Mars red 83 GTI AHN 502Y
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Here are the finished seat bases as promised. Just waiting on a new drivers side seat back frame as mine was cracked & fortunately my mates mum ( who runs her own upholstery business is kindly sewing in a new seat bolster ( I used a donor passenger seat cover).
I've also visited the painter and bought all the paint and materials (seam sealer/ sanding pads/ laquer/stonechip/ lead sticks/filler) needed for the car - the bill came to £980
I took a few shots whilst I was there ;-)
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As you can see from the photo it has 6x9 holes in it and is in poor shape so I plan to fit some smaller pioneer speakers.
The plan is to cut two square holes out and glue some wood in it's place and fiberglass the shelf to stiffen it up. I'll then re-carpet it. Anybody know where I can get some thick carpet from in-keeping with the original stuff? I am hopefully going to keep it looking Oem but as you can see currently the shelf is past it's best and bowing quite badly
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Next up I will get the rebuilt head bolted on - watch this space!
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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Andy
LINCOLNSHIRE REGION - https://www.facebook.com/groups/467122313360002/
1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
LINCOLNSHIRE REGION - https://www.facebook.com/groups/467122313360002/
1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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Made up throttle body and cold start valve paper gaskets and fitted.
Fitted inlet manifold to head
Fitted head, head gasket to block
Checked valve clearances which were all within tolerance
Mock fitted cambelt and lower timing belt cover to work out how it needed modifying
I have had a few photos sent through from the shell restoration. A considerable amount of the welding now complete & he hopes to have this completed by the end of the week
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