Colley's 82 mk1 gti

mcfudge said

how did you find the A pillar repair,just ive a mk1 van that needs the same repair l/r.as far as i know repair panels can't be got?

Not that I'm aware of mate, I chopped a fair amount of outer panel off and kept that to one side for reference and I had to fabricate up the inner pieces as there is a couple of layers to the inner a pillar. I managed to get a body cut from a mk1 which hadn't rotted out so used the outer a pillars from that to finish off.

One step forward two steps back… Although I rushed on this week getting suspension painted and sorted ready to get the wheels on today, once on I realised there was play in the new bearings in the hubs so they need to come back off and out for new ones. Absolutely gutted today so very little done apart from push the gold out for fresh air, have a tidy up and sort parts out.

Have you any pics of innner A pillar repair work 

This is what I've to attack soon 

mcfudge said

Have you any pics of innner A pillar repair work 

There's some on here on one of the pages of my build mate. I would take the outer pillar off as neat as you can to use as a reference when trying to line the new parts up

Haven't done much lately seemed to lose motivation a little but spurred myself on this week and had a couple of hours after work twice this week. Engine bay all sanded back and ready for some epoxy primer hopefully this weekend. I forgot how much of a ball ache the prep work is with doing a resto.

Looking good chap.

Get that epoxy on so you don't get any flash rust. Good weather for painting though  

Rich. said

Looking good chap.

Get that epoxy on so you don't get any flash rust. Good weather for painting though  

Aye hoping to get it on Sunday afternoon, gave the garage a good clean let the bit dust settle before Sunday and wet the floor before I start looking forward to it.

As soon as you get some paint on it you will get your mojo again for sure. Keep up the good work and enjoy doing it in the warm weather.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Over the moon the have the engine bay filled and primed in epoxy, what a difference it makes having it all one colour. Can't wait to see it in its original oak green!

Colley27 said

Over the moon the have the engine bay filled and primed in epoxy, what a difference it makes having it all one colour. Can't wait to see it in its original oak green!

Getting there now chap. What epoxy did you use and what type of paint are you going to use for the base coat?

It's called epoxy 989 the stuff I used and I will be using 2k paint not sure which brand yet rich

Took the floor back to bare metal yesterday with it being sat a long time in just zinc primer wanted to strip it back and treat it with some rust treatment ready for some epoxy primer hopefully next weekend. Still chipping away slowly but surely 😂

What a difference seeing the floorpan in primer

Colley27 said

What a difference seeing the floorpan in primer

What a difference, nice and fresh Keep up the good work 

After much deliberation I decided to fit another roof skin to my golf as it had rotten out around the sunroof and the cassette was scrap so after welding a plate in and realising it was going to be full of filler. I found a breaker local with a good roof skin to replace mine and this weekend dropped it in.

Nice work. Jealous you have the skills and the skin to do that. I would love a new roof on mine just to delete the glass sun roof. Don’t have the money or the skills for that one though.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Backinblack said

Nice work. Jealous you have the skills and the skin to do that. I would love a new roof on mine just to delete the glass sun roof. Don’t have the money or the skills for that one though.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

To be honest what made the decision for me was that someone was breaking one about 25 miles away so couldn't really pass it up as everything else was down country and I'm in the North East. The skin is straight forward just obviously daunting when welding but probably one of the easier jobs on the car just a case of measure multiple times before cutting.

Any more info/photos where you cut and welded it. something i might need to do..