new beginnings...

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Hahahah love the teddy bears!

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cheers been a bit busy at work and having to almost constantly fix this so this is a bit off a copy and paste to catch up

couple pictures a friend took off the good side

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25/4/11

not had much to update lately,lowered it more today though,rear helpers out,front inner arches clearanced and all outer lips fettled




and sorted a deal to fit and paint the new panels in the coming fortnight in a parts for work deal other than that just been fairly swampped at work

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25/4/11

never had time to strip the rear struts out so dropped the bottom rings out and chopped the helpers off.If I need to refit for whatever ive got reams of helpers from other FK's lying about anyway


immediately after,straight off the jacks and a 60ft run to check for scrubbage


gave it a little wash




and another couple with my mates 16v




Id been planning on doing a timing belt and tensioner as its been squealing a bit lately but been putting it off as ive been feeling sick the last couple of weeks which id put down to stressing bout stuff but starting it up for the run to work it was excessively squealing so popped the hood and noticed the rubber hoses at the fuel rail are starting to perish and are weeping onto the tensioner subsequently flooding the cabin with fumes and probably the real reason ive been getting plagued with migraines and stuff so taking a half day today to replace the fuel hoses then start rolling the new 16v fenders to have them ready to pop on next weekend

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30/4/11

couple pics from last couple meets

old height




last nights meet




en route to fixing my friends jetta en route to the meet(his car was going for its tags so was at a bad height and was pre new bumper/valance/insert)


rolled the new arches,16v fenders,and stone chipped the death out them


not as pinched as id hoped tbh but will do. Once theyre on ill be able to get proper measurements for my own adaptors for the bentleys and hopefully knock some off the front camber from the current set up

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7/5/11

Done a deal with some car bits I had lying about for some bodywork. Was kinda hesitant as ive never seen any of the guys work but he paints the cars for the local Bentley garage(he owns a mk1 cab)so figured it was worth a shout.Dropped it off yesterday at 5pm....

heres the pics daz!!**** is getting did to the woom



bumper stripped

wee rusty bit

wing and door on

more to follow

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more 7/5/11

arch liner,wee bit scrubbed

some vardo modification

fked wings

all done for the night

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more 7/5/11

ok Daz update time
stu has been at it since 7am,i had my son today so only made an appearance as he had just finished the laquering at about 7.30pm,but the guid lad took pics throughout

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and more again

primer time


demasked and flattened

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paint mmmmmmmm



sill fixed

then i took some once i arrived




tomorrow will be flattened and polished and rebuilt

Up to date and very happy going by the pictures.Seems ill be getting it back tomorrow night or monday but the painters already said he wants it back to sort out a couple other bits as hes unhappy with the rest of the car now the front is fresh. The painter said the replacement door was almost an exact match which was a bonus but seeing what I can do in a further work for work trade.

Going to neaten up the old 90mm spoiler with a ghetto slice and try and find the cash for a new front grill(broke the clips in the spin back in the snow)and going to get him to mix up extra paint during the next hit to do a spoon rear spoiler when I can afford one but I need to get my own custom adaptors(still on the loaners)to sort out the mad front tuck,especially on the new front fenders,and bring the back in a hair so I can bring it down a bit more