mark-mk3gti - 8v GTI

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looks good the shelf, you didnt fancy just using back to black on your plastic, I do mine once a month and they always look like new

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hey mate, yeah it is an option, but id soon get fed up repeatedly doing it, and the cost, where as 12quid and its primered and painted and wont need doing again for a while (hopefully )
gotta do the arches and bumper tops aswell cos previous owner colour coded them and i want to put them back.

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fitted a debadged grill today, and then but the gti badge back on   think i need to spray the lower plinth to match car,

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sorry its being a while,  just got my longbeach alloys back from my mate who got em poweder coated white for me, looking fwd to getting them fitted at the weekend, thou now i need to decide what other suttle whiteness i should add, any ideas? was thinking fuel flap...

at mates work, waiting to come home


at home and opened to have a look at one..


they are definately white now

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Hi all, being a while sorry, had a lot on..

So here's a few shots taken a while back with the white longbeaches on

Take 1


Take 2


Take 3 close up of one wheel

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Being having the dreaded cut out while driving last few months also, being driving me mad, have tried a few things including, oil n filter change, air filter, coil pack, and cleaned tb.
Was good for a few days but happened again, so last week fitted a coolant temp sensor and cleaned the throttle body again with carb cleaner and replaced gasket, and also took the plunge and removed the maf and cleaned it up, very carefully, and touch wood it appears to be better..

MAF


Used cotton buds to carefully remove the soot and carbon build up of the delicate sensor..

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(touch wood) success with cutting out issue, took the plunge again and me and my pa changed the crank sensor,

it all looked fine until i went to remove it, after finally getting to it, lol,



after getting it out and had it in my hand, the plastic had cracked and also the wires were so brittle, i cud see the outer protection was cracked and when i peeled it a bit it was all like this inside..

replaced it with a gsf part 48+vat and runs well now, (touching wood again!)

also have being cleaning and messing bout, car has replacement drivers door, (no rust) and also tailgate, (no rust) few stone chips around, but looking to get them sorted,

also have a bonnet bra now on, and plan to put full frontal bra on soon, think itll look pretty good when lowered with vr spolier and wind diffusers and front bras on, very eu hopefully..  and dont recall seeing one like this before,,, which is what we all aim for, individuality.

last thing recently is pressed plates and wolfsburg surrounds, think they look spot on,  pics to follow

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at a factory one night, calendar shots..



bonnet bra on

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Hi all, sorry not bein updating much, not being alot going on recently!

Have fitted a better door and hatch which is nice and also pressed plates and wolfsburg surrounds. 

I fitte a cold feed pipe over last few weeks and now starting to mesh the lower front bumper grills, here is the work in progress..

 

And the ducting by lowervent,


The funnel out of the airbox as now has a piperx filter

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Thanks to Len405 for the idea to use the trumpet out of airbox to make an inlet in mesh..

I first drilled around the inside edge of the panels with drill then went round with snips followed by lots of fileing to get at smooth as i can,
sadly i didnt think to take pics of this, wish is unusal as i normally remember lol

then started to fit mesh around the panel


finshed meshing out and also pot rivited into place, with only 2 visible from outside.


then on drivers side cut out a hole for the trumpet making sure to not cut too much out,  then split the trumpet and inserted into mesh, so the mesh was up behind it and not messy looking


drivers finished


drivers side on car and fully installed, small hole made for temp sensor so still where it should be..

passengers just stay as it waas cos nothing to be attached to it..