My Mk2 sprint & Hill climb car resto, Vids & pics now up

Well at least i have been able to salvage something out of the G60t being binned. I swapped it for this little baby.

Its a 1987 MK2 small bumper 16v which come with loads of history and it has only covered 115K miles

The car came to me as a track car so it has been on a diet, usual lightened doors, weld in Safety Devices roll cage, H&R ARB's, 280mm front brakes, buckets seats, harness, poly bushed wishbones and rear beam. A set of spax coil overs and two sets of wheels.

My plans are to have a go at the Scottish sprint and hill climb season next year, this means that the for me to run in class A2 (production car class) it needs to but some weight back on[:^(]
I headed off to the scrap yard this morning and picked up a full interior complete with GTI head lining and have fitted most of it in.
Before

After

Over the winter I plan pulling the engine out and giving it all a clean and tidy up ready for next year.

Stuck on my rallye wheels so see how they where for clearance

Was surprised how they fitted snug in the arches being 7 x 16 et 27.
I have a set of TH 7 x 15 et 27 I think they would fit well with a set of 205 x 50 x 15's for road wheels.
I also fitted a most important addition to the sticker collection the car has, a CGTI sticker...

 

May see you at Fintray then ...

 

It looks very clean. Has it had the bodywork minted up?

 

thats the plan..

 

The previous owner did...

 

Compos look great on it Davey!

 

thats what i thought....

I will use 195 x 50 x 15 for competition, there is a whole load of banter going on just now as the Scottish Hill climb rules are changing for 2010 to match the MSA English ones and part of that is production cars being able to run on 888 and the like. Should be interesting!!

 

Looks very decent!

What scrappy do you use that has a MK2 GTI in??

 

it was a swap wasn't it?

 

+ a few irish punts, tesco vouchers, empty crisp packets and fag ends........

 

Not much left of it now, it was a rust bucket.

Found a non sun roof shell as well, going to see if a can get a V5 for it

 

nice. looks like it will be handy tool.

 

A couple of better photos of the TH rims

 

Would the car have been at knockhill on the 23rd August?

 

Looks the business on the TH's

shame about the mk3, i liked that a lot

 

Yes the guy who used to own it just lived 10 minutes away form the circuit.

 

That looks a sweet car Dave. I'm glad the deal worked out and you are happy with the car.

It looks great on the Rallye's compomotives! Is that a set of TSW Evos in black that the car came with?? Retro!

My dad had a red 16V on those wheels when I was about 10-11.

Side exit is unusual. Loud?

Should make it along to watch some of the sprints next year.

 

Yes it came with the TSW Evo's and a set of road wheels !

You were right it sound lovely, the exhaust is not to loud, should meet the regs.

 

jaye's old car. it's been in the hands of dan the man for the mechanicals so should be in very good running order. give me a shout if you want danny's number to check anything that was done.

 

Cheers!
Jaye did say it was Dans work..