1985 BBS Mk2 GTI Retro K-jet (2021 Update)

Bit of an update

after looking all over this car it is the cleanest mk2 i have ever seen that has been used every day

Spent the last few days cleaning, removing grim, geese, re fitting interior panels and trim,
sorting out what works what dose not.

Getting the radio wiring re done tomorrow as the current weirs have be butchered looks like for amps and base box speakers that are to heavy for the doors so the cards had to come out again as they are beyond repair [:^(] so i stuck my 89 door cards in as they fit like a glove and are clean and never been on car

Started with the boot took everything out and with a good clean polish and wax


steam cleaned the doors and door shuts re greased, this was a pig and took me 3hr to do the 2 doors




that it for the moment will update when my camera has re charged

 

The only real GTIs are K-Jets :-)

 

Been doing a few bits this past week but i keep forgetting to take pics or it is to dark when i finish anyway here is the start of what i was doing last week

Nasty rear pipes


Say hello to wire wheel and Mr polisher


Cleaned the rear bumper with some Vim cream cleaner



More tomorrow

 

Been doing a few more bits as it was suck a nice day i decided to sort out my fan housing as it was letting the look of the Awesome 8V Engine bay down and im fitting my new rad tomorrow so thought it would make it all look nice and fresh. Fitted my new rain scuttle (thanks Rich )

After sanding primed and ready for paint


First layer of paint


Final Finish


Then i cleaned up the fan and motor not that you see it but im sad


Scuttle fitted



More soon

 

loving all the cleaning going on, good work

 

More cleaning today went a bit over the top and did some very questionable cleaning

Shoe polished the carpets to give them there nice black look went mad and did the mats to,

Spent about 20mins cleaning the passengers seat ready for it to go back in the car it was not coming clean so in the end i showed it to the jet was
luckily in my moment of madness it was very very hot day so it dryed off in no time at all

Gave the interior a good clean with some mer vinyl stuff and left it to sock into the dash for a good hour before polishing it up, Then i put my BBS vinyls on which i found of eBay they look a bit more red than the originals would have but i think they look good

Here are the pics Comments as always

New Rad fitted fan back together looks nice and new


The jet washed seat all dry read to go back in the car
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Polished mats look like new again


Interior



BBS Stickers


dodo juice bet wax i have ever used 6.99 for a panel pot but worth it

 

Got this today an excellent fit custom made just got to wait for my golf ball to turn up now

 

Fair play mate looking good. Think i need to get my teeth into cleaning mine up too.

 

Go for it bud but i do go over the top when it come to cleaning i clean were no one will see but she is getting there

Next job is getting the boot welded up as the screw holes have rotted out were the dealer screwed the plates through the body work insted of the correct holes

 

My mum bleaches inside the cistern lid of her toilet, beat that

 

I agree with R.J Sam

Leave it as it is. Looks lovely btw.

I really miss my K-jet 8v. I should of kept the engine when the car was written off, but was young then and didn't bother. Regret it now though.

It started as a 1.3c shell, and i put the 1.8 kjet in from a previous breg 8v i owned.

Im pretty sure these engine are quicker compared to the digi. Not much in it but i think they are.

 

Cheers Mate the vinyl is a long way down the line if i ever get around to doing it

Have a good time at inters gutted i cant make it [:^(]

 

Spent the late morning and after noon fitting my new door mirrors changes the glass in both mirrors and cleaned them up got some new Bosch+ wiper blades which are very good, better than the eBay gash Aero ones that were on there


Old door mirrors previous owner didn't even bother to take the glass out when he sprayed them up


New window trim fitted


And the proper door mirrors




More on Monday when some more parts arrive

 

Sam, just found this on ebay.



Definitely think the black bumpers work well

 

I do like the Alloys

Yeah they work well on that golf but few things make it look odd

A: the doors are wrong

B: the car has side trim so it goes with the bumpers i don't think my car looks nice with black bumpers

C: if i did make my bumpers black it would be like very other mk2


I don't know what to do maby ill take some pics today and ask wez to shop them for me

 

why dont you just swop the bumpers off the red one on to it and see what it looks like?

 

Was thinking about it today but when i had stopped work on Red i was so hot and bothered i didn't want to start any other jobs may do it tomorrow

 

cheers John think im going to stick my bumpers on see what it looks like

 

Seen this on ebay and thought of your car. It's a white mk2 but with black bumpers - ebay 170504884752. My grandfather back in the day had a couple of white mk2's with the bbs kit fitted and they really stand out from the crowd - great looking car mate, keep the updates coming. I'll try and get some photos for you.