Morgie's 81 GTi restoration - Engine bay time!

Project is looking amazing dan, colour is great   Don't know how you managed to choose between the two wheels, both look spot on!

Cheers , I'm not sure I'll be sticking with those wheels yet, they need a fair amount of work to get them on the car .

Picked up a couple of front seats, still need subframes after trying to adapt the standard frames and finding out they sit way too high:



New clip set:

pazwaa said

Project is looking amazing dan, colour is great   Don't know how you managed to choose between the two wheels, both look spot on!

Thanks pal, sorry I forgot about the stone chip today, I'll try and find out for you tomorrow  

Morgie said

pazwaa said

Project is looking amazing dan, colour is great   Don't know how you managed to choose between the two wheels, both look spot on!

Thanks pal, sorry I forgot about the stone chip today, I'll try and find out for you tomorrow  

Cheers, no rush. Don't know if it will help, but look at my thread, I've just modified some standard sub frames and fitted recaros to them, had to cut them down low to get them at a good height, the photos may give you a few ideas.  

I think the car looks awesome in that yellow mate! Is that BMW Specialists in Hitchin??

Those Recaros look special mate. What car are they from??

cavs said

I think the car looks awesome in that yellow mate! Is that BMW Specialists in Hitchin??

Cheers cavs  

smudger said

Those Recaros look special mate. What car are they from??

Apparently they're from a mk1 mr2 and I did check with an ex owner who said they look the same but have less adjustments so really I'm not 100% sure  

Well the Golf made the road!

Thought it was about time I got my butt in gear and got it sorted so I worked flat out on it for a month around work, fitting new bumpers, lights, trims, graphics, brakes, bulbs, arches, undersealing the whole car, making brake lines and seat frames, trimming the inside of the front wings, undersealing again, fitting coilovers and the wheels, making sense of the wiring and getting it all working, inviting a group of mates round for the day to get it serviced and running after 2 years and finishing off with a BBQ, having an exhaust made, getting it taxed, mot'd and insured, machine polishing and hard waxing it and then finally driving it and taking pictures .

Was sooooo worth the effort!

The interior and the engine bay are far from finished but they're jobs for another time .

Otherwise, I'm absolutely loving it!

Your is looking stunning Morgie, nice work dude

Melteddrummer said

Your is looking stunning Morgie, nice work dude

Thanks, I'm over the moon with it    

Wow !! Looks awesome dude !! loving the colour.

Bag.

Absolutely beautiful, well done  

Matt

That looks great!! love the colour. Banded g60's?

Cheers guys!

They're just normal Polo 6n steels I think, I'll get a picture soon

That's gorgeous mate-will have to meet up at some point! 

Take it you managed to fit your recaros? Did you make your own brackets?

Matt

cavs said

That's gorgeous mate-will have to meet up at some point! 

Yeh sure 

pazwaa said

Take it you managed to fit your recaros? Did you make your own brackets?
Matt

Yeh I used some Corrado bases that I bought off cavs, cut the top off and made a H frame, then welded it all together and bolted the seat to the frame  .
I'll get some pictures up of that as well  .

Bloody hell mate, absolutely brilliant build! my floor is heading the way yours was! good inspiration to get mine sorted though I tell ya. think our's have rusted almost exactly the same