Sparkys ***built Nt Bought*** Mk5 Golf Build

time for a small update lads havin loads of bother wih the car latey!! the sealer i used to seal my wheels all broke away form the wheel and they all started to leak, broke the back wheel arch twice as well.. so been drivin about with primer all up the side of her - a side skirt too which ant to good... all being good will have the rear arches reworked and sitting far better than before for castlewellen... the crack in the arch was the secend time it broke and its stiill a work in porgress still have to extend the rear bumper and give the arch a bit more work as its only 60% complete









and a few quick pics

busted the sump on thursday night so striped the sump and engine mounts off the car and found that the engine can only be raised on the drivers side.. the passanger side mount dont sit flat on top of the chassis leg but is notched down! when the spacer is put in its bringing the gearbox up and is touching the chassis leg

so its only the drivers side i can raise so the sump is going to be plated and the drivers side mount is going to have costom spacers made for it hopefully all will be sorted soon









finally got the sump and engine raised after a week for messing about with it and collected there boys last night.. 2 rear firestone bags





and i few pics of the jetta front and the de-chroming and smoothing of the grill mask







as a result of rasing the engine a ive also had to do a notch.. as the drive is banging like mad so ive spent the last 4 hours cutting it out didnt think it was gonna be as hard to cut as it was but i got there in the end





and the sump all plated up



a couple of the finished notch



tidy up the wipers and wiper panel today





and also striped out the headlining and done it black









bigger bigger bigger archs FTW had too fix the brokin arch anyways so thought wile i was at it i might as well try and get rid off some extra poke thats been bothering me


binned for extra lowness :thumb::thumb:



and growing bigger by the day





primed





all fnished up for the third time



a few pics from today

Alot of good work. keep it up!

QUOTE (RetroMk2 @ Jul 5 2011, 09:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Stunning!! def one of the nicest mk5's iv seen. The wheels are crazy cool!!

thanks fella the fronts are going an inch wide soon as the girlfriendis gettin me new lips for my birthday

and the battery and fuse box will be makin there way out of the bay soon enough so smoothing can begin,cant wait to have the bay smoothed

QUOTE (zipupurmickey @ Jul 5 2011, 09:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Alot of good work. keep it up!

will do have loads planed for it

QUOTE (sparky1 @ Jul 5 2011, 09:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>thanks fella the fronts are going an inch wide soon as the girlfriendis gettin me new lips for my birthday

and the battery and fuse box will be makin there way out of the bay soon enough so smoothing can begin,cant wait to have the bay smoothed

Sweeeeet!! look forward to seeing it. by the looks of the work so far, the bays gonna look nice!

QUOTE (kadett 244 @ Jul 6 2011, 10:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Love this car, see it a few times at various shows and it really stands out!

I have to admit, when I read the title, I nearly didnt bother looking, I assumed it would have halfords alloys tinted windows etc etc

thanks mate i think i need to change the title

QUOTE (Camillus O' D @ Jul 5 2011, 10:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Love this kind of build. A proper F--in job. Looks nuts

QUOTE (sparky1 @ Jul 6 2011, 11:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Gethin has them mate sorry

lookin for 2.5's for the front now tho if you know where any are?

That fecker

Join the club I can't find any 2nd hand, cheapest place to get them new is here.

QUOTE (Carden @ Jul 6 2011, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>That fecker

Join the club I can't find any 2nd hand, cheapest place to get them new is here.

i know smaller lips are much easier found thanks for link mate, there a right bit cheaper threre i think tunershop are lookin 158 and these are 112