3rd time lucky (new engine NOV 11)

Obviously not good with the old PC, tried and failed to get this post up three times, no Idea where the first one went after hitting post, second one lost when power died on laptop, third after i magically hit ctrl, alt and something else or the like and now here I am 4th time is a charm.

No harm as I have no photos yet but...
Picked up my p Reg. Justy last weekend, all the way from Wales. Neatish and tidy metallic green 3dr with 70K on the clock. Came with a few spares and a TV, dvd, mp3, phone, satnav, radio, cd head unit that came from the sellers fathers old car...bonus! Also had air in the tyres.
Drove back to London after doing the deal in what was weighing up to be a record time until I hit Kensington...damn satnav, suppose it wasn’t to know about the roadworks or 2 protests I met between there and Bethnal green. 2.25 hours Wales to Kensington, 2.5 hours the last 5 miles. But the car behaved brilliantly as you’d expect from a relatively young car.
Anyway bought it as a toy thing to give me something to do at weekends and travel this small island visiting parts of the UK I haven’t been to before.
On the way I intend on doing the following:
15 inch alloys
Lower it about 50mm or a bit more (koni or Gaz or other)
Phase2 mk2 GTi exterior (bumpers lights, bonnet guards sideskirts and bobtail spoiler)
GTi interior
GTi rear brakes,
Wildwood fronts
And if time permits a GTi engine

So if you have or know of any of the parts, sort of around London town, required to do the above let me know

Ill get photos over the weekend and hopefully update as parts start to arrive

Cheers

GTP

alright mate i got some 15 inch rota alloys could do with a reco as fair few scuffs and what not but at £150 a bargain and im in brixton so local get pics up of your car lol


welcome steve

nice one dude you got it then get some pics up

so here are the photos...nothing much to look at but use your imagination!
The collection of parts starts here...

needs new wheels




only surface rust here




desperately needs wheel and lowering


seems perfect here


My old 4 door Gti killer!



and to prove Im a suzuki fan my Nurburgring hire car!!!!


cheers,

GTP

here are some photos of the new wheels.
waiting for a spare carpark space to become available to park the donor GTi. Not sure the predominately office class residents are going to be too keen on me banging away in the driveway of our gated community...but tuff luck I pay rent and Tax.

needs lowering even more desperately now. awaiting Konis from germany to arrive!


Cheers,

GTP

Looks good with those wheels

looking better and what do you mean if time ? you going back to oz?

work contracts and visas expire in January so after 5 years we may be Oz bound. so the car is an attempt to see as much of the Not-easily-seen-by-train-UK as possible. Of course things may change, new projects, that enticeus to renew our visas?
Plus with so much driving I may not have time to fit it...see what happens

GTP

Nice find... looks clean under the bonnet and most of them have a bit of surface rust around the rear diff cradle.

I was pleasently surprised to find the front wings lower bolts came off without any dramas. no drills needed. all seam sealent in place. wish the damn mud flaps were as easy, screws filled with crap so cant get driver into them, I will cut them! yes cut them
cheers,
GTP

Finally the rain broke so got a good few hours on the car
headlights and bonnet on, need bumper irons so I can fit the correct bumper...whod have though they would be different



Side skirts on too. These are just held loose with self tappers for alignment while I await the plastic plugs to screw into

And rear spoiler...this was too easy as the holes were already marked with the inner panel of the hatch, just drill through the outer skin from below and hey presto.


cheers

GTP

Looking better already, good work

what colour is it going to be?

Hmmmm
color
If I can get all the parts together first!
hoping before summer is out to have everything above the glass line and bonnet in satin black and the body below glass line being flat/satin bright green!...If I can find someone with a place to paint, as Im doing that myself. otherwise it will go next door to the bodyshop and Ill have someone blow over same green it is
well thats the plan this day, ask me again tomorrow and it may change.
cheers,

Justin P

well its beginning to look like a car again, ebayed a set of bumpers with mounting brackets and discovered the front end was junk. mounting bracket was bent in 3 directions so will go new on that so it all has to come off again to fit new reinforcing. Ebay seller claimed bumpers were in good condition, a split through middle of lower section and the bottom half falling off even the vents were rubbish, hate to see average condition!. Oh well rear is much better so that goes on next week.



managed to find correct sized panel bungs for fitting the side skirts so these are now secured into the sill panel after squaring off the 6 mounting holes to accept the bung...harder than I though upside down lying on cold concrete but wont pull out and fixed just like suzuki intended





Needs lowering still!

so 2 New front arches, all bolts and nuts rethreaded/cleaned, panels aligned, looms grafted. Just need to do it all again next week!^(@^@$##(

still after a passenger side skirt

Cheers for looking

GTP