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Offline Junior74

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #250 on: 25 August 2013, 12:58 »
Looking good Dan....  :smiley:

Cheers bud, not looking as good as yours yet though!

Keep plodding through that list mate....and adding to it... :)
Your doing a lot of stuff...that I still need to pay attention to...

This is going to be a really nice MK3....good work!!!!  :cool:

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #251 on: 25 August 2013, 13:21 »
Looking good Dan....  :smiley:

Cheers bud, not looking as good as yours yet though!

Keep plodding through that list mate....and adding to it... :)
Your doing a lot of stuff...that I still need to pay attention to...

This is going to be a really nice MK3....good work!!!!  :cool:

man, stuff gets added and subtracted from the list in my head on a daily basis!

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #252 on: 25 August 2013, 13:28 »
let's see a pic of the whole car with it's new shoes then!

I have been playing around with tyre profiles this morning and swapped the 195/45 Avon's on the fronts for 19/40 Pirelli's and chucked out the Federal 205/40's in favour for some Nankang 195/45's for a bit more stretch. I'm going to fit them to the car some time after Edition and see how I feel, but I might end up going for 165/45's on the front and 195/40's out back as I want to build the shell to sit on the lips :)

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #253 on: 26 August 2013, 20:08 »
Bit of an update:

engine bay currently looks like this!



Then I changed the ISV filter from this that came with the RamAir kit



To one that looks a bit nicer :)



Also these turned up!



The quality is fantastic, I cant wait to fit them :D

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #254 on: 22 September 2013, 18:03 »
Update time!

First this happened:





And then I fitted the Dibed Camber Top Mounts :)









At the same time I took the front helper springs out and wound them right up so I have 100mm of thread to drop :)





Hopefully next time, I'll get the rear beam correction plates on, and then I'm pretty much ready to start arch work :)

In the meantime, the poor GTI is sat like this lol :/








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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #255 on: 22 September 2013, 21:37 »
Looking good Dan...
Nice bit of front end change too!!!!!

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Re: DanChave's Flash Red GTI 16V. Engine strip, clean and paint!
« Reply #256 on: 22 September 2013, 21:51 »
Looking good Dan...
Nice bit of front end change too!!!!!,

Cheers bud :)