MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Members Rides => Topic started by: alexperkins on August 15, 2011, 10:10:41 pm
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Only fair to stick a thread up on here too seeing as it was considered to be one of the best GTIs ever made.....
Bought for the grand price of £200, with over 230 000 miles on the clock on the original engine AND gearbox (and yes that is more mileage than it is from here to the moon!!!), it arrived in a somewhat sorry state needing a major amount of work doing to it
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We wanted to keep it as a budget project, so all work was done by myself with dads help including all the welding and other labour intensive tasks that would otherwise cost an absolute fortune!!
All this has been done in the last 7 weeks.....
Camshaft seal
Sump gasket (fibre first, then rubber) and sump bolts
Front wheel bearing
Rear wheel bearings
Exhaust hanger rubbers
Downpipe
Exhaust gasket
Exhaust joint
Steering bellow
Steering knuckle boot
Gearstick gaitor
Dashboard
Horn push
Various fuses
Interior and Door Cards (complete)
Boot shelves
Parcelshelf
Sound insulation in floor
Tailgate
Drivers Door
Passenger window regulator
Aerial
Headunit, Speakers and Sub
Various bulbs
HID kit
Rear bumper iron
16V rear lights
Windscreen
40mm lowering springs
Front top mounts
Bonnet heat insulation
Lower front balljoint
Replacement wiring in various sections
Throttle body and related parts cleaned out
Oil and filter change
Weighted shift rod
Wiper blades front and rear
Drivers mirror replacement adjuster
Door membranes
Body fully undersealed
Handbrake cables
Rear discs and pads
Rear wheel arches completely reconstructed and inner rear wheel arches cut out and new panels welded in
Battery
Washer pump
Smoked front indicators
Smoked side indicators
Armoured door plates
Repinned drivers and boot locks
Petrol tank cap
Various hose clips
Radiator
Coolant change (G12++)
Carpet repaired
Heater matrix air outlets resealed due to air leak
PCV breather hose
Headlining clip in trim
Headlining cleaned
Number Plates
BBS RAs thoroughly cleaned
Areas of rust treated, filled and painted
Rear axle beam bushes
So yes, a pretty busy few weeks!!
Heres a few pictures from along the way :smiley:
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And how it currently stands....
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Comments welcome :grin:
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:congrats: thats a lot of work gone on their. Is it finished now. :happy2:
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Cheers TC
Not finished just yet
Theres still some respraying to do, but apart from that its not far off being done for now!
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Must feel good doing all that yourself. :scared: :notworthy:
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Aye its somewhat satisfying!!
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Fair praise indeed Alex :congrats: we need peeps like you to keep the best looking gti's on the road ... Top quality job it looks like :notworthy:
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Bloody lovely Alex :drinking:
Lot of hard work there.
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Cheers guys... it was blood sweat and tears i tell you!
My arms are still battered to buggery, and I had to get knee pads as I was working so much on it lol
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I feel lazy now after seeing all you have done in 7 weeks.
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Wow! Alex, that's a mammoth task. Well done! :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
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Feckin hell thats a lot of work in a short space of time ! What is the big rusty beam type thing on one of the pics ? Sill ?
So far all ive done is rip out all the interior and nearly all the underside ready for undersealing ( still got all the fuel system to remove though) the only bit on my car ive came accross so far that needs welding is a sill the rest is very solid, it seems like every underside bolt ive removed has broken are you the same ? All brake lines ceased and the rear beam bolts and brake caliper bolts / allan caps had to be ground off, really feel like selling up and concentrating on the mk5 but every time i see a nice mk2 it brings me a couple hours of motivation followed by the rest of the day in the huff because ive smashed my fingers or spent the full day drilling out bolts
Good work mate,You can come and help me now if you want, keep this thread updated too im looking forward to checking the cars progress :happy2:
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That was the remainder of the rear bumper iron! Not much left :signLOL:
Every bolt I removed came out with no problem - 3 in 1 professional penetrating spray is your friend :happy2:
The mk2s are good fun, as are the mk5s but its a different kind of fun if that makes sense
Haha youll have to PM me some pics mate!
Will definitely keep it updated :wink:
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Inspirational stuff there...well done. i would love to do the same but have neither the tools or practical skills! looks absolutely lovely.
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cracking project. i wouldnt be without my mk2 :laugh:
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Yea bud ill pm you some pics, my mk2 gti was originally my first car ! And it had found its way all the way to yoville, i think i well overpaid on it, hay hoe ! One of the bonuses on mine though is it had a brand new ( not reconditioned ) gearbox sourced through vw in 2007, its the latest ive heard off
How was your car under the plastics mate eg arches & sills ?
Good upgrade on the lights too oem ones are pants, and glad too see you have kept the oem grill !
I read something that in the new mot regs hids ect will not pass an mot as off december 2011 so it may be something to watch out for, pitty as i wanted to do mine !
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Would kill for a nice MK2. How much has it cost you to do all that work if you don't mind sharing?
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very nice, great amount of work that you have put in!
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No wonder youve not been answering your phone.. :surprised:
Well done Son :laugh:
Epic buddy :congrats: :congrats:
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Awesome work there Alex, makes me wish I had never sold my MK2 now!
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Under the plastics was all tidy apart from the rear arches and the bumper iron which needed attending to. Sills are all good too!
MOT regs are changing, but its still a bit of a grey area, plus these are 4300K bulbs so look completely OEM (very bright white with almost no blue) unlike a 6000k which is distinctly an HID if you get me. Will deal with it when it comes around....i don't do candle power lol!!
Including the cost of the car, id say about £900 to £1k all in, which isn't too bad really as its a lot of car for the money!
Cheers for all the comments guys. It is epic indeed :party:
Anyhow time for an update.....
Today the mk2 had a full camber and tracking adjustment completed on it. Unfortunately, the wishbone bushes were well past it (still the originals!!!) so rather than faf with pressing the bushes out and all that, managed to blag an absolute bargain on trade at GSF - Two wishbones of top german quality for the huge sum of just £32.
To a normal consumer, these would've been £45 each PLUS vat!!!!
So all in, to get the camber and tracking done with the wishbones swapped, some adjustment to the exhaust and a few other little bits you can only do on a ramp cost just £75 plus the cost of the wishbones - pretty damn good id say! (about 4 hours work for 3 people!!)
Also, did this tonight....
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Bit of red retro coach lining. Was only 50p for a 10M roll so i thought why not!!
Also attempted to change the rocker cover gasket to find out GSF had completely ballsed up as usual and given me a Polo 1.3 rocker gasket instead of a Golf GTI....bloody useless in there I swear!!!
Anymore more updates to come soon :happy2:
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No wonder youve not been answering your phone.. :surprised:
Well done Son :laugh:
Epic buddy :congrats: :congrats:
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Cheers Dad :love: haha
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looks lovely
would love to do something like this
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Jealous much rich?
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Jealous much rich?
Nooooooo..... :sad1:
Although i am a little sad that you have not followed the 'scene' and put some hideous alloys on it. :popcornsoda:
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:congrats: Great job you've done there, well worth the blood, sweat and tears. I'd love to restore a Mk1 but don't really have the time. I used to have a Lhasa Green one but sold it about 10 years ago, wish I hadn't now :sad1:
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Jealous much rich?
Nooooooo..... :sad1:
Although i am a little sad that you have not followed the 'scene' and put some hideous alloys on it. :popcornsoda:
So you'd like me to put some hideous alloys on it :signLOL:
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Jealous much rich?
Nooooooo..... :sad1:
Although i am a little sad that you have not followed the 'scene' and put some hideous alloys on it. :popcornsoda:
So you'd like me to put some hideous alloys on it :signLOL:
Yeah... preferably porsche or bbs split rims, and they must fit very badly and have stupid stretch on the tyres. :wink: ( they have to be at least 2x the value of the car too)
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:signLOL: i know where you are coming from....shocking isn't it
Originality is the name of the game (at least from my point of view!)
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Little update....
The windscreen started leaking majorly at the bottom where it had been replaced and the seal didn't appear to have sealed :signLOL: Called the windscreen people back and they have now sealed it up so that should be the end of that!
Picked up a first aid box holder on ebay earlier in the week as mine was missing
Smoked front/side indicators now fitted so it looks much cleaner
Rocker gasket now replaced with a rubber one from a MK3 (after much fuss with getting new studs as the existing ones are for cork gaskets only!)
Bit of paintwork done, but only a tie over till I have a chance to spend some proper time sorting it out
More updates to come soon! :happy2:
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Looks great :happy2:.New seats or just covers?. :smiley:
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New seats buddy. The others were completely destroyed (frame aswell)
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There's something oddly appealing about the Mk2. I have fond memories of building with a friend one with a 1.8t and ATB, and surprising the hell out of people on road and track.
I'd quite fancy putting a tfsi (qpeng plug and play kit) into one now...........
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Mk2 Looks good, nice work :happy2:
There's something oddly appealing about the Mk2. I have fond memories of building with a friend one with a 1.8t and ATB, and surprising the hell out of people on road and track.
I'd quite fancy putting a tfsi (qpeng plug and play kit) into one now...........
That would be immense!!! A TFSI in a Mk2 Golf shell would shift on!
I know a guy who is installing one into a Corrado shell at the minute.
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That would be immense!!! A TFSI in a Mk2 Golf shell would shift on!
I know a guy who is installing one into a Corrado shell at the minute.
A friend of a friend (Ben Leach), has had a tfsi in a mk2 gti for the past year and a bit, coupled to a mkv 6-speed gearbox (the one from the 6 speed 2 litre fsi, not gti), and by all acounts it's a great laugh.
I've done a K04 (mapped to 270bhp) in a Corrado with Quaiffe ATB, 4-pots, with suspension mods, and that was a hoot. Possibly not quite as stealthy as the Golf, as folk seem to expect the Corrado to have some go to it (even though a VR6 / G60 is really very limp).
Fun times....
Anyhow, I'd best not distract from Alex's thread any further!
Best get this back on track.....
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Brilliant work there Alex and Alex's dad :congrats:
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Fair play to you there. Thats an awful lot of work :congrats:. I had a mk1 gti and sold it on when the bills got too high. It just didnt work out as a daily driver for me. I did love it though.
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Cheers guys.
Little update for today....
Had to replace the ARB drop links that mount into the wishbone as they were well past being usable, and corrected the balls up the garage made that fitted the new wishbones as they didn't put a spacer sleeve in, causing the wishbone to knock around - great job they did there NOT!!
Picked up a new bonnet off ebay and fitted it today. Its in much better condition than the previous, but I still DA'd it followed by sealant and wax to keep the shine locked in!
Must say it looks a damn sight better than it did as you can see...
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The project continues!!
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from that...
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amazing buddy :happy2:
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^^^ +1 :notworthy:
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Cheers Guys :happy2:
Theres still a slight knock on the drivers wishbone (i think) so ill have to whip it all off again on the weekend and see whats going on!
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I look forward to admiring the car in the flesh one day, Alex :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
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I let my bro' have a play in my car last night and had to do a double-take when I clocked a certain shiny black mk2! Looks good.
Did you knock out the stock wishbone bushes and fit polyurethane? Did that, and seam welded them, on the 1.8t I did with a friend. Really improved front end precision, and reduced torque steer.
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Think I might've seen you. What GTI is yours remind me :lol:
Nope. Complete replacement wishbones with oem bushes as I wanted to keep the ride comfort and it's past the point where I'd race around in it!!
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Poverty spec silver 07 GTI.
Saw the car parked in the driveway, as driving down LGLR, and had an "eh up...isn't that..?" moment.
We didn't find the swap from GSF rubber to be too harsh, but the dubious quality of the GSF bushes was a constant frustration - the car ate them, even as a stock valver.
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Ah fair play!
Thats cool. Something to consider in the future
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Now up for sale
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