QUOTE (Simon @ Jul 5 2012, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Get yourself a heat gun and get yourself onto YouTube for a tutorial on plastic trim restoration with heat or if unsure ask your local motor factor to get you some concept vista trim restorer...

Sound out for that, will do

 

Didnt get that much done today.

Got the carpet in, the back seats and the roof linning as well.

I had handles that flip down from the roof that you hold onto, but now I cant find them anywhere so had to put the normals ones on instead.

 

Here is more pic's of the inside and work I done today

I replaced two of the seat belt holders as they had been chewed up by a dog I reckon and also used two different sun visors as the ones I had were filthy

 

This the original Bathorse and is a warning to anyone wanting to do 60MPH around corners on a wet day going over the Wicklow Gap back in 2001

The dent in the roof is from landing upside down on a tree stump but thank god I have kept it all these years as luckily I can take any spare parts I need off it that I was already suppose to have

She was one of the last 92 MK2's as well a little 1.6 diesel. I put a battery into her the other day turned the ignition on, gave her thirty seconds, done that three times and she started straight away couldnt believe it

Will hopefully get the heating system in and the dash in tomorrow and maybe the seats. Will have to go and pick up the engine and gearbox next time I am home and put it into the car as well but that wont be for another while so hoping to have the interior all done and have all the trim panels on the car by Saturday

 

you gave that a fair slap

 

howya denis! lawd shes looking well! cmere if your looking for interior bits call down when your in cork next. im clearing out the shed and have an absolute rake of interior bits. might do a px on the weatherstrips and door seals on your crashed yoke. talk soon man

 

QUOTE (Madhair @ Jul 6 2012, 10:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>howya denis! lawd shes looking well! cmere if your looking for interior bits call down when your in cork next. im clearing out the shed and have an absolute rake of interior bits. might do a px on the weatherstrips and door seals on your crashed yoke. talk soon man

I will bring down those door seals for ye, will have a look at the weatherstrips and see if they are any good

 

Jaysus you did well to make it out alive in that lol!!

T cut is for paint, not plastics, i wouldnt even put it on paint, its rough stuff! as si said get a heat gun, the buy some chemical guys new look trim gel or it's called
Something to that effect, keep that on it and they will remain black.

 

QUOTE (ShaunieVW @ Jul 6 2012, 11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Jaysus you did well to make it out alive in that lol!!

T cut is for paint, not plastics, i wouldnt even put it on paint, its rough stuff! as si said get a heat gun, the buy some chemical guys new look trim gel or it's called
Something to that effect, keep that on it and they will remain black.

I will get that stuff in the morning and put it on, as tomorrow will be the last day I will be able to work on the car for a while.

I got the heater system for inside the cabin set up today. It was a nightmare as I was missing two parts of it (surprise surprise) and one of the cables were broke.

So I went to my crashed car again and kicked the dash out and then took the heater set up out bit by bit.

I then took the best bits I had from both and used them to make one complete set. I also sealed all gaps I saw with tiger bond and had to use a cable tie to hold the pipeing from the blower motor to the main part to tighten it up and make sure there was not any gaps again.

I also changed out the heater matrix with a new one. I know from the photo's it might not look a huge job but its not tht simple at all and I was dreading it all along.

 

I also put in one of the electric window's, it is a very simple thing to do.

I didnt get it working as I say the way I had them connected up for power wouldnt of been the best so I had to take it back out and I will get it looked at and find out where I was going wong, I could hear the relay clicking but the window wouldnt go up or down so reckon it could be the switches.

Anyway will be restoring the outer trim to its former glory hopefully tomorrow and putting it onto the car and then that will be t for a few weeks

 

Im wondering do you still have the crashed mk2 golf blue car because im looking for the left and the right front pilers windscreen panels that goes inside the wing where the bonnect catchers bolt on to either side and whats the floors section underneath the fronts seats bolt onto are they in good condition or is there rust on any of these parts ?

 

Better update this a bit

Swapped the headliner, which was white for a lovely mint black one

Finally got my AAZ engine home, will rebuild the head and have left the bottom into mechanic to have a look at it for me and to replace the piston rings and big and small end bearings.

1.6 GTD injector pumps arrived from the father land

Bought a new head and currently rebuilding it

New glow plugs

The old head, nothing wrong with it just want to figure out how to rebuild a new one

Valve removed so can order new ones

Injectors removed

Injector removed

AAZ Turbo

The turbo I will be using is from a TDI Bora 150 and the intercooler/radiator setup as well but wasnt let bring them into the house

Two together

Just mocking up how I want the inside to look. I want to put the electric switches for the windows here.

Does anybody have anything that would help them fit here ?

Steering wheel and diesel clocks

Radio and cd changer

I got cardboard door cards with the car and was never happy with them. Ben Sully had some and so meet him and was delighted when he arrived with a set of fiberglass door cards. They are a bit water damaged but far better than them terrible cardboard ones

I also got these panels with speaker mounts and grills and they have little cigarette ash trays built in as well

The water damage is far worse in the photo's. It is not half as visible in person

I put in my black headliner

I also got the flipdown handles and black sun visors to match

My HID conversion kit arrived

Looks impressive, hopefully I dont break it installing it

Boost Gauge and electronic control

I will want to know what my engine is doing so these gauge are for that

This is going to be my exhaust set up, will have to do a bit of modifying to make it fit

I put in a single wiper set up, which I dont like so I am going to swap it out

New door handles, locks and boot lock

I also put in the motors for the central locking

After a good bit of wheeling and dealing got a heap of parts

New brake drum kit

New brake drums and rear wheel bearings

New inlet and exhaust valves, let the lapping begin, I am going to try lap them myself and if I am unsuccessful at it, I will let the professionals do it

New injectors, thanks to DubTechAndy and new glow plugs

New gaskets

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I got a new mint dash to replace my old one. They never undid the three bolts in behind the rain tray taking out the old one for respray and so destroyed the dash by just pulling it out

Anyone any idea how to remove this badge with out ruining the dash

Also finally got the back panels to match my black headliner

Again anyone know how to remove the 8v badge without destroying the dash, any help is greatly appreciated

Thats it for this week tune in next week, same bat time same bat channel

 

nice update

just woundering how much was the rear drum kit and bearings pm if you want thanks