Stan's Epic Golf Build: 1.6se becomes 1.8T

[Water Boy]

Some all red tails like Matt's would go well:

[Jace]

Nice sleeper, I'll see you torque-steering around town soon.

[Stan]

Red tails on red might be a bit much - but interesting idea. i actually like the aftermarket hellas on it. Blacked out oem might look good too. I like the debadged look of Matt's car, and might make my VW badges match the wheels in a metallic grey...

Thanks Jace, after looking at a few build threads now, mine seems a little tame - but for me sleeper is good.

[Jmac]

Looks like you are having fun with it now Stan, Good work, glad the wiring help gave it the minerals, sorry keep calling then the minerals but have done for years. Anyway, keep up the good work mate.
Jmac

[Stan]

Thanks Jmac - it was your persistence with the wiring diagrams that finally got me going mate. One wire - who knew?
Also Gav was a big help, spent ages on the phone and got my diagnostic testing sharpened up.

A few things still to sort:

Brakes need going over again

Left front wheel seems to have to much negative camber - nearly touches the shock at the top, right side seems ok....oh the pain

Speedo is out of calibration - reads about 10kph under actual speed....

[dylan8]

not a fan of those tails or kit sorry. but its your car!
Glad to see you pulled it off and think it came out cheaper then buying a gti! now i really want to do my 1.8t bora later on.
so any other plans? are you going to register it as a 1.8t?

[Stan]

Yes, wondering about the kit myself.... well we all like different stuff.
I wanted something other than a standard look or another R32 knockoff - however they do look good....

I will run it standard for a while and decide on the kit...

Yes I will register it as a 1.8T once all the niggles are sorted - last thing I want is a car that cant be legally driven or sold and not to mention insurance aches if there is a crash. That shouldnt be too hard - or a whole new saga. I will update here as I go through this as well.

I have a full funtion mk5/6 steering wheel to go in and I want to try and get the buttons all working.... another awesome electrical challenge

Aftermarket cruise control and remote locking kits still to go in

Bora 1.8T idea sounds great - happy to help if I can Dylan

[dylan8]

Yes, wondering about the kit myself.... well we all like different stuff.
I wanted something other than a standard look or another R32 knockoff - however they do look good....

I will run it standard for a while and decide on the kit...

Yes I will register it as a 1.8T once all the niggles are sorted - last thing I want is a car that cant be legally driven or sold and not to mention insurance aches if there is a crash. That shouldnt be too hard - or a whole new saga. I will update here as I go through this as well.

I have a full funtion mk5/6 steering wheel to go in and I want to try and get the buttons all working.... another awesome electrical challenge

Aftermarket cruise control and remote locking kits still to go in

Bora 1.8T idea sounds great - happy to help if I can Dylan

it probably doesnt help from even your perspective when the 'in thing' is still OEM+ as far as im aware. bodykits will make a come back i bet!

Wouldnt mind a newer wheel in my car also! will be watching to see what you do there.
Now that yourself and James has done it makes it seem more achievable (not just some mess on vwvortex haha)

[Stan]

I still have the kit and will mod it a bit, so OEM is the way for me too currently

vortex has been an invaluable source of info, as has ukmkivs, but I hate going to a thread and finding all the pics are down, or it's just all text.

the amount of stuff I have in my head now to do with mk4 conversions and electronics is now 10 times what it ever was - shame I know nothing about the other marks... lol

[dylan8]

yea but im sure you can apply it to anything!
I find ukmkivs really good, lots of good info without all the excessive vortex rubbish and lack of links/pictures as you said