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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Golf mk4 gallery => Topic started by: jv on 27 February 2009, 13:20
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Cheers JV :smiley:
well this is my first vw and first GTi :smiley: so decided i would do a build up thread with some information on when i brought the car up until the present time i will update my thread as often as any changes are made and all my information/pics of my car can be found here :smiley: :
Bit Of Background Information :
Well i brought the car from a garage in the northeast,saw it by chance on the autotrader website and thought why not i will go and have a look tbh i didnt know that much about vdubs (mainly had fords) and wanted a change from the car i had at the time.So i went over and had a look there was also a gttdi 150 for sale as well :grin: for the same price but i preffered the petrol so after a look round it and lifting the bonnet i discovered it was a 1.8T :smiley: now i was even happier i had always liked the golf GTI and i went back out the garage to have a think told the salesman i'd be a few mins :undecided: after some thought i thought how much i wanted the golf due to its condition and its mileage,so back into the garage,and bit of a shock somebody else was looking around the golf :angry: well fortunately for myself the salesman had told the couple looking around it that i was interested in buying it and i had gone to get a deposit :grin: by this time i was definate i was having the car so a deal was done with my old car as a trade in against the GTi :wink:
Car Spec :
Golf 1.8 GTi TURBO 150BHP/110Kw
2001 '51 Plate' AUM 5Dr Reflex Silver (with my personalised numberplate :smiley:)
Swedish Import
Usual GTi Spec:
6 Cd Changer (dash):
Winter Pack:
Mileage(when purchased): 41,950 Miles:
Complete With Full Vw Dealer Service History:(cam-belt changed & waterpump replaced november 2008):
Well purchased the golf in january 2008 with a view to not modifying it :grin: 'famous last words' as i discovered various vw forums on the internet and soon realised that there were numerous changes that would transform the golf even more from the standard factory spec car.So as for 'i'm keeping it standard' well that didn't happen :smiley:
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Thought i would compile a list of the modifications that have been done to my golf during My Ownership : :smiley:
EXTERIOR :
Front '25th Anniversary' 'GTI' Badge.
Rear '25th Anniversary' 'GTI' Badge.
Rear Red Us Spec '20th Anniversary' 'GTI' Badge.
Front Red Us Spec '20th Anniversary' 'GTI' Grille Badge.
Matt Black Lower Grilles.
De-Badged 'Golf'.
4-Motion Rear Valance.
US Spec Rear Light Clusters.
De-Locked.
Short O.e.m Aerial.
Rear Mkv Wiper & Arm.
Front O.e.m Aero Wipers.
Phillips 'Bluevision' H7 Headlight Bulbs.
Phillips 'Bluevision' H1 Main Beam Bulbs.
Phillips 'Bluevision' W5W Sidelight Bulbs.
Black Front 'Vw' Badge & Black Grille.
Chrome Front 'Vw' Badge And Black 'Modified R32' Mesh Grille.
Rear Colour Coded Inner & Black Outer Sharan Badge.
Silvertec Front Indicator Bulbs.
Tinted 'Smoked' Side Indicator lenses.
'Wolfsburg' Number Plate Surrounds.
Black Wing Mirror Covers.
Black 'B' Pillars.
New Style 'R-Tech' Sticker.
'GTI' Style Rear Roof Spoiler With 'Carbon Fibre' Wrap.
'True Grey' Rear Window Tints.
'Audi TT' Wheel Arch Liner Vent Mod.
Chrome Front 'Vw' Badge With Centre Piece In 'Reflex Silver' And Grille Slats In 'Carbon Fibre' Wrap.
'R-Tech' Decals Exterior & Engine Bay.
'Carbon Fibre' Wrapped Wing Mirror Covers.
INTERIOR :
Blue Drivers & Passenger Door Alarm Leds.
Blue Led Door Courtesy Lights.
Beetle Sport Aluminium Door Pins.
Interior Door Pulls Sprayed 'Aluminium Effect'.
R32 Drivers Fingerplate.
R32 Aluminium Trim.
R32 Ashtray Trim With 25th Anni GTI Anniversary Badge.
R32 Look Door Triggers (modded).
R-Line Gearknob & Gaitor.
Genuine Oem Front Centre Armrest.
Audi TT Pedals.
Bora Illuminated Vents.
W8 Courtesy Light.
Aluminium Instrument Cluster Rings.
Bora Sport Instrument Foils.
Painted Needles (R32 Style).
'Newsouth' Indigo PSI Boost Gauge.
'42 Draft Design' 'A' Pillar Pod.
Grey & Black Cloth 'Recaro's'.
'GTI' Stainless Steel Footrest.
Black Interior Rear View Mirror.
'Richbrook' Black Aluminium 'GTI' Tax Disc Holder.
Octavia/Fabia vRS Steering Wheel.
'Carbon Fibre' Wrapped Double Din Head Unit Outer Trim.
'Carbon Fibre' Wrapped Climatronic Unit.
'Carbon Fibre' Wrapped Lower Centre Console.
WHEELS :
Standard 16" Montreal 2's 'Powdercoated' 'Mattblack' With 205/55/16 Continental Sport Contact 2 Tyres (Rear). And 205/55/16 Continental Sport Contact 2 Tyres (Front).
BRAKES :
Standard Factory Fitted O.e.m Discs & Brake Pads With Front & Rear Calipers Painted Blue.
I.C.E :
'Kenwood' 'DPX313Y' Double Din Cd Reciever.
SUSPENSION :
'Whiteline' 22mm Adjustable Rear Arb.
Front 5mm Spacers.
Front 13mm Bolt-Thru Hubcentric Spacers.
Rear 15mm Hubcentric Spacers.
Rear 20mm Bolt-Thru Hubcentric Spacers.
'Jom' -40mm Lowering Springs & Shocks.
'V-Maxx' Adjustable Coilovers.
'V-Maxx' Adjustable Droplinks.
'Audi S3' Lower Strut Brace.
'Audi S3' Upper Strut Brace.
TRANSMISSION :
'Forge' Uprated Dog Bone Mount Bushes.
'Audi TT' Short Shifter And Shortened Gearstick.
ENGINE :
'N249' Valve By-Pass Modification.
'Forge' Fmcl 007p Divertor Valve.(Yellow Spring Fitted).
'Miltek' Turbo Back 'Non Resonated' Exhaust System With 4-Motion Style Twin Pipes.
'Reflex Silver' Lower Engine Cover (Upper Removed) And Battery Cover With 'Black' Fusebox Lid.
'Aluminium' Air Cleaner Cover.
Smoothed & Drilled Oem Airbox With 'DSG' Intake Upgrade With 'Pipercross' Panel Filter.
'Nology' Silver Spark Plugs.
'R-Tech' Stage 1 Generation 4 'Beta' Engine Re-Map.
'Forge' T.I.P (Blue).
'Satin Black' Throttle Body.
'Forge' Oil Catch Can With Blue Silicone Hoses.
'Audi TT' Wheelarch Liner Vent.
'Satin Black' Inlet Manifold.
'Carbonio' Cold Air Induction Kit.
Painted 'Pearlescent Arden Blue' Coil Pack Tops.
'THS' Twinpass Front Mount Intercooler With 'R-Tech' Logo.
'R-Tech' Spec 2 Engine Re-Map.
ADDED FEATURES :
One Touch Lock And Un-locking Enabled.
Auto Locking Enabled.
Alarm Beeps On/Off Enabled.
Autowindows Enabled.
Miles To Empty Enabled.
'R-Tech' Full Throttle Launch Control.
'R-Tech' Left Foot Braking Without Throttle Cut.
TO COME/ADD :
'R-Tech' Generation 4 Beta Re-Map.
'Audi TT' Short Shifter.
'Smoked' Side Repeaters.
'Whiteline' Rear Adjustable 22mm Rear Arb.
Alloys 'Powdercoated' Mattblack.
Brushed Aluminium R32 Style Door Triggers.
Rear Beam Bushes.
Red Painted Front & Rear Brake Calipers.
Golfgti Stickers.
'A' Pillar Pod & Boost Gauge.
Rear Spoiler.
'Recaro' Cloth Interior.
'Reflex Silver' Engine And Battery Covers.
'mattblack' Wing Mirror Covers.
'Forge' T.I.P (Blue).
Oil Catch Can System.
O.e.m Front & Rear Brake Discs.
O.e.m Rear Pads.
O.e.m Front Pads.
Inlet Manifold painted Black.
Cam Cover Powdercoated In Graphite.
'Audi R8' Oil Filler Cap.
'Audi S3' Upper Strut Brace.
'Audi S3' Lower Strut Brace.
Coilover Kit.
Front O.e.m Aero Wiper Arms & Blades.
Cold Air Induction Kit.
Rear Tints.
'Ths' Front Mount Intercooler Kit.
'R-Tech' Stage 2 Re-Map.
Well That Completes The List :smiley: I Will Update As Progress Is Made :wink:
Car Data Information sticker :
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Preview Of The Cars Service History :
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Cam-Belt Change Invoice :
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General Reciepts For Purchased parts :
SUSPENSION :
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FORGE DOG BONE MOUNT BUSHES :
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NEUSPEED P-FLO INDUCTION KIT :
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MILTEK DOWNPIPE & SPORTS CAT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/06032009249.jpg)
FORGE D/V :
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R-TECH REMAP :smiley: :
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Ok so having put some of the golfs paperwork/reciepts into my thread i thought now that i will start to put in the pics from purchasing the golf to the progress/modifications made to date :afro: the main theme is that i want to keep the golf as o.e.m as possible so thats it looks factory but with a few tweaks here and there :wink: :smiley: :
GOLF AS BROUGHT :
My Personalised Plate Put On During The First Week As Paperwork Was'nt Complete For My plate To Go On The Car On Picking Up
Also the '25th Anniversary' Front GTi Badge Fitted When I Got The Car Home :smiley:
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0007_exteriorannibadge.jpg)
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SOME GENERAL INTERIOR PICS :
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1st WASH AND POLISH (Autoglym High Gloss Used) :
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FOR SOME REASON I DECIDED TO ADD THIS :laugh: :
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Seemed Like A good Idea At the Time But Did'nt Stay On Long. :wink:
SILVERTEC FRONT INDICATOR BULBS :
Replaced The Orange Bulbs For The 'Silvertec' Bulbs To Get Rid Of The 'Fried Egg' Look At The Front - Much Better :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0008_exteriorannibadge.jpg)
MKV REAR AERO WIPER & ARM FITTED :
Decided To Tidy The Rear Up With The Mkv Aero Wiper As I Did'nt Really Like The Standard Wiper,So After Reading Up That You Could Change It Over The Mkv Was Ordered And Fitted.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0017_exteriormkvaero-wiper.jpg)
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SOME UNDER BONNET PICS OF THE 1.8 AUM :
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DE-LOCKED :
After Reading Up On Some Of The Forums About A Security Weakpoint On The Mk4 Golf I Ordered A De-Lock Kit From Vw And Sprayed The Blanking Cap And Fitted,Much More Relieved That My Pride And Joy Is A Bit More Secure From Theiving Scumbags :smiley:
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STUBBY AERIAL :
I Didnt Much Care For The Standard Vw Aerial So Decided It Would Be Changed,So Ordered Up The 'Enigma' Stubby Aerial Brought From The U.S.A looking Much Neater :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0021_exteriorenigmastubbyaeri.jpg)
ANOTHER BADGE :
Having Removed The Other Badge I Came Across This One (I had seen one on another forum on a mk4t and liked it)So Thought I Would Buy It Fit It On.
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R-LINE GEARKNOB & GAITOR :
Well Having Owned My Golf For A Few Weeks I Decided That I Would Like To Replace The GTi Gearknob For Something That Looked Much Better :smiley: (TBH i wasn't that impressed with the horrible wood trim that vw decided to fit to the GTi)So Having Seen The R32 Gearknob I Decided On An R-Line 5 Speed One So One Was Ordered And Fitted Looks soooooo Much Better :cool: Just Need To Get Rid Of The Rest Of The Wood. :grin:
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SOME BLUE BULBS FITTED :
Seeing As I Had A Few Blue Bulbs Spare I Found A Use For Them,Why Not Fit 2 To The Door Courtesy Lights.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0037_interiorbluepuddlelight.jpg)
R32 INTERIOR TRIM :
Finally I Ordered Some R32 Trim For The Golf To Get Rid Of The Wood Trim And That Bought About An Instant Improvement To How The Dashboard Looked And Compliments The R-Line Gearknob & Gaitor. :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0042_interiorr32alutrim.jpg)
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BORA ILLUMINATED VENTS & W8 COURTESY LIGHT :
Having Fitted The R32 Trim I Found That The Standard Vents Didn't Quite Do The R32 Trim Justice So Read A Few Posts On The Forums And How To's On Fitting The Vents And Making Up A Wiring Loom And Thought Why Not So Bought All The Wiring And Associated Pieces And Set About Making Up The Loom While Waiting For My Vents To Arrive :afro: The Loom I Made Up Looks Factory(pity its hidden lol) Once The Vents Arrived I got To work Fitting/Installing The Loom And The Vents And Also The W8 Light Which Had Also Been Delivered All Was Fitted and I Was Hugely Impressed How They Looked In The Dash Nice Subtle Mod :cool: And They Create A Nice Ambience At Night With The W8 Lighting. :afro:
THE LOOM :
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THE VENTS :
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W8 COURTESY LIGHT - BLUE LED BULBS(Now Removed For Std Bulbs) :
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W8 NIGHT-TIME ILLUMINATION :
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BORA VENTS ILLUMINATED :
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BORA VENTS NIGHT-TIME ILLUMINATION :
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ALUMINIUM INSTRUMENT CLUSTER RINGS :
Well Looking At The Mkv GTI's I Decided That I Liked The Look Of The Aluminium Instrument Cluster Rings That They Have Fitted Around The Speedometer And The Rev Counter So I Ordered A Set,Removed The Cluster Split The Front And Seperated And Set To Installing The Rings.
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NIGHT TIME ILLUMINATION :
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AUDI TT PEDALS :
Next Up I Decided That The Standard Pedals Needed An Improvement I Cant Understand Why Vw Didnt Fit Better Specification Pedals To Their GTi Models :sad: So Had To Order A Set Of TT Pedals An Get Them Fitted Now They Look So Much Better Than Before And A Nice Easy Modification To. :smiley:
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CHANGE TO THE FRONT GTI BADGE :
Decided That I Would Change The Front Gti Badge To Match The Red 'I' One That I Fitted To The Tailgate :wink: Typical Of Me Tho Because After Looking Through The Internet I Found Out That I Could Of Ordered/Fitted The 'Lupo' Front Gti Badge :rolleyes: Oh Well I Decided To Fit The One I Had Ordered Anyway So Here We Are.
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Wasn't To Keen On The Space That Was Left On The Surround But It Stayed Like That For A Week Or So And Then I Re-Modded It :cool:
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NEUSPEED P-FLO INDUCTION :
Well After A Few Exterior & Interior Mods I Decided To Carry Out Some Under The Bonnet I Saw This Kit On Awesome Gti's Website And decided Thats The Way I Would Go So Took A Trip Over To Manchester And Collected It Then Managed To Get It Fitted The Next Day :wink: The Kit Was Easy To Install And imo Looks Neat In The Engine Bay And Is Set Of Nicely With The Stainless Steel Heatshield,The Induction Noise Is Subtle Not O.t.t By Any Means And Allows The Engine To Rev A Bit More freely Mid-Range :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0083_engineneuspeedp-floinduc.jpg)
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FORGE FMCL 007P D/V :
Having Fitted The Induction Kit I Then Started To Get A Slight Boost Issue With The o.e.m Bosch D/v So Instead Of Going And Buying Another O.e.m One From The Dealers I Decided To order An Uprated D/v So The 'Forge' Was Sourced Having Read Good Reports About It And Also It Would Make Sense To Upgrade Just Incase I Got The Car Re-Mapped :wink: Also Ordered It With A Green Spring.
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MADE USE OF A GTI BADGE :
Having Replaced The Gti Front Badge I Had The Letters Left Over From The Front 'Anni' Badge So What To Do With Them :undecided: Then I Hit Upon The Idea Of Applying Them To The Ashtray Lid :cool: Cleaned Off The Backing And Just Applied A Little Glue A Simple little Mod Done And A Reminder Of What i'm Driving When I Get In The Car :grin: Also The Lid Does Slide Back To Allow Access The 12v Socket.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0097_interiorGTibadge.jpg)
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R32 EFFECT DOOR PULLS :
Well Having Fitted The R32 Trim I Still Had The Original Wood Effect Door Pulls So Instead Of Buying The Genuine Trim I Thought I Would Have A Go At Painting Them So Brought All The Paint,Primer Etc And Masked Them Up And Set About Painting Them.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0099_interiorpaintedr32alu-1.jpg)
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As It Was They Didn't Turn Out To Bad And At Least Match The R32 Trim Now :smiley:
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R-TECH RE-MAP STAGE 1 :
Having Started To Add Some Modifications Under The Bonnet I Then Went About Researching Re-maps :rolleyes: Having Read Posts On Some Of The forums Of How Much Mapping Improves The Standard 150 Bhp I Quickly Made My Decision That I Definately Wanted To Up The Golfs Power/Output :grin: Easiest Decision I'v Had To Make :wink: So With Loads Of Tuners To Research Who Offered Good Maps For The Mkiv I Thought It Would Be A Hard Choice I Rang 1 Or 2 Big names And To Be Honest I was'nt That Impressed With Their Customer Service :sad: So By Chance While On E-Bay I Was Looking Through Mkiv Parts And Came Across A re-Map Offer :huh: Had A Read And To Be Truthful I Was Impressed So I Went On Their Direct Link To Their Website And Researched A Bit More So Then Got The Funds Sorted :grin: And Gave Nick Gower At R-TECH A Call And Was Instantly Happy He Talked Me Through Everything And Was Real Helpful With Any Advice And Information So In The End It Was An Easy Choice To Make R-TECH All The Way :afro: So A Day Was Arranged For Nick To Do It (what a long 2 weeks that was) Until The Day Arrived And Was Definately Worth The Wait I Couldn't Believe The Difference A Re-Map Made To My Gti Now I Realised Why People Recommended Having It Done It Certainly Brings Your Golf Alive!!!! :grin: In All Honesty It Was The Best £265 That I Had Spent On The Golf :wink: And Nick Is A Top Bloke Can't Praise Him Enough Cheers Mate :afro:
FOUND A USE FOR MY R-TECH STICKER NICK GAVE ME :cool: :
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COLOUR CODED FRONT 'GTI' BADGE :
And Another Change To My Front 'Gti' Badge :rolleyes: I Decided To Take Off The Tags At The Edge Of The 'I' As Wasn't Happy With The Look So At The Same Time I Thought mmmmm Why Not Colour Code The Backplate :smiley: So Here It Is.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00109.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00110.jpg)
NEW INSTRUMENT CLUSTER FOILS :
Decided To Change The 'Foils' For Something Else And Managed To Find Some Passat (R32) Style Foils For Sale On A Forum I Got Them For £20 :wink: Spent A Day Cutting And Getting Them Looking Right And Had The Idea Of At The Same Time Painting The Centre Piece Of The Needle Aluminium Effect So It Looks Abit Like The R32 Needles As The R32 Ones With The Cluster I Got Don't Fit In My Clocks Still They Look Good And A Nice Effective Modification To The Cluster With The Aluminium Rings. :wink:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0102_interiorr32foilspaintedn.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0103_interiorr32foilspaintedn.jpg)
AND ILLUMINATED :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0105_interiorr32foilsillum.jpg)
SHARAN BADGE :
Next Change Was To Change The Standard Rear Vw Badge To The Smaller Neater Looking Sharan One So Brought One From The Dealer And Got It Fitted Looks So Much Better. :cool:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0108_exteriorsharanvwbadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0107_exteriorsharanvwbadge.jpg)
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'MILTEK' CAT-BACK EXHAUST :
So After Getting The Golf Re-Mapped I Decided That I Would Need To Have A Decent Performance Exhaust System To Replace The Restrictive O.e.m One So There Was Just One Choice For Me And A 'Miltek' Non Resonated Cat-Back 4Mo Style System Was Ordered From Vw Speed :wink: Also At The Same Time I Ordered The 4 Mo Valance From My Local Dealer And The System Was Booked In For Fitting :smiley: Must Say I'm Impressed On The Quality Of The System And It Has A Nice Exhaust Note To It Especially On Acceleration :wink: Imo Money Well Spent And Improves The Mid-Range Driveability And Looks Nice Also.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0112_milteknonrescat-back.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0113_miltektail-pipes.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0114_miltektail-pipes.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0115_miltektail-pipes.jpg)
AND FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0116_exteriormiltektail-pipes.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0117_exteriormiltektail-pipes.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0118_exteriormiltektail-pipes.jpg)
COLOUR CODED LOWER GRILLES :
My Next Modification Was To Colour Code The Front Lower Grilles As I Thought This Would Tidy Up The Lower Half Of The Bumper (eventually will be colour coding the front & rear valances) And They Turned Out Really Well And Much Improves The Front Of The Car.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0121_exteriorc-codedgrilles.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0122_exteriorc-codedgrilles.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0125_exteriorc-codedgrilles.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0126_exteriorc-codedgrilles.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0128_exteriorc-codedgrilles.jpg)
RETRO - FIT FRONT AERO WIPERS :
Well The Original Front Wipers Were In Need Of Replacement So As I didn't Want To Buy The Whole Aero Wipers And Arms I Decided That The 'Bosch' Retro Fit Wipers Would Be A Worthwhile Upgrade :smiley: Easy To Fit And Look Much More Up To date Than The Standard Fit Ones.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0129_exteriorfrontaerowipers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0130_exteriorfrontaerowipers.jpg)
LOWERED -40MM JOM SPRINGS & SHOCK KIT :
Finally Got Round To Lowering The Golf As I Was Getting Feed Up With The Original Look At The Time I Could'nt Quite Go The Expense Of Coil Overs :sad: So Decided Just To Go Springs & Shock Route To Help The Handling A Bit So Used The Jom Kit Was Good Value And It Seems Of Good Quality And For The Money I'm Finding It Really Good Not Excessively Stiff I Would Say Just Bit Stiffer Than Standard Set Up But The Standard 16's Look A Bit Better Now.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0131_exteriorjom-40mmsusp.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0132_exteriorjom-40mmsusp.jpg)
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HOW IT LOOKS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0137_exteriorlowered-40mm.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0139_exteriorlowered-40mm.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0140_exteriorlowered-40mm.jpg)
US SPEC REAR LIGHTS :
Decided To Change The Rear Lights I Had Seen Another Silver Mkiv With Us Spec Lights Fitted And I Think They Suit Silver Coloured Cars Well :smug: So Ordered Up A Set And Put Them In.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0141_exteriorusspeclights.jpg)
SPACERS :
Having Lowered The Car I Was Still Unsure Of How The Standard 16's Looked In The Rear Arches Now It Was Lower They Still Seemed A Little Lost Really So How About Spacing Them out? I Wanted The Wheels To Be Level With The Arch Lip So Decided On Some 6mm Ones At The Front And Some 15mm Hubcentric Ones For The Rear Now It Looks Much Better (well until i get some 18's :grin: and then i'l fit some 20mm ones).
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0144_exteriorrear15mmspacers.jpg)
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MILTEK '3" DOWNPIPE & HI-FLOW SPORTS CAT' AND 'FORGE' UPRATED DOG BONE MOUNT BUSHES :
Well This Was The Next Change To Be Done To My Golf As I Was Also Having An Issue At This Time To With My Miltek Cat-Back System 'Hitting' The Rear Beam When It was Hot :wink: The Golf Was Also Due To Have A Service And At The same Time Have A Brake Fluid Change As Well As The Cam-Belt And Waterpump Changed/Replaced And The Auxillary Drive Belt Done.The Car Was Booked Into My Local Vw Dealer And Also Before Then I Recieved An E-Mail From Ben @ R-Tech Asking Me If I Would Like Their Generation 3 Map :wink: Well What To Say Other Than Yesssssssss Course I Would :grin: So I Rang Nick Up To Organise This And As Luck Would Have It Miltek Got Back To Me With My Exhaust Issue So I Arranged A Day To Go Down To Milteks Fitting Centre And Arranged To Meet Up With Nick & Ben For Them To Carry Out The Generation 3 Update,Well The Day Arrived And I Travelled Down To Miltek And Left My Car With Them Whilst They Sorted My Issue Which In Turn Was Found Out That The Cat-Back System Had Been INCORRECTLY FITTED!! Originally BY The Garage I Had Taken It To Be Fitted (needless to say i WONT be taking my golf to them!!! again) Miltek Informed Me That There Was Inadequipe Clearance When Cold Between The Pipe And The Beam So In Essence When The System Was Hot And Expanded It Was 'Hitting' The Rear Beam Resulting In The Banging And Vibration I Was Getting Well Big Thanks To Miltek For Sorting Out My Problem They Were Excellent!! They Also Advised Me Whilst looking At The Car To Upgrade My Dog Bone Mount Bushes To Help With The Car Now Producing More Power/Torque MMMMM Little Did I Realise What was To Come :grin: Well Having my Miltek Now Fitted Properly Nick & Ben Duly Arrived To Upgrade My Map Well i Was Happy Before With The Original Map But The Revision Well Feck Me Its Awesome I Still Smile Everytime I Get In To Drive The Golf :smiley: Nick Also Informed Me That It Would Be Ideally Suited With A Full Turbo Back System :huh: How Much Did I Realise That They Would Be Famous Last Words :tongue: Ok So The Golf Went Into The Dealers For The Service Etc And Before I Went To Pick The Car Up I Got A Phone Call From Them Basically To Inform Me That They Had Run Vag-Com And An Error Code With Reference To The Cat Had Shown Up :undecided: Unbelieveable :laugh: This Was Ironic So Had A Lenghthy Disscusion With Vw And They More Or Less Told Me That My Cat Was U/S :angry:(which it prob was due to a previous coil pack(s) failure and a lot of unburnt fuel went in lol)Well I Asked Them For A Price For A New Vw Cat And Was Told To Expect It To Be About £430+VAT mmmmmmmmm :shocked: After Taking All This In (i knew they could be right because the week before the emissions warning light lit up and i just kept dissconnecting the battery to clear it) They Asked If I Wanted It Changing Er No Leave It For Now Please :wink: Now A Bit Of A Plan Then Came To Light And Out of Interest I Had A Look On Awesomegti's Website And Found That For LESS Money Than The O.e.m Cat I Could Have A Miltek 3" Downpipe & Hi-Flow Sport Cat Well Whats To Decide I Rang Vw And Told Them I Was Sorted Out :grin: Miltek Here We Come Another Call To Nick And He Said That They Could Code Out The Warning Light When The New Cat Was Fitted For Me :afro: Result!! So Rang Awesome To Get The Golf Booked In And arranged To Meet Up With Nick & Ben At The Same Time Well I Couldn't Wait For The Fitting Day To Arrive It Couldn't Come Quick Enough Before Then I Ordered Up A 'Forge' Uprated Dog Bone Mount Bush Set After Remembering My Chat With Miltek :afro: This Arrived And I Fitted It Was A Nice Easy Job Really And Was Impressed With The Difference It Made To The Gearchange For One It Feels More Precise Now And The Restricted Movement Of The Engine/Transmission Under Hard Acceleration Is Definately More Noticeable To The Only Drawback Is As Everyone Says Cabin Vibration :laugh: Tbh I Get Abit When Cold On First Start Up But Get Down The Road 100 Yards And Its Gone I Get A Little At Tickover (but will have to alter the idle value on vag-com eventually) But Its A Small Trade Off imo For The Result So Worth The Money Well With That Sorted The Day Arrived For Me To Travel Across To Manchester To Get My Downpipe & Cat Fitted :grin: Well Arrived At awesome And They Set About Fitting It Two Hours Later And My Golf Was Yet Again Transformed As They Drove It Out Into The Customer Parking Area Nick & Ben Arrived :smiley: So We Said We Would Go Down The Road To Update My Map File We Drove Down The Road Abit This Gave Me A Chance To Drive With My New Stuff Fitted And WOW Happy Or What :smiley: Nick Set About Updating My Map File Whilst Me And Ben Had A Play On Vag-Com :grin: In Which We Enabled One Touch Un-Lock,Auto Locking And Alarm On/Off Beeps :cool: Well Nick Finished And Wanted To Take The Car Out To Try Well It Was Slightly Damp On The Road But Nick Still Got The Golf Power Wheel Spinning In 3rd Gear With The T/C On :grin: When He Told Me The 'Turbo-Back' Would Make A Difference He Wasn't Wrong The Car Combined With The Map Pulls Like A Feckin Train Good Torque/Power And The Turbo Spool Up Time Is Alot Quicker And Comes In Low Down The Revs Think Nick Enjoyed It :grin: Good Job I Was Going To Be Replacing The Tyres Soon :grin: Imo The 'Turbo-Back' System Is Worth Every Penny :wink: Has A Lovely Sound To It Under Acceleration I Love It!!!! And Thanks Again To Nick & Ben :afro:
AKA NICK & BEN R-TECH MAPPING GOD'S :
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NEW MILTEK 3"DOWNPIPE & HI-FLOW SPORTS CAT AND FORGE UPRATED DOG BONE MOUNT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0153_enginemiltekdownpipehi-f.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/photo-0154_enginemiltekdownpipehi-f.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0155_enginemiltekdownpipehi-f.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0157_enginemiltekdownpipehi-f.jpg)
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O.E.M FRONT ARM REST :
Next To Come Was The Front Arm Rest Having Seen One Or Two Cars On The Forum With Them fitted I Decided I Wanted One :grin: So A Look On E-Bay And All I Could Find At The Time Were Copies :sad: But Then A Bit Of Luck :wink: Was On E-Bay When A Breaker Had Just Put An Advert On So Had A Look The Colour Was The Same But It Had A Grey Velour Lid Well For The Price That Wasn't Going To Stop Me As That Could Be Changed :grin: So Quick Call To The Seller And The Armrest Was Mine To Be Delivered At The End Of The Week :afro: Meantime Over To My Local Vw Dealer To Order A New Lid To Match My Interior Fabric As Well As The Fixings Etc (As luck would have it i got hold of the last cover in the country for my trim :wink:)Well All The Parts Arrived And I Got To Work Getting It Fitted A Clean Up Of The Arm Rest With Some 'Poorboy's'And It Looked Like New :afro: And Here We Are All Fitted. :smiley:
THE ARMREST & PARTS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/30012009146.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/30012009147.jpg)
AND ALL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0164_interiorarmrest.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0165_interiorarmrest.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0166_interiorarmrest.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0167_interiorarmrest.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0168_interiorarmrest.jpg)
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UPGRADED BULBS-PHILLIPS 'BLUEVISIONS' :
Well Having Looked At One Or Two Cars On Here I Realised That I Should Upgrade My Headlight Bulbs From The Standard Vw 'Candles' :grin: So I Ordered The Phillips 'Bluevision' H7 Dipped Beam Bulbs H1 Main Beam Bulbs And Got The W5W Sidelight Bulbs For Free As Well As Some Forum Discount :afro: So All Good These Quickly Arrived And Having Read And Tried Before (whilst replacing the front indicator bulbs) How Akward Changing Bulbs On The Mkiv Is I Decided It Would Be Better To Remove The Front Bumper :wink: I Got Them Fitted It Was So Much easier Removing The Front Bumper To Remove The Headlights To Get The Bulbs Fitted *note to self always remove the front bumper*And The Bluevisions Are A Huge Improvement Over The Standard Fit Bulbs So Highly Recommended. :smiley:
THE PHILLIPS 'BLUEVISIONS' :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28022009196.jpg)
THE STANDARD BULBS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28022009198.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28022009199.jpg)
AND THE FRONT BUMPER REMOVED PRIOR TO FITTING :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28022009201.jpg)
COMPARISON 'STANDARD LOOK BULBS' :
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COMPARISON 'BLUEVISION BULBS' :
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MUCH NICER
NIGHT SHOT'S OF HOW THE 'BLUEVISIONS' LOOK :
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NEW FRONT GRILLE AND BADGES :
Well After Looking At Some Of the Golfs On Here With Black Badges I Decided That I Liked The Look So Went And Ordered A New Front Grille And Badge And A Sharan Badge And All The Paint To Set About My Little Project.
ALL THE PARTS FROM VW :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/27022009180.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/27022009181.jpg)
MAKING A START WITH PREP & PRIMER :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/27022009186.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/27022009192.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28022009193.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/01032009228.jpg)
THE FINISHED GRILLE AND VW BADGE :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05032009243.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05032009241.jpg)
PAINTED BLACK 'G' & 'T' LETTERS OF FRONT GTI BADGE :
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REAR SHARAN BADGE :
MAKING A START WITH PREP & PRIMER ETC :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/27022009183.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/27022009184.jpg)
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FINISHED SHARAN BADGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/03032009237.jpg)
THE COMPLETED FRONT GRILLE,VW BADGE,GTI BADGE AND SHARAN BADGE FITTED ONTO THE CAR :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0171_exteriorblackrearsharanb.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0172_exteriorblackfrontvwbadg.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0174_exteriorblackvwandgtibad.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0175_exteriorblackvwandgtibad.jpg)
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SMOKED SIDE INDICATORS :
Having Got The Grille Badge And The Sharan Badge Finished And Fitted I Thought That A Set Of Smoked Side Indicators Would Contrast Well With The Black So I Went And Ordered Some :smiley: They Arrived This Week While I Was Finishing The Black Painting Of The Rear Gti Badge So I Decided To Put Them In They Are Not To bad Quality And Look O.e.m And Finish The Sides Of The Car Off. :cool:
THE INDICATORS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/10032009272.jpg)
JUST A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE O.E.M ONES AND THE SMOKED ONES :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/10032009273.jpg)
FITTED TO THE CAR AND HOW THEY LOOK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0176_exteriorsmokedsideindlen.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0177_exteriorsmokedsideindlen.jpg)
BLACK 'G' & 'T' OF REAR GTI BADGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0178_exteriorblackreargtibadg.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0180_exteriorblackgtirearbadg.jpg)
HOW THE BLACK BADGES NOW LOOK FITTED TO THE REAR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0181_exteriorblackbadges.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0182_exteriorblackbadges.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0185_exteriorblackbadges.jpg)
BLACK 'G' & 'T' WITH RED/BLACK 'I' :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0186_exteriorblackredi.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0187_exteriorblackredi.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0188_exteriorblackredi.jpg)
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R-TECH ROLLING ROAD DAY 28/03/09 :
Well Decided That I Would Attend The R-Tech Rolling Road Day So As To Get The Chance To Put My Golf On The Rollers To See What Sort Of Power/Torque The Cars Giving With The R-Tech Generation 3 Map And The Other Engine Mods I Have Put On The Golf Having Never Been On A Rolling Road Before I Was Looking Forward To The Experience As Well As Getting The Chance To Meet Some Of The Other Mkiv Owners And See Their Cars Was A Very Enjoyable Day /Experience For Me And I Was Pleased With The Golfs Performance :afro: :wink:
ON THE ROLLING ROAD :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00002.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00003.jpg)
GRAPH OF MY POWER/TORQUE CURVE :
221.2BHP 242.1LB/FT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/RTechRRDayPowercurveGraph.jpg)
Thats More Or Less Where I'm At With The Golf At The Moment I Still Have Some More Mods That I Would Like To Do On The Car And Will Be Working (Hopefully :smiley:) Through The List As Money Permits :laugh: So Any Further Progress Will Be Posted Up Here In My Project Thread As Well As In The Mkiv Section Of The Forum :wink:
THANKS FOR LOOKING/READING :afro:
Matt.
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UPDATE :
Well Thought I Had Better Get Round To Updating Some More Of My Progress Since The R-tech RR Day :smiley: After Seeing One Or Two Of The Other Golfs With The 'GolfGTI' Forum Numberplate Surrounds Fitted I Thought That Did Look Good And Also Supports The Forum And There A Good Price To :afro: So Got Them Ordered And Thanks Again To JV Who Posted Them Out To Me In Quick Time.
'GOLFGTI' NUMBERPLATE SURROUNDS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0189_exteriornumberplatesurro.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0190_exteriornumberplatesurro.jpg)
MATT BLACK LOWER FRONT GRILLES :
Having Had A Re-Think With The Lower Grilles I.e. Decided That Because The Front 'GT' Letters Of My Grille Badge And The 'VW' Badge Were Painted Black Then The Lower Grilles Would Look Good Painted Matt Black Also So Ordered A Set Of Non-Genuine Grilles For Approx £35 And Got Myself Some Primer,Mattblack Paint And Laquer.
PRIMED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00007.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00008.jpg)
SOME RANDOM PAINTED PICS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF PAINT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00009.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00010.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00011.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00012.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00013.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00017.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00018.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00019.jpg)
COUPLE OF CLOSE UPS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00020.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00021.jpg)
FINISHED PAINT & LAQUER COMPLETE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00022.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00023.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00027.jpg)
HOW THEY LOOK FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0192_exteriormattblacklowergr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0193_exteriormattblacklowergr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0194_exteriormattblacklowergr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0195_exteriormattblacklowergr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0196_exteriormattblacklowergr.jpg)
'R32' ALUMINIUM DOOR TRIGGER MOD :
Well Having Seen This Mod On The Vortex Forum I Decided That I Would Like To Get Rid Of The Standard Chrome Look Triggers & Have The R32 Aluminium Looking Ones So With Some 600 Grit Wet & Dry I Set About Getting To Work.
BEFORE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0197_interioraludoortriggermo.jpg)
AND THE FINISHED 'R32' LOOK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0198_interioraludoortriggermo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0199_interioraludoortriggermo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0200_interioraludoortriggermo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0201_interioraludoortriggermo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0202_interioraludoortriggermo.jpg)
After Doing The Door Triggers I Decided That I Should Make The Handbrake Release Button Look The Same
ALUMINIUM LOOK HANDBRAKE RELEASE BUTTON :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0203_interioraluhandbrakebutt.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0204_interioraluhandbrakebutt.jpg)
Looks Much Better Doing This The Same As The Door Triggers And Just Finishes It Off :cool:
Thats All Up To Date Now On My Further Progress As And When I Work Through My List I Will Update On Here
Matt.
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UPDATE 16/04/09 :
REAR BEAM BUSHES REPLACED (58,530 MILES) :
Having Stiil Not Got To The Bottom Of My Annoying 'Creaking' Noise From The Rear O/S I Ordered Up Some Oem Replacement Rear Bushes From The Stealers In A Bid To Sort The Noise :smiley: Having Removed Everything With The Car On Axle Stands On The Driveway And The Beam 'Dropped' I Decided On Looking At The Bushes That There Was No Way That I Would Get Them out Successfully On The Drive :angry: :cry: So Put Everything Back Together And Rang a Local Garage For A Quote And Was Quoted The Price Of £40.00 :shocked: So Imediately Booked The Golf In For 15/04/09 :afro: Got The Golf Back And Was Pleased Early Signs Are That The New Ones Are A Definate Improvement :smiley:
THE NEW O.E.M REPLACEMENTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00046.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00047.jpg)
But Even After The Bush Replacement I Still Had The Annoying 'Creaking' Noise :angry: But The Mechanic Confirmed My Other Theory :smiley: (Faulty Shock Absorber) So A Call To 'DPM' For A Replacement 'JOM' Shock Which They Had On The Shelf So I Collected It This Morning And Duly Set About Removal/Refitting Old & New :afro: Got Everything Fitted And Went Out For A Drive To Check Everything Out And At Last I No Longer Have Any Noise From The Rear O/S :afro: So At Last I Now Have Found And Sorted The Noise :smiley:(After Inspecting The Old Jom Shock It Was Found To Be Faulty)So If You Get A 'Creaking' Sound/Noise From The Rear Of Your Mk4 This Could Be Worth Looking At :wink:
Will Update Further As And When Any More Progress Is Made : :smiley:
Thanks For Looking.
MATT.
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UPDATE 18/04/09 :
'N249' VALVE BY-PASS MODIFICATION :
Well Having Read 'BaV's' 'How To-N249 By-Pass Mod' I Decided To Carry Out The Mod To Mine Today Using/Following BaV's How To Which Was Well Explained And Descriptive With Loads Of Pics Clearly Showing Each Stage :afro: Got Some 'Blue' Silicone Hose And A T-Piece This Morning And Set To Work Earlier This Afternoon :wink: Having Tried The Car Out After Finishing The Mod I Must Say The Car Seems A Little More Responsive Now And Has A Little More Noise When 'Dumping' From The Forge D/v When Accelerating And Backing Off :smiley: Definately A Worthwhile Mod To Carry Out On Your 'Aum'd' Mk4 :afro:
STD VAC PIPES ETC REMOVED FROM THE N249 & N112 VALVES :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0205_enginen249vachoses.jpg)
THE N249 BY-PASS MOD FINISHED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0206_enginen249mod.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0207_enginen249mod.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0208_enginen249mod.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0209_enginen249mod.jpg)
Any Further Updates Will Be Added As And When I Progress :smiley:
Thanks For Looking :
MATT.
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Updated 20/04/09 :
NOW ALL BLACK 'GTI' BADGE :
Had A Look At The Rear 'Gti' Badge Yesterday After Giving It A Wash And It Looks Like The Red Tape I Used On The 'I' Letter Has Started To Fade :laugh: So Therefore I Decided To Get The Primer & Mattblack Paint Out Again And Remove And Spray The 'I' For A Complete 'Black' Look :rolleyes:
THE FINISHED BLACK 'GTI' BADGE LOOK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0211_exteriorblackgtibadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0210_exteriorblackgtibadge.jpg)
Further Updates On Progress Will Be Added.
Thanks For Looking. :smiley:
MATT.
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Updated 03/05/09:
Well I Have Finally Got Round To Getting Myself An 'A' Pillar Pod & Boost Gauge Having Looked At A few Fitted To Other Members Golf's Thought That It Would Be A Worthwhile Mod To Do As It Looks :cool: And At Least I Can Keep An Eye On The Turbo's Boost So Earlier This Week My New Gauge Arrived As Well As My 'A' Pillar Pod And 'NoBuzz' T-Piece From 'Awesomegti' :wink: Also Ordered Up Some Convoluted Tubing For The Vacuum Pipe To Route Through To The D/v Line And Thus Keeping It All O.e.m Looking So Here's All The Pics :smiley: :
DELIVERY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00061.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00056.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00055.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00060.jpg)
HOW THE POD LOOKS:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0212_exteriorboostgauge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0213_interiorboostgauge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0214_interiorboostgaugeApilla.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0215_interiorboostgaugeApilla.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0216_interiorboostgaugeApilla.jpg)
ROUTING OF THE VACUUM PIPE:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0217_enginevactubing.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0218_enginevactubing.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0219_enginevactubing.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0220_enginevactubing.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0221_enginevactubing.jpg)
ILLUMINATED:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0222_interiorboostgaugeillumi.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0223_interiorboostgaugeillumi.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0224_interiorboostgaugeillumi.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0225_interiorboostgaugeillumi.jpg)
Well I'm Pleased With How It Has All Turned Out :smiley: The 'A' Pillar Pod Was Fiddly And I had Made A Wiring Loom Up For The Gauge Wiring So Just Had A Good Read Up On A Few Forum Topics On 'Fitting A Boost Gauge' To Help Out I Think My Longest Part Of The Fitting Was Installing And Routing The Vacuum Pipe After Having To Remove The Wipers/Motor And Linkage And Scuttle Panel And Then Having To Run The Tubing Up And Out Through The Firewall But The Tubing Does Look Oem Imo And Just Finishes It All Off In The Engine Bay.
Further Updates As And When Will Be Added. :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
Matt.
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Updated 16/05/09 :
Decided To Make Another Change To The Front GTI Grille Badge This Week So Ordered A '25th Anni' Grille Badge To Modify The First Plan Was To Be Painted Mattblack So I Got Down To The Task Of Getting It Painted Up :
25TH ANNIVERSARY BADGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00016.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00017-1.jpg)
GRILLE BADGE AS IT WAS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/08032009267.jpg)
GRILLE BADGE 'MATTBLACK' :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00022-1.jpg)
HOW IT LOOKED FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0174_exteriorblackvwandgtibad.jpg)
THE 'MATTBLACK' BADGE FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0226_exteriorsilverblackannib.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0226_exteriorblackannigtibadg.jpg)
AND THE OLD LOOK V THE BLACK LOOK COMPARISON :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00025-1.jpg)
Well After Posting The Pics Up In The 'Mk iv' Section And Reading Up On Some Of The Replies And Comments It Looked Like The 'Mattblack' Look Was A Little Bit Overkill And If I'm Honest Looking At It Fitted To The Grille The 'GTI' Letters Could Hardly Be Picked Out So What To Do Well My Other Idea Was Have The Base In 'Reflex Silver' With The Black 'Anni Gti' Letters So I Rubbed Down And Primed The Old Base And Then Gave It A Couple Of Coats Of Reflex Silver And A Couple Of Coats Of Laquer So Set About The Removal Of The Gti Letters From The Anni Badge After Getting Them Stuck Onto The Reflex Silver Base It Looked Much Better A Definate Improvement And Now The Gti Letters Can Be Clearly Picked Out :smiley: Happy With The Badge Now :
HOW IT LOOKS NOW :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00030.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00031.jpg)
FITTED TO THE CAR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0226_exteriorsilverblackannib.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0227_exteriorsilverblackannib.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0228_exteriorsilverblackannib.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0229_exteriorsilverblackannib.jpg)
Well Thats All For The Time Being But Will Be Updating As And When
Thanks For Looking/Reading
Matt.
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Updated 16/05/09 :
I Decided Today That I Wasn't All That Happy With The Boost Gauge I Bought Recently So Today Travelled Down To AwesomeGti In Manchester To Collect A 'Newsouth' Indigo PSI Boost Gauge As I Liked The Idea Of It Looking Oem And These Gauges Are Just That Worth The Money Tbh Defo Happy With It Anyway Managed To Get It Fitted Tonight :
'NEWSOUTH' INDIGO BOOST GAUGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00039.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00040.jpg)
FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0230_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0231_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0232_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0233_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0234_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
AND ILLUMINATED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0235_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0236_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0237_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0238_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
Thats All For The Time Being Will Update As I Make Any Further Changes :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Updated 22/05/09 :
Today I Met Up With Ray (aRd) Off Uk-Mkivs.Net Big Thanks Again Mate Who Performed Some Additions With Vag-Com & Vag-Tacho To My Cluster Enabling 'Auto-Windows' And 'Miles To Empty' For Me :smiley: Unfortunately Wasn't Able To Enable 'Illuminated Needles' As My 'Immo 3' Cluster Is A Bosch Cluster But Never Mind Have To Admit The 'm.t.e.' Feature Is A Nice Little Touch To The Cluster And Well Worth Enabling If You Can :wink: Just Gotta Stop Flicking Through The Readings While Driving Now :grin:
MPG :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0239_interiorinstclustermteen.jpg)
'MILES TO EMPTY'-ENABLED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0240_interiorinstclustermteen.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0241_interiorinstclustermteen.jpg)
Further Updates Will Follow :
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 25/05/09 :
Finally Managed To Get Around To Painting My Two Engine And Battery Covers This Weekend As Well As Slightly Modifying The Main Engine Cover In The Right Hand Corner So As To Make My Forge D/v Nice And Visible As Well As To Prevent The Silicone Hose Chafing Under The Cover As Much Went Out And Purchased All The Paint Etc Required For The Job And Then Made A Start By Cleaning Up All The Covers Modifying The Main Engine Cover And Then Rubbing Them Over With 600 Grit Wet & Dry To 'Key' The Plastic Primer.
CLEANED AND RUBBED DOWN READY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00065-1.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00071.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00072.jpg)
'MODIFIED' ENGINE COVER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00066-1.jpg)
3 COATS OF PRIMER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00067.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00068.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00069.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00070.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00073.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00074.jpg)
THE COMPLETED ENGINE & BATTERY COVERS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00079.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00080.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00081.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00076.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00078.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00077.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00075.jpg)
AND FITTED TO THE CAR : :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0242_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0243_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0244_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0245_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0246_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0247_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0248_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0249_enginec-codedenginebatte.jpg)
I'm Very Pleased With How They Have Turned Out Was Worth The Time And The Effort Put In Has Tidyed Up The Engine Bay And Makes It Stand Out That Little Bit More A Nice Subtle Looking Modification That Looks O.e.m
Thanks For Looking/Reading Will Update As Progress Happens :
MATT.
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Update 30/05/09 :
During Fitting My Newly Painted Engine Covers I Noticed That The Breather Hose (The 'Y' shaped One) From The Pcv To The Cam Cover Had A Small 4-5mm Hole In The Rubber :shocked: Not Good! So Knowing My Local Dealers I Decided To Give Them a Call To Order The Hose (Cheers To Rhys For Giving Me The New Part Number Required :afro:) Well As Look Would Have It My Local Vw Dealer In Durham Had One In Stock :shocked: :shocked: So Off Down There To Collect It And Then Get It Fitted To The Engine With 3 New Jubillee Clips Job Done Although The Hose Has To Be One Of The Most Expensive Items For A Piece Of Rubber A Shocking £32.17 Inc Vat.
NEW BREATHER HOSE & CLIPS (06A 103 221 BH) :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00094.jpg)
SPLIT OLD BREATHER :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00096.jpg)
FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00097.jpg)
Any Further Progress To Be Added.Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 06/06/09 :
Well On Monday I Took The Golf Back Down To 'Romax' At Stockton-On-Tees To Have The Original Montreal 2's Powdercoated In Mattblack (after They Managed To Do Them In Hypersilver The First Time Around :angry:) And I Must Say What A Great Job They Have Done On Them To Their Work Is Cracking And I Would Highly Recommend Them The Alloys Have In My Opinion Transformed The Look Of My GTi And The Price Was A Reasonable £185.00 All Inclusive Feels As Though I Have New Alloys Now :smiley: I Couldn't Wait To Get Back Home To Admire Them And Get Them Off The Car To Get Them Sealed Etc I Removed Each Wheel Individually And Washed And Dried And Applied A Coat Of Autoglym Super Resin Polish To The Front And Rear Of Each Alloy As Well As Two Coats Of Some Poorboys Wheel Sealant For Some Protection And Then Finally The Tyre side Walls Treated To Some Meguairs High Gloss Tyre Gel To Finish Off So For Some Pics Of The Wheel Detailing And Some Pics Of The New Look Alloys :
ALLOYS DETAILED :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00116.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/DSC00120.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0250_alloyspowdercoatmattblac.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0252_alloyspowdercoatmattblac.jpg)
RANDOM SHOTS ON HOW THEY LOOK :
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That's All For The Time Being At Least :wink: Any Further Progress Will Be Added.
THanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Update 14/06/09 :
Yesterday My Good Mate Jonny(turbo) Picked Up The Aluminium Effect Bezel For My Newsouth Performance Boost Gauge Whilst At Awesomegti (Cheers Mate :wink:) Although I Was Happy With The Original Black Looking One I Decided That The Aluminium Effect One Would Tie In With My R32 Trim :cool: So Tonight Got It Fitted The Instructions Advise Glueing It On :laugh: Well I Wasn't Happy Doing That So I Used Some Of My Badge Trim Tape Which I Cut Off 4 Small Pieces And Fitted Inside The Bezel (This Way The Bezel Can Be Easily Removed If Required :afro:) 5 Minutes And The Job Was Done.
ALUMINIUM EFFECT BEZEL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0273_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0274_interiornewsouthindigobo.jpg)
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Thanks For Looking/Reading Updates Soon :
Matt.
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Update 01/07/09:
Finally Got Round To Ordering Myself A 'Whiteline 22mm Adjustable Rear Arb' After Deciding That This Would Be A Worthwhile Upgrade For The Suspension To Help The Handling Improve Over The Standard Set-Up :afro: So Ordered One Up Last Thursday And Collected It On Monday After Work :wink: In Readiness For Fitting.Yesterday Afternoon I Set About Getting It Fitted On The Car For The Price Of The Arb I Must Say i Was Quite Impressed With It And After Reading Various Posts About How A Rear Arb Improves The Handling Of The Golf i Was Looking Forward To Trying It Out after Getting It Fitted Had a Short Drive Out Last Night And Got The Chance To Test It Out On My Route To Work Today And I'm Impressed :smiley: Its A Definate Improvement The Car Is Definately Better On Cornering Even At Medium/High Speed Corners :grin: The Rear Now Wants To Follow The Front End During Cornering And Is Certainley Evident At Round Abouts :wink: It Seems More Planted Imo And Makes Me Feel More Confident To Push It That Little Bit More And Its Certainly Not My Imagination If Your Thinking Of Getting A Rear Arb Then I Can Say Most Definately Do It It Makes A Huge Difference!! :
WHITELINE ADJ 22MM ARB :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/PIC004.jpg)
SOME GENERAL PICS OF THE ARB FITTED :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0280_exteriorwhiteline22mmadj.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0283_exteriorwhiteline22mmadj.jpg)
PICS OF HOW IT LOOKS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0285_exteriorwhiteline22mmadj.jpg)
Thanks For Looking/Reading Further Updates Will Be Posted :
MATT.
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looks a nice bit of kit.. hangs a little but the quality looks spot on.. another mod to add to my list... :smiley:
good work!.
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Updated 30/07/09 :
Well Unfortunately A Couple Of Weeks Ago An Astra Managed To Reverse Along The Front Of My Golf In The Work Car Park :angry: Although I Wasn't Impressed At The Time Looks Like I Got Away Lightly Compared To The Astra :lipsrsealed: :grin:(Good Old Vw Build Quality) So On My Way Home I Called Into A Local Bodyshop To Get A Quote For The Damage Initially On First Inspection They Told Me £200 But After Having A Closer Look I Was Convinced That Most Of The Marks Etc Above/Below The Number Plate Area Could Be Rubbed And Polished Out :smiley: Which After A Little Work Turned Out To Be The Case And Now The Only Real Damage Was To The Rub Strip Which I Was Then Quoted £60 To Paint So I Was Much Happier As Also It Would Mean That The Radius Where The Rub Strip Goes Round To The Wing Would Be Painted A Job I Was Going To Do Because The Previous Owner Had Tried To Touch In Marks Either Side With The Wrong Colour Silver :rolleyes: So I Initially Booked The Car In For The End Of July After A Couple Of Days I Hated Driving Around With It As It Was So At The Weekend I Called Into My Local Vw Breaker And As Luck Would Have It They Had A Reflex Silver Rub Strip In So I Brought It Although On Closer Inspection I Knew It Needed Painting As It Was Badly Scratched But For The Money It Was Definately Better Than A New One So I Spent Some Time Rubbing It Down And Prepping It Cleaned It All Up And Primered It Looked Much Better Then The Following Monday I Took It Into The Bodyshop For Them To Paint And Told Them I Would Collect It Friday.
THE DAMAGE TO The ASTRA :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo003.jpg)
DAMAGE TO MY GOLF :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo004.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo005.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo008.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo009.jpg)
HOW It LOOKED AFTER RUBBING/POLISHING :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo010.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo011.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo012.jpg)
Well Picked Up My Newly Painted Rub Strip On The Friday Morning And Was Well Happy With Their Work And Also The Fact They Only Charged Me £40 To :smiley: So Now I Needed Some New Surrounds I Was Hoping To Get The Forum Ones But They Were Out Of Stock Until August I Couldnt Wait That Long So I Thought I Would Try 'Dubmeister' So Ordered Up A set Of 'Wolfsburg' Ones At Dinnertime And Saturday At 9.00Am They Duly Arrived (Excellent Service As Promised) So Over To The Stealers For Some New Number Plates And I Can Get It All Fitted And The Car Looking As New Again :cool:
COST :
Rub Strip = £10
Number Plate Surrounds = £33
Number Plates = £29
Rub Strip Painting = £40
TOTAL COST FOR THIS MIS-HAP £112.00
Now I'm More Careful Driving Around Car Parks :lipsrsealed:
NEW NUMBER PLATES AND SURROUNDS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0281_exteriorwolfsburgnumberp.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0282_exteriorwolfsburgnumberp.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0286_exteriorwolfsburgnumberp.jpg)
I'm Happy With The Surrounds And How It All Looks Now Much Better :cool:
Further Updates As And When Will Be Added. :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 04/08/09 :
Well Decided On Some More Little Changes To The Golf And Having A Two Week Break Well What Better Time To Get Them Done :wink: So Have Got My Neuspeed Induction Kit Air Filter And S.a.i Filters Washed And Cleaned And They Are Now Fitted Back On The Car And Looking Better I Was Suprised Just How Dirty They Were Also Wanted To Have A try At Tinting My Oem Side Indicator Lenses As I Was Fed Up With The Crap E-Bay Smoked Ones Misting Up Constantly And Painting My Front Grille All Black So Got Myself Another '25th Anniversary' GTi Front Grille Badge And Decided To Keep This One As It Is :cool: Also Got The Front And Rear Brake Calipers Painted In Red Acheived A Nice Gloss To Them By Giving Them A Couple Of Coats Of Clearcoat Laquer Once The Paint Started To Dry All In All I'm Very Pleased With The Results And Was Definately Worth All The Work Just A Few Small things Can Make A Big Difference To The Looks.
PAINTED FRONT BADGE & GRILLE :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo045.jpg)
TINTED SIDE INDICATOR LENSES :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0289_exteriortintedsideindica.jpg)
Had Another Idea Then Having A Spare Front Gti Badge What Should I Do With It Well Decided I Would Remove The Letters As They Were Already Painted Black And Use Them On The Tailgate To Replace The Other Ones-Subtle Free Mod Here :grin:
BLACK ANNI GTI :
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BLACK FRONT VW BADGE & GRILLE :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0293_exteriorblackfrontbadgeg.jpg)
'RED' PAINTED FRONT BRAKE CALIPERS :
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'RED' PAINTED REAR BRAKE CALIPERS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0303_exteriorpaintedrearcalip.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0307_exteriorpaintedrearcalip.jpg)
Further Updates As And When To Be Added. :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 15/08/09 :
Decided That I Would Start Searching For A Set Of Cloth 'Recaro's' While I Had A Few Days Of My Holiday Left I Wasn't Really That Bothered If They Were Non Heated Tbh Just As Long As I Could Find Some :smiley: Anyway I Can Always Retrofit The Heating Elements At Some Other Time If I Decide To Do So Well Searched On E-Bay And As Luck Would Have It I Found A Set From Somebody Breaking A GTi In Doncaster And He Was Asking For £180 I Wasn't Going To Refuse That! So Phone Call Later And They Were Mine :smiley: So Travelled Down The Other Day To Go And Collect Them Obviously I Didn't Expect Them To Be 100% :rolleyes: Once There I Had A Look Over Them And They Were Just Generally Dirty And Imo A Bit Of Hard Work Cleaning Them Up Would Soon Bring Them Up To A Decent Standard To Fit Into My Car The Only Fault I could Really Find Was Just The Normal Wear To The Drivers Side R/h Seat Cushion Bolster So At Some Point I Will Be Looking To Get The Kit From Vw And Replace The Foam Etc Anyway I Spent Just Over 3 Hours Giving Them A Good Hoovering And Cleaning Them Up To Get All The Dirt Out Etc And Once Finished I Was Really Pleased With The Overall Result Of How They Have Come Up Compared To When I First Saw Them :smiley: Managed To Get Them Fitted Yesterday With Help From My Good Mate Jonny(turbo) Cheers Mate :afro: I'm Really Pleased Now That They Are Fitted And Its Transformed The Interior They Are Much More Comfortable Than The Sports Style Seats. :grin:
PICS AFTER A GOOD CLEAN-UP :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo104.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo107.jpg)
AND FITTED :cool: :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0321_interiorrecaros.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0329_interiorrecaros.jpg)
Much Better :cool:
Only Problem Was My Airbag Connector Was Different From The One On The Sports Seats So Took The One Off The Old Seats And Cut The Airbag Connector Off The Recaro's Re-Fitted The Connectors From The Sports Seats To The Recaro's Keeping It As Oem As Possible Trial Fitted The Passenger Seat And Connected The Airbag Plugs And Ignition On It Threw The Airbag Light Up On The Dash And Airbag Fault On The Mfa :cry: Checked With Vag-Com And Me And Jonny Traced The Fault To A Loose Black Wire On One Off The Connectors I Had Made Up :rolleyes: Rectified That And Re-Connected All Back Up No Warning Lights This Time :smiley: Once Both Front Seats Were Fitted And Connected Up Re-Checked With Vag-Com And No Faults Or Warning Lights :afro: Job Done And Happy!!
Further Updates To Be Added As And When. :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 22/08/09 :
Just A Little Update On Sunday I Decided To Change My Jom Rear Springs Around With The Closer Coils Being Fitted Towards The Top As Other Members On The Forum Who Run The Jom Set-Up Have All Fitted Their Springs This Way So Now Mine Are The Same And Now They Have Settled Over The Week To Me If Anything The Rear Looks A Little Lower Or Maybe Its Just Me :laugh: Also Had A Little Bit Of Bad Luck With My Whiteline Adj Rear Arb After Me And Jonny(turbo) Fitted His Rear Arb His Seemed Alot Better Fit Than My One So We Removed Both To Compare As My Left Hand Side Droplink Seems To Be At A slight Angle And Pulls The Poly Bush Slightly On Inspection Of The Two It Seems For Some Reason That Mine Is Twisted At The Adjuster End Of The Arb Hence My Problem Re-Fitted It For Now Anyway And Spoke To Damian At Dpm Who Supplied My Arb He Has E-Mailed Whiteline And They Have Agreed To Replace Mine As Soon As They Get Stock In One Will Be Sent To Me Hopefully During The Next Two To Three Weeks So As Soon As I Recieve It My Old One Will Be Removed And New One Fitted :afro: Top Marks To Damian In Resolving The Issue With No Fuss At All :wink:
Also This Week I Ordered A Set Of Bora Sports Instrument Foils As Well As A GTi Footrest Pedal :smiley:
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Updated 22/08/09 :
Well This Week Although Not On My List Of Things To Do :grin: I Ordered Myself A Stainless Steel 'GTi' Footrest After Seeing Pics Of Rhys's And Alan D's Fitted Didn't Need Much Convincing To Realise It Would Be Worthwhile And Also Having Looked At A Post From Wazzzer For Some E-Bay Bora Sport Instrument Foils For £33 Delivered They Seemed Like A Worthy Upgrade So Both Were Ordered Well Got The Footrest Fitted Yesterday With Ease Also Put In Some Red Tape To Highlight The 'GTi' Definately Contrasts Well With My TT Pedals And Finishes Off The Footwell Nicely Imo The Bora Foils Are Oem Quality But Needed Some Minor Modification/Trimming Required To Get Them Fitted I managed To Get Them Properly Sorted Last Night And Re-Fitted Back Into The Car Earlier This Morning Despite All The Work Fitting Them I Must Admit I'm More Than Happy With How They Have Turned Out Both Daylight And Night Illumination Is Of Oem Quality So For The Money They Are Definately Worth It :cool:
'GTi' STAINLESS STEEL FOOTREST & BORA SPORTS FOILS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo134.jpg)
FOILS FITTED BACK INTO CLUSTER BEFORE FITMENT INTO CAR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo138.jpg)
'GTI' STAINLESS STEEL FOOTREST FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0330_interiorgtifootrest.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0331_interiorgtifootrest.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0332_interiorgtifootrest.jpg)
BORA SPORT FOILS FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0333_interiorborasportfoils.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0334_interiorborasportfoils.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0335_interiorborasportfoils.jpg)
GENERAL PICS OF FOOTWELL & INSTRUMENT CLUSTER :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0337_interiorgtifootrestboras.jpg)
BORA SPORT FOILS/CLUSTER ILLUMINATED :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0339_interiorborasportfoilsil.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0340_interiorborasportfoilsil.jpg)
Thats All For Now But Future Progress Will Be Updated And Added Here :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 29/08/09 :
After Seeing Wazzzers Double Din Head Unit It Convinced Me To Get One Ordered :rolleyes: As I Liked How It Looks And Like The Idea Of The Double Din Fitment So Ordered One And It Arrived Thursday Morning And Got It Fitted Last Night Spent An Hour Today Setting It All Up As I Wanted And Tbh Well Worth The Buy Sounds Really Good For The £130 Price Tag.
KENWOOD DPX313Y :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo152.jpg)
FITTED,AND SOME ILLUMINATED PICS ALSO :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0341_interiordobledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0342_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0343_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0345_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0344_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0346_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0347_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0348_interiordoubledinkenwood.jpg)
Also Decided To Paint My Interior Rear View Mirror 'Mattblack' But That Didn't Happen As After Masking The Glass And Leaving It Outside Prior To Priming It The Wind Caught It And Yes Blew It Onto The Patio :cry: All Was Not Lost As I Managed To Aquire From My Local Vw Breaker A Black One To Replace Mine For The Sum Of £10 Bargain!!
NEW BLACK R/V MIRROR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo159.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo160.jpg)
AND FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0350_interiorblackrvmirror.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0349_interiorblackrvmirror.jpg)
Nice Easy Modification Over The Vw Standard Fitted One And Looks :cool:
Well Thats All For The Time Being Further Updates Will Be Added.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Updated 06/09/09 :
Scanned My Car Last Weekend And Got A Couple Of Fault Codes (17705,17963) Had A Read Through A Link Rhys Posted Awhile Back To The 17705 Code And Rang R-Tech And Got Some Useful Information/Help From Topher Cheers Mate :wink: So Wednesday Called In At My Local Dealer And Ordered Some Parts:
1 x 1J0145834A Hose @ £7.03
1 x 028129748 Gasket @ £1.81
1 x N10518901Clip @ £4.57
2 x N0245033 Clip @ £4.91 Each
So Yesterday The Job Involved Removing And Cleaning The Side Mount Intercooler And The Throttle Body Started The Job And When I Got Down To Removing The Pancake Pipe I Came Across My Problem!!! There Was Oily Residue On The Upper Hose To The Turbo And The Clip that Clamps The Hose To The p/c Pipe Was Loose!! (Well Could Turn With My Hand) The Second Cause Was The Hose To The Lower Smic Connector One Of The Jubilee Clips Was Loose To And Not Fitted Correctly In The Sealing Area!! I Tried One Of The Jubilee Clips To Loosen And It Just Snapped :huh: Set About Cleaning The Smic And Managed To Empty A Full Tin Of Carb Cleaner :grin: I Was Suprised How Oily The Smic Was As Well As The P/c Pipe And Upper Intake Hose!! Once All Cleaned And All Dried Out Set On Withe Removing The T/b And Gave That A Good Clean It Was A Little Dirty To I Was Abit Suprised As It Was Cleaned Out Approx 10,000 Miles Ago New Gasket Fitted And Re-Assembled And T/b Re-Adapted All Good Rest Of The Work Was Straight Forward And Took The Car Out Last Night To Give It A Little Run :grin: Well The Idle Seems Alot Smoother Now At Least And The Car Seems To Pull Harder To Holds Peak Boost Well To (Hardly Suprising As I Must Of Been Pissing Boost!!) Imo Was Well Worth Doing The Job And At Least I Found The Cause Of My Problem(Hopefully Anyway) Had It On Vag-Com To Last Night And No Fault Codes So All Good :afro:
NEW PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009003.jpg)
OLD CLIPS & HOSE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009004.jpg)
AND REMOVED FROM THE SMIC :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009005.jpg)
ALL NICE & CLEAN :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009006.jpg)
FINALLY FITTED & SECURE!! :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009007.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009008.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009009.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05092009010.jpg)
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Also Decided That I Would Like To Spray The Wing Mirror Covers So Obviously Black Was The Choice So While At Vw The Other Morning I Also Ordered Two Mirror Cap Covers
3B0857537GBRU Cap @ £21.85
3B0857538GBRU Cap @ £21.85
I Had Planned To Spray Them Myself But Wouldn't Have Much Time So I Dropped Them Into The Bodyshop I Use And They Said They Would Paint Them For £40 Well Picked Them Up On Friday Afternoon Before Work All Painted And Was Well Happy With The Job They Have Done :smiley: So After Finishing My Other Job On The Car Saturday I Finally Got To Fit Them In The Afternoon
MIRRORS ALL PAINTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/04092009.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/04092009001.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/04092009002.jpg)
AND FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0351_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0352_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0353_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0354_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0355_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0356_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0357_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0358_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0359_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0360_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0361_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0362_exteriorblackwingmirrors.jpg)
Well Thats All For Now And As Usual Any Further Progress Will Be Posted In Here.
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Update 13/09/09 :
Well After Posting Up The Other Day With A View As To Black My 'B Pillars' With Mine Being A 5 Door Gave It Some Thought :rolleyes: And Decided I Would Go For It As Really Its A Cheap Mod So It Could Be Reversed If I Don't Like It Well Got Hold Of Some Matt Black Fablon And Made Myself Two Templates For Reference :wink: After Work Yesterday As It Was Decent I Thought Lets Get It Done First Off I Thought Mmmm Maybe Not Such A Good Idea Lets Forget It But Re Trying A Different Way I Found It Easier And Managed The Rest Easily And Have Made A Good Job To Looking At It Took 2 And 3/4 Hours To Do It In The End But I Am Happy With It Stands Out From Other 5 Doors And Is Noticeable And Subtle Also Thumbs Up From Myself For This :grin:
AND NOW BLACK 'B PILLARS' :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0363_exteriorblackbpillars.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0364_exteriorblackbpillars.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0365_exteriorblackbpillars.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0366_exteriorblackbpillars.jpg)
JUST RANDOM PICS AS IT WAS A REALLY NICE DAY :smiley: :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/12092009030.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/12092009033.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/12092009034.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/12092009035.jpg)
Thats All Again For Now But As Usual Any Changes Etc Will Be Posted Here As It Happens :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Update 20/09/09 :
Decided That I'm Removing My Neuspeed P-Flo Induction Kit T Go Back To The Oem Set Up With A Pipercross Panel Filter Drilled & Smoothed Lower Airbox And The DSG Intake Upgrade :smiley:
So Gave Trade Parts Specialists A Call On Thursday And Ordered
1 x 1J0 805 962 GB41 Air Duct @ £3.07
1 x 1J0 129 609G Pipe @ £24.70
1 x 1J0 805 965 EB41 Adjuster @ £1.97
They Were Delivered Yesterday First Thing So Over I Went To Pick Them Up :smiley: But Looking Through The Parts I Found That The Air Duct Was Wrong :angry: Had Recieved A Std 1.8T One So They said They Would Re-Order The Correct One For Tuesday I Decided I May as Well Take The Correct Parts With Me To At least Be Able to Do Something This Weekend So The Fitting Will Have To Wait For Now...... So Set About Smoothing/Drilling The Lower Airbox And Decided To Paint The Upper Cover In Black Started With This And Before Clearcoating I Wasn't Happy With How It Looked And I Had Used All My Paint I Couldn't Be Bothered To Go Back Over To Halfrauds To Get Some More Paint So Managed To Find Some I Used Awhile Back And It Was Aluminium Colour So The Choice Was Made Then :grin: Got It Painted And It Looks Good Now So I'm Happy With How Its Turned Out Just Needs All Fitting Now.
SMOOTHED/DRILLED LOWER AIRBOX AND DSG INTAKE PIPE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/19092009042.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/19092009041.jpg)
DSG Intake Pipe Much Bigger Than Std One :wink:
PAINTED UPPER AIRBOX COVER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/19092009043.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/19092009044.jpg)
Will Be Updating After I Fit The Dsg Intake :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Update 22/09/09 :
Picked Up The Correct Air Duct This Morning From Trade Parts Specialists So After Collecting It Set To To Get It All Installed This Afternoon Spent Some Time Also Once Everything Was Removed Etc Having Abit Of A Clean Around That Area So All In I Would Say Took Around 3 Hours (Inc Waiting For The Silicone Sealant To Dry) Also Decided That I Would Not Be Re-Fitting The Trumpet That Goes In The Top Of The Air Box Cover (Where The Maf Locates) To See How It Performs Well Tbh I Am Impressed With The Change It Has Made Over The Induction Kit It Seems More Responsive And Pulls Better Through The Revs :smiley: And Still Have An Oem Filter Fitted Until I Order The Pipercross Panel One From Nick :wink: Also Nice Little Grumble From It Under Acceleration To And The Forge Dv Dumping Sound Seems More Pronounced To Would Definately Say This Is A Worthwhile Mod To Do As You Can See From The Pics The Difference In Size Of The Stock 1.8T Pipe/Intake Opening Compared To The Dsg One :shocked:
ALL THE PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009045.jpg)
STANDARD & DSG PIPES AND AIR DUCT COMPARED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009046.jpg)
ALL PARTS REMOVED READY TO INSTALL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009047.jpg)
LOWER AIRBOX,INTAKE PIPE & DUCT ASSEMBLED/FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009048.jpg)
DSG PIPE OPENING :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009049.jpg)
MUCH BIGGER INTAKE PIPE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009051.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22092009052.jpg)
ALL FITTED AND HOW IT ALL LOOKS NOW :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0367_enginedsgintakemod.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0368_enginedsgmod.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0369_enginedsgmod.jpg)
Well Thats All Until I Get My Pipercross Panel Filter So Will Update Then. :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 26/09/09 :
Ordered a pipercross panel filter yesterday morning to replace the fitted oem one top marks to 'the pipercross shop' as when i got in from work this afternoon it had arrived :smiley: so got it fitted in and had a quick run to try it out with the DSG and impressed still :wink: very responsive now to say the least so another worthy upgrade done :afro:
READY FOR INSTALLING :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/26092009059.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/26092009060.jpg)
FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0370_enginepipercrosspanelfil.jpg)
Well Thats It For Now Updates To Come As Ands When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Updated 04/10/09 :
Yesterday Drove Down To R-Tech To Get The Golf Serviced As Its Due As Nick & Chris Were At Jkm For The R/R Day Ben Carried Out The Work So Had Oil & Filter Changed With Quantum Fully Synthetic 5w/30 Grade Oil New Pollen Filter Also Decided To Get Rid Of The Iridium Plugs I Had Fitted And Change Them For Some 'Nology Silver' Plugs After Reading Up On Them And Having A word With Nick So If R-Tech Recommend Them Then Thats Good Enough For Me :wink: Total Cost For The Service And Plugs £107.00 And Much Better Service Than Vw To :afro: Well Worth Driving Down To Them Book Stamped To Keep The Service History To Date Also Ben & Nick Gave Me One Of Their Nice New R-Tech Stickers For The Car :afro:
So Got This Put On This Morning And Fitted The Plugs :cool:
NICE NEW R-TECH LOGO :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/04102009063.jpg)
THE 'NOLOGY' SILVER SPARK PLUGS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/04102009062.jpg)
Thats All For Now As Usual Further Updates To Be Added As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading :
MATT.
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Updated 11/10/09 :
Decided To Order A (Blue) Forge T.I.P The Other Day After Reading A Few Posts On Here And From What Forge Have To Say About Them Even Looking At An How-To Didn't Put Me Off :grin: So Ordered One From Dpm And It Arrived On Friday Ready For Me To Get It Fitted Today :afro: Well Managed To Get Mine Fitted In About 2 And Half Hours And Had To Re-Seal The Dsg Intake Pipe Into The Lower Airbox Also As Well as Having To Cut Another Section From the Top Engine Cover As With The Forge Tip The D/v Valve Sits More To The Left Slightly And Was Against The Cover Once I Had Cut A Piece Out And Touched In Some More Paint To The Newly Cut Section All Was Well And Fitted Okay :smiley:
Having Taken The Car Out For A Drive Earlier I Can Say That There Is A Noticeable Gain In Performance Through The Gears Pulls Well And A Little More Responsive And The Turbo Spools Up Quicker Also And There Is A More Noticeable Induction Sound To So Imo Definately A Worthwhile Upgrade To The Standard Tip.
NICE NEW FORGE TIP :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/09102009066.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/09102009067.jpg)
STD TIP REMOVED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009080.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009081.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009082.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009083.jpg)
COMPARISON O.E.M Tip & FORGE TIP :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009084.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009085.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009086.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009087.jpg)
RE-ASSEMBLY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009088.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009092.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11102009097.jpg)
AND HOW THE ENGINE BAY NOW LOOKS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0371_engineforgetip.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0372_engineforgetip.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0373_engineforgetip.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0374_engineforgetip.jpg)
Well Thats All For Now Any Further Updates Will Be Added :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading
MATT.
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Small Update 14/10/09 :
Nothing Major Change Wise Just To Say That I Removed My Faulty Rear Arb On Monday To Cut It In Half For Whiteline To See Once This Happened Dpm E-mailed Whiteline Who Promptly Sent Me Out A New Replacement :afro: Well That Arrived Yesterday Lunchtime And I Got It Fitted To The Car Before Going To Work :smiley: This Morning I Removed The Top Engine Cover Again As Since Fitting The Forge Tip The D/V Has Managed To Rub On The Edge Again So Re-Cut Another Piece Out Of It To Leave Sufficient Clearance Now Re-Touched In The Edges with Some Reflex Silver Paint Re-Fitted And There Is A Decent Gap Now So Hopefully It Should Be Okay Now :smiley:
Further Updates As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Small Update 22/10/09 :
Ordered My 'Audi TT' Short Shift From Trade Parts Specialists The Other Day As I Had Read The Comments By Some Of The Other Forum Members Who Have Fitted This So I Thought For The Cost Why Not :smiley: Well Got It All Fitted Tonight After Work And It Has To Be Possibly One Of The Easiest Modifications To Fit :wink: Got The Old One Off Easily Enough A Quick Clean Up An Dropped The Audi One On Reset The Linkage Back To The Mark I Had Already Made And Checked I Had All Forward/Reverse Gears Which I Did So All Good Took It Down The Road To Try It Out And I Can Say I Definately Noticed A Difference Over The Standard One :afro: Seems Alot More Precise Imo I May Fine Tune The Linkage Adjustment At Some Point But Its Certainly Okay for Now For The Cost Of Under £25.00 This Has To Be One Of The Most Inexpensive Modifications To Fit If Its Good Enough For Audi Then Its Fine For Me :wink: Total Time It Took Would Be Under Half An Hour Including Going Down The Road To Try It Out. :smiley:
AUDI TT SHORT SHIFT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21102009105.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21102009106.jpg)
JUST TO COMPARE STD AND AUDI TT ONE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22102009107.jpg)
ALL FITTED :cool::
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0376_gearboxaudittshortshift.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0375_gearboxaudittshortshift.jpg)
Next Job Is To Change The Coolant Fit A New Thermostat And Coolant Temperature Sender Hopefully At The Weekend.
Update To Follow After This.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 25/10/09 :
Well Yesterday It Was The Golfgti.Co.Uk & Bri Skoda Interforum Meet Down At R-Tech Obviously I Attended To Get Mine On The Rollers To See If My Result Was Roughly The Same As The Last R-Tech R/R Day And Also Made Some Additions Since Then To The Engine And Cured A Boost Leak So Good A Time As Any To See If All Was Okay Well Turns Out All Was Fine It Ran Well And Is Fine And Achieved A Result Of 222.6 Bhp & 243.1 Lb/Ft Torque Of Which Im Happy With :smiley: Looking Forward To Adding A Front Mount Intercooler And Then Getting A Stage Two Map Done At R-Tech :smiley:
ON THE ROLLERS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/24102009111.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/24102009112.jpg)
GRAPH OF MY RESULT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/R-TechRRDay241009powerGraph.jpg)
:cool:
Hopefully Today Should Be Fitting A New Thermostat,Coolant Temperature Sensor,Dipstick Tube & Holder And Re-Filling With Some Fresh G12 Coolant All Ready For The Winter.
Update To Come.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 25/10/09 :
Well This Was My Job For Today To Fit A New Thermostat,Coolant Temperature Sensor And Fill With Some New G12 ++ Coolant
Wasn't That Bad A Job To Do Just A Little Akward To Get At The Lower Thermostat Housing Bolt But I Got That Sorted And Wasn't To Bad Although I Did Manage To Snap The Guide Tube Of The Dipstick Off At The Point Where It Goes Into The Metal Guide :cry: Good Job I Ordered A Replacement As Well So Managed To Remove The Broken Section In One Piece Which Was A Pain And Needlessly Added To The Job But The New One Fitted Fine And The Heat Output Is Defo Alot Better Now Also All Seems Okay So Just In Time For Winter :wink:
O.E.M PARTS FOR REPLACEMENT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/23102009110.jpg)
:smiley:
Future Updates To Come As And When At The Minute Thinking Of A Rear Spoiler So Hoping To Get Sorted On That One :wink:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Small Update 28/10/09 :
Spoke To Nick On Saturday While At The R/R Day About My N75 Valve And The Fact It Might Be Playing Up Well Sunday Ran A Quick Vag-Com Scan And Got A 17963 Fault Code Well I Have Had This Come Up On Two Occasions Previously So I Checked All The Hoses That I Could And Having The Car On The Rollers Saturday Knew That It Wouldn't Be A Hose So The N75 Was The Most Likely Other Fault So Yesterday Rang The Trade Parts Specialists To Order One In For Me And As Luck Would Have It They Had One In Stock So Went Over To Pick It Up Earlier And Got Back And Got It Fitted So I'l See How It Goes Once I Use The Car Later Not Expecting A Significant Change :rolleyes: But Hopefully It Might Stop Showing A 17963 Code Well Only Time Will Tell If Not Then I'v Just Wasted £60.00 :sad:
THE NEW N75 VALVE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28102009113.jpg)
Further Updates To Come As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 16/11/09 :
Added A Few Little Things To The Golf Over The Last Two Weeks Which Are :
Rear 'GTI' Style Roof Spoiler.
Small Oem Style Roof Aerial.
Two Red Us Spec '20th Anniversary' 'GTI' Front & Rear Badges.
Black Aluminium 'GTI' Etched Tax Disc Holder.
Well Recieved Most Of The Stuff Within A Few Days Of Each Other But Waited To Update My Thread As To When Everything Was Fitted Obviously The Roof Aerial Was Just A straight Forward Replacement As Was The Tax Disc Holder As I Was Fed Up With The Original Dealer One Although I Have Put Up With That For Nearly Two Years
The Aerial Was Replaced Due To The Fact That With My New Double Din Head Unit Fitted I Suffered From A Very Poor Radio Reception Long Range And As Much Even Locally So With It Now Changed The Reception Is A Definate Improvement The Whole Reception Is 100% Better :afro: So No Need For A Signal Booster On The Rear Of The Head Unit So Result There
Decided That I Would Change The Rear And The Front 'GTI' Badges Again Looking Around At Some Mk4's I Found One That I Thought Would Look Good And They Were The Us Spec Red '20th Anniversary' 'GTI' Badges I Had A Look For Genuine O.e.m Ones And Couldn't Believe How Much They Were So Eventually I Ordered Some Non O.e.m Ones Which Tbh I'm Happy With O.e.m Would Have Been Good But Not For The Price I Did Modify The Front Backplate To Fit The Lettering As They Are Slightly Smaller Than O.e.m Just Required Cutting Flush With The Letter 'I' And One Of The Locating Clips Removing And Then Smoothing With Wet & Dry To Clean The Edge Up As I'm Fussy :grin: The End Result Looks O.e.m Really So Can't Be Bad
I Also Decided To Get A Rear Roof Spoiler Fitted Also I Know One Or Two Say The Rear Looks Okay Without One But Tbh I Think Vw Should Have Fitted Them As Standard To The Gti As Imo The Rear Of The Car Does Seem Bare Just My Personal Preference So Which One Should I Fit :undecided: Well Again O.e.m Would Be The Best Way But Again I Couldn't Justify The Cost So A Non Genuine One Was Found And I Decided On The 'GTI' Style One Which I Ordered Up And Was Delivered Within A Few Days So Then Off To The Bodyshop I Use For Them To Prep And Paint It Initially I Was To Get It Fitted Last Tuesday But It Didnt Happen As Being Non Genuine :rolleyes: It Required A Fair Bit Of Prepping So Didnt Get Done For Me To Get It Fitted Until Last Thursday Night So At Last I Took The Car Down For Them To Fit It For Me Last Friday Morning Before I Went To Work Must Admit That The Fit Is Spot On On The Car And The Job They Have Done In Painting It Given The Initial State/Condition Of It Initially Is Really Very Good And How They Tidied It All Up Once Fitted To I'm Pleased I Got One Fitted Now And I Really Like How It Looks From The Rear Feels Finished Now :grin: :smiley: :smiley:
OLD & NEW AERIALS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/05112009114.jpg)
RED US SPEC '20TH ANNIVESARY 'GTI' BADES
& MODIFIED FRONT BADGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/09112009115.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/10112009116.jpg)
BLACK ALUMINIUM TAX DISC HOLDER
& FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11112009122.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11112009123.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11112009124.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11112009125.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/11112009126.jpg)
RED US SPEC '20TH ANNIVERSARY' 'GTI' BADGES
FITTED FRONT & REAR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0379_exteriorred20thannibadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0380_exteriorred20thannibadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0381_exteriorred20thannibadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0377_exteriorred20thannibadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0378_exteriorred20thannibadge.jpg)
REAR 'GTI' ROOF SPOILER & AERIAL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0382_exteriorreargtispoiler.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0383_exteriorreargtispoiler.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0384_reargtispoiler.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0385_reargtispoiler.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/15112009129s.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/15112009132s.jpg)
And Also Last Week I Finally Got Round To Getting My Tyres Changed Round On The Car As When I Had My Alloys Powdercoated Somehow The Tyres Weren't Fitted Back To The Alloy They Came Off As A Result I Had A Worn Tyre At One Front Corner And One Rear Opposite Corner :laugh: So A Local Tyre Place Sorted That Out For Me And I Discovered I Had Only 2mm Of Tread On One Of Them So Looks Like A Replacement Pair Would Be Due Sooner Rather Than Later Especially With The Winter Months Being Here I Didn't Really Want To Take A chance So Decided That As I Was Going Down To My Parents On The Saturday Why Not Get Some Fitted While Down There So Rang A Place I Used To Use As I Trust Them To Sort Out Putting Me A Couple On On The Saturday Morning :afro: Decided In The End Not To Get Another Pair Of The F1's So Now I'm Running :
FRONT :Continental Sport Contact 2's
REAR :Goodyear Eagle F1 Gsd3's
Whilst Having The Conti's Fitted They Checked The Tracking After Something I Should Really Of Had Done When I Got It Lowered But Well Anyway It Was A Fraction Out So Was Adjusted To Where It Should Be So Least I Know All should Be Okay Now All In It Cost £176.00 And From What I Can Calculate I Got Nearly 12k From The Goodyears So Will See How The Conti's Match Up Had A Good 170 Miles Back Home To Try Out The New Tyres And The First Thing I Immediately Noticed Was How Much Less Road Noise They Create Opposed To The Goodyears And From Initial Impressions In Dry,Wet,Damp Road Conditions They Seem Pretty Grippy Tbh Front End Does Seem Alot Sharper/Responsive So Have To See How They Shape Up Long Term But All Good For Now :afro: :smiley:
Well Thats My Update For Now I Think I Have Remembered Everything So As Usual Future Updates Will Be Added As I Still Have Some Things To Add To My Golf :cool:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Small Update 20/11/09 :
Well Had A Bit Of Misfortune This Week Started Having Some Issue With My Main Light Switch Which Would Be As Normal When Illuminated And Then Dim On The Outer Display :huh: Moving It Either Brightened It Or Dimmed It So First Off I Thought I'd Check The Wiring Multi-Plug Just Incase It Could Be That Well That Seemed Fine So Re-Fitted And Same So Decided It Would Be The Switch So Went To Turn It To The Removal Position Again And It Jammed Halfway :angry: Couldnt Remove Or Push It Back So I Basically Had To Go In From The Rear Of The Switch And More Or Less Pull It Apart That Worked But From The Front I had To Remove The Single Torx Screw And In Doing So Fecked The Switch And Damaged The Bora Vent Not Happy! So Now I Had No Lights At All So Left It For The Night And In The Morning Rang My Local Vw Breaker Lucky News For Me He Should Have Both So Called In And Well Happy Came Away With A Drivers Side Bora Vent And Another Headlight Switch For Cost Of £30 :afro: All Fitted And Working Fine Now So Cheap Fix For Me There :grin: Decided Whilst I Was Doing That That I Would Just Shorten The Gearstick By Approx 1.5 Inches Not Really A Reason I Suppose Just For How It Looks Slightly Smaller I'm Happy With It Anyway :grin:
SHORTENED GEARSTICK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/23112009147.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/23112009148.jpg)
Further Updates As It Happens.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 30/11/09 :
Picked up my new jom replacement shock the other day ready to get fitted onto the car
well managed to get it fitted yesterday in the p!$$ing rain but wanted to get it fitted :rolleyes: first time i went out and drove it was this morning for work and happy to report the creaking noise has gone but for how long until this one plays up ????? :undecided: fitting it was straightforward but i'm not suprised it was creaky/faulty due to the fact that at the top of the shock body i assume there is a seal fitted under the collar and its coated in rust which in turn has affected the actual pushrod and was found to be coated with rust and some pitting in the surface when i compressed it the pushrod remained in the shock body and i had to pull it out :shocked: not good really on a unit that i fitted in may time iirc so has been on for six months and done under 10k looking at it you would expect the condition to reflect 5 years/50k :huh: so clearly somethings at fault :sad:
FAULTY SHOCK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/29112009162.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/29112009164.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/29112009163.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/29112009165.jpg)
For the money the jom kit is imo good other than the two replacement shocks i have had no issues with the set-up but clearly there is a fault/problem with the rear shocks for the mk4 golf and tbh what happens if i have another fault with either shock they are out of warranty and won't get replaced so after some thinking i'm going to replace the jom kit with some coil overs :smiley: (and the jom kit will be getting some usage with another forum member which is wes (wazzzer) ) i have never had a car with coil overs so this will be an experience then but i like how they look fitted to some of the other mk4 owners well was believe it or not going to go with the jom+ kit but some more thinking and i made a call to nick @ r-tech to book the golf in for the v-maxx kit that they have in their november offers :afro: along with some adjustable droplinks to allow some clearance for the front arb if i decide to drop lower than 50mm if it still rubs or is close then i'l have to look at upgrading the arb in the new year but short term will see how the droplinks fair so all being well i should be going down to get coillies fitted the week before christmas and can't wait :smiley:
Also this past week i have fitted my newly painted front grille (kindly given to me by my mate jonny)same as before but it matches the wing mirror covers in gloss black collected that friday and fitted yesterday along with a set of oem aero wiper arms and the aero blades which has been abit of a headache for me since ordering last monday originally the retro fit blades but the stealers managed to feck up and i got aero's instead so had to source some arms for them which i got from a fire damaged 'R32' from my local vw breakers needs must and all that so that turned into a little painting project and i'm really pleased in how they have turned out as they look the exact same as o.e.m ones :wink: also before that i had to return to the stealers as i suspected they had fecked up again!! and got me a l/h drive set so returned those in exchange for the single blades and needless to say they were told i wouldn't be paying the difference because of their feck up :grin: :grin: all sorted and onto getting them painted up and then fitted well i thought the retro fits were fine until i fitted these and they look so much better with the real deal as others have told me so all this little upgrade is all because the retro's were past their best and i needed to replace those as well as the rear aero blade to and with vw fecking up with the wipers i had to go aero :afro: cheers vw good reason as any i suppose.
AERO'S INITIALLY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28112009151.jpg)
PRIMERED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28112009153.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28112009155.jpg)
AND THE FINISHED JOB :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28112009157.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28112009158.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28112009156.jpg)
AND FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0386_exterioraeroarmswipers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0387_exterioraeroarmswipers.jpg)
:cool:
Thats All For Now Will Update As And When Things Happen.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
COILOVERS TO COME.
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Update 22/12/09 :
Well Finally The Time Came For A Trip Down To R-Tech For A Set Of V-Maxx Adjustable Coilovers And Adjustable Droplinks To Get Fitted To The Golf To Replace The Jom Springs And Shock Set Up This Is The First Car Ever I Have Had That I Have Gone The Coillie Route So Will Be An Experience For Me The Kit Itself looks Good For The Money And Was Suprised By How It Felt Driving The 200 Miles Back Home Although I Can Defo Tell Its Different When You Get Any Crap Road Surfaces Its Defo Firm But Thats Going To Be Expected Afterall Well The Rear Perches Are Wound To The Bottom Limit And I'm Happy With How It Sits The Front I Asked Ben To Wind The Perches Up :laugh: And Like He Said You Have To Drop It When You Have Coillies Or Whats The Point So He Said To Give It A Week Or So And See How It Looks Well Got Up This Morning Looked At It And Said Feck It There Getting Dropped So This Afternoon Wheels Off And The Perches Wound Down To Leave Four Threads Showing (unsure Of The Actual Drop Tbh) Wheels On And See How It Looks mmmmmm Much Better :afro: Now I'm Happy So Will Be Going For A Drive Tommorrow To See How It Fairs Just Moved Off The Drive Today To Check For Any Rubbing In The Front Arb/Driveshaft Area Should Be Okay As Ben Wound The Droplinks Out A Little To Allow For That And It Seems That Its Fine I Couldn't Detect any Noise So All Good :smiley: So Onto The Pics :
V-MAXX KIT & DROPLINKS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009173.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009174.jpg)
ALSO TO BE FITTED NEW TOP MOUNTS AND BEARINGS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009177.jpg)
RANDOM PICS OF FITTING/PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009175.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009178.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009179.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009180.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/21122009181.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009190.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009191.jpg)
AND HOW IT LOOKS/SITS NOW :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009192.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009193.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009194.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009195.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009196.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/22122009197.jpg)
Well Thats It For 2009 So Hoping To Work Through My To Do List During The Next Year So Keep Looking :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 29/12/09 :
Decided As It Was Cold But Sunny Yesterday That Myself And Jonnyturbo Would Remove Our Alloys To Give Them A Good Clean And Then Apply A Couple Of Coats Of Sealant To Them Before Re-Fitting That All Went To Plan But On Re-Fitting My Fronts Noticed A Small Area Of The Coilover Rings Had A Small Scuff Mark On Them :huh: So Re-Fitted One Of My Alloys To See Whats Happening Well On Lowering Back Down It Became Clear That The Tyre Side Wall Was Touching The Adjuster Rings :angry: Tbh There Was No Evidence Of Rubbing On The Sidewall When The Alloy Was Removed Which Was Strange And I Hadn't Heard Anything Whilst Driving Although I Have Driven Nearly 230 Miles Since Fitment So Removed The Alloy And What To Do Well Fortunately For Me My Good Mate Jonny Provded A Pair Of 5mm Spacers For Me So We Fitted These And There Is Now Minimal Clearance Now Between The Adjuster Rings And Tyre Sidewall So All Good Funnily Enough I Was Thinking Of Re-Fitting Some 5mm Spacers Back Onto The Fronts At Some Point So Thats Done Now :grin: And At The Same Time Decided That I Will Be Fitting Some 20mm Spacers On The Rear Now So Earlier This Afternoon I Ordered Up A Pair Of 20mm Spacers With Longer Bolts And Some Longer Locking Bolts So Hoping That They Will Be With Me Sometime Before I Go Back To Work To Get Fitted :afro:
NICE CLEAN AND SEALED ALLOYS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28122009212.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28122009213.jpg)
RUBBING TYRE SIDEWALL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28122009218.jpg)
CLEARANCE NOW WITH 5MM SPACERS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28122009217.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/28122009219.jpg)
RANDOM ONES OF HOW ITS SITTING ON THE COILOVERS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/24122009206.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/24122009207.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/24122009208.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/24122009210.jpg)
Thats All For Now.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 31/12/09 :
Well I Ordered Some Longer Wheel Bolts Yesterday (35mm) And They Arrived This Morning Along With My Longer Locking Bolts (45mm) Hopefully The Spacers And Bolts Will Be Here At The Weekend? Anyway Cut Two Of The Locking Bolts Down To 35mm To Be Able To Use With The Front Longer Bolts And Got Them Fitted To The Front Wheels And At Least Now They Go Into The Hub Abit Further Than The Standard Bolts So Should Be More Secure As Of Now :smiley: Have Also Managed To Modify The Oem Plastic Locking Nut Covers To Grip The Heads Of The New Locking Bolts To
So If My 20mm Spacers Arrive At The Weekend I Will Be Fitting Those And Getting Some Pics Up So i'll Update Then.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 17/01/10 :
Well After Cancelling One Order For My Rear Spacers I Then Ordered A set From Venom On The 2nd Of Jan But Due To The Crap Weather And My Luck There Were Problems :angry: :rolleyes: After Nothing For A Week I called Venom Who Told Me The Spacers Were In The Uk But They Hadn't Yet Recieved Them So Earlier This Week As I Was Getting Fed Up Asked Again And Still They Hadn't Recieved Them But Assured Me I Would Have Them This Weekend So Finally Called Them Again Thursday Night To Be Told They Still Hadn't Got Them So I Told Them To Cancel My Order And Promptly Refund Me And I'l Go Elsewhere So I Rang Pcs Who I Ordered My Longer 35 & 50mm Oem Bolts From As I Knew They Stock Spacers (Why I Didn't Just Try Them First I'l Never Know :rolleyes:) Anyway They Had Half Sets Of 20mm's Available And I Asked If They Could Sort Delivery Out For Me For Saturday Morning Bearing In Mind This Was Last Thing Thursday Evening Well They Were Ever Helpful And When I Got Home From Work Yesterday Afternoon They Had Duly Arrived :smiley: Well Happy To Say The Least And Top Marks To 'Performance Car Centre' From Darwin Lancs :afro: So Last Night I Set To Fitting Them :grin: Must Say Noticeable Difference From My 15's Looking Just Right Now So That's Sorted Finally.
20MM HUBCENTRIC BOLT-THRU SPACERS & BOLTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/16012010223.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/16012010224.jpg)
AND ALL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0388_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0389_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0390_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0391_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0392_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0393_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0394_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0395_exterior20mmspacers.jpg)
Thats About It For The Time Being So Keep Looking As I'l Update As And When Things Happen.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 30/01/10 :
Well Realised This Week That I Have Had My Gti For Two Years Can't Believe How Much Its Changed During That Time :grin: Well Its Now Approaching 70,000 Miles When I First Got It It Had Covered 43,950 Miles so In My Two Years Of Ownership I have Covered 25,858 Miles :shocked: And If I Recall Its Done Nearly 20,000 Miles Since My R-Tech Re-Map And On The Original Clutch :wink: Also This Week Took The Car In To My Local Stealers For Its M.o.t And Got Another 12 Months Ticket No Problems :smiley:
Well decided On Another Small Mod (not On My List) After Helping Jonny Last Week So Won A Brand New S3 Upper Strut Brace Of E-Bay I Was Hoping That I Would Have Recieved It By Now So I Could Of Fitted It This Weekend But Looks Like Its Being Sent On Monday Ah Well :rolleyes: Awaiting My Delivery Of The Bolts And Nuts To Fit It Anyway So They Should Be With Me Early Next Week So Hopefully It Should Get Fitted Then After A Feck Up On T.p.s's Behalf Friday I Collected My Parts For The S3 Lower Strut Brace :afro: So Decided After Work Today I May As Well Get It Fitted As Its Easy Enough So Thats Now Fitted Got A Few Pics Of It Installed And Once The Upper Ones Fitted Will Get Some Pics Of That Also.
AUDI S3 LOWER STRUT BRACE & PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00001-20100130-1334.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00003-20100130-1335.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00004-20100130-1400.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00007-20100130-1405.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00008-20100130-1405.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0396_exteriors3lowerstrutbrac.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0397_exteriors3lowerstrutbrac.jpg)
Once I Get The Upper One And The Bolts Etc And Get It Fitted I'l Be Updating :smiley:
Well Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 03/02/10 :
Well Decided To Have A Couple Of Days Holiday Off Work And Had Hoped My Upper Strut Brace Would Arrive So I Can Get It Fitted But Still No Sign Of It Or My Bolts :angry: So Today I Decided To Give The End Faces Of My Locking Bolts As I Discovered On Washing It At The Weekend That I Had Lost Two Of My 'Modded' O.e.m Caps :sad: Ah Well Decided I wouldn't Replace Them And Rather Than See The Chrome Of The Lockers It Seemed Like A Good Idea To Give The Faces A Coat Of Satin Black To Look In Place With The Plastic Caps Covering The Other Four Bolts Whilst Painting Those I Decided Feck It I'l Wind The Front Coillies Down More And Also Remove The Rear Adjuster Rings/Perches :evil: So Set To With That Job Definately Gained A Small Drop On The Rears By Removing Those Parts So Worthwhile Doing And The Fronts Sitting Abit Lower Also So All Good...........Hurry Up Strut Brace :rolleyes:
So Onto Some Pics From Todays Work.
PAINTED LOCKING BOLT END FACES :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00009-20100203-1145.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00010-20100203-1420.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00011-20100203-1428.jpg)
FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00012-20100203-1459.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00013-20100203-1459.jpg)
Tidys It Up That Little Bit.
COILOVERS (REAR ADJUSTER RINGS/PERCHES REMOVED & FRONTS WOUND DOWN MORE) :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00016-20100203-1504.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0399_exteriorrandompics.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0398_exteriorrandompics.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0400_exteriorrandompics.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0402_exteriorrandompics.jpg)
Thats All For Now So Update To Follow When My Strut Brace And Bolts Arrive And Gets Fitted.
Thanks For Looking/Reading .
MATT.
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Update 07/02/10 :
Well Still My S3 Upper Strut Brace Had Not Arrived :angry: This Week And I Was Getting Fed Up So Decided That I Would Just Sort That Out With Paypal :wink: So Friday Before Work I Rang My Local Trade Parts Specialists Gave Them The Part Number And Asked Them To Order One In For Me And Good News It Should Be In Saturday :smiley: Nice One So First Thing Saturday I Got My Bolts All Sorted Anmd Gave Them A Call To See If It Was In Only To Be Given The News That It Hadn't Shown Up On Their Delivery :cry: Oh Well Be Tuesday Then :rolleyes: Well Then Abit Of Good Luck About An Hour Later A Phone call From Them To Tell Me It Was In Fact With Them Apparently Mine Was The Only Item That Had Turned Up For Saturday Delivery It Was Mixed With Some Other Stillages So Nice One Off I Went Over To Pick It Up Last Night I Marked It All Out And Set To And Drilled The Holes Out as Well As Primering And Painting Them Up To Prevent Rusting So By Then It Was Dark So Left The Fitting Until This Morning Jonny Popped Over To Lend A Hand And We Got It Fitted For Me At Last!!
S3 UPPER STRUT BRACE
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00025-20100206-1450.jpg)
AND FITTED
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00028-20100207-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00029-20100207-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00031-20100207-1314.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00032-20100207-1314.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0403_engineS3strutbrace.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0404_engineS3strutbrace.jpg)
Thats All For Now Further Updates Will Be Added As And When They Happen
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 14/02/10 :
Well Since Dropping The Front Coillies Down Abit More I'v Found That On Full Lock On The Drivers Side That The Arb Has Been Rubbing Nicely On The Driveshaft And Doesn't Sound Nice At All So Decided that Today I Would Have A Look At Sorting It Well Seeing That I Have Fitted Some Adjustable Droplinks Then I Should Be Able To Make An Adjustment :laugh: Well I Did And Altered Them Out By Approx 25mm So Okay The Arb Hoop Was Missing The Driveshaft With A Fair Bit More Gap Now So All Back Together And Wheels Fitted And Dropped Back On The Drive Backed Out Onto The Road To Try Turning Into The Drive Only To Find It Was Worse Than Ever :cry: So Time To Get It All Back To Bits Again For another Attempt Well Initially The Droplinks Were Fitted Just About Onto The Locking Nut mmmmmmm So No Room For Anymore Adjustment And I'm Back To Where I Was Initially Still Rubbing so Wound Them Out And Removed The Locknut Which Then Made It About 6mm Shorter Than They Were So Fitted All Back Together Lowered Back Onto The Drive To Check And This Time The Arb Was Still Quite Away From The Driveshaft And More Noticeably There Is Now A Gap Between The Flange Of The Arb And Driveshaft Both Straight Ahead And On Full Lock :afro: Back Onto The Road And Turned Back Onto The Drive And No Noise :smiley: So The Solution Is To Shorten The Droplinks
NOT SO NICE 'RUBBING' DAMAGE TO THE DRIVESHAFT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00034-20100214-1248.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00035-20100214-1248.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00039-20100214-1349.jpg)
Thats All For Now
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 20/02/10 :
Well Having Fitted The Upper S3 Strut Brace I Have Found That The Vac Hose To The Top Of The D/v Rubs Against The Brace So I Had To Come Up With A Solution To Overcome This Well Had Nothing At Hand To Remedy It So After Thinking I Came Up With Taking A Small Section Off The D/v And N75 Outlets :smiley: So Removing Both Items I Got The Two Outlets Cut Shorter And Re-Fitted Both And Now The Vac Hose Clears The Strut With No Chafing Against It :afro: I Have Put It Down To The Fact That The Outlets On The D/v And N75 Are Slightly Longer On The Aum forge T.i.p Than On The O.e.m One Compared It To Jonny Who Runs The O.e.m T.i.p And Theres Sufficient Clearance Well For The Sake Of Half An Hour The Problems Solved And Clearance Improved So All Good. :smiley:
CUT PIECES FROM BOTH OUTLETS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00047-20100220-1310.jpg)
NOW WITH SOME CLEARANCE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00048-20100220-1319.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00049-20100220-1323.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00050-20100220-1324.jpg)
Also This Week I Still Wasn't That Happy With The Clearance Between The Tyre And The Coilover Adjuster Rings Even With The 5mm Spacers :rolleyes: And The Fronts Still Seem Hidden Compared To The Rears So Decided I Would Order Some New Spacers And Bolts I Had Planned For 8mm Ones But After Finding Some There Were None In Stock So Maybe 10mm Ones But Then Realised I Would Be Better Going With Hubcentric Ones Really So Another Call Confirmed Some 13mm Ones Were In Stock So Ordered These And some 45mm Longer Bolts To As Well As Ordering A Set Of 60mm Locking Bolts To Replace The Sh!te Ones That I Fitted Recently
Well Tuesday Morning And I Had Delivery Of Two Parcels :smiley: So Set To And Cut The Lockers Down To Suit The Front And Rear Sizes With That Done I Trial Fitted One Side Of Spacers And Fitted In The Bolts Only To Find Them 'Bottoming Out' :angry: Well 5mm's Re-Fitted And Wheel Back On And A Quick Measure Of The Bolts Confirmed They Were 50mm :cry: Just My Fecking Luck Well I Couldn't Be Ar$ed To Be Cutting 8 More Bolts So Dropped Them Into A Mate At Work Who Got Them Cut Down To The Required 41mm I Needed Tidy :afro:
With The Bolts Now Correct I Finally Got The Spacers And The Locking Bolts Fitted On Wednesday Morning :cool:
Now Theres Good Clearance Of The Coilover Adjuster Rings And The Wheels Now Sitting Further Out Don't Look To Hidden Within The Front Arches So That's Got Be Good To :afro: :cool:
FK 13MM SPACERS AND NEW LOCKING BOLTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00040-20100216-1055.jpg)
ALL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00042-20100216-1249.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00044-20100217-1059.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00041-20100216-1216.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00043-20100217-1059.jpg)
While Out This Afternoon Decided To Take One Or Two Pics Of How Its Looking Now Its Spaced At The Front & Rear :cool:
Most Happy With The Overall Look So All Good.
ALL SPACED........... :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0405_exterior13mmfrontspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0406_exteriorfront13mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0407_exteriorfront13mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0408_exteriorfront13mmspacers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0409_exteriorfront13mmspacers.jpg)
Thats All For Now As Usual When Things Happen I'l Be Updating'
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 06/03/10 :
So Since The Last Update All Was Well Until I Wondered Why For Some Reason That My Peak Boost Was A Little Low And Was Dropping Off And Not Holding mmmmmmmm :huh: Well A Couple Of Weekends Ago I Had Some Idea Whilst Checking The Oil I For Some Reason Pressed Down on The Brake Booster Vacuum line (that Runs Down To The Pcv On Aum's) And Heard A Hissing Noise Pressed Again Seemed To Stop Pulled On It And Same Noise Again :huh: So Looks Like I Have A Boost/Vac Leak And After Jonny Had Had His Breather Pipes Replaced I Had A Quick Look At Mine (paranoid :laugh:) Well They Were Rather Wet/Oily So Not Good Well Spent Abit Of Time On Etka And Some Searches On Forums And It Looked Liked I Would Be Replacing All The Pcv Pipework Etc :cry: So Priced It All Up And Was Looking At Nearly £120 Then It Was Suggested To Me Why Not Fit An Oil Catch Can Well Its On My 'to Do List' And This Seemed Like A Plan So My Immediate Choice Was The Sakou One That Most Mk4 Owners Have Chosen So Sent An E-mail And In The Meantime Searched Around And Found One At Forgemotorsport But The Fittings Were Smaller And I Wanted 19mm Ones So One Call Later And I Had On Order The Catch Can With 19mm Inlet/Outlets And The Top One To Be Made a 90 Degree Elbow :afro: So Onto Sorting Required Hosing Etc And I Then Decided To Get Hold Of Another Cam Cover And Get This Powder coated Also For A Subtle Difference I Sorted Out Some Fixings In Blue Anodized Aluminium (to Replace The O.e.m Stuff) As I Thought This Would Really Finish It Off Nicely Also Got All The Required Bits Together From Tps And Ordered An Audi R8 Oil Filler Cap To Finish Off The Job :cool: Also Decided To Give The t/b A Clean Out And This Then Seemed Like A Good Idea To Paint It At The Same Time Whilst Removed Well All The Parts Had Been Sorted Out And Delivered By Friday Morning So I Decided To Get To Work On Installing Everything Well The Forge Catch Can Is A Little Bigger Than Other Ones So I Didn't Have Much Choice Of Fitment Other Than Between The Lower Engine Cover And Battery Tray So The Plan Was To Fix To The Battery Tray But Then I Changed My Mind And Got A Bracket That I Painted And Modified And Fixed It To One Of The Removable Front Panels Not Much Room Tbh But Thats My Only Option Managed To Paint The T/b And Started The Rest Of Installing The Catch Can But Firstly Upon Removal Of The O.e.m Pcv Pipework It Became Apparent Why I Had A Boost/Vac Leak :cry:
AND HERE'S WHY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00080-20100305-2057.jpg)
:shocked:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00082-20100305-2058.jpg)
So Replacing The Crap O.e.m Pcv Pipework For The Oil Catch Can Was Definately The Way To Go
PAINTED THROTTLE BODY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00078-20100305-1242.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00077-20100305-1242.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00076-20100305-1241.jpg)
'FORGE' CATCH CAN :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00073-20100304-1224.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00071-20100304-1223.jpg)
POWDERCOATED CAM COVER & OTHER PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00075-20100304-1235.jpg)
Well Yesterday Only Managed To Make Up And Paint The Catch Can Bracket And Fix It To The Front Panel As Well As To Clean And Paint The Throttle Body Also Removed The Stock Pcv Pipework And Gave Every Where A Good Clean Up And Made A Start On Sorting The Pipework out For The Catch Can
Onto Today And The Job Was To Finish Off All The Catch Can Pipework Remove Old Cam Cover And Clean Up Cam Cover Gasket Face Re-Fit With My New Powdercoated Cam Cover Fit All The Anodized Domed Nuts Washers Etc And The R8 Oil Filler Cap As Well As To Fit Some Smaller Sleeving To The Boost Gauge Vacuum Line And Fit Some New Silicon Hose For Some of The Vacuum Pipes To Keep It As O.e.m Looking As Possible Well Got All Of This Finished Off And Carried Out The Throttle Body Re-Alignment Once This Was Done Took The Car Out For A Quick Drive To Check Everything Was All Okay And The Result Is I Now Hit Peak Boost And It Holds It Now Rather Than Dropping Off As It Did Before!! Hardly Suprising Really Though Given The Condition That The Pcv Hose Was In The Split Was Approx 2" Long And Also At Another Point Had Split All The Way Around The Pipe Felt Really Soft And Brittle So I Reckon Within A Few Weeks The Actual Pipe Would Have Split Into Two So Now I Have The Benifit Of Having Got Rid Of The Crap Pcv Pipework And Fitted An Oil Catch Can And Can Eliminate Any Boost Leaks From That Area Now :smiley: And Also Have My Boost Back How It Should Be So Its Fair To Say I'm Well Happy And Also With The Fact Of How Its All Looking In The Engine Bay Its Been An Eventful Two Days But Definately Worth All The Time & Effort :afro:
GENERAL PICS OF THE VALVE TRAIN WITH THE CAM COVER REMOVED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00085-20100306-1154.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00084-20100306-1154.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00083-20100306-1153.jpg)
PAINTED THROTTLE BODY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0411_engineblacktb.jpg)
'FORGE' CATCH CAN :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0414_engineforgecatchcan.jpg)
'GRAPHITE' POWDERCOATED CAM COVER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0412_enginepowdercoatedcamcov.jpg)
AND HOW THE ENGINE BAY LOOKS NOW : :cool:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0416_engineblacktbcatchcanpow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0415_engineblacktbcatchcanpow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0413_engineblacktbcatchcanpow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0410_engineblacktbcatchcanpow.jpg)
So That's All For Now As Usual Any Further Progress Will Be Updated :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 13/03/10 :
Well Monday Finally Got Round To Going Into My Local Vw Dealer To Get Two New Rear Tyres Fitted The Choice Being Some 'Continental Contactsport 2's' So Currently The Cars Running These All Round Also Had Some Decent Comments About My Golf From The Tech Who Fitted Them As Well As From Some Of The Other Staff :smug: So That's Pleasing :smiley:
For This Weekend The Plan Was To Re-Paint All The Brake Calipers To Tidy Them Up As They Were Looking Tatty Imo But As My Gf Pointed Out To Me If I'm Taking The Alloys Off To Do That Then Why Not Fit The Discs And Pads At The Same Time As They Really Need Doing (Good Point) So Choice Was O.e.m Front And Rear Discs And Pads From My Local Trade Parts Specialists So Picked All Of These Up Yesterday Afternoon And Set To And Started To Fit The Fronts And Paint The Calipers Today Was To Get The Rears Fitted And The Calipers Also Painted As Well As Re-Adjusting The Handbrake All Done Now And Looking Better Will Be Trying Them Out Tommorrow Just Have To Remember To Bed Them In :grin: Judging By What Was Removed It Was A Sensible Choice To Get The Discs And Pads Fitted :afro:
NEW O.E.M DISCS & BRAKE PADS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00093-20100312-1220.jpg)
ALL THE OLD DISCS & BRAKE PADS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00094-20100312-1717.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00095-20100312-1717.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00096-20100312-1718.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00097-20100312-1718.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00098-20100312-1718.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00099-20100312-1718.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00102-20100313-1256.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00103-20100313-1256.jpg)
ALL FITTED & BLUE PAINTED BRAKE CALIPERS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0417_exteriornewdiscspadspain.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0418_exteriornewdiscspadspain.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0419_exteriornewdiscspadspain.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0420_exteriornewdiscspadspain.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0421_exteriorpaintedcalipers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0422_exteriorpaintedcalipers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0423_exteriorpaintedcalipers.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0424_exteriorpaintedcalipers.jpg)
A Little Different From The Red Painted Calipers But Now They Are Finished I'm Liking How They Look Now :smiley:
That's All For Now Further Updates Will Be Added When They Happen.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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update 03/04/10 :
Okay Well Whilst Browsing Through The Mk4 Section Topics Last Week Came Across A Post About R32 Grille Meshes And Barry_gti Had Posted Up A Link From The Vw Vortex Forum With Reference To A Front Grille Mod So Having Looked At This I Was More Or Less Sold On The Idea And Decided I'd Go For It :smiley: And Make The Front Of Mine Stand Out A Little More From Others Although Don't Get Me Wrong I Liked My Painted Black Grille To But Well Something Different Would Be Good!! Looked Alot Of Work Tbh But Even So I Knew That The End Result Would Be Worthwhile So It Made Me Determined Not To Feck It Up And Succeed And I Prepared Myself For The Challenge :laugh: Onto The Dealers For Some Parts And Halfords For The Materials And Work Could Begin.
The Inspiration Started From Here :- http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2430048
REQUIRED PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00117-20100326-1319.jpg)
THE START :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00118-20100326-1958.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00119-20100326-1959.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00120-20100326-1959.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00121-20100326-2219.jpg)
AND ONTO STAGE 2 :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00122-20100327-0852.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00123-20100327-0853.jpg)
FIRST FILLER LAYER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00124-20100327-2154.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00125-20100327-2154.jpg)
CREATING A NICE EDGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00132-20100328-1806.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00131-20100328-1806.jpg)
EDGES DONE AND FILLED READY FOR SANDING DOWN TO LEVEL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00133-20100329-1146.jpg)
SMOOTHED/LEVELLED UP :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00136-20100330-1231.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00135-20100330-1230.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00134-20100330-1230.jpg)
AT LAST PRIMER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00139-20100331-1140.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00138-20100331-1140.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00137-20100331-1059.jpg)
AND ITS FINISHED! :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00143-20100402-1302.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00144-20100402-1302.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00145-20100402-1302.jpg)
Used My Red 'GTI' Lettering With Some New Trim And Badge Tape Applied And Marked Up For The Oem Positioning Of The Old Grille To Locate The Letters :laugh: And Ready To Fit Onto The Car.....
AND FITTED : :cool: :smiley:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0431_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0430_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0429_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0428_extewriormeshedblackfron.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0426_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0425_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00149-20100402-1652.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00148-20100402-1652.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00147-20100402-1651.jpg)
So After A Week Of Alot Of Work And Effort The Grille Was Finally Complete And Fitted :cool: And I'm More Than Happy With The End Result Its Been Well Worth Doing :afro: So Some Forum Members Commented That Chrome Would Be More Suited For The 'Vw' Badge And After Abit Of Thought And Looking Through The Thread I Was Thinking This To As It Would Break Up The Grille And Make It More Noticeable And Not So Hidden In All Black So This Morning Rang The Dealers And Fortunately They Had A Chrome Badge In Stock So This Afternoon I Went Over To Collect It Got Back And Promptly Removed The Old Black One And Fitted On The Chrome One
SO NOW CHROME :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0435_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0434_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0433_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0432_exteriormeshedblackfront.jpg)
Think I Was Used To The Black As It Had Been Black For Awhile But Now The Chrome Ones Fitted Its Grown On Me And I'm Liking It More :afro: And The Consensus Is Chromes Better With Fellow Forum Members So It's All Good :smiley:
That's My Update For Now So Any Further Progress And I'l Update As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 10/04/10 :
Whilst Searching Various Forums This Week I Came Across A Topic Covering An Audi TT Wheelarch Vent Mod So The Idea Being For Me Until I Get Around To A Fmic Is To Help Aid Some Sort Of Cooling For The Standard Smic Well It Should Help Get Some Cooler Air Around It At Least To Help The Temperatures Especially As The Weather Is Getting Warmer And This Vent Is Fitted As Standard On The TT's Liner As Well As A Dual One On The S3's So It Must Be Of Some Benefit If Audi Saw Fit To Do This On These Two Cars :afro: So Rang Tps To See If I Could Get One And They Had One In Stock :smiley: So Picked That Up Last Night As Well As A New Coolant Expansion Bottle And Cap Well Being Me I Decided To Get The TT Arch Vent Liner Fitted Last Night :laugh: A Nice And Easy Enough Job To Do Not That You Can Actually See It Much Once Fitted I Also Fitted Mine Behind The Oem Liner And Sealed With Black Silicone Sealant So It All Keeps It Looking As Oem As Possible
MODIFIED O.E.M LINER WITH TT VENT FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00161-20100409-1858.jpg)
FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0436_exterioraudittwheelarchv.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0437_exterioraudittwheelarchv.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0438_exterioraudittwheelarchv.jpg)
NEW COOLANT EXPANSION BOTTLE & CAP :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00162-20100409-1902.jpg)
Also This Afternoon I Sorted Out Some Of The Jubilee Clips On The Oil Hoses Of The Catch Can As Well As Cutting A Section From The Lower Engine Cover To Clear The Lower Oil Hose And Whilst At It Modified The Battery Cover So As I Can Slide It Directly Off Once Unclipped As It Was A Case Of Manuevering It Past The Catch Can tank Otherwise Thats All Done Successfully And Is Easier To Remove Now :smiley:
Also Got The Coolant Expansion Bottle Fitted Looks Alot Better Than The Old One :grin:
NEW COOLANT EXPANSION BOTTLE FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0441_enginenewcoolantbottle.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0440_enginenewcoolantbottle.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0439_enginenewcoolantbottle.jpg)
That Looks Much Better In Contrast To My New Look Engine Bay-Tidy :afro: :cool:
Also Drained Off The Oil Catch Can Tank For The First Time Since I Fitted It About 6-7 Weeks Ago And Here's What Drained
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00166-20100410-1707.jpg)
:sick: Got Two Of This Amount Drained Off It Being Oily/Watery And Smelling Of Combustion Fumes So At Least The Oil Catch Can Is Doing What It Should Be Doing So It Shows What Crap Would Be In The Stock Pcv System :shocked: I'l Leave It For A Few Weeks And Then Check Again.
Well Thats Everything For Now As Usual I'll Update As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 17/04/10 :
Noticed A Couple Of Weeks Ago That Two Injector Seats Looked A Little Wet :huh: Well Eventually I Wanted/Planned To Have The Inlet Manifold Powdercoated The Same Colour As The Cam Cover I Had Done But During The Last Week It Started To Annoy Me That The Seats Were Looking Abit Sorry For Themselves On The Inlet Manifold But I Need To Use My Golf Nearly Everyday So Sourcing Another Aum Inlet Wasn't Going To Happen Really So Earlier This Week My Plan Changed To Painting It In Satin Black The Same As The T/b So I Called Into My Local Vw Dealer And Got The Parts Needed To Get On With The Job :smiley: So Today I Got Round To Getting It All Done Once All The Fuel System Was De-Pressurised The T/b And Injectors Removed Onto The Inlet And Get That Off Also Decided I Would Get The Throttle Body Bolts Painted Up At The Same Time :rolleyes:
REQUIRED PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00173-20100414-1058.jpg)
Also Got Four New Injector Seats But Once I Had The Inlet Off And Had A Look At The Original Ones They Looked Acceptable And I Decided To Leave Them In So Would Just Replace The O'Ring Seals On Each Injector As A Matter Of Course Upon Inspection Number 2 & 3 Seals Were Looking Abit Tired So More Than Likely Why They Seemed Wet Around The Seat Inserts
T/B BOLTS PRIMERED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00174-20100417-1216.jpg)
INLET MANIFOLD PRIMERED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00175-20100417-1216.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00176-20100417-1216.jpg)
3 COATS OF SATIN BLACK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00177-20100417-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00178-20100417-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00179-20100417-1313.jpg)
FINISHED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00180-20100417-1431.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00181-20100417-1431.jpg)
ALL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0442_enginesatinblacktbinletm.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0443_enginesatinblacktbinletm.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0444_enginesatinblacktbinletm.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0445_enginesatinblacktbinletm.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0446_enginesatinblacktbinletm.jpg)
I'm Very Pleased With How Its Turned Out And Think That It Goes Well Against The Cam Cover And The Other Painted Parts Has Certainly Livened Up The Engine Bay And I Got The Injector Seals Replaced To A Good Result.
Also The Cars Counting Down Untill Its Next Service Which Is Now Due In 1800 Miles Rang My Local Vw Dealer For A Price And Got A Quote Of Approx £342 :sad: :cry: With Abit Of Discount Etc I Got A Final Price Of £272 Still Abit Steep But Better So Will Be Getting It Booked In Shortly
Also Going To Look At Sorting The Outlet Hose Of My Oil Catch Can To See If I Can Adapt A Different Positioning Of The Hose Etc So Will Be Sourcing Some Oil Hose And A 90 Degree Elbow And See What I Can Come Up With Hopefully Looking Into This Next Weekend :afro:
So That's All For Now I'll Be Updating As And When Anything Else Is Done :wink:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 24/04/10 :
So Another Little Job Was Done This Week Thanks To Rhys Reminding Me :grin: Originally My Catch Can Top Oil Hose Was Fitted Level To The Top Of The Catch Can And The New Pipe Fitted Into A Piece Of The Old Breather Pipe To The Cam Cover But I Suppose I Just Wanted It All Fitted And Working At The Time :rolleyes: Eventually It Would Have Been Sorted But With Rhys Reminding Me I Ordered Up Some Oil Resistant Hose And A 90 Degree Joint These Arrived The Other Day So Thursday After Work I Got The New Hose Fitted And Looking Better Than How It Originally Was :smiley: Although The 90 Degree Joint Didn't Get Used Wether This Stays Routed Like This I'm Not To Sure :undecided: It May Change Again
RE-ROUTED OIL HOSE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0447_enginemodifiedoilcatchca.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0448_enginemodifiedoilcatchca.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0449_enginemodifiedoilcatchca.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0450_enginemodifiedoilcatchca.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0451_enginemodifiedoilcatchca.jpg)
Also Thinking Of Replacing The O.e.m Airbox Set-Up With A Cai So That Should Be Next Up If I Get It Ordered This Week :afro:
That's All For Now
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 25/04/10 :
Well The Re-Routed Top Oil Hose Of My Catch Can Lasted For 3 Days :rolleyes: And Today I Altered How It Runs Again This Time In A Way That I'm Happy With Thanks To A Suggestion Made To Me By Patch Which Looking At It Made Sense And Looked Better So This Is Now Done And Sorted Out :afro:
2ND ALTERED TOP OIL HOSE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00196-20100425-1238.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00197-20100425-1238.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00198-20100425-1238.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0452_enginemodified2oilcatchc.jpg)
At Least I Got To Use The 90 Degree Joint That I Also Bought :lipsrsealed:
Also Ordered Last Night My C.a.i So Hopefully That Should Be With Me Shortly Ready For Fitment Looking Forward To This :grin:
So I'll Be Updating Once This Is Fitted :smiley:
Thanks For Looking/Reading
MATT.
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Update 28/04/10 :
Having Had Abit Of A Think Around I Decided To Remove The Original Airbox And Dsg Intake And Go For A C.a.i Kit So Thought I'd Order One Up Last Weekend So I Could Get It This Week All Sorted Until I had Some Dissapointing News On Monday Morning In That The Cai I Wanted Was'nt In Stock And Delivery Is Approx 3 Weeks!! :cry: Mmmm Not Good!! As Usual So Another Call And Same Result :sad: So In The End Even Tho I'll Admit The Price Is Relatively Shall We Say Steep I Decided Feck It I'll Have A 'Carbonio' So A Call To Jkm And They Sorted Me Out :afro: Earlier This Morning The Postie Delivered Me A Nice White Box With The Words 'Carbonio' On It So This Afternoon I Got Out There To Get It On The Golf No Time Like The Present :rolleyes:
Fitment Was A Little Bit Of pain But Nothing Out Of The Ordinary And Finally The 'Carbonio' Was Fitted!!
After A Drive Earlier This Evening Got To Say Its Fecking Awesome!! Noise Is Nice Alot More D/v Sound On Throttle And Lift Off The Speed Gets Up Rapidly And It Just Seems To Want To Pull More Now I'm Well Happy !! :cool: :evil: :evil:
ARRIVED & READY TO FIT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00203-20100428-1038.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00204-20100428-1038.jpg)
ITS ALL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00205-20100428-1535.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00206-20100428-1536.jpg)
AND HOW IT LOOKS NOW :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00208-20100428-1623.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00210-20100428-1624.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0455_enginecarboniocai.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0454_enginecarboniocai.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0453_enginecarboniocai.jpg)
Can't Beat a Nice Piece Of Carbon Fibre :cool: Really Pleased With How My Engine Bay Now Looks And I'm More Or Less There With That I Think The 'Carbonio' Intake Pipe Contrasts Really Well With The Rest Of The Bits And Makes The Bay Complete :afro:
Nearly Forgot :rolleyes:
NEW ADDITION FOR MY KEYS : :cool:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00202-20100426-1408.jpg)
Forum Keyring Which I Got On Monday :afro: :cool:
So For Now Thats Where I'm At With My Golf Nothing Major Will Happen I Don't Think/Planned Over The Coming Months (Famous Last Words :rolleyes:) But When It Happens I'll Be Updating.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 13/05/10 :
After Having Vag Com'd The Car The Other Week After Sorting The Sai Pump I Had The Infamous 17705 Fault Code :sad: Again!! Well I Hoped I Had Found The Culprit My Lower Boost To Pancakepipe Hose From The Charge pipe As It Was Covered In Wet Oil :huh: So Having Known It Was Like This For A little While I Decided The Time Had Come To Get It Replaced So Rang My Local Dealers Last Weekend And Ordered Up The Pancake/Smic Hose And The Uprated Oem Lower Boost Hose And Various Clips And Jubilee Clips Totalling £68.19 For That Lot :shocked: So Yesterday I Called Into Pick Them Up And Decided I May As Well Fit Them Before The Weekend :rolleyes:
Not To Bad To Do Although The Chargepipe Is A Pita To Get Out :grin: But It Came Out Easy Enough Found Some Oily Residue In The Chargepipe And The Pancake Pipe So They Both Got Washed Out Before Fitting The Hoses.
EXPENSIVE PARTS :sad: -BUT NEEDED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00217-20100512-1657.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00218-20100512-1657.jpg)
CHARGEPIPE & OLD HOSE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00219-20100512-1749.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00220-20100512-1749.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00221-20100512-1749.jpg)
Once Removed It Was Clear That It Had Been Leaking Some Oil And Loosing Me Boost! Found One Of The Locating Lugs Had Worn A Flat On It And Oil Had Found Its Way Past The Metal Insert :huh: Looking At The Old And New Pipes The Updated Version Has Solid Locating Lugs and A Better 'O' Ring Oil Seal.....
AND ALL FITTED!! :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00222-20100512-1910.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00224-20100512-1911.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00225-20100512-1912.jpg)
After Putting Everything Back Together Took It Out For A Little Run To See What Was What And The Car Feels Alot Stronger And Best Of All The Boosts Hitting 20 P.s.i Peak Holding And Then Drops To 15 Once Changing Gear So Looks Like This Pipe Was The Culprit So Will Have To See If The Codes Gone :undecided:
So Tonight After Work I Hooked It Up To Vag-Com To Check I Thought It Maybe Present As I Cleared It Last Week But Knew It Would Be Back And Need Clearing So Cleared It Again And Went For Another Little Run Another Check And.............. :smiley: No 17705 Code So Hopefully It May Have Gone Away :lipsrsealed: Time Will Tell But At Least It Boosts Now As It Should Be Doing!!
So That's All For Now........Updates As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 15/05/10 :
So After Fitting The Lower Boost Hose What Could Be Next Well I Turned My Attention To The Subject Of My 'GTI' Badges The Other Weekend After Giving The Car A Polishing Session I Noticed That The Red Tape Of One Of The Letters Had Started To Lift Away So Stuck It Back Down And Had A close Look At The Badge On The Rear And After The Crap Winter Weather And All The Salt They Weren't Exactly Looking O.e.m :sad: And I Don't Want The Tape Fading So They Look Pink :shocked: So Whilst Following Another Gti The Other Night I Made My Mind Up To Ditch The Cheapo E-Bay Ones And Go Back O.e.m Spec 25th Anniversary Ones More Suited I Reckon And Should Look Good On The Front Grille :cool: So Got Two Ordered From My Local Dealers And Picked Them Up This Afternoon Ready To Put On Car Washed And Pretty Soon The Cheapo Ones Were Removed Polish Up To Remove The Adhesive Residue And Ready For Fitting :afro:
THE FRONT GRILLE WITH O.E.M SPEC BADGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0456_exteriorannigrillebadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0457_exteriorannigrillebadge.jpg)
THE REAR WITH O.E.M SPEC BADGE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0458_exteriorrearanniGTIbadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0459_exteriorrearanniGTIbadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0460_exteriorrearanniGTIbadge.jpg)
:cool: Does Look Much Better With O.e.m Badges Fitted I Should Have Fitted Those In The First Place :rolleyes:
Up To Date Now So Any More Things That Happen Will As Usual Be Updated.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 23/05/10 :
well Time For Another Update Not Featuring In My To Do List Was to Upgrade My Steering Wheel So To Speak But Having Seen A Post Within The Mkiv Section Well Next Thing I Know The Search Begins :grin: Had My Eye On a Couple On E-Bay But Rang My Local Vw Breaker To See If They Had Anything And As Luck Would Have It I Got What I Was After :smiley:
OCTAVIA/FABIA vRS STEERING WHEEL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00244-20100518-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00245-20100518-1313.jpg)
An R32 One Would Be Nice But To Be Slightly Different Is No Bad Thing And Its Still O.e.m But Rather Better Alternative To The Standard Gti Wheel I Aquired It In Reasonable Condition But Would Be Cleaning It Up Before Fitting It Anyway And Got A New Bolt From Vw At The Same Time :wink:
Overall The Wheel Was Decent But A Good Clean Etc And I Had My New Steering Wheel Looking As Good As New :smug: :cool:
SO AFTER A CLEANING SESSION THE RESULT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00252-20100520-1247.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00251-20100520-1247.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00250-20100520-1246.jpg)
The Result Of Some Apc And Poorboys Maxi Suds (for Washing) And Dressed/Treated With 4 Coats Of Poorboys Natural Look Dressing :afro:
Well Yesterday I Finally Managed To Get It Fitted To The Car :smiley:
OLD ONE READY FOR REMOVAL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00259-20100522-1529.jpg)
OLD V NEW COMPARISON :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00260-20100522-1607.jpg)
ALL FITTED :cool: :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0461_interiorvRSsteeringwheel.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0462_interiorvRSsteeringwheel.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0463_interiorvRSsteeringwheel.jpg)
Also With An idea From My Girlfriend Who Said Maybe It Would Be A Good Idea To Have The Rear Windows Tinted :shocked: As Well As The Cosmetic Look Combined With The Black 'B' Pillars And Silver Paint It Does Have The More Useful Benefits Of Privacy Cooling/Warmth Etc So I Had The Car Booked In Yesterday At A Local Tinting Company Who Tinted Them With Some 'True Gray' Tint An Early Birthday Present To Me :smiley: A Good Job Has Been Done And Overall I'm Happy With Everything Only Problem is I Had To Have My Forum Window Stickers Removed :cry: But Im Thinking Of Wether To Buy Some More And Fit Them To The Two Front Windows I'm Not Sure How They Would Look :undecided: I'll Have To See
So With The Tints Done
HERE'S HOW IT LOOKS AFTER WINDOW TINTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0464_exteriorreartintedwindow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0465_exteriorreartintedwindow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0466_exteriorreartintedwindow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0467_exteriortintedrearwindow.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0468_exteriortintedrearwindow.jpg)
AND LOOKING FROM DISTANCE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00271-20100523-2019.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00272-20100523-2019.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00273-20100523-2019.jpg)
:cool: :smiley:
So That's About It For Now This Is The Stage I'm At So As Usual Any Updates Will Be Posted Here :
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 31/05/10 :
Had An Issue With The Car Hitting Limp Mode seems To Hit 5 Psi Then Thats It! Not Good So A Little investigation Was needed The Forge T.i.p Was Re-Adjusted As It Seemed To Have Abit Of Lateral Movement And Was Found To Have Moved Slightly On The Turbo Inlet Stub This Was All Re-Adjusted And Seemed Fine No Other Problems Were Found So Hoped It Would Be Okay Well 3 Days Later Same Again So This Time When It Did It I Stopped The Car And Switched Off The Ignition Turned Back On And Drove Away And The Car Was Perfectly Fine Again.......So It Looks Like An Intermittant Electrical/Sensor Issue So Unable To Data Log With Vag-Com (Only Shareware Version) I Had To narrow It Down To The Possibility Of 3 Sensors So I Picked Up A New M.a.p Sensor From My Local Dealers And Also At The Same Time I Removed And Gave The A.i.t Sensor A good Clean (The Sensor Probe Was All Carboned Up) Fitted The New Map Sensor And After A Drive All Seemed Good Few Days Later The Outside Temperature Was A Little Lower ( Car Seemed To Play Up At Low Temps ) Well Pleased To Say It Looks Like A New M.a.p Sensor And A.i.t Clean Have Sorted The Issue :smiley:
Thats The Lot For Now
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 01/06/10 :
Just A Little Update :grin: Well After Having To Loose My Forum Stickers From The Rear Quarter Glass Of The Rear Doors After Being Tinted I Wanted Some Stickers Still But Had To Decide Where So With Some Luck Chuff Had Some And Today They Arrived (Thanks Again Mate :afro:) So I Got Them Put In Tonight :smiley:
I Reckon They Look Fine Placed There :cool:
FORUM WINDOW STICKERS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00305-20100601-1757.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00306-20100601-1757.jpg)
Least I Have Some Stickers Now :smiley:
So Thats It For Now Updates To Come When Stuff Happens
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 12/06/10 :
Nothing Major Happening With The Golf At The Moment But After Washing It This Morning I Decided I Would Alter How The Secondary Air pump Filter Is Located As I Decided I Didn't Like Where I Had It Currently Fitted After Fitting The Cai So Re-Positioned It But Later This Afternoon I Yet Again Re-Located It To A Position That I'm Now Happier With Also Made A Minor Fitting Modification To The Lower Engine Cover And Got That Seating Firmly On One Of The Locating Screws :laugh: Too Much Time On My Hands :grin: :grin:
HOW THE SAI FILTER WAS LOCATED AFTER CAI FITTING :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00322-20100608-1343.jpg)
AND NOW RE-LOCATED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00334-20100612-1656.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00335-20100612-1657.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00333-20100612-1654.jpg)
Looks That Bit Neater Now Imo :cool:
Thats It For Now Until Any Major Update Is Needed :smiley:
THanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 27/06/10 :
Well A Little While Ago An Idea came To Me About Tidying Up The Coilpacks But How As I Had Got My Camcover Powdercoated And Looking Nice With The Blue Anodised Fastenings To Set It All Off But The Coilpacks Looked A Little To Plain So The Plan Was To Remove Them And Paint The Tops As Near A Colour Match As The Anodised Blue As I Could Get Which Once Painted Would Draw Anyone To The Cam Cover As A Focal Point Under The Bonnet And Really For Me Finish Off Under There I'm Always Saying Hadn't Planned That :grin: But End Up Doing Something As I'm Almost At The End Of My Wish/Modification List For My Golf So Once This Job Was Done Effectively The Engine Bays Complete :smiley: So After Work Friday i Picked Up The Primer/Clearcoat And Once Found The Colour I Decided Most Suited As A Match Some Vauxhall Arden Pearlescent Blue Paint So Yesterday The Job Began Starting Off With Masking Up Effectively The Electrical Plug And Around It As Well As Below The Top Of The Coilpacks Once Done 3 Coats Of Plastic Primer Followed By 3 Coats Of The Arden Blue Basecoat And Finally 2 Coats Of Clearcoat Laquer And With The Weather Being Kind The Coilpacks Dried Really Well But To Make Sure Completely I Left Them Overnight And Resisted Fitting Until This Morning :rolleyes: Still Imo The Result Was Worth It And The Colour Match Is 99% Correct :smug: Good Work There And I Now Have The Desired Effect/End Result :afro:
So Heres How The Coilpack Look Was Achieved :cool:
MASKED UP FOR PRIMER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00337-20100626-1255.jpg)
3 COATS OF PRIMER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00338-20100626-1407.jpg)
ARDEN BLUE AFTER 3 COATS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00342-20100626-1551.jpg)
AND THE 2 COATS OF CLEARCOAT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00343-20100626-1630.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00344-20100626-1630.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00345-20100626-1632.jpg)
FINISHED DE-MASKED PRIOR TO FITTING :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00346-20100626-1829.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00347-20100626-1829.jpg)
AND NOW THERE ALL FITTED :cool: :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0473_enginebluecoilpacktops.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0472_enginebluecoilpacktops.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0471_enginebluecoilpacktops.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0470_enginebluecoilpacktops.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0469_enginebluecoilpacktops.jpg)
So Thats The Recent Progress For Now But I'm Hoping There Should Be A Couple More Updates To Come Over The Period Of July
Watch This Space :wink:
As Usual Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 10/07/10 :
Well Time For An Update I Think Has Been A Busy Week On The Golf Most Importantly Last Friday Morning Two Nice Boxes Were Delivered First Thing Friday Morning Courtesy Of 'THS' My Long Awaited Front Mount Intercooler I Read Up On This Fmic And A Few Phone Calls To Nick @ R-Tech And Myself And Jonnyturbo Had A Nice Little Deal Done For Our Fmic's :lipsrsealed: Just To Say At This Point Another Big Thankyou To Nick For Helping Us Out On This And Going The Extra Mile You Knew How Badly I Wanted Mine :grin: Loooking At The Ths Kit Everything Looked Good And Quality Is Second To None And Also A Little Cheaper Than The 'Forge' One :wink: All Good Both Work On The Twinpass Principle And Utilise The Original Route From The Oem Set up Although No Modded Crash Bar With The Ths Unlike Forge But The Ths Kit Has Their Nice Little Upgraded 'Pancake Pipe' And Is Good Value For The Money Imo :wink:.So Saturday Was A Day Dedicated To Getting Both The Fmic's Fitted To Mine And Jonny's Cars :afro: Well After Jonny Arrived And Abit Of A Chat Etc We Started On Removing The Front End Ready To Get All The New Kit On Easy Enough Job The Next Job Up Was To Remove The Internal Wall Inside The O.e.m Crash Bar Drivers Side To Enable The Silicone Hose To Be Fitted This Turned Out Abit Of A Nightmare Job/Scenario If I'm Honest And At One Point Even I Was Going To Admit Defeat!! :huh: Still After A Break And A Re-Think We Took A Deep Breathe And Carried On And Eventually Our Efforts Paid Off With The Successful Removal Of The Required Piece I Can't Tell You How Much That Gave Me Satisfaction At Last The Akward Bit Was Done!! All In I'd Say That Little Episode Cost Us Three Hours!! So Onto The Best Bit The Fitting :afro: The 'THS' Kit Tbh Had Some Comprehensive Instructions But I Would Point Out That Its Tight With Mine Having The Headlight Washers Fitted Nothing That A Little 'Tweaking' Wont Re-Solve Tho (Although I Still Have To Trim The Opening On The Drivers Side Bumper As The Unit Catches The Edge When Manually Lifting Out So Thats A Point To Remember For Anyone Else :wink:) Mine All Went Back Together Okay Although Its A Little Tight For Room/Fitting All The Important Bit Done It Was A Case Of Trial And Error FittingTrimming With My O.e.m Bumper and It Did Require Alot Of Trimming To Get It Re-Fitted!! I Eventually Got Mine Back On The Car At 12.30Am!! Was Well Knackered On The Sunday Morning Tho But Had To Get The Drivers Side Lower Grille Vent Trimmed Up For Re-Fitting And It Required A Fair Bit Of Trimming But Eventually I Got It Fitted Along With The Passenger Side One Which Fitted As Per Original Fitment But Chose Down To Personal Preference Not To Re-Fit The Centre One :wink: All In All It Was Worth It After The Initial Pain! And It Does Look Good Fitted On The Car :cool: :evil:
ITS ARRIVED!! :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00360-20100702-1237.jpg)
NICE SHINY FMIC :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00362-20100702-1249.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00361-20100702-1249.jpg)
FRONT END REMOVAL :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00364-20100703-1027.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00365-20100703-1027.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00366-20100703-1027.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00367-20100703-1027.jpg)
RE-PAINTED CRASH BAR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00368-20100703-1618.jpg)
ASSEMBLY OF FMIC TO CRASH BAR :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00369-20100703-1646.jpg)
FITTING ALL THE KIT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00377-20100703-2048.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00376-20100703-2048.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00375-20100703-2048.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00374-20100703-2048.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00373-20100703-2047.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00372-20100703-2047.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00371-20100703-2047.jpg)
AND HOW IT ALL LOOKS FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00383-20100704-1506.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00384-20100704-1506.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00385-20100704-1506.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00386-20100704-1507.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00381-20100704-1506.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00382-20100704-1506.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00380-20100704-1506.jpg)
Also During Last Week My Blue Silicone Hose And 90 Degree Elbow Arrived And Another Idea Was To Finish Off The Look In The Engine Bay With The Blue Hoses Was Why Not Paint The Jubille Clips On The Catch Can Hose And Chargepipe/Dv Well Got The Clips Painted On Saturday Before Jonny Arrived And Done In The Same Blue As The Coilpack Tops :cool: So Now That I Had My Two Sizes Of Required Hose And The Elbow I Could Now Get The Catch Can Hose Sorted Out To A Position I Was Happy With Third Time Lucky :grin: A Small Modification To The Battery Cover Was Done And The Hoses All Fitted Really Pleased How My Engine Bay Finally Looks!!
JUBILLEE CLIPS PAINTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00363-20100703-0839.jpg)
AND THE FITTED SILICONE HOSES : AND THE FINISHED ENGINE BAY : :cool:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00378-20100704-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00379-20100704-1313.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0487_enginebluesiliconehoses.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0486_enginebluesiliconehoses.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0484_enginebluesiliconehoses.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0485_enginebluesiliconehoses.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0483_bluesiliconehoses.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0482_enginebluesiliconehoses.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0481_enginebluesiliconehoses.jpg)
During The Week I Still Wasn't 100% Happy With The Fitting Of The Centre Lower Grille Area Of The Bumper As It Was Tight To The Fmic So Marked Up A Line To Follow The Original Bumper Contour And Trimmed It To Suit Resulting In Some Clearance And Now It Looks That Bit Better :smiley: Also Decided That The Jubilee Clips On The Silicone Hose Looked To Noticeable Imo So To Sort That They Were Both Painted Resulting In The Fact You Don't Even Notice Them at All Now
CENTRE SECTION RE-TRIMMED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00396-20100707-0821.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00397-20100707-0822.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00398-20100707-0822.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00399-20100707-0822.jpg)
Also Had Another Little Idea In Mind For The Fmic And Thought It Would Look A Nice Subtle Feature To Show It Off :cool: The 'R-Tech' Logo Having Spoken To Nick Previously This Was An Idea I Had In My Mind For My Fmic Anyway And Knew Nick Would Like It :smug: So No Time Like Now And Yesterday I Sorted Out With A Local Graphics/Printing Firm To Make Me Up An Adhesive Vinyl Stencil/Template With The Said Logo Also Got Some Primer And Paint Bought I Decided To Go With Blue Lettering And After Alot Of Picking & Choosing I Eventually Decided On A Bmw Colour 'Montreal Metallic Blue' Picked Up My Template Last Night And Set To And Applied It To The Fmic Core And Masked All The Front End Of The Car Up
TEMPLATE APPLIED & MASKED UP :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00400-20100709-1811.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00401-20100709-1831.jpg)
Also Decided That The R/h Side Of The Cooler Where It Sits Behind The Bumper Looked To Open So I made Up Out Of An Old wheel Arch Liner A Piece To Cover In That Corner And Got It Fitted And It All Looks Oem Now And Looks Part Of The Bumper :wink:
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Update 10/07/10 (Continued) :
PRIMER & BASECOAT APPLIED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00402-20100709-1913.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00403-20100709-1913.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00404-20100709-2025.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00405-20100709-2025.jpg)
That All Done I Covered Everything Over As I Wanted To Leave It Overnight So As To De-Mask It All Today So This Morning I got Up Early And De-Masked Everywhere And I'm Real Pleased With The Result And How Its Turned Out :afro: :cool:
THE FINISHED LOOK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00409-20100710-0900.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00410-20100710-0900.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00411-20100710-0901.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00412-20100710-0901.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00413-20100710-0901.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0488_enginefmicr-techlogo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0489_enginefmicr-techlogo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0490_enginefmicr-techlogo.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0491_enginefmicr-techlogo.jpg)
And On Monday Its A Trip Down To Nick For My Stage 2 Re-Map :afro: :evil: Really looking Forward To This!
Update To Follow This Happening :wink:
Thats The Lot For Now!
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 16/07/10 :
Well Monday Was The Northeast Road Trip Down To R-Tech :smiley: For Myself And Jonnyturbo To Have Nicks 'Spec 2' Re-Map Put On Our Cars Now That Our Ths Fmic's Were Now Finally Fitted :evil: Well For Me I Wondered Wether That My Car Would Be Able To Get On Nicks Rollers With How Low It Sits Nick Told Me It Might Do Well After Nick Had Finished A Re-Map On A Cupra And Jonny Had Had A Run On The Rollers Etc I Was Soon To Find Out Well With A Little Alteration To The Ramps The Car Got Onto The Ramps But Was Very Close! So Before It Had Its Run Nick Decided That It Would Be Too Low :sad: And Said That He Would Alter The Coillies Up A Touch So Wheels off And Then The Coillie Adjustment Rings Were Found To Be A Right B!tch To Un-Do :sad: However After Perservering Nick Managed To Wind Them Up A Fraction :wink: Wheels Back On And Car Dropped Back Down Level Onto The Ramps For Nick To Give It A Once Over Before Running It Well More Bad News From Nick And He Called Me Over To Have A Look Well Turns Out My Newly Fitted Lower Chargepipe/Pancakepipe Boost Hose Had Signs Of Rubbing :shocked: So Onto A Run On The Dyno And Not Good Nick Telling Me It Wasn't Making The Required Figures :huh: So He Had Another Look Underneath And More Bad News That Same Pipe Was Sitting A Mere 3mm From The Driveshaft And Looking Like The Jubilee Clip Had Chaffed Against It Also The Hose Had Now Split Under Load :cry: :sick: At This Point I Walked Away Rather P!$$ed Off To Say The Least!! :angry: Came Back In To Hear Nick Calling Me A Few Words And My Boost Hose On The Floor :grin: And Now Me Stuck With No Car :cry: So Back Out Again For A Deep Breathe And Nick Shouts Me In To Tell Me He Has Found Another Boost Hose :smiley: How Much Better Did I Feel Now Well 10 Minutes Later Nick Calls Me Over To Under The Car And Shows Me What He Has Done Well He Removed The 'Ths' Pancakepipe From The Original Fixing Stud And Re-Drilled and Bolted It To The Chassis Another 15-20mm Further Forward In Doing So This Then Created About 15mm Worth Of Clearance From The Hose To The Driveshaft :afro: Good Work/Thinking From Nick I Wouldn't of Known About This Tbh Well Not Until The Hose Had Completely Split (like It Did On The Dyno) It Could Have Done It On The Trip Down :sad: So Lucky Really It Did It On The Dyno Turns Out That Due To The Fittings Of The Fmic 'Settling down' Over The Week Since Fitting And Me Having The Coillies Wound Down The Noises I Was Hearing Over The Week Were The Driveshaft And Arb Touching As Well as The Hose Jubilee Clip Touching The Driveshaft (Found Evidence On The D/Shaft Where It Had Been Rubbing) Also Just To Add To My Day The Rev Counter And Speedo Decided To Play Up And Became Erratic :sad: Well After The Hose Was Fitted Nick Loaded The 'Spec 2' Map And Onto A Run On The Dyno All Was Well This Time :afro: No Issues So I Was Happy And Was Still Happy Once Nick Came Back After A Quick Test Drive And Confirmed All Good So My Turn :evil: Nick Has Pointed Out The 'Spec 2' Is Not All About Bhp Increases As Such But More Down To Torque Increase Throughout The Rev Range And A Smoother Delivery Well He Isn't Wrong The Car Hits 21 Psi And 2nd 3rd 4th And 5th Even Down To Low Mph Revs Feck Me Does It Pull!! The Response Is Really Strong I Liked My Stage 1 Gen 4 Beta But Feck Me This Is Awesome Response Is Immediate!! No Evidence Of Lag Even With The Fmic Either Needless To Say I'm Very Happy!
So After All The Issues Throughout The Day The End Result Was Worth It! :cool: :evil:
231.8 BHP & 259.9 Lb/Ft Torque
GENERAL PICS FROM THE DAY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00418-20100712-1227.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00421-20100712-1416.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00422-20100712-1456.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00423-20100712-1457.jpg)
MY DAMAGED/SPLIT BOOST HOSE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00424-20100712-1640.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00425-20100712-1640.jpg)
MY DYNO GRAPH : :cool: :evil:
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00428-20100713-1757.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00429-20100713-1757.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/IMG00430-20100713-1758.jpg)
Tuesday Saw Me Removing The Instrument Cluster And Taking It Apart To See If There Were Any Problems Well I Re-Aligned The Rev Counter & Speedo Needles Put It All Back Together And Re-Fitted Back Into The Car And Was Pleased To See That Everything Is Now Working Correctly Again :smiley: Also I Decided To Leave The Rear Coillies As They Are As They Are Fine But Checked The Two Fronts To Make Sure They Were Level And Levelled Both Up And Adjusted Them Both Down Approx 3 Threads Hardly a Difference To How Nick Set Them But I'm Not Wanting To Wind Them Down Tbh As I Have Enough Clearance Running As They Are Now And The Car Looks Okay When level So All good And Ride Feels Fine Still Stiff But At Least Its Not Bottoming Out Nick Says I Can Lower It Abit At a Time And See But Tbh I'd Rather Leave It As I Have Now Set It Up That Way I Still Clear The Driveshaft With The Hose And Also Now I Can Have The Car On Full R/h Lock As The Front Arb No Longer Rubs On The Driveshaft either :afro:
Also Ordered Another 2 Metres Of Blue Silicon Hose As I Plan To Turn My Oil Catch Can Round And Make Some Changes With The Hoses Yet Again :laugh:
Thanks For looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 17/07/10 :
Thought I'd Just Put In Another Update As The Golf's Just About How I Want It Now So Anything Else May Be Few And Far Between Well Ordered Some More Blue Silicone Hose For My Catch Can As I Still Felt That It Needed Sorting After What Must Be The 3rd Time In The Last Month :grin: Still Got To Replace The Lower Hose To The Breather Outlet In The Cyl Block But That Can Wait For Now So Today I Removed The Hoses And Catch Can Gave Everything Abit Of A Clean Up And What I Have Done Is Turn The Catch Can 180 Degree's So That The Outlet To The Breather Faces To The Cam Cover Hose & T-Piece Re-painted The Bracket And Turned That Round To Re-Fix To The Plastic Cover And Then Just A Case Of Fixing On The Blue Silicone Hose Looks A little Neater Now I Think Finally :afro:
RE-POSITIONED OIL CATCH CAN :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0493_enginecatchcanbluesilico.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0494_enginecatchcanbluesilico.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0492_enginecatchcanbluesilico.jpg)
HOW IT ALL LOOKS NOW :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0496_enginecatchcanbluesilico.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0495_enginecatchcanbluesilico.jpg)
Thats's All For Now :cool:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 07/08/10 :
Well Time For Abit Of An Update Been On Holiday For A Couple Of Weeks So This Week I Decided To Get The Jobs On The Golf Finished Mainly The Engine Bay And A New Front Grille (Again :grin:) I Have Now Replaced The Breather Elbow To The Plastic T-Piece Of The Catch Can Set Up With Some Blue Silicone Hose And Got Around To Touching In All The Paint On The Blue Jubilee Clips I Decided That The Fuel Pressure Regulator Looked Abit Plain Really Now The Engine Bay Is All Tidied So This Was Rectified By Giving This A Paint With The Same Blue As The Coilpack Tops Along With New 'O' Rings And A Nice New Locating Clip So This Now Finishes Off The Work Under The Bonnet And I'm Real Happy With How Its All Turned Out I love It! :afro: A sense Of Satisfaction Knowing All That Under There Is All My Work Well Just About All The Work On My Car Is Its Certainly Come Along Way During Its Two Years Under My Ownership :wink: Been Worth It Too And Best Of All It Still Looks O.e.m :afro:
PAINTED F.P.R :
ALL MASKED UP :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/001-1.jpg)
PRIMERED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/003-1.jpg)
BLUE BASECOAT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/005.jpg)
CLEARCOAT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/007.jpg)
ALL FINISHED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/010.jpg)
SILICONE HOSES AND PAINTED F.P.R :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0497_enginecatchcanbluesiliconebluefpr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0498_enginecatchcanbluesiliconebluefpr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0499_enginecatchcanbluesiliconebluefpr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0500_enginecatchcanbluesiliconebluefpr.jpg)
So That Job Done It Was Onto Another Front Grille As Although I Liked The One I Made Up I Had Found Some Small Cracks In It :sad: Was To Be Expected I Think But Still The New One Would Look As Good Well I Opted To Have A Standard Grille Painted In Reflex Silver Around The Centre Vw Piece And Then Have The Grille Slats Wrapped In Carbon Fibre So Firstly On With Painting The Centre Piece
NEW FRONT GRILLE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/002-1.jpg)
PRIMERED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/004.jpg)
REFLEX SILVER ADDED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/006.jpg)
AND CLEARCOAT :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/009.jpg)
FINISHED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/010.jpg)
So With All The Painting Of The Grille Done Yesterday I Went Down To James (Jimbooboo) To Get Him To Wrap The Grille Slats For Me And I'm Well Impressed With The Job He Has Done On My Grille :afro: This Morning I Masked Off The Slats And Got Some More Reflex Silver Paint As I Decided That I Would Apply Two More Coats To The Centre Piece Also Checked With My Local Dealer To See If My Anni Front 'GTI' Badge Had Arrived Well It Hadn't And I'm Told Its On Supplier Back Order Which Now Means It Could Be Weeks :cry: Well As Luck Would Have It The Parts Department Knew How Much I Needed It To Finish Off The Grille So They Have Located And Secured Me One From A Dealer Down South So It Should Be Arriving Tuesday Hopefully And Then I Can Get That Fitted And Complete Also Got In Mind Having A Couple More Things To Be Carbon Wrapped Eventually So Onto My New Front Grille
ALL PAINTED AND WRAPPED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/001-2.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/002-2.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/003-2.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/004-1.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/005-1.jpg)
ALL FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/010-1.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/009-1.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/006-1.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0502_exteriorgarbonfrontgrille.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0501_exteriorcarbonfrontgrille.jpg)
CARBON GRILLE AND FINISHED ENGINE BAY :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0504_exteriorcarbonfrontgrillebluesiliconefpr.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0503_exteriorcarbonfrontgrillebluesiliconefpr.jpg)
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Well Next Up Is A Trip Down To R-Tech For The Charity Rolling Road Day Looking Forward To This One And My Golf Is Finished Apart From The Two Things I Have Planned To Have Wrapped :wink:
As Per 'Hulmies' Suggestion Regarding The Chargepipe Heatshield Cover I Have Now Removed That Earlier To Tidy Up The Back Of The Engine Bay Does Look Better Tho But I Think I'll Be Leaving The Pipe As It Is As i Did Look At Painting It But At The Moment i Like it How It Is :wink:
CHARGEPIPE HEATSHIELD NOW OMITTED :
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Thats All Thats Happening For now.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 10/08/10 :
Just A Little Update Had To Order Some Parts From The Dealers Yesterday As I Now Can't Get Into My Boot :angry: So Ordered A Micro Switch Lock Solenoid And The Pushrod Got A Call Early This Morning To Say My Parts Were In And Also My Front Anni Gti Grille Badge Was In To So Called Into Vw Tonight To Collect All The Bits The Boot Lock Etc Can Wait Until The End Of The Week :laugh: But Got The Anni Badge Fitted As So As I Can Get The Grille Finished Off :cool:
FRONT 'ANNI' GTI GRILLE BADGE FITTED :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0507_exteriorcarbonfrontgrilleannibadge.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0505_exteriorcarbonfrontgrilleannibadge.jpg)
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0508_exteriorcarbonfrontgrilleannibadge.jpg)
Well Happy With The Finished Off Front Grille :cool:
Thats All For Now.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 14/08/10 :
Well Abit Of Mis-Fortune For The Golf This Week :cry: I Found Out That The Boot Would Not Lock Using The Remote I Thought I Could Hear It Operating But Not 100% Certain So Trim Off Time And All Looked Fine :huh: Although The Solenoid Looked Alittle Past Its Best So Rang The Dealers To Order A New Solenoid & Micro Switch To See If That Would Solve It Well Picked Those Up And Fitted The Solenoid And New Connecting Rod But All To No Avail :sad: Still Not Operating And The Micro Switch Looked Like Nothing That Was Connected To The Existing Tailgate Wiring Loom So Back On The Phone To Vw And As Luck Would Have It My Mate From The Parts Department Had Ordered Me A New Latch Mechanism Just In Case So Upon Returning The Wrong Part And Some Credit Owed To Me The Latch Mechanism Cost Me Nothing :smug: Upon Fitting That Still Didn't Cure The Fault Cleaned All The Lock Barrel Etc And Got It Working Via The Key Which Is A Pain But At Least I can Get Into The Boot So Asking A Couple Of Fellow Forum Members For Some Advice Gave Me Some Idea's Of Where To Go Next :smiley: Well Trim Off Agin Tonight And Checked The Soenoid For Voltage Supply Only To Find None!! So Onto The Two Rubber Boots At The Top Of The Tailgate Pulled L/h Side One Out And All Good Onto The R/h Side And Immediately Found The Problem The Small Brown Wire Had Alittle Nick In It (Not That Bad) But Found The Green And Brown/Black Wires Both Snapped!! These Two Supply Voltage To Yes.......The Boot Lock Solenoid :rolleyes: Managed To Trim The Pair Of Wires Back And Cut The Boot And Managed To Re-Connect Both Wires Temporarily As I'm Planning To Solder Two Longer Wires Onto The Both And Heat Shrink Them As Soon as I Can But Got The Wires And Rubber Boot Re-Fitted And Tested The Boot Lock Operation And Success All Working As It Should Again :smug: :smiley:
THIS SIDE ALL FINE :
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THIS SIDE MMMM NOT SO GOOD!! :
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All Good Again :grin:
That's All For Now At Least
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 30/08/10 :
Well Abit Of An Update During The Last Week Looking At The Engine Bay I Decided To Replace The Black Rubber Joiner Hose Between The Maf/Carbonio Intake Pipe With A Blue Silicone One I Ordered One But When It Arrived I Found That The I/d Was The Same Size All The Way Through At 67mm Which WOuld Just Fit On The Maf Sensor Housing :lipsrsealed: :rolleyes: Silly Mistake On My Part As I Read The Description Wrong On The Website! So With The End Of The Week Nearing And Me Wanting It Before The Forum R/R Day I Managed To Get The Correct Reducer/Joiner From The Place That Supplied My Silicone Hose :afro: Before Friday So That Got Fitted Along With The 'Carbonio' Decal That Jonny Gave Me.
BLUE SILICONE REDUCER/CONNECTOR HOSE :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0509_enginebluesiliconereducercarboniodecal.jpg)
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That's More Or Less The Engine Bay Finished Now :lipsrsealed:
Well On Saturday Morning Before Driving Down To R-Tech I Called In At Jimbooboo's Place To Have My Rear Spoiler Carbon Wrapped :cool: I Decided On This Purely On The Fact That Since The Spoiler Had Been Fitted And Painted The L/H Side Had Always Had A Slight Blister/Bubble In The Paint And Couldn't Be Sorted So The Carbon Wrap Seemed Like A Good Idea And Alter The Look At The Rear Of My Car So All Good Spent About An Hour Getting The Bubble Cut Out And The Surrounding Area Sanded Down Smooth Enough For The Wrap To Adhere To Also Found Three Other Small Bubbles So These Were Also Sanded Ready For The Wrap To Be Applied And Then James Worked His Magic With The Carbon Wrap About An Hour Or So Later He Had Finished And What A Great Job He Has Done !! :cool: Really Pleased With How It Looks Now Does Suit The Car Imo :afro: After The Spoiler Was All Finished I Completed The Rest Of The Trip Down To R-Tech To Meet Up With Jonnyturbo Spent The Rest Of The Day There Whilst Jonny Had Some Work Done On His Car.
Sunday Morning After An Overnight Stop It Was Over To R-Tech For The Forum Charity Rolling Road Event Whilst Parked Up I Got Some Pics Of How My Carbon Wrapped Rear Spoiler Looks :cool:
REAR ROOF SPOILER 'CARBON WRAPPED' :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0512_exteriorcarbonwrappedrearspoiler.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0513_exteriorcarbonwrappedrearspoiler.jpg)
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Also With My New Look 'R-Tech' Decals :afro:
Also Got Some More 'R-Tech' Decals Put On My Car.
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0516_enginer-techdecals.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/016.jpg)
Whilst Down At R-Tech On The Sunday After Most Of The Other Forum Attendies Had All But Gone I Spoke To Nick About An Issue With My Car That I Had Hoped Had Gone Away But Has Returned Recently Although Infrequently With The Car Hitting Limp Mode But Changing Up A Gear It Comes Back On Boost :huh: So Nick Said He Would Have A Look At It For Me Well After Having A Look At The Locking Nuts On The Wastegate Actuator Adjuster Rod And Un-Seizing Them :lipsrsealed: Nick Made An Adjustment To The Spring Pre-Load On It As He Found That The Wastegate Actuator Was Actually Holding Shut More Than It Should Have Been Before He Re-Adjusted It :shocked: And Nick Seems To Think That It May Have Been Like That Since The Factory :huh: Top Marks To Nick For Having A Look At This And Sorting It Driving Back Home Last Night The Car Behaved And Didn't Hit Limp Mode But Now Boosts To 20/22Psi And Feels Better So Hopefully This Is All Sorted Now.
Well Thats Everything That's Happened For Now Been An Eventful Month For The Golf No Real Plans For It Now For Awhile So Going To Just Drive And Enjoy It :smiley:
Well Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 18/09/10 :
Time For A little Update As I Have Finished Some Of The Work I Had Planned Fom Last Week Earlier This Afternoon Well After Having My Rear Spoiler And The Front Grille Carbon Wrapped I Decided That To Complement The Exterior The Existing Black Wing Mirror Covers Didn't Fit In Really And Therefore Would Be More Suited To A Touch Of Carbon Wrap :cool: So Last Week I Boxed Up My Original Reflex Silver Covers And Sent Them Down To Jimbooboo For Him To Wrap For Me Well Saturday Morning I got Them Back All Wrapped :afro: So After Work I Removed The Black Ones And Fitted The Carbon Wrapped Ones I Think They Really Suit The Rest Of The Exterior And Really Happy With Them.
ONE SET OF CARBON WRAPPED MIRROR COVERS :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/004-2.jpg)
AND FITTED ON THE CAR :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/008-1.jpg)
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0520_exteriorcarbonwrappedwingmirrors.jpg)
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Also Decided That The Original Keyfob Would Look Good Carbon Wrapped :laugh: So Found A Two-Piece Kit From AwesomeGti And Fitted The Wrap Onto My Fob When It Arrived :cool: Much Better To Look At Now :afro:
ORIGINAL KEYFOB NOW ALSO CARBON WRAPPED :
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Whilst In The 'Carbon' Mood :grin: I Thought It Might Be A Good Idea to Wrap The Lower Centre Console As The Original O.e.m Finish Marks Easily And Never Looks That Clean Even After A Touch Of Poorboys :rolleyes: So I Ordered Up A Sheet Big Enough To Do The Console But Then Had An Idea To Wrap The Outer Trim Of My Double Din Head Unit As I Thought It Looked Just A Little Plain Also To Finish That Area I Decided I Would Wrap The Climatronic Unit Front Panel Too So I Removed And Took That Apart To Wrap Think Thats As Far As It Will Go Tbh As Now Finished And All Fitted It Doesn't Look Too Much and I Still Want To Retain The Originality of The Standard Mk4 O.e.m Trim As It Still Looks Good Even For A Nearly Ten Year Old Car :afro: Now Its All Done And Fitted I Am Really Happy With How Its All Looking Livened It Up And Goes Well With The Original Trim.
ALL REMOVED READY FOR THE CARBON LOOK :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/002-7.jpg)
THE TRIM PARTS ALL CARBON WRAPPED :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/005-3.jpg)
AND ALL RE-FITTED WITH A CARBON LOOK :
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/Photo-0523_interiorcarbonwrappedtrim.jpg)
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:cool:
Also Today Removed The N75 Valve And Cleaned Out As Well As Fitting A New Air Intake Temperature Sensor To See If it May Cure My Dreaded 'Hitting' Limp Mode Symptoms :cry: If Not Then I Think I'll Be Taking A Trip Down To R-Tech For Further Investigation To See If The Fault Can Be Found :undecided: We Shall See
So That's All For Now Any Further Stuff Will Be Updated As And When.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 11/10/10 :
okay here's what i said to pip @r-tech on friday afternoon "i hope you can work some magic on my golf when i'm down tommorrow as i'm not feeling the gti loving at this very moment"
To which pips reply was "we have lots of magic down here and we can sprinkle yours with some magic r-tech dust"
Which leads me onto me posting this well as some of you will already know on here i had been getting a very irritating tendancy for my golf to suddenly go into 'limp mode' at first start up or more recently during changing gear through 3rd and 4th well over the last couple of weeks the problem had gradually become a more or less occurrance everytime i had to drive the car and well was getting me to the point of sheer frustration which in turn just made me dread driving my car and everytime i checked for codes i was getting the old favourites '17705' & '17963' so i rang r-tech at the end of september to get my car booked into them to see if nick could resolve my cars issue what a long 2-3 weeks it was until saturday just gone (9th) when finally the day arrived for the trip down there still wasn't feeling the love and tbh didn't feel that optimistic either travelling down but i had those words from my phonecall to pip ringing in my ears mmmmmmm
Well funny how you get a different sense of feeling when you drive through the gates and see the r-tech unit i got down there for 10.15 and was immediatley greeted by the lads nick was fitting a miltek to a customers tdi but we had abit of a chat and nick positively told me that he would sort my car so from what i can remember pip set about removing my old stage 2 map from the ecu and did one or two checks meanwhile one of nicks customers who i meet on the charity day had turned up in his edition 30 so had a chat with him and nick suggested he take me out in his ed30 fooking hell glad i did what a car toatally different from my 1.8T felt awesome and very quick too !! (thanks again for taking me out) well after getting back and feeling a little happier now nick and pip had done some work on my car which had resulted in a 'tweaked/modified' version of my stage two map with the added addition of the full throttle launch control & left foot braking and nick tells me my cars the first customers car to get this features well happy
So with a revised map now on my car nick took the time to explain everything to me about what he had done and talked it all through with me whilst showing me my map overlay on his computer from what i remember (correct me if i'm wrong nick ) my map had a bug issue hardware/software which conflicted with some sensors on the engine and was giving me the 'dumb/false' engine fault codes i was getting so he had mapped this out and altered some threshold values and raised my rev limit and pointed out where these were all done on the map overlay so now thanks to nick i know exactly how my maps been wrote and all the little 'tweaks' so all sorted within a couple of hours nick told me to go and try my car down the road so off i went and returned with a big grin what a difference now compared with the drive down etc so totally different and feels so more aggresive too boosts where and how it should be doing and really pulls well now so much stronger and nicks assured me he's 99.9% certain i should be okay now he took me out to demonstrate the 'left foot braking' its awesome!! gotta practise it and then i can let it loose on the road also had a go at the launch control but didn't launch it as i should ended up with lots of tyre smoke so nick showed me how to do it bit of practise and i'll master it also got to meet and chat with 'dave' nice to meet you mate and he let me have a drive in his 160k A3 derv which nick mapped and i have to say its fooking quick to really didnt feel like it had 160k on the clocks torque and pull was immense and it felt quick tbh after driving a mapped derv now and comparing them to petrols i would have either tbh and i never thought i would say that!! completely changed my opinion on derv v petrol
Also found thanks to nick that my actuator is a little weaker than what it should be so this will be sorted once nick has completed his modification to the oem ones nick has explained and shown me what he plans with this and it should be good so worth waiting for as atm that issue is not so detrimental to my cars performance...but once i have a stronger wastegate sorted i should be able to get a little more torque so all good and will be sorted by r-tech well was a long and fun day down there on saturday but well worth it and i'm just really happy that my cars issues have been sorted by nick and r-tech and just goes to show what excellent customer service they have which is why i don't care at all about a 400mile round trip to see them i have nothing but 100% praise for them and they are legends!!
Thanks again Nick,Pip&Lenny good to see you all and will see you soon
Oh and before i forget just a couple of videos for you
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(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/th_001-9.jpg) (http://s466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/?action=view¤t=001-9.mp4)
Well Thats All For Now.
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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Update 16/10/10 :
Well a Week After My Trip down To R-Tech I'm Pleased To Say That The Car Feels Really Good Again Now 'The Gti Lovin Has Now Returned' :smiley: :grin: So This Week I Decided To Order Another Side Trim Piece Above The Window Screen Scuttle Panel As My Old One Has A Tendancey To Keep Un-Clipping Itself And Was Annoying Me :rolleyes: So Ordered That As Well As A New Rear Exhaust Mount Retainer/Hanger As Noticed This Week More So That The Tailpipe Gap To The Rear Valance Seemed Wider :sad: And Also I Get A Little Vibration When Pulling In Third And Fourth Gear From Low Speeds So Hopefully A New Hanger Should Lift The Rear Box Alittle To Prevent That Happening :undecided: So Picked These Up Yesterday As Well as A New Rear Aero Wiper Arm at The Same Time As That Was Nearly Knackered :laugh: So These Were Fitted Yesterday Afternoon In The Rain Oh Well Needed Sorting Having Removed The Rear Exhaust Retainer/Hangar Comparing It To The New Item Showed It Had Stretched Abit And Felt Soft And Worn So Whilst Off I Dropped The Rear Box To Give The Tailpipes Of The Milly A Good Clean And Polish Well Why Not Good As Time As Any That Done The New One Fitted With A Noticeable Difference Its Now Pulled Up More And The Gap Reduced Quite Alot Went Out Earlier And It Does Seem Much Better so Another Little Job Done :afro:
ALL THE PARTS :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/010-3.jpg)
ONE NEW RETAINER/HANGER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/011.jpg)
NOW SITTING MUCH BETTER :
(http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr22/mjwvag20vt/012-1.jpg)
Until The Next Update :wink:
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
MATT.
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:cry: Update 31/10/10 :
Well This Will Probably Be My Final Update On My Build Thread As After 3 Years Of Enjoyable Ownership Yesterday My Golf Was Traded In For my Next New Car A '54 Plate' Subaru Impreza Wrx Sti Pro-Drive Edition So Within The Next Two Weeks I Shall Be Picking Up The Scoob So These Will Be My Last Drives Of The Golf Until It Goes And I'v Had A Good 3 Years Working With My Golf Been Some Ups And One Or Two Downs But Thats Part Of 'Modding' A Car And Been Great To Being A Member Of The Forum And Being Able To Participate In Various R/R Day Events Met Alot Of Decent Mk4 Owners On Here Thats Helped Me With Their Mk4 Knowledge Just Goes To Show What A Great Section This Is :smiley: As They Have Been There To Help And Advise On Some Of The Things I Have Done And Has Proven To Have Been Invaluable To Me Thankyou All And Big Praise And Thanks Must Also Go To A Man Who Started This Off For Me That Being The Renowned 'Nick Gower' Of R-Tech As Well As Pip And The Other Lads At R-Tech Nick Has Always Been There For Help And Advice For Me At anytime And Has Been Inspirational In My Build Of The Golf In My Book Probably If Not One Of The Nicest Guys I Have Had The Fortune To Meet So Big Respect From Me !! I Have said Before But I'll Repeat It Again Nick Gower Is A Legend And R-Tech Are Legends
Also Thanks To All Of You Thats Taken The Time And Effort To Read And Follow My Build Thread I Hope That Its Been Helpful And Informative For You And Above All Enjoyable-THANKS :smiley:
My One Wish Now Is That My Golf Finds A Decent New Owner That Will Enjoy The Car And Put The Time And Effort Into It As I Have Done
Well Thats Just About Everything I Can Think Of :grin:
And Once Again
Thanks For Looking/Reading.
Kind Regards
MATT.
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Final Update 04/11/10 :
Well Abit Of A Sad Day Today Three Years Of My Mk4 Ownership Came To An End This Afternoon When My New Car Arrived Was A Little Sad When I Watched It Being Taken Away By Somebody Else But Looking On The Drive At Whats Replaced It I Couldn't Help But Smile
So The Golf Has Now Gone Forever And That's All For My Build Thread.
THE END :