Adi's GTI powered '86 golf GL

I really can't be bothered to do a whole project thread on this as so much has happened, so I'l make it brief. I bought this 1986 golf 1.8 GL last August fairly cheap, and standard. This was how it looked...




Then I bought a rotten 1989 8v gti for £150 for a donor (and luckily the G60 arches on it paid for the car when I sold them)


Then I stripped it bare, sold loads off it, and fitted the seats, all wiring looms, clocks, stalks (for functional MFA), supersport -60mm springs and shocks, exhaust, pumps, a few lights, engine and gearbox. In between doing the conversion and selling bits off the donor I bought a polished twin gti backbox, early gti arch spats, jetta gti door cards, and the P slots. Now the conversion is done this is how it looks now...

Moved to Your Dub

Looks good mate can see why you wouldnt want to get rid of it. Keep up the good work.

Cheers mate, yea I know this car inside and out now! Only things left to do are sort the rounded off caliper bolt and fit my new gti front brakes, clean up the disc rear beam and fit it, and eventually sort out the bodywork, the roof has shocking laquer peel, as does the original bonnet, and its aquired a few extra dents and scratches while it was in my garage which I'm not too pleased about. Hopefully picking up some gti steels cheap tomorrow so I can put the P's up for sale, I fancy some RA's now, but with black centres and a polished lip

Can be arranged about the wheels mate, easy enough job as long as the wheels are in good condition when you buy them as the RA's are a nightmare to refurb.
What about heating the caliper bolt up and slowly twisting it out or is that bad you totally cant grip the bolt? Is going to have to be a drill out and tap and thread job????

Did it come with lecky windows?

that looks nice, its not got that "in your face" factor that some mk2's have which im not too keen on...this however is prity nice

Thumbs up to u mate

Cheers mate, my plan when I got it was to keep it plain and simple. It come with electric windows, but I don't think it had them when new as they were wired into a whole load of clifford stuff on the old loom. I wired them up the other day as the donor car had windy windows. The caliper bolt used to be a torx bit, or an allen key bolt, it was rounded off before I touched it. Heating it up isn't possible at the mo, but I'm gonna try my stillies on and hope it works, them solid discs are shocking!

New front brakes and 16v master cylinder now fitted with Gary's help

nice one.

i like your bumpers. eanna swap for some bent gti ones?

Not really, I quite like the chrome theme my car has goin on

I know ts dark, but I couldn't resist, looks so different now! My only disappointment is it now looks a bit like a gti, and that was the look I was avoiding, but I prefer the RA's

As i said before mate looks loads better, need to take some better pics tomorrow in the day time and see what it looks like then They do really suit the mk2's though, thats why i dooont want tot get rid of mine and keeping them as winter wheels

Yea I'l take some better pics, although the car is in a shameful state of dirtiness until I clean it on Sunday morning. They look more than an inch bigger than the P's though which is wierd

as av said i like the ra's mate. haha. i'll have a proper look at your car on sunday n see what it looks like. best clean mine saturday.

Daylight pics of new rimmage

They look nice! Looks like a completely different car

looks grand adi

Cheers big Dave

Mate the car looks awsome now with those wheels. I think it stands on more with those wheels cause its a more door mk2, its the way forward

5 door mk2s rule. Simples I don't think we have any 3 door mk2s on here yet?

Sams is a 3-door

martins is a 3door, haha. thats 2 three doors, but 5 doors are king of all.

five doors are for people with back seats

what am i suppose to do when mine come out again then?

weld your doors up

nah, more doors for the win