Adi's GTD

Well some of you are aware that I sold my GL project to move onto something new. This is my 9th mk2 now, and it's my 1st diesel one. This came up at the right price (those who know me will know it wasn't a lot), come with Tax till end of July and MOT till the end of September, and 218k on it. It drives spot on, is on early hottuning coilovers, and its true what they say, the earlier ones are a much nicer ride, it doesn't crash and knock your teeth out, the ride is actually superb! It has remote central locking, red stripe 90 spec GTI interior, and surprisingly the intercooler has ALL its plastic shrouds
3 things broke on the ride home though, a fuel tank strap, the backbox fell apart, and a plastic arch trim nearly went flying! I've since screwed on the arch trim, removed the backbox and I'm picking up a gti one tonight, and removed the hanging tank strap. Only other thing to sort is the rev counter, as the wire has broken off the alternator. This is how I got it...








Then today it went down another inch or so and I've red striped the bumpers. You may notice its missing a backbox, I took it off today cuz it was falling apart, GTI one will be on it tomorrow. Also picking up a mk3 shift rod and small splitter on sunday, and hopefully new wheels this weekend. Heres how it looks now...




The shell is fairly rusty and IMO some bits aren't really worth repairing, so when the MOT runs out I may look into buying a cheap GTI with no engine and re-shell it

looks like not a bad car there m8...tryin desperatly to find something nice to say bout it bein a denzil tho lol

I'l help you out there...

It did 77 miles on 6 quid of diesel (@1.39 a litre) and for the cost of an EGT guage and a boost guage can have it running 120-130bhp depending on how well I can get it set up

Its amazing what a new face and some black treatment does!

lmao there you go u found summin decent bout the denzil bit after all

i like the plate,best not go to slough or bradford lol

5 door and diesel!!! Jeez

whats wrong with that? You have become quite the pessimist of late mr Smiggy!

I've had a long afternoon with a grinder and it now has an exhaust!

The last thing i am is a pessimist. I just don't get the whole saying you have taken one mk2 as far as you can, then go out and buy another that is not even in as good a nick as the one you have just sold? I would of thought you would of been trying to move up.

Nah I don't work like that. I prefer to buy one I can do something with. Bit like a "blank canvas" sort of. I've always fancied a GTD and this one was cheap so I went for it. I can see past rust if its mechanically sound.

Each to his own I suppose. I will leave it at that. Lol

I got up really early this morning to sort my exhaust out and cut the valance out for the gti backbox. Picked up a splitter and mk3 shift rod off Jacko today, so I'm happy And in other happy news, I found these in a bag under my boot carpet this morning...



Anyways here's some pics I've just taken

should of left the rear valence alone and put an upturned single exhaust on it, so you can blow black smoke up into the clouds

I needed a backbox quick and a lad happened to have this one at the right price. It does the job and makes it look like a GTI from behind lol

[quote="adi"] it look like a GTI from behind lol[/quote=


Yeah apart from the big D on the rear, lol

Yes, apart from the obvious, and the huge plumes of black smoke it will be chucking out when I've done the governor mod lol

Fitted my boost guage roughly today, I'm not happy with it in the centre as its too low and I can't read the notches between 10-20psi, so I'l move it to the driver's side vent. The car peaks at 10psi, will be seeing 17psi when I finally get hold of an MBC 8-)

haha british national party doh

This is why I LOVE old skool TD's...



2 litres of filtered vegetable oil out of our little deep fat fryer

And some new stickerage

Lowered it another 20mm this morning, and finally wired up the lights to my boost guage

that sits bang on m8 like it

Quite a bit has happened on this, I had to replace this;




After the thieveing scrotes helped themselves to the contents of my glovebox!

I've also moved the boost guage to the driver's side vent, sits a lot better there. Here is my MBC mounted;



Also after the break in, a mate gave me a retro period Kenwood CD player



Oh and the big news is, I've shimmed the governor in the pump, had a few fiddles, it now boosts at 24psi, and lets just say 16v's should be scared

Next job is to move the intercooler up front as the turbo is at the end of its efficiency range and will be blowing hot air into my engine lol.

Today I got bored, so I fitted the worlds favourite catch can

Few more little things, I painted a red stripe on my 4 lamp grille and stuck it on for a change of face. And I got some more of these awesome stickers off my mums fella who makes em.

looks good mate not as sweet as the old one but im sure youl sort that out soon for next to nowt lol
o and do me a fav bude send me your number again if ya can by pm my bloody phone came apart on me so had to get a new one lol