Francisca - The Red Lady.

[cordylol]

Ah smeeby. I'm keen beb

[Smeeeb]

Here is a much needed update and dumb stuff i've been doing.


I'll start with the engine, that is planned for this coming week hopefully. Now i have finish school and exams and everything so it'll radddicallll (hopefully).

All i really have to do now i have moved my old car, build the trailer and gather all the parts that could be required. I just have to move a stupid POS vr6 shell my dad bought, biggest time waste.


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Now seeing i've had a tonne a golf shell sitting around my house i've hoarded quite a large collection of bumpers. I've even sold three or four i don't remember. Anyway because i have so many sitting around i decided i should try my hand and doing a shaved bumper for the golf, which i was stocked on the idea


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until i looked a red golfs more and more. Eventually i came to the decision that it was just to red with colour coded everything, so i bought foffs old rear bumper texture bumper (my car has a sprayed texture top front bar atm) as well a few other goodies (which will be mentioned later).


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On Saturday i was visited by my good friend Samuel *whip crack* Hewitt and he delivered to me a MK3 goodie bag that not many could compare to.

Firstly a set of Weitec Coilovers, they already and helpers taken out and bump stops cut


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Secondly his old exhaust, which reads high flow cat > Hot Dog resonater > sports muffler, this all be connected by 2.5" stainless piping. This exhaust in my opinion makes a glorious excessively loud noise.


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And last but not least his old steelies. The specs are 15x8 et15 and et20. They are baby blue originally then faces painted gold then faces painted matte black by Sam himself. These wheels have perfect mk3 fitment and i am quite happy i am now in possession of them.


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These are also the 5th set of wheels i have bought for this dumb car. I swear i won't just sell these on this time (unless someone makes me a handsome offer.

So back to foff, the other things he brought me were his old front 5 stud set up which i don't know if i'll use or not. It was sort of an impulse buy... He also brought me a set of D90s 16x8 et652418, i have no photos of these because they are in my storage room. p.s these are already sold because i'm dumb.

but he also bought what he described as "The MK3 Bible".


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The Bently MK3 manual. It's has SOOOOOOO much stuff in it, it's actually mental. Anything thing you could ever want to do in reference to OEM stuff it has a indepth guide to how to do it. I am very excited about it. It has a few war injuries and what not. It's still a cool piece to have in the garage.

Hears a pile of my crap ready to do the swap.


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Here's my cat looking really cute as always, ps his name MR Meowgi because he catches flies all the time.


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I found this little piece under the carpet when i as stripping my car, i had a good giggle.


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Anyway, till the next time. Hopefully i'll have real progress.

[Water Boy]

So next time it will be low on steelies or D90's?

[anthony--t]

That vr shell. Has it still got all the rear beam and front subframe etc? I might take it off ya hands....

[Surfpig]

Samuel *whip crack* Hewitt

you had to didnt you

[shooitt]

you had to didnt you

Of course he did lol.


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[Smeeeb]

Ok, here is somewhat of an update.

I ordered everything i need for the swap now, basically just a bunch of gaskets and a few other goodies.

For the time being i have been doing some painting and aesthetic work to the car to get it looking smick. The improve the look of the car i have decided to go textured over colour coded because i felt that the full red look was a tad overwhelming and the textured strips would break up the red nicely. Now this unfortunately was a problem as i had sold all of my textured bumpers and what not... so i had to source them myself which was annoying and money comsuming...

alas i only had to get a rear as who ever owned the car before me decided that painting a texture top will look fine and noone will notice...

So i gave the top of my bumper a light sand and spray canned it matte black.

I used my old math notes as masking paper because they are not needed anymore.



Sitting on saw horses.



Coat 1



Coat 2, let it sit over night.



Finished product unmasked and what not.



It looks better than i thought it would, granted there are some pretty terrible drip lines due to sitting like it was but i think it looks good

I also sat outside for like three hours sanding down the rear bumper whilst listening the Js. I got he bumper of foff, it feels wrong sanding back that lovely windsor blue for crappy red...

I sanded it back with 400 grit,

before



after



Gave it a nice matte, a few bits i still need to go over again in this photo. They have been done since then.

I also pulled apart the whole front end for a bit of an overdue update do dual chamber headlights and some other this's and that's.



Notice you can see all three of my shells in this photo...

#myhouseisactuallyagraveyard

I also painted the rear badge matte black.

Masked and painted, didn't get any real before pictures because it was late at night and this area is unlit so the photos would turn out poopy.



Masking tape off and dried all that jazz.



There is bit of overspray from where i got past the tape but ain't care.

Here's a photo of my cat enjoy being outside.



Here's a close up photo of the graveyard..



I also have lots of lipstick prints on my car inside and out, i think it was from tuesday when i was deso at friends 17th...



Anyway, i have to go work now. I'll have full picks of how the car looks monday or so mostly..

[Smeeeb]

all the photo links are broken...

i'll fix it later...

[Water Boy]

Dude the stock exhaust would make more power than that thing.

Why has it been flatten so much over the rear beam?

[Smeeeb]

ok photos are fixed, they really should stop changing websites so much.