My Mars Red 83 gti

Here goes,

Ive had the car about a year and a half, its never been road worthy since i got it and i planned to get it back on the road.



With the promise of free welding work i packed off the golf to a guy, 8 months later he hadnt had time to do the work - somebody happened to go into his work shop and felt sorry for the car and done the work for us (had to pay)



Both rear arches were shot and i had replacements which he welded on - rear valence also shot and i had replacement. Front wings i changed myself and now it appears that the car is rust free bar the sun roof area.













Inner wings





Im very fond of the golf gti as it reminds me when i was younger tearing around in various hot hatches - i had to sell my impreza a few months back and now i long for something interesting to drive.

Looks like a good project, should be nice when its done!

yeah keep the progress updated with pics

good pictures mate,  8)

apart from those 2 patches the car looks very solid.

good luck, & if you need a hand pm me.

Thanks for the comments, it was so nice to get the car back after all that time. The rest of The car is solid, one of the seals was repaired together wiv small hole in boot.

Finally got the car running yesterday after a battery charge and Some fresh fuel, its run like a pig and I cleaned the spark plugs which were seriously sooted up. Car still miss fires massively and idles poor and having red the injection guide I reckon its running too rich and ill turn down the mix see if it helps.

Might have to take you up on the help part if i can't get her running. Also not sure how to tackle sun roof rust ?

What make of wings did you use,did they need a lot of fettling to fit

I used the parts panel group, they seem ok but need a lot of fiddling to get right

Cheers,keep up the good work it will be worth it in the end

Nice project.

Spent the morning on the golf, ripped out the torn headliner ready for the welder to patch up the front of the sunroof drain areas where alll the nasty rust is only to find more rust in the back water drainage area…





The pipes were blocked but i managed to save them - more welding for mr sunroof it is then.

Is the whole design a poor one as i gather its a common problem….. oh well.

Update after a long time due to my mate lost all interest in  our project - cut long story short sombody else is more interested and has taken over - hes got contatcs in motorsport and can get some good jobs done like a re-work of the cylinder head..

Had to take it off first - never have done anything like this but it went very well

Wonder if u you can get much bigger valves? tsr do?

looks good dude good luck with it

Thanks mate - finally some progress after very little in a year - fingers crossed it will be sprayed soon and this is the biggest worst job which has held me back as it's so dam expensive.

wow its been a while



Rest of engine is out and we start to rebuild bottom end in due course

Zzzzzzzzzz the slowest project ever!!!

Slowly does it - hours cleaning produces this

lot of work on your hands by the looks...

Yeah, been depressing if I'm honest - took it on with one mate, fell out and was in limbo for a long while - an old uni mate was interested and we have taken it on

Getting there but time is hard to throw at it plus £££ - paint shops are horrendous ……

Be amazing once it's finished…. Not sure when it would b but we are on the right path.