I got my azevs on today, and because they are 16's, they fill the arches more and the height was awesome, so it looks more slammed, which is phat. the azevs themselves look phat too. took the centres out so the bolts show. Looks better this way, cause it emphasises the dish.
But of course, as it did before it rubbed like a b!tch. So a quick call to my m8 and he comes over with his arch roller. Its awesome, made it himself. Uses a genuine vw widow maker jack and the centre of a nova steel wheel and then a few various bits welded on and then a roller. Yeah the paint cracked a bit, which was going to happen and found out that the front arches will probs need replacing, but got spares somewhere i think.
Got pics of the rolling, but cba to upload atm lol, wil get them up when i can some pics of the car as it is now. Daylight is limited now
Also wired the headlights into the remote central locking. Couldnt figure out how to wire in the hazards. got the right wire for them, etc and had all right, but it didnt work, so i gave up and just wired it to the headlights. So now when i lock/unlock it, the headlights flash instead of the hazards. which is good enough for me. Shady, i can show you on sunday or pm me and i can tell you, not hard at all, no soldering or cutting wires.
Ok and because the azevs look soooo phat, plans have changed lol. Still looking at gti's, but i reckon i might keep the 1.4 as a project.
Badly needs discs on the back, so need the entire subframe, etc off a mk3 gti, then use mk2 discs to keep it 4 stud. then for the fronts mk2 hubs and mk3 everything else (calipers, carriers, discs).
Now i am going to go ahead with the paintwork and bodywork. Me and my m8 are going to go around the entire car looking for imperfections, dents, etc and mark them. Going to make the entire body mint. Repair any rust that we find, although i dont think is much if any. Going to go with smoothed bumpers and a badgeless grill. Might smooth off sides too. Smoothed boot, but might keep the license plate bit.
Then prime it and get it all sanded and smooth ready for paint. Now for paint, i going with matt paint, but not sure on color, matt black had been played, matt green is phat, but still played. Thinking matt blue, like a really rich dark matt blue. Would be phat.
So i could be rolling to the yeovil meet in primer, depends how things go. probs not though, cause smoothing it out takes ages.
Got mot/tax/insurance coming up soon, so need to get that all sorted.
Then once all this is done, then its engine time. Totally dont know what to do here. 1.8t would be nice, vr would be nice, even a 2.0 8v would be good. Depends on money, time and difficulty. But it is in need of a new engine, 1.4 is just too slow!