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Offline Ice_ken

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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #260 on: 05 December 2012, 16:35 »


sometime later:


handbrake mechs and bleedvalve:
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #261 on: 06 December 2012, 21:53 »


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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #262 on: 07 December 2012, 13:41 »
This is so meticulous it's unreal!! :cool: :cool:
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration(first post update)
« Reply #263 on: 10 December 2012, 13:51 »
thanks, I updated the first post so people who just started reading have an easier time following the progress.
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration(first post update)
« Reply #264 on: 12 December 2012, 19:26 »
The heaterbox has always been an issue on a mk2. Leaking heatercores and the foam that comes out the vents, every mk2 owner knows this issue.

So the decision to open it up was easily made.

Old foam:


old heatercore:




Not very good:


Before and after pics:
















fixed all the valves:




New core:


All back together:
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration(first post update)
« Reply #265 on: 24 December 2012, 15:59 »
to the bone





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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #266 on: 04 January 2013, 17:03 »
the new parts
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #267 on: 04 January 2013, 23:04 »
Love this thread... great work and nice to see it still going.  :cool:
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #268 on: 05 January 2013, 23:01 »
thanks,

airducts


airbox


brake caliper bolts
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Re: Ken's '87 golf GTI 8v restoration
« Reply #269 on: 10 January 2013, 15:21 »
Originally this golf gti doesn't have a katalytic converter, however i'm using a G60 exhaustmanifold so I needed a decat-pipe:



new OEM brackets for the brakelines:
« Last Edit: 15 January 2013, 16:18 by Ice_ken »
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