GTTurbo though :)

looks like rolo's ex girlfriends GT...did you get it off ebay???i saw it on there a couple of months back...would love to see a GTTurbo though :)

Yes it is. iv got a Vectra estate that iv done up and a was after another project so i got this as iv had a 1.05l as a first car and i loved it.

Update.

Fitted a full S/S exhaust system with a S/S 4 branch manifould and decat pipe.

Plus iv just got a ZEX 75BHP Nitros kit as well.

:-D

place BETS now!!!!!

place BETS now!!!!!

Fail

I stopped reading after the vauxhalll estate comment was it the shit? and I mean THE shit

place BETS now!!!!!

Fail

I stopped reading after the vauxhalll estate comment was it the shit? and I mean THE shit

Thanks for your reply, comments like that are not needed!

The vectra is an old works car that was going cheap at the time and i needed a car as i had just sold my BMW 3 serise.

Edited 21 March, 200818 yr by c4a8lGTT

place BETS now!!!!!

Fail

I stopped reading after the vauxhalll estate comment was it the shit? and I mean THE shit

Thanks for your reply, comments like that are not needed!

The vectra is an old works car that was going cheap at the time and i needed a car as i had just sold my BMW 3 serise.

I was only jesting will you be REALLY using a 3F engine though?

I'm soooooo looking forward to you putting the audi dash in. coz then there will be 2 of us who wasted hours of out life wanking around with the wiring loom from hell.

KiZ

Welcome to the forum and gotta love the colour choice!!

Long live the steelblue Polo's lol

I'm soooooo looking forward to you putting the audi dash in. coz then there will be 2 of us who wasted hours of out life wanking around with the wiring loom from hell.

KiZ

kizza have you got the dash wired up now then?

as for turboing it, will you be doing it all properly or just pikeying it? if your doing it the proper way it would be simpler and much more cost effective to buy aG40 conversion and turboing that if you can find one for sale. or you could just do it the pikey way and fit a couple of extra head gaskets to it, weld together a few off cuts of exhursts to make a manifold, then maybe use the carb set up from some thing like a R5 GTT/MG Metro turbo? (not sure if this would work, maybe some one else could shed some light on that?)

good luck with it all any way mate

I have a G40 engine for sale but its not cheap!!!

Iv been looking into fitting a turbo on the GT but its not worth it realy.

I'm going to fit direct to head throttle bodys which set up correctly could give me just as many gains.

Iv been looking into fitting a turbo on the GT but its not worth it realy.

I'm going to fit direct to head throttle bodys which set up correctly could give me just as many gains.

LOL

Iv been looking into fitting a turbo on the GT but its not worth it realy.

I'm going to fit direct to head throttle bodys which set up correctly could give me just as many gains.

Don't think so, forced induction > n/a most of the time. I saw a 150+bhp n/a mk1 in PVW once I think but that was a full race spec engine, with thousands of euros spent.

Up date on the project so far, alot has been done see bellow

Project update video

hmm...hope it all goes well for you dude

nice GT :)

Nice progress chap.

the turbo ona metro is 44mm shabs nots ure if taht helps anything.. an dnice project mate good luck with it

Welcome to the forum and gotta love the colour choice!!

Long live the steelblue Polo's lol

looks like medium blue to me, though it appears to have steel blue drivers side door and wing

still looks like a good base for a project and i guess the colour doesnt really matter seing as its gonna be resprayed! best of luck with it

I have a G40 engine for sale but its not cheap!!!

your not joking are you! i paid less than that for a complete g40, fair enough it doesnt have a separate oil cooler for the charger which i know wasnt cheap when pitstop were selling them.