Neo Badness - Oak Green 16v ABF project

[Neo Badness]

Still laid up but can't keep a good Dubber down. Was rummaging in the spare room and happened across this.



Decided to smooth it out and turned it into this



Much better I think you'll agree. Off to munch some more painkillers...

[Neo Badness]

Mmmm, pain killers



Feeling much improved but work and life in general seems to get in the way of getting proper stuck into the Golf, however there has been progress...

My 4-wire Lambda turned up after delays with the snow



As did my stainless steel h/t bolts



Test fitted my strutbrace I got with the car, suffice to say it fouls the master cylinder



Got stuck in about the rear arch





Chopped off the rotten bit of sill too



Clean up and treated the metal behind then got on with stiching in some new metal



looked like this when tacked in place



Called it a night at that

[Neo Badness]

So I got a bit side tracked and built this to help when I'm airbrushing





Then I got on with what I was supposed to be doing, sill taked in place.





bead welded and ground down



Got an idea for a grill I picked up so primed this in preperation, only seen one other like it and that was in Germany



Removed a whole load of useless wiring, I did double check that the car still starts.



Stripped the interior out a bit to get at the rusty floor panel



Light above



Light below, fred flinstone eat your heart out



The best kind of tea an biscuits? Unsolicited ones.



Had a grotty bit of sill here too



Marked it out



Chopped it off and treated behind it



Fitted it up



Welded it in



Ground down ( Albeit this is Alex having a bash)



Zinc/etch primed and ready for some body filler




Also tracked down a replacement and swapped out the starter as the old one died

[Neo Badness]

There's been more stuff happening but I haven't uploaded pic's as yet.

Cheers for looking

NB

[tech1889]

need progress pics !

[Mr Blue]

subscribed. As above^

[Neo Badness]

Cheers guys, unfortunately things aren't going too well at the moment, having to rethink the welding in the floor as it was supposed to be straight forward patch repair but has been anything but.

I will update more when I've done a bit more worth updating.

[Neo Badness]

Not been feeling the love much of late for the Mk2 but have been trying to stick at it. Some photo's

Mr B puts in an appearance to lend his fabrication skills, Alex popped up too but I didn't get a photo. Cheers guys 





New floor tacked in



Ground down and Sealed



Underside



Undersealed/ stonechipped



One of the piles of scrap I've pulled off the car



Interior back in, mostly.



Spare door straightened and primed after getting walloped in storage...



Bit of colour on the door jambs prior to fitting



Shiny, still to be lacquered too, so quite pleased.



Done a bit more but haven't taken photo's. More to come but thanks for looking,

[Neo Badness]

Reet, few things arrived in the post over the past few days.

Perhaps a little ahead of schedule but it was a bargain so had to get it, completely unmolested, all sensors and even has a new filter in it.



Got my new compressor from my folks as a b'day present so kudos to them.



Got one of these, 420lbs of torque. Nice.




  Bought myself one of these, apparently the hose is guaranteed....forever

My BBS caps have seen better days so I found some suitable OEM ones I had lying around from another project for time being.



And in our spot the difference round, all replaced with VAG oem bits, bar the poly bits, which cost less than expected.







Finally got round to start stripping the wishbones that I got off Boab.



But more on them later...

[Neo Badness]

Right was hoping to have this MOT'd, it failed 


Front nearside wing repeater missing
Front offside wing repeater missing
Rear nearside wheel bearing excessive play
Rear offside wheel bearing excessive play
Fuel pump loose
Incomplete weld within 30cm of body mounting (not my welding I hasten to add)

So, people who say that you can get through an MOT with smoothed wings on a post '87 are talking balls. That was even with Alex talking to an MOT tester friend of his to double check that it'd be ok.

So in process of reinstating wing repeaters, albeit mk3 items as it'l go with my ABF if/ when i fit it.

Sorted the wee bit of sill that was ropey, this was the welding from a "professional body shop," that was previously hidden by the 90 spec body kit. Anyhoo I've sorted their bodge and think that this will hope fully be he last of them. They were the ones who put the sunroof drain in the boot, which I've reinstated correctly now. See if people just did their jobs properly.... 
See below


Anyway, pic's









Mk3 indicators in a mk2 wing, will post up some pic's when I'm a bit further on. Anybody else seen it done before?
I've subsequently tinted the indicators as the orange ones are horrid.

New fog, indicator, brake bulbs etc




Mr B working his magic fingers to get the lights working again, a saga in itself.






Replaced the rotten passenger door (cheers to Alex for his door holding skills and for the 2 spare wheel bolts at 1230am)


Naff new door handles, but at least I can now lock my car... Hurrah!

Will be booked for a retest in none too distant future.

Oh and I got offered an unconditional place to do my VRQ in Body and Paint