16v abf, yeah boy

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Originally Posted by Golf Loon

He didnt steal it from us, it was in the UK with his car boys.

Nice Garage setup you have there Duby.

Are you putting the engine in before bringing the car to Oz, or are you staying in Blighty??

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Engine is in a now running, pics posted were pre fire up so now just trying to do all the bits I know will be far easier to do from here, back in oz for a month mid april then in the uk for a while,

Still have an engine bay to smooth, finnish a loom tuck and repaint the front end plus fit all the carbon parts on including some engine details.

Then rag it to death

If I come over for good it comes with me guaranteed, I'm sure it would cause a stir of some type and should silence some of the keyboard warriors at the same time.

Definitely take this with you... loved this car at e38.

Looks like it will be a beast of a car when its done.

It now lives and breaths, first run on the road in 2 months - sorry for the short video but only had an iphone,

http://www.youtube.com/user/paulk10lx

While it wa locked away I've also managed to get another sponser so new audio system is on its way and air is on the cards, so now it will be in the weeds all day long until I hit a speed ramp.

Haaapppy dayys

UPDATS UPDATES UPDATES

Returned to London and started work, Shakey bells me, "mate, we have to take the engine out", to cut a long story short the engine came out.

Split the engine and sent of loads of bits to be powder coated in a black leather finish.
Engine bay’s now empty and feeling sorry for itself so what the hell,,,,,,,

It was smoothed like a baby butt keeping the original factory line
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/046-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/045-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/044-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/060-1.jpg
Expansion bottle, gone, water bottle, gone, battery errrr gone
The loom extended some more, taken through chassis legs and back out.

Box arrived 4 days later containing this
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/047-1.jpg

Throw it all together and you get this
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/061-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/064-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/063-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/003-2.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/019-1.jpg

Yeah boy!!!!!!!!!

Wheels have also been staggerd so loads of tuck to come, should sit about 20mm of the floor so air on the cards,

Loads more carbon inside to, 2 weeks of prep work left then its edition38, players and west side shows.

Then garage and strip, and loads of powdercoating and static coils come of for the new wind machine. Supercharger sold and engine gets even blacker

BLACK OPZ has arrived

and just as a tease, were finnishing this of now
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...0/08/023-1.jpg
mk1 76, running a KR on throttle bodies, staggerd BBS RS's, 100% period interior been stiched as I write this, retro madness for the win

nice work, thats wicked fab.really looking the part know!

the mk 2 is cool, super smooth and black.

and i definately need to know MOAR about the mk 1... *drools*

Yes, MOAR MK1!
And some decent pictures of that MK2 bay would be excellent! Looks like a nice tuck. :)

Oh wow so awesome!

What Steve said.. :bowdown: