Treating An Old Girl

[TrisK]

Well about 3 years ago i bought this 205 GTI with 2 other friends (75 quid each).

We kept it at one of their houses in a field, well we lost interest then lost the place to keep it so it had to move.

So I called another friend who said we could put it at a old shed of his, so we did. The other two people that I bought it with had lost interest so armed with 2 new friends (the one guy that stored it for 3 years) we started a project to get her looking and running sweet again.

Its a 1989 1.9 205 GTI

The previous owners had taken the engine apart and not really known what they were doing (to change a clutch). But the inlet and exhaust was off, the injectors were out. It was missing a clutch and a master brake cyclinder. So in all it was in a bad way.

So we stripped her down and got her ready for a make over.

Repairs took place on the surface rust

Then she went into primer

Inside got sprayed satin black

Trims got tarted up

Then we picked a nice blue for the outside. We were going to do red again, but as a rattle can job in a shed we thought wed go for a different non standard colour, so it doesnt look like we tried to get it perfect. (it came out better than i thought it would)

First Coat:

Finished:

We then put what were putting back of the inside back in (The seats)

we also made some light weight rails

We have picked the colour for the trims and wheels

And last night the engine came out:

And we got this baby to donor engine, brakes etc to get this running and ready for a ragging

And we can break the rest of the 106 to make our money back.

yes its going from a 1.9 to a 1.6. but its 16v and actually makes 1hp more, and a fair bit more torque. so should be still good for a fun run about.

Some might say its a waste of money, but we decieded wed hate to see a clean shell go to the dump!

[rob_bower]

h'mm always had a soft spot for the old pug gti i nearly bought a mint one years ago but ended up buying the sr instead!! nice work though guys

[PaulStarletSR]

thats a crackin effort mate.love it! good feelin wen a rattle can job turns out no bad isn't it!

well done and keep us posted, love the old gtis

[5T4R7ET N/A]

always liked these gti's.

I reckon they look proper retro

p.s. you have to wear masks when spraying dude. :surrender:

[Pandamonium]

Nice work mate, wee car looks well for being rattle canned.

should be good fun when its up and running on the roads

[Starbuck]

Nice.

Like Rob, I also looked at old skool gtis before I bought the starlet.

[TrisK]

Cheers boys, were up there tonight to clean out the bay, and get her ready for the new heart

[200bhp starlet]

Good effort mate love the gti had a couple myself

Lewis

[ianmcintoshi]

Thats a great effort lad... well done

[TrisK]

ok, so we made a bit more progress on this over the last weekend:

started stripping the 106 down for what we need, and now she looks like this

everything that was brokeen in the crash or is not getting sold is here:

and the important bits:

hopefully this week or next weekend it will have a look at the mounts and get the engine in the bay, then we can start wiring stuff up

Edited April 23, 2012 by TrisK