Mk2 GTi Syncro Build - Operation MOT

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  1. Tristan

    Tristan Paid Member Paid Member

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    Nice to have even half that job ticked off the list!
     
  2. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Tell me about it! Even one thing would be nice
     
  3. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    I will finish the underside of this car!!!!


    just not today.
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  4. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Well this is awful beyond limits A3D66325-363A-410C-BB4A-D35C1A8327B1.jpeg
     
  5. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    So I’ve stripped most of the sealer off, mostly finished my boot floor until I ran out of welding gas. I was going to spend the evening welding but that’s put a stop to it.

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    Pretty happy with the outcome, just need to finish tidying it up and seal it up.


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    This is where I’ve been left..

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  6. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Here’s a few of the boot floor. Due to my awful cutting skills with a grinder, I’m used to nice guillotines for straight lines, the parts didn’t fit too well so it left me with a few gaps to fill with weld, oh well!
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    Stripped an arch too.

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    and this to tidy up when I finish stripping

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  7. Vinnie Paid Member Paid Member

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    Looking good Sam at this point I was on the phone to heritage. Looks like you have a good one
     
  8. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    No rust here sir!

    I would have left it standard if it was rusty [:D]
     
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  9. Tristan

    Tristan Paid Member Paid Member

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    Big milestone, Master W!

    It's almost weirdly pleasurable in a sado masochist kind of way.... I took 17 effing kg of underseal off my mk1 one Christmas.




    Edited to keep the Feds away from Sam's plans to destabilise the European Union.
     
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  10. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    They’ve found me!! Time to change my name.

    Yeah I know exactly what you mean. It’s very satisfying in a way
     
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  11. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Shhhhhh!!

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  12. Tristan

    Tristan Paid Member Paid Member

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    Oh I say... Jolly good show old(young) boy.
     
  13. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Today has been productive.

    I finished off the boot floor now we have gas.
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    Removed all dodgy under seal.

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    Then started prep for under seal tomorrow.

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    As it looks like I’m away for the next 6 weeks I need to get it out of the garage for dads to come in now it’s painted. So I’m leaving the arches and chassis legs and just need to get it into the floor.

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  14. Vinnie Paid Member Paid Member

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    Winning now mate
     
  15. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Oh and I sealed it Up

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  16. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Oh damn.

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  17. Savagesam

    Savagesam Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Look at me go.

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    I bet your neighbors love you :lol:
     
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  19. Tristan

    Tristan Paid Member Paid Member

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    Same colour as your Dad's, Sam?
     
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  20. dodgy

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    Good work Sam, neighbour's not got a two tone car now though have they? Years ago my mate sprayed his mini red, then saw the white xr2 nearby was a lovely shade of pink.
     
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