What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[vwthunder]

Well didnt do it all today but:

Got and chucked on a set of Oz Racing Superleggeras

Bought a GT3076R

Wow sick and can we see pics of the wheels

[WhO]

This Photo is from another thread about the bora's chassis rigidity thus why its up on a stack of pavers lol

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z...IMG_0047-1.jpg

[trickysimon]

Well didnt do it all today but:

Got and chucked on a set of Oz Racing Superleggeras
Installed r32 brakes
Got Hawk Hp Plus pads for the rear
Pulled out the front control arms to put in R32 bushes + nolothane as old bushes had torn clean through
Bought a 2nd ecu and contacted Chris from C2
Left a certain manifold at my mechanics to get 2x 02 bungs welded in
Bought a GT3076R
and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces

Car will be off the road for a few weeks, or more likely a few months with me currently working 50+ hours a week all night shift thanks to a string of employees leaving but there are some "interesting" mods on the horizon

Hell yes!!

[dylan8]

Clocked up 150,000km... poor bora.
Found my aerial is missing a chunk of rubber. good thing thats getting replaced

[Driven Threads]

Wheel alignment and camber correction at rear. Ready for the dandenongs cruise tomorrow! For anyone in VIC that would like to join us check out the events section.

[dylan8]

ran some plastic polish over the headlights fitted to the car.
cleaned up the clouding the up a little, but it'll do until i get the others in

[audi-tone]

yesterday fitted my retrofir aero wipers from veedubmachine, Volkswagen Audi Seat Skoda Porsche spares and accessories - great profuct.
also fitted new hatch door struts as the others were failing.

[kaneda]

Just finished putting all the doors back together after changing the widow regulator clips to one piece steel items , re-tinting the glass as they had a few marks and removing the soft-touch rubber from the grab handles

[Dyldo]

spent 5 hours of my Saturday attempting to fit the stage 2 refresh kit and my Weitecs shocks/springs. and you know how far i got? 2 bolts. thats it, 2 bolts. Now i'll be the first to admit i am a noob with a spanner, but thats ridiculous.
what had me stumped was how to undo the upper strut top nut (under the cap) to get the strut to fall off and out. i tried my airgun, but she was dead. i tried my air-spanner, but she too was cactus. so i had given up the ghost on doing my shocks and started on the susp refresh. given that i was already stressed from the hours wasted on the shocks i didn't get very far with trying to get the lower control arm out to press in the bushings.
By the end of the day with light fading i found a forum post that hinted at using a sparkplug socket to undo the top nut as it is hollow and can be levered from the outside rather than as a socket. so i slid a 7mm allen key down the guts to hold the spline and voila! a few turns and off came the nut.
tomorrow shall be a big day i can tell, but i am keen to try and do it all myself and learn - not to mention save about $500 in mech labour.

this site, however, hints that i need another specialty tool to undo the inner tie rod end - How to Replace a Tie Rod DIY for VW MKIV and A4 Platform Cars Jetta/Golf/GTI/New Beetle - and i'm not sure of how to undo it any other way?
maybe i should post this in the susp section...

[audi-tone]

always fun changing suspension parts. fitted my coilovers with my mate and it took about 4hrs all up. when i canged the control arm bushings the car was in the air for 2 days haha - ended up beating the bushings in with a mallet and a piece of timber with a hole cut in it. worked a treat though; also broke another mates vice in the process!. hehe