well...
Incase no-one on here knows, i have a mk2 coupe S 1988.
80K miles on original engine and gearbox
Came to me with a few bits of rust on doors and front wings and many dents
Now she is off the road (and will be for a few years on and off)
I have major plans for her including:
Derusting (DER) and smoothing (smoothed badges over and will de-lock the boot)
Change door handles for pull style Mk3 golf ones
Home made debadged twin light grille
DTM style wing mirrors
RS front and rear Bumper
Total respray in gloss black
Black and silver Coupe S seats, vinyl doorcards and black carpet
Arches and underbody repainted with underseal (5 litres
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Take off side repeaters
Probably 14" wheels with 60mm drop
Probably BBS g40 or goldwire wheels.
Chrome rocker cover
Chrome bonnet lifters
Chrome door and boot lock
Straight back zorst
Either aftermarket or G40 zorst manifold
Maybe G40 interior (contact me if anyones got one going)
Beesting arial
Stealth shelf
Leccy windows
Mk1 golf brakes conversion (inc remote servo)
and hopefully one day TWIN WEBERS
Well thats about it. Most of this work i am undertaking myself its well worth doing. The only bit i probably wont be doing is the final coat of the respray (will do the first layer though) and welsing in new sills (cos i aint got a welder)
What do people here think about my plans?
p.s Carrot have you painted your zorst manifold?... if so what with?
. put it down to bumpy roads and driving around roundabouts too fast. on closer inspection of the suspension, both rear shocks were leaking, both front ones had leaked and dried out and somehow still worked,passenger side track rod end was worn, bottom ball joints were worn and all rubbers had perished and the anti roll bar bushes had turned to jelly.Just spent the whole weekend fitting everything.Turns out by the state of everything nothing had been touched since the day it rolled out of the factory. Thank god someone invented wd40. The car handles like a dream now, just developed a load of creaks from the dashboard now due to stiffer suspension. Just need a new paint job now and the car will be mint.
. With the bushes i just replaced both track control arms and the anti roll bar bushes. It basically is all joined together and comes off really easily. Only took me 2 hours to do it all in the rain.Basically get the car on axle stands. drop the anti roll bar,undo it from the track control arms,undo the bottom ball joint bolt then the bolt on the other end then proceed in reverse. When putting the anti roll bar back on use a jack to push it up a little and get it into the front mountings. May need to take it to a garage and check the trackings ok, but i did that as soon as i put the track rod end on anyway. garage is only like 300 yards down the road.
