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Dom's Tornado Red Gti - A bit of detailing
AJP:
Love this. In fact, I remember commenting on the R32 rear. Well, I've got an R32 rear at the bodyshop as we speak and I'm in on the Powervalve group buy. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery..!
Question about the front plate though.. is it undersize? And mounted on a smooth (US) grill? And if so do you get any trouble off the police?
It looks mint. One thing I'd love is a subtle plate that didn't overwhelm the front end like the standard one does. Yours is very tidy and subtle.
Apologies if you've posted about it, just had a quick scan through your build to catch up.
dom069:
Cheers, the R32 rear end is so much better than standard :happy2:
It's a 3/4 size plate with US grill, haven't had any problems with police. I'm on my 3rd one now though. The first was held on by magnets but I lost that when I did the damage underneath, the second was held on my suction cups and I lost that somewhere last week :sad1:
dom069:
It's been a bitter-sweet few weeks with the car. I changed the cam follower a couple of weeks ago, it's done about 30k miles since it was last done so thought it was about time:
Annoying I snapped one of the PCV pipes, it was incredibly brittle. I've bodged it back together temporarily, I have another ready to go on when I find time.
I gave it a long overdue clean!
Then drove up to the lake district where I have bought a new house which has not only a garage but a decent length drive:
Then to bring my back down to reality with a bump I hit a brick whilst doing about 60mph on an a-road, it was in the middle of my lane and it was dark so unfortunately I couldn't do anything to avoid it. I got the car back to where I'm staying, but overnight it decided to have a wee all over my parent's drive...safe to say my dad wasn't too happy!
Got it recovered to a local garage where they were supposed to swap the sump this morning, annoyingly the sump they had ordered didn't have a hole for the oil return pipe. After a couple of hours of desperately trying to get hold of a new sump today/tomorrow the decision was made to use chemical metal as a temporary fix until Monday when it will be changed.
I decided to measure the ground clearance....I think it's time I raised it a bit!
Finally I fitted a newsouth boost gauge that I had from when I had my MK4, it isn't wired in yet because I ran out of time, hopefully will do that at the weekend.
RetroRaz:
Cars looking spot on Dom. Love red GTI's.
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Mitch H:
Great example! What do you think to the coilies? They quite a harsh ride ?
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