F17 BAD, Black OEM+ Golf mk3 GTI - MTM'd - S3 POWERED!!!!!!

Looks alot better there mate

 

Cheers Russ matey

 

New cambelt kit and water pump now fitted

old water pump was the engines original (40k miles) and its fooked as i expected

zero Impeller left and noisy as hell bearings.

it was so fooked the cambelt was very very loose, so my decision to not drive it the last few days till i sorted a new waterpump was a good one.

anyhow, here is the old waterpump



Here is pic of new one to compare



Car now all back togeather and ready to rock and roll :cool:

 

If i were a jelous sort i'd really, reall hate you now!

That water pumps scary! makes me wonder how many 1.8t's are running around with little or no water pump left!

 

cheers matey

and yea, i was thinking the same, well any Vag car from this era onwards.

my replacement is genuine audi, the guy was saying they only make the plastic ones now for the entire VAG range but the new ones are uprated so hopefully ill be all good for another 40k+ miles lol

They are not expensive (40) but i decided to swap out the cambelt too seen as it had to be removed to fit the new pump

 

Car now in my mates bodyshop for a full repaint in original L041, i was not gonna leave untill i had made sure zero dust will get to my clean engine, so i stripped the front end of complete, no wings no nothing and spent a further 2 hours coving every gap where dust could get into the bay (did my mates head in haha) then wrapped the front of the car to double make sure haha, will be difficult rolling it into the ovens but hey ho

(Car has full engine undercover too)





will have it back for VW festival - Leeds

 

A few progress shots of the respray, shell is painted, all panels and glass removed











Taking it back to bare metal, using a black coloured Primer to help hide any future stonechips






Should have car back this coming week


Also had some S3 decals made up to replicate those found on the S3 clocks

 

Sooooo nice! I had a black mk3 vr and hated it, but this is in another league! Very good attention to detail man good work! Engine looks factory too, sweet!

Why the new paint? Looked V clean already!

 

Cheers mate

New paint was just me been super OCD i guess..

i had a few age related stone chips to the front, and planned on just re painting this part. One of my best friends owns a bodyshop, he told me he wanted to paint the whole car. Think he wanted to put his name to the car really and he sorted me such a great price i could not refuse.

 

Small video with some of the conversion pics all thrown in...

http://youtu.be/xWr-YsCTmVo

 

A few pics of where we are at with the car as per yesterday

Got the remaining parts prepaired up and into primer (used Black primer)







Then got the Black coat on too





Then Started to flattern down and polish up the parts



whilst he was on with that i took the chance to roll the shell outside and check to see if my superb engine covering up kept all the dust away - it has to perfection not a spec of dust in sight





looking at getting it back midweek ready for VW festival

 

Back from paint - im happy :-)

 

Great work, you've managed to improve the perfect Mk3!

 

Cheers mate

 

Reflection shots (and yes the first pic is the actual car bonnet)

 

very very nice tidy install!!nice attention to detail and that pic with the reflection

 

Perfection! Couldnt have done this car any better!

 

Cheers guys

some more pics from the other day

















Painted a spare rocker cover

 

As mk3's got this is by far the bet one i have seen!! it is so mean looking i love it