mk2 golf gti vr6

[danbinty]

Hey guys so used ro be into mk2s had loads of other cars and allways wanted to come back now i got a garage decided it try find 1 looked for a while and found this mk2 gti in white 3 door used to have a vr6 in it but the guy blew it up so now sits with no engine
Electric mirrors
Electric windows
Has votex console
Rallye interior
Smoothed tucked and fire wall chopped bay althought needs work for me to be happy
Debadged
Dewipered
De swage lined on rear
Pollybushed right through
Corrado subframe powedercoated
Eibech anti roll
Eibech rear strut brace
Front strut brace
Coilover
288mm front brakes
7.5j and 9j borbet a's
Stud conversion
Crystal cros hair lights
All i can think of off hand

Plans are vr6 address all paintwork issues to make it mint
Paint inner archs out and underneath
New stainless exhaust with 6 branch and heat wrapped
Nice filter set up
Change wheels
All light back to standard and ambers all round
Amber heckblende for back
Renew all rubber and plastics as much as i can yo get it really clean



So heres few pics of how she looks and what it needs not much but needs a bit of fettling to be right
I started by gutting the interior to check rhe floor as i do in any my mk2's few little scabs just surface rust ill be cleaning down and painting
Also started cleaning the front cross member up why had spare time

[The Jackeria]

Nice, DKP is a very famous VW car club in America too

www.dkpcarclub.com/

[joem83]

Nice, spotted this on LD last night. What size are the Merc rims?

[danbinty]

ye i put it on there hoping to get bit more work done today just little jobs

[danbinty]

merc rims are 17 inch 8.5j all round with 20mm hr adaptors

[joem83]

Is it wide tracked?

[danbinty]

na mate corrado subframes

[forkliftfred]

Bookmarked!

[danbinty]

so had spare bit of time so got all 1 side brakes stripped went and bought a wire wheel and cracked on with getting them back primed and painted still need another couple coats of gloss black yet but you get the idea


still got all the shafts to strip down and after ive got the engine running and make sure its all tip top then take it back out and i can then strip the subframes down and send them off for powderocating as welk as few other bits and bobs

[finaldecap]

Are those 256mm brakes? I'd be more inclined to run 280s on a VR6...but then I'm going for 280-300 on my stock 8v.

[danbinty]

288mm bud

[finaldecap]

Ahh fair, not seen the 288 carriers or calipers to be honest so wasn't too sure, crack on then.

[danbinty]

haha ye man gotta have big brakes

[danbinty]

been doing a few bits why i had chance got all the brakes painted and fitted back up all the goodridge hoses cleaned up and the inner archs fitted back in and coilivers painted up if funds allow ill be buyin new coilovers but just thought id paint these up so i no there tidy

also stripped the engine covers off and started gettin them sprayed up

took pictures of the drivers side to show before and after of what ive been doing
got all the drivers side to strip down next

[shielsy68]

i helped do one with a friend couple of weeks ago , got petrol flap repair panel on ebay 12 i think cut it down to size the areas where bonnet hindges went where rotten , so i cut the box section of to get at flat hindge panel cut it out and worked backwards , floor waS ROTTEN AS WHERE SILLS ETC

[dikkehemaworst]

man , iḿ getting old..... What a lovely machine , even love the borbets on it and the louvered front wing.
My highschool friend had a white gti and scavenging a scrapyard , we found a black leather interior out of a crashed policecar still with the plastic backseatcovers on them.
He later sold the car with the special option of pigleather interior.
miss those days

[danbinty]

ye say mines only got few minor bits on the floor sills are sweet and both sides near bonnet hinve needed small bit doing

petrol flap is on the the todo list for before paint want the engine running and back out and then gotta start saving for paintwork as I'm now goin for a full respray with inside doors boot and bonnet so i no every area is covered and I'm gonna be 100% happy at the end of this


and wish could find a leather in that condition now worth big bucks lol mine has the even rarer rallye interior like hems teeth

[danbinty]

so few updates got all the front brakes refitted and everything else back on dropped down and spun around and got on with stripping the back down i still need to renew all the bottom arms and the subframes to strip and get powdercoated but not till i have the engine running

the back axle is now off all the brakes ect

found some more rust that needs attention which ticked me off a bit but maybe should have checked it over a bit more

next couple of month hoping for some better updates