How should I start this, after the shocks sitting in my living room for 3 months before fitting them I really have been lazy with the car. Last few posts I had just bought the leather seats and the coilys.
I fitted the leather seats the same night as picking them up, they dropped in reasonably well, front seats were easy, but the back seats were a total pain in the arse, I'm pretty confident they didn't come from a MK2 at all seen as though there were pins in the bottom of the seats to retain it on either side. The door cards would never fit because they are way smaller - so at the moment, I'm puzzled as what to do with the doors, maybe put black leather door cards on.
I got the coilovers fitted just last week, dropped them on, bought new front top mounts, rears seemed to be peachy. I fitted the whole lot and managed to get the height right about first time. It not only looks awesome, but the drive has just been changed completely. Its a little stiff, but my god does it grip, I've got the worst tyres in the world on it and I can fire round bends at 40+ now, I love it, its like driving a go-kart. Best purchase I've ever made, its totally transformed the car.
I've been without music for a long time, so I started going about making the boot build. I've got 2 cones, but for a start I'm just going to use one side of the boot. Its a fibreglass build inside the wheel arch, with an MDF face, I only had time to get a start on the fibreglass, but next week I will finish the MDF too.
Heres my handy box of glassing bits, along with a few car cleaning products,
I started by masking off the carpet with tonnes of masking tape, then I applied a second layer, a binbag (which was pointless and caused me more bother than its worth) and more tape. The bag just made it awkward to follow the shape of the car, more tape would have done the trick just fine I think.
So overall, the car is looking pretty tasty, I've got loads of small things to clean up, but to the normal person its beautiful! Thankfully, the engine is mint, but the g/box is starting to cause a few issues and is looking to be replaced within the next few thousand miles.