Author Topic: hyland770 - "Euro 95" (Read 7081 times)

hyland770 · « **Reply #1 on:** 03 January 2010, 02:55 »

Thank you JV for setting this up....

Right well lets get on with it then, bought the car for £300 with 70,000 on the clock and partial service history from scarborough, drove 6 hours there to get it only to find on the journey back that it had a really bad slipping clutch not fun when your trying to join a motorway!

So got her home and got the clutch done and gave her a bloody good clean, then over the last few months did lots of little things like, gave her a stubby mk4 knob and gaiter, drilled the airbox and gave it a cold air feed going from the bumper vents into the airbox and just generally kept her clean and running straight.

Then last week i bought some coilovers and fitted them, and now she is dropped by about 60mm (not sure how much exactly but i know on the back theres 8cm of thread left to lower here by and on the front there is 6cm) And i think she looks good at this height.

My vision is for an old skool looking euro/surf car as i do a lot of surfing and often drive around to surf spots. I want the car looking good (subtle mods) but to have functionality too.

With this in mind the next mods are: debadged grill, and a roofrack (for my boards) the roofrack will help with the euro look i think? Also i want to smooth the bumpers and get rid of the rear wiper and badges.

Pics up tommorrow (i dont think at 2.53am the pics would be very good!)

hyland770 · « **Reply #2 on:** 04 January 2010, 21:23 »

Right so lets crack on with some pics....(i apologise for the quality, my cameras at uni so im left with my phone, as soon as i get back to uni i will take some decent ones, but for now you get the general idea)

This is stock back suspension strut that i took out to replace with the jamex coilovers:

This is the new jamex suspension strut in its place:

And the front:

This is my stubby knob i made by cutting the gear lever rod that the actual knob attaches too, used a proper pipe cutter tool to do it so its all neat and then used a mk4 gaiter and knob shipped in form Hong kong to complete it, the finished product looks rather splendid i thought and feels very nice too:

hyland770 · « **Reply #3 on:** 04 January 2010, 21:25 »

its really embarrassing at how crap the picture quality is, i will borrow my girlfriends camera and take some good ones tommorrow to give the project a bit more credibility!

hyland770 · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 January 2010, 21:28 »

Today i also got some new front tyres and the tracking done too, also iv done the boot strut bonnet mod and fitted a new headunit, check tommorrow for some decent pics!

hyland770 · « **Reply #5 on:** 11 January 2010, 16:33 »

Finally found a new front bumper too replaced my scarred one! will be picking it up this week and fitting it weather permitting!

hyland770 · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 April 2010, 13:28 »

havent updated in a while so here we go....

Work that has been comleted, new gti seats, new parcel shelf (the other old one snapped), induction kit (with cold air feed

) and dropped even more.

heres some pics to accompany, starting with the new seats:

Next is the induction kit, i did have the modded air box but wanted to hear a bit more of a roar with the lead foot syndrome so as my mate had it lying around i asked if i could have it, he agreed and bam on it went, obviously put a cold air feed into it to help performance....

Next was a clean in preperation for gti festival, not a bad finish i dont think, considering im not using any pro waxes etc just good old turtle wax!!