G's 'No money, Mo problems' mk2 project

Most of you seen my 89 8v, for those who havent...

this is pretty much how it stands at the moment after a few personal touches: black centered BBS RAs, black badged and red striped single light grill and german plates.

theres some rust to come off and some paint to go on, then money permitting the fun should begin... ideas and comments welcome you guys know your stuff...

had to be done....


by the way what do you reckon to these? i'm not sure...

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Tidy looking Golf that mate. Like the black centred BBSs

ta mate, its the red centre caps i'm not sure bout, got em made up thought the black n red would look cool but not sure if its a little too a-team van lookin

Ive decided i dont like the centre caps, there comin off. in fact i reckon i'm gonna change the look completely hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... startin by ditchin the red detailing, those tailights and its bout time the arches had disapeared.........

MOT today....................................................................

New ball joint and £150 later includin test job done!

nice 1!

Yeah was hopin it'd go well really got the bug aftere38

got some ispiration then? bes thing bout shows,gives u some enhusiasm to get on with stuff!

Gone badgless, kept the red stripe, thinkin i might spray it on tho as the tapes not a good finish...





I couldn't wait til id sourced a pair of cl bumpers so i got stuck in with some halford 'special' chrome strips, cheapo i know but it'll do til i can afford some new bumpers......






do i have the boll#cks to whip them arches off????????????

i reckon u cant have red grille stripe with chrome bumper inserts mate, either all red or all silver, heres what my last mk2 looked like with all silver.........................

i know what ya sayin but im well diggin this, tryin a few things to see what i like, how'd you do that grill by the way?

guy2nite wrote:

Gone badgless, kept the red stripe, thinkin i might spray it on tho as the tapes not a good finish...





I couldn't wait til id sourced a pair of cl bumpers so i got stuck in with some halford 'special' chrome strips, cheapo i know but it'll do til i can afford some new bumpers......






do i have the boll#cks to whip them arches off????????????

whats that chrome tape like from hal-frauds

its ok as long as you get the area clean and put the tape on first then attach the chrome strip to that, what you thinkin

thinking doing my small bumpers with the chrome strip cheaper then getting new bumpers

guy2nite wrote:

Ive decided i dont like the centre caps, there comin off. in fact i reckon i'm gonna change the look completely hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... startin by ditchin the red detailing, those tailights and its bout time the arches had disapeared.........

are you selling the bumpers then mate? Nice car btw hope it goes well for ya!

No i dont reckon so unless you got some GL ones with chrome strips to swap?

wayneyb wrote:

thinking doing my small bumpers with the chrome strip cheaper then getting new bumpers

yeah mate sure is, it'll look cool do it. oh by the way spotted a blue mk2 on black 13'' banded steels at the weekend, sick or what!?

EH! I chequered my rear-view today

Show us then!

Its been a long time, my mirrors well good. also re-covered the steering wheel center in black n white chequered material from my old chef trousers, sun visers next, placed a straw hat on the parcel shelf, a few stickers in the rear windows, binned the head rests and tied a red bandana round my 8 ball gear knob all of which has given me power gains of around 478bhp and the front wheels lift of the road when accelerating...

see it in the multi-storey last weekend mate, still lookin cool.

that tape is what i was thinkin of runnin down the sides of the caddy
what sort of lenghs are the strips?

you got any pics of your 478 bhp gain then??

What tapes that mate the chrome bit they come in 4 mts, i'll do some power pics tomorra, just need some beaded seat covers and i'll be pushin 600bhp