Andys mk1 2.0 16v Build

love the look of the mk1 front end imaculate shell top quality work loving it,

Shaun 4321 you have pm dude!

Cheers corsakid ;)

Little bit pf an update, not much but meh:

Seen as Christmas day has been and gone, more nova mincing was on the cards, but first of all,

Hhhhmmm what could these be:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10904.jpg

Aha, finally got them after seeing them under the tree for a good month i'm finally allowed to have them (thanks laura :d), the finish on them is awesome, and they seem to be of a real good quality!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10905.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10906.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10909.jpg

Not sure what this is though, i think I may have to take the top mount off this one and put the circlip back in, this is how it came but looking at the other strut there is supposed to be a circlip and that ring in there! Anyone any ideas?

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10912.jpg

I'm quite pleased that the eccentric topmounts have arrived black aswell, i had the idea in my head that they were going to be silver because when i ordered the coilovers the colour of the topmounts didnt even enter my head but i think the black will look good against the red engine bay!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10910.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10911.jpg

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Nice little shiny adjuster!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10917.jpg

and the stig on guard!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10919.jpg

Im really excited about fitting these now, should hopefully be going on over the next couple of weeks when me and Lee H get a little bit of time, so pictures will follow when they are fitted :cool:

They look nice, looking foward to seeing them fitted.

This afternoon i managed to do a couple of hours on the car to get something done thats been bugging me for ages :tard:

A few pages back i posted up some pictures of the underneath of the car all clean and undersealed etc but hadnt done the rear beam and it looked terrible, so...........

One dirty old rear beam, not as bad as i have seen some though:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10931.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10932.jpg

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It was just a bit dirty really so i gave it a bit of a clean and masked up the handbrake cable, solid brake lines and stuff and was left with this because i ran out of time!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10941.jpg

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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10946.jpg

The plan is to let that dry and then do another couple of coats and go over bits i've missed etc but look smiles better already IMO!

While i was in the garage i thought i would take some pics of recently built up shafts that are now painted, and painted rear drums which looked awful before:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10935.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10939.jpg

And lastly a couple of upto date engine bay shots, i think the only addition may be the exhaust manifold heatshield that i've fitted:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10920.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10925.jpg

I desperately need to make a scuttle cover as i need to get all the sins behind there hidden haha, thats on the list of things to do though and will probably end up looking at that in the new year!

Thats it for now, enjoy :thumb:

Some tidy work there fella. Hope to see the car at some shows this year?

Nick.

Looks well fella!

Inspiring me to get in the garage tomorow and crack on!

If you need a template for a scuttle cover Andy you can use mine, I think Lee has a cardboard template or he did do a whilst back

Edit, Did the top mounts come with the shocks? Did you get them through Png?

Cheers Nick, yeah i'm hoping to attend most of the shows with it this year, the plan is to have it ready for pv really and then see what happens from there :cool:

Thanks Matt, get in there with the heater on and get going!

Graeme - Cheers dude, i think i'll take you up on that mate, pm en route :thumb: Yeah the topmounts themselves were supplied from GAZ aswell as the shocks, it came about this way because i rang GAZ first of all with the intention of me ordering top mounts from compbrake and them sending them to GAZ and they would tailor the struts to suit the mounts. After having a couple of conversations with Dave Lion i think hes called from GAZ whos really helpful, he said that they can just supply the topmounts for a similar price that compbrake would and then theres less messing involved. So they just built the struts up with the topmounts they supplied and sent it all out to me built up. I didnt order them through the club but when i rang i told them that i was a full club member and that there is a deal in place for PNG members and they said yeah thats no problem at all :cool:

Top set of people at GAz they are really helpful!

Brilliant mate, I've got a brand new set of Compbrake top mounts here and if you don't mind I'll uses your name, to get the same set up when I order mine in mid January