ste - 106 GTi FINALLY STRIPPED

[Ste]

we'll only had it for just over a week havent really done much with it yet apart from enjoying driving it and giving it a wash and polish yesterday

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00326.jpg
quick pic of when i first went to look at it

slightly better pics i took on the way to shells yesterday

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00347.jpg

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scrubs up well doesnt it?

[Ste]

started collecting parts for it too

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00332.jpg

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and i'll be having a go at rubbing down and polishing up my rocker covers some time in the next week or so aswell

then the next job after that will be collecting all the bits i need to sort the handling and brakes out oh and n nice new set of wheels not sure what i'm going for yet though so any suggestions or photoshops are welcome :)

[Ste]

God I want a white 106 - you have no idea how close I am to handing my car to a bodyshop!

Gear shifter looks serious - and good choice in strut brace :D

had both of them on my vts,the b&m was spot on cant wait to get it on the gti and the strut brace is the easiest one to fit as you dont have to move anything about LOL :D

haha phil your going to permenantly skint at this rate

lookin quality mate cant wait to see it on some new rims and lowered!

that makes two of us mikey i need more money and fast

Very very nice Ste, bet your well chuffed!

I reckon the wheels you had on the sax would looks pukka in black or anthracite ;)

cheers dargs yeah i'm well chuffed cant believe i was originally going to get a cupra :eek: i'm kind of tempted on another set of MO's but i kind of like the speedline comp 2's aswell

[Ste]

had the day off today so i've been doing a few little things to the car this morning like getting the wheels balanced and getting some new wiper blades and sorting the washer jets out

just started another job now i'll get some pics up of what i'm doing later on ;)

[Ste]

Rocker Covers :D

while i was in town today after getting the wheels balanced (had 2 new front tyres before i got it and the muppets that did it cant of had the gear to balance solid wheels) i went round to halfords and grabbed aload of wet and dry paper,seen as it was a nice day i thought i'd rub my rocker covers down and give them a good polish

heres the progress so far

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00389.jpg

all off and looking very bad

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00390.jpg

halfway through rubbing the first one down with 60 grit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00393.jpg
first one finished with 60 grit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00395.jpg
halfway through the second one with 60 grit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00396.jpg

second one finished with 60 grit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00398.jpg

looking good :cool: both rubbed down with 240 grit and the end of todays work

all done by hand aswell

[Ste]

going to leave them polished for now but if i dont like them i'll get them painted at some point anything is an improvement on what they were

[Ste]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/smileys/wtf.gif puggle where the hell did that come from?i really do worry about you at times james

and my car aint cute

[Ste]

cheers lads just having a little break as i cant feel the ends of most of my fingers at the mo :(

will have them done back on polished and the car washed and polished and the engine bay cleaned by tonight hopefully :)

[Ste]

well i got it all done about an hour and a half ago and its all good :cool:

when i eventually started today i decided i needed to redo them with 240 grit again

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00400.jpg

looks better second time around :D

then on to the 400 grit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00401.jpg


did the 800 grit then finished it off at 1200 grit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00402.jpg

only used a few LOL

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00404.jpg

first coat of polish

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00405.jpg

:cool:

[Ste]

top one just rubbed down and bottom one fully polished

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00406.jpg

both fully polished (5 coats of autosol)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00407.jpg

close up

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00408.jpg

back on and looking good

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00409.jpg

i also gave the rest of the bay a quick clean while i was at it

now for the before and after shots

BEFORE

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00387.jpg
*hangs head in shame*

AFTER

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00411.jpg
*grins like a cheshire cat*

also decided to put my strutbrace on

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00414.jpg

wee bit of a close fit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00412.jpg

going to see how much of a difference a top brace makes i'll report back after i hooned around a few backroads tomorrow LOL

[Ste]

i dont just have one white 106 mate i've got a white S1 xnd aswell as a runabout

well apart from a few little things this will probally be me done till i get all the suspension and wheels bought

[Ste]

yeah its does 70 mpg so i aint selling it in a hurry i thought about sticking the gti wheels on it they might show the rest of the car up though LOL

still wouldnt mind an S1 rallye interior for it either so if anyones got one going very cheap or free to a good home come see me

[Ste]

well on the way home from work lastnight i decided to see how much off a difference the strut brace made and i was fairly impressed it felt abit tighter through the corners and i can chuck it about abit harder too :D


may have a new toy for the car tomorrow aswell so watch this space :cool:

[Ste]

small update i thought i'd fit my quickshift today seen as it was a nice day and there was nothing to do

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00434.jpg

stubby gear stick LOL

oh and heres a pic of my new headunit

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/my%20gti/DSC00427.jpg

[Ste]

well as a few of you know a couple of weeks ago the gti had an arguement with a gatepost and lost :(

i've had it up on a jig and checked out now i've got to strip it down so i can send it off to be fixed, i made a start after work today

heres how it stands tonight

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bit of elbow grease and the bonnet will be good as new ;)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00589.jpg

anybody want to buy a radiator? LOL


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i'll keep its progress updated and hopefully it should be on the road again in a month or two :)

[Ste]

told you it was a mess james, doesnt look as bad now all the battered panels are off

i've also got a shiny new gti bumper that i bought from pug today sat in the garage in among the rest of the mess LOL

[Ste]

cheers guys

got abit more wiring out today need to crack on with the dash now and get the windscreen out too then its on to the engine

need to finish off gathering all the new parts aswell

[Shell]

Jesus thats bad

Has it bent any key parts like suspension tops and stuff?

What you planning? welding a new inner wing in?

fortunatly no 99% of the damage was just to the passenger side chassis leg


plan is to put in a whole chassis leg off the gti thats sat at shells then a full tidy up while i'm at it :)

ste on shells log in

[Ste]

LOL they dont look that good they need doing again something else for my big list of things to do

got abit more done today the dash is now out and so is the windscreen

also heres a couple of pics of what it looked like just after it happened anyone easily shocked may want to look away now LOL

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/Photo-0261.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/Photo-0262.jpg

nasty eh

[Ste]

i've been in worse phil


it'll be even better than it was once its all sorted dont you worry about that nothing is stopping me from putting it back together and you should know by now i'll never sell it no matter how mashed up it is

[Ste]

well spent an hour or so finishing off the inside this morning as i had nowt else to do

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and a couple of pics of the boxes of stuff to go back in :(

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http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00598.jpg

[Ste]

well did a tiny wee bit more work on it tonight

started by taking the exhaust off
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00628.jpg

then i turned it round to get it ready for taking the engine out
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00631.jpg

its now up on axle stands with the wheels off ready for the engine to come out tomorrow :eek:

wish me luck LOL

[Ste]

good luck love ;)

cheers sweetness ;):p



well after a busy day i'm please to say the engine now lives here

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00633.jpg


instead of here

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00634.jpg


so the car is now looking like this but its almost ready to go away :D

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00635.jpg

[Ste]

just the brakes to bleed now and all the resivour and shit to take out and the sound deadening from behind the dash to remove which is going to be a right arse then its ready to go


oh and i've got the towing eye to cut off the fubar chassis leg so it can be welded onto shells car as some silly fool cut hers off to fit that fibreglass bumper the car used to have on

[Ste]

its safe enough where it is i can see anyone picking it up and running down the street with it in a hurry

[Ste]

spent a few more hours on the car today finishing up the little jobs so once all the parts i need arrive its ready to go away and get fixed :D:D

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00639.jpg

who needs a dash eh :rolleyes:

oh and started doing a few little changes that i thought i might aswell do while its in bits,first one was relocate the passenger airbag switch to beside the hazards and heated rear screen and fag lighter

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/steblitz/DSC00640.jpg

looks better than it did down in the centre console and now i can have a proper centre console aswell :)

this will probally be the last update untill it comes back now and i start work rebuilding it