Mk2 Golf Rat Revival and Friends...

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well not been here for a while thought i would introduce my latest project, its a french rat, gti 8v powered Golf Mk2 Carat..






i'll dig some photos i took of it when it was still 'rolling' the show scene over here afew years ago..
i'm told i can keep the animals on the rear parcel shelf

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This should be interesting.......

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Potential there.
But please tell me that creature isn't real!?!

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Some photos that i took of it during the show season in 2014














the animals are as of yet unconfirmed living or dead or in fact real..

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So today it arrived, we used a solid bar and towed it back with the mercedes whch seem to stuggle abi but upon returning found out it had a flat tyre on the rear but i'll come back to that shortly.

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gave it a new face courtesy of broken useless parts from the 1.9 GTI 16v i rolled last year



retro TSW's ftw, although fitted to my other mk2 gti they seem to not fit this one?



hence why it popped a tyre then.. this is with 5mm spacers too lol but at some stage soon i'll bin the suspension for another set-up actually designed for mk2 golf useage (front struts are polo and fit is iffy, who knows what the rears are made up off



i've been waiting to have a car naff enough to fit these €10 lexus lights too lol seems to suit it too



most of the engine has been pieced back together, charging a battery but couldnt get it to turn, i'm told the previous owner spent loads engine/mechanically wise, they seems to be the case with new pump, radiator, even the lump itself is clean as, new plugs, comes with 3 ECU's which says to me he's had issues, conversion was carried out using a GTI loom so suppose best to start at the fuseboard make sure its all as it should be.



dirty girl!..




end of play see's at least another door handle make an appearance
where will it go next, who know's but its gonna be a crazy ride lol next swap out the suspension, find out why there is no power to the starter.

[dubbelduwwel]

Bookmarked... Hesitantly...

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had 5 minutes, battery now charged, but nowt happening upon turning the key, guess i start at the starter motor lol

swapped out the rear lights to make me feel better

[retrolegends]

Love it!!! Bookmarked!

[qwerty]

I've never been a massive fan of this kind of car, so it'll be interesting to see what you do with it.

What are your plans?

Tom

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well gave the battery a charge but nothing, the dash lights did light up but nothing happened when you try to engage the starter, so i started there, it seems afew things had been missed, connecting of fuel lines, most air pipes, noticed the non mk2 header tank so replaced that so the sender is reconnected, everything seemed to be ok, so pulled the fuseboard and surprise things were not connected as they should be, connect everything up and turned the key, it turns over, wooohoo, that's a start, pull a plug, its got spark, noticed i couldnt hear the fuel pump, get under the car, oh its connected up, traced the wires and they were on the back seat, good old 240v wire too, connected it up it throws fuel everywhere, sorted that issue, and well it now has fuel and spark, its coughing anf fartng but not quiet a runner just yet..





plans, i'd like to replace the bonnet for a slightly less ratted up black up maybe flat the sides off to soften what the previous owner has done, once i'm happy it'll be lacquered over, firstly i'd just like it running lol

[retrolegends]

No wonder it won't run if your trying to start it with Heineken! 😆

Good progress! 👍🏻

[TerraRoot]

i like it, impressive amount of effort went into 'rat'ing it, have you any interesting plans for it's future?

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Aug 16, 2016 4:23:41 GMT @automatik said:

Reminds me of my own plans for my ratty mk2.

I replaced the bonnet first as it had zero paint on it, but lots of real surface rust.
But I didn´t take it off because I didn´t like it, but as I wanted it for another car.
But first I gave it a paint job, not removing the rust of course.
Btw. as you can see in that pic I used some benz hub caps, too, for a short while.
But my girlfriend demanded them back on "her" passat.

And I will give my rat an acceptable non-rusty paint job some day, too.

nice ride that i do not plan on completely ratting it out, the body itself will stay pretty much as it is but sanded more to help its patina on rather than it looking like its been attacked with an angle grinder, i like cali patina'd cars, so this is where its heading bodywise, i have a set of electric recaros (that need retrimming) and other gti bits (carpets/headlining/doorcards etc) to get rid of that greyness and modernise the inside, other than that, apart from lowering it a little, i'll just have to see how everything else pans out

@TerraRoot said:

i like it, impressive amount of effort went into 'rat'ing it, have you any interesting plans for it's future?

see above comment lol, but for a car on the scene it was very tired very fast, it was all done on the cheap although for a wile it looked good it soon looked rough, how i'm going to get rid of the gravel stuck on the roof i don't know :/

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wondering whether my issues could lay here, upon opening the magic box it appears i'm sure that its not a GTI fuseboard, well not the same as the one in mine, the connectors etc are different, but the looms plugged in? swapped relays about studying google for other options but nothing worked, turned back to the car itself..




another day another beer, despite changing, ecu, coil, idle control valve, dizzy, cap, rotor, leads, plugs, swapping about numerous relays it still wont fire?.

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having spoke to afew of the members on the no-rice group and told all my relays should be ok and to check out the timing instead, so that was today's quest, so again i took the golf apart.

seems to have had a new timing belt and tensioner which was nice





satisfying photo all it all back together and wooohoo finally running..

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GTI pump to replace the other lol



simple things, the catch for the bonnet stay



the old pump and lovely 240v cable



sheared front suspenson bolts lucky i had others to hand, the rear ones are not even the right bolts, they are unsized and make the rear beam bang about



what to do with the gravel roof lol



black bonnet and the front end lowered, stll not driven it but its now running much better but abit rich

[purplebargeken]

Well done on getting it running. Not a huge fan of the forced rat look but this is growing on me.

[alolympic]

Gosh. The last owner had really gone to town on that.
This one really fits the mantra of 'everything has potential' because I can't see how you could make it any worse than the last guy did.

[forkliftfred]

/\/\/\ What he said. I'd lose the tat on the roof and maybe the hazard stripes on the bumper. The rest looks good to me.