That sounds a good price, did you get any discount on that ?
When i get round to affording that job il give
them a call etc.

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I doff my cap to you mate, exceptional job so far

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Dan

Thanks for the comments guys
There wasn't any discount on the front seats - this is what he quoted for replacing all the alcantara, sorting out the foam bits and the leather where it was slightly worn.

Little update - between showers I've managed to get a few more parts installed into the engine bay. Took me a few attempts after forgetting to install the long brake lines that go to the rear of the car:


Got my aux. pulleys and brackets back from my mate. Since Rich's puleys are meant for the GTI6 I managed to press out the old spindles from the mounting plates and designed my own so I could take advantage of these using 2 of the smaller variety.



Managed to get the back end of the car painted too and re-installed the fuel tank. Since the cradle was a mess I got the rotary sander out and gave it all a good clean, Kurust and a good dousing of hammerite:


With all the showers last week I descided to strip the engine down to see how it was fairing up - not that well unfortunately. Just caught the head gasket in time. One of the metal plates had cracked between pistons 1 and 2, pretty much all the exaust valves have been passing to some degree and the inlet valves only have about 1mm of seating surface
Head off;


Block:


Muccy pistons:


Sump removed


One passing exhaust valve:


After a good cleaning and painting the block looks much better now:

Its been a while since I've posted an update and was also on a nice relaxing holiday in Cyprus

Got the pulleys mounted to see if they fit OK. Had to do a little filing on the back side to get the weld flush but they fit fine now.


Got the head back after a skim and fitted all the valves back in. Nearly forgot that the bottom spring retainer has to be installed before putting the valve stem seal on!! It tool me about 2 hours to get the valves seated
All back together:


And re-attached to the block with a pug gasket:



Got a few components added and got the engine outside ready to made up with the gearbox. Got Rich's lightened flywheel too to compliment the pulley


And also sourced a brand new exhaust manifold last year so thats gone on too:


Got a new clutch fitted (so much easire using an aligning tool) got the box on and finally got them into the engine bay where they belong

WOW that sure has come along way, what have you used to paint the bits silver, seems a real good paint?

Carl

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LOL at carl jizzing in his pants

Top effort going on here. Hats off.

Oh question. How easy/hard is it to detach the rear brake lines from the rear beam/hubs? As i'm going to have to remove my beam in the very near future and the only real obstacle i can think of is these line

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From memory the only brake lines I needed to undo were where the 2 long lines from the front of the car where they join the rear section. I sprayed them with release oil and left them for a few minutes and they came apart OK. The rest just need to be removed from the retaining clips.

I needed to support the beam under the disks and the central tube whilst undoing the mounting bolts. Take it nice and steady and you shouldn't damage the baffle plates at the back of the disks (as mine did when a brick moved and they hit the floor).

How the f*ck did i miss this thread.

Fantastic job. Well wear

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Looks something special mate. Excellent work

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Its been a while since I've posted about progress but here ges...

Managed to get the new heater matrix sorted and back into position. It wasn't without hick-up though - thought all was in until my mate noticed that an o-ring had come off so I had to remove the heater box again to get the swine on!!

After that I concentrated on getting the rear beam sorted. Its been sat in the back yard for a few weeks so decided to tackle it. The mounts had pretty much had it after 100K miles. The rubber was cracked in numerous places so they had to be replaced with something better - Miles to the rescue
Knackered rear mount


General condition of the rear beam although bearings turned out to be OK with no indexing



Decided on Fiat yellow and good old Pug cherry red for the colours and got going with the rattle cans. Since its been nice I managed to get it mounted with the solid rear mounts, this is what the rear looks like now:



A view of the front mount - nice and new!!


Next was the rear brake compensator thingy. Never seen a real benefit of this since my GTI never had one. One bit nice and rusted in position:


Also the spring bit that attaches to it:


After a good seeing to with a wire brush, release oil and some spray it looks a lot healthier and also works with a red spring too:



Bit more work done on the front. I've managed to get the front suspension sorted:


And a few more bits added to the engine:

I'll pop over to Carl and ask him to polish my engine bay!!

Got one black, one white - who's going to do a Cherry?????..............

I love seeing them done like this, its great when i see someone else do it?

Great work, look a piece of art.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo