Jade green Mk2 Golf GTI 16v - project

[SHutchinson]

It would appear that I forgot to post for a year. Spent a few hours in the garage today repairing the near side window surround. I had a bodycut from a breakers for this.






Looking better than it previously did.

[dontlookdown]

Tricky bit of fabrication that, good work. I had a Jade green 3 door 16v on an F plate back in the day. Same wheels too. The engine felt unburstable.

Good to see you are persevering, others might have been put off by all the rust that emerged along the way.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Amazing perseverance

[SHutchinson]

dontlookdown said:

Tricky bit of fabrication that, good work. I had a Jade green 3 door 16v on an F plate back in the day. Same wheels too. The engine felt unburstable.

Good to see you are persevering, others might have been put off by all the rust that emerged along the way.

I knew it was a rust bucket when I bought it. The guy I bought it from had already bought most of the repair panels but he switched his focus to a few other cars so let this one go.

I've got two engines, they came with the project. I've got a 2.0 ABF engine and a 2.0 9A engine. Probably going with the ABF and will off load the other when I know I don't need it any longer.

[SHutchinson]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Amazing perseverance

I'll be honest, I've barely touched it much for ages. But every now and again I go and stand in the garage and cut a bit of it off.

[VeeReihenmotor6]

SHutchinson said:

I knew it was a rust bucket when I bought it. The guy I bought it from had already bought most of the repair panels but he switched his focus to a few other cars so let this one go.

I've got two engines, they came with the project. I've got a 2.0 ABF engine and a 2.0 9A engine. Probably going with the ABF and will off load the other when I know I don't need it any longer.

I've got the 2.0 ABF in my 16v (kjet) and have bought a mk3 golf subframe as the engine sits a touch too high on the mk2 subframe. Either people cut the bonnet inside or so the mk3 subframe as it sits 20mm lower & the rear engine mount has added flexibility in that you can cut it down.

My mk2 is sitting awaiting a spot at the fabricatior end of summer so fair play to you doing it yourself.

[crofty1984]

SHutchinson said:

Remember when car radios used to be wired in like this? It’s fair to assume this car has had its fair share of amateur ICE installs! So far I’ve removed an amp wiring kit, RCA leads and a CD changer control cable. The 18 year old in me wants to wire them back in properly and hear all the interior trim panels buzz and rattle!

Bullet connectors! What sort of posh fancy-Dan flim-flammery is this! 17 year old me was all about the screw-together chocolate blocks or twisting wires together with a bit of insulating tape.

[Court_S]

Caught up on this; looks like you’ve got you’re working cut out (no pun intended). Good skillls though doing it all yourself.

[Scoobydrew95]

Jesus the amount of rust is fairly daunting. Happened pretty much to my 318ti. Went to do the sills but it just ended up getting deeper and deeper. So made the decision to re-shell.
Good luck with the rest of it, work done so far looks great.

[SHutchinson]

Scoobydrew95 said:

Jesus the amount of rust is fairly daunting. Happened pretty much to my 318ti. Went to do the sills but it just ended up getting deeper and deeper. So made the decision to re-shell.
Good luck with the rest of it, work done so far looks great.

I'm not put off by the rust, after all, I can't make the shell any worse than it already is. I'm fairly happy just pottering on cutting it up and welding bits back on. I've got the luxury of having a decent garage and I'm in absolutely no rush to finish it.

I've booked myself onto an evening MIG welding course at the local college so in 12 weeks from April I'll at least be a City & Guilds level 1 mig welder blowing holes in a rusty old car!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

SHutchinson said:

I've booked myself onto an evening MIG welding course at the local college so in 12 weeks from April I'll at least be a City & Guilds level 1 mig welder blowing holes in a rusty old car!

You should offer up your car for the students to work on. You'd get it done much more quickly! (Many hands make light work and all that )

[SHutchinson]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

SHutchinson said:

I've booked myself onto an evening MIG welding course at the local college so in 12 weeks from April I'll at least be a City & Guilds level 1 mig welder blowing holes in a rusty old car!

You should offer up your car for the students to work on. You'd get it done much more quickly! (Many hands make light work and all that )

Have you been reading my mind!!??

[SHutchinson]

I’ve spent the full week in meetings and poring over testing schedules for a project at work. So I needed 20 minutes in the garage to breathe.



I’ll finish it later but at least my head is cleared.

[SHutchinson]

Weld, grind, weld, grind…..




Learning as I go but I feel like that isn’t a terrible repair. There’s a bit more to finish off but once that’s finished and has a skim of filler on it I think it’ll look ok.

[RC1807]

Good going

Looks like the rear quarter has quite a skim on it already

[SHutchinson]

RC1807 said:

Good going

Looks like the rear quarter has quite a skim on it already

Yeah it’s pretty thick but weirdly the back of that panel shows no damage or previous repairs at all so not sure why it’s like that.

[SHutchinson]

Safe to say progress is being made. Shell is now on a rollover jig and the rust is being chased!





I have a lot of progress pictures to upload, but this is today.