Hello all, thought I'd start a thread on my 16v anni, after having 4 mk1golfs in my early days I was after something more affordable from the gti stable, I had short listed a jazz blue colour concept or my first 8v anni, not knowing much about it, I bought the anni which I was dead lucky with as was in great condition, spent the next few years cleaning polishing, replacing bits and got it looking like this....
But I started looking for something else to fix up when this came along.....
I quite liked the exclusivity of owning an anni, so moving to a 16v having more power and because only 150 were made and because this one had all the options ticked like sunroof, air con and metallic black paint, I thought I don't give a crap what condition it's in, I must have it. £450 later it was mine having never seen it. And when I got it home I thought I may have bitten off more than I could chew. Next pic is not for the faint hearted....
So I started to tidy it up, driving home I couldn't get 1st or 2nd, so thought it needed a new gearbox but it ended up just needing the linkages adjusting, i knew it was rotten underneath so had it all welded up and waxoiled for the mot, new brake lines in, bits and bobs here and there and then boom, 12m mot, taxed and insured and off we go, still looks tatty as hell!
So until I sold the 8v (no one could understand why I would sell the mint 8v for this 16v) I didn't have the cash to do much so I swapped the joey'ed lights, black badges, and momo wheel off the 8v, bought some plates, red anni stripe from halfords, new OEM polo aerial to replace the metal exposed one, got the rusty front grill sanded down a sprayed, new 16v badges, a load of missing trim clips, anything to tart it up without costing much.
In need of a clean but front end lookin better
Then with the money I had from the 8v I started sourcing more stuff, the suspension was sky high and a right state, seized and banging all over the place, so bought coilovers and replaced front and back top mounts and axle bushes with febi/bilstein stuff so the suspension side was sorted. Sourced a magnex exhaust as the standard one was rotten so you couldn't see the tailpipes. New starter motor, cambelt, big service, painted the calipers red again while it was on the ramp as well.
Some pics of the work being done...
And after a clean up.....
It felt like a new car, just needed a power steering pump which Screech16v kindly gave me, free of charge i might add. It was after meeting him and seeing his 1.8t mk3 that my intention to start on he bodywork took a back seat. "Are you going to do the usual chip, induction kit, exhaust and stuff get it go a bit faster" he said, "I've got some bits you might like from when I had the ABF in" yes I thought, bodywork can wait, I'm going to do the 1/4 mile at inters soon so let's make it faster!
Got a k&n induction kit for peanuts off eBay and fitted that myself after much dicking about (I'm not the most mechanically minded) which I know won't do much but it sounds purposeful at least and bought screech's old chip (he kindly gave up an evening fitting the chip ready for inters a few days later) and sorted out some air leaks and tighten up the top mounts I hadn't noticed were loose!!! Can't big this guy up enough, he's a top geezer!!!
And the next thing you know it's last weekend and its drag racing time baby!!!
Ill get some of me when I was on the strip when I download them off my camera...
Some nice shots on that sunny weekend after some pretty poor 18sec quarter miles due to my inexperience and getting my bottom smacked by the revo demo car in this months pvw and a 300bhp v10 toureg!
So that's all for now, next up is the body work, managed to source rust free doors, a bonnet that doesn't look like its been used for target practice and a new front wing to get rid of that horrible rust scab.
When I can afford, I want to get all the little rust scabs sorted before putting these on so it stays rust free.
On the way back from inters the back arch spat rusted off revealing his....
So I removed the other one to be faced with even worse horror!!!
So I'm going to look into the weld in arches you can get. The car is a keeper so going to cut out the rot and weld new in.
Will keep updated on the work.....
