Miggs

my little brother lives in Oz so if anybody wants parts sending over, depending on size, i might be able to get them shipped over as gifts from him to avoid the import duties

too far at the moment for me i'm afraid, just can't justify the juice for that distance, maybe next year though

sue

no mate, i had Dogma's classic sport on the drive for breaking, missus moaned as i had about 4 cars worth of part all over the garden and side of the house so got rid of it all

to check the tax of a car, click here and hit vehicle enquiry, that will tell you how much for the year and if it's taxed and when it expires

i didn't know you needed all that, you could have had the one off the scoob before i got shut

Welcome aboard, sit back relax and enjoy, there's plenty of talk about shows but not much going on from what we can find

It looks nice and shiny and dark, job well done me thinks

Welcome aboard fella, sit back, relax and enjoy

Starting to shine

Germany vw's are the best to get, so much rare news over there, we got a mk3 golf called the colour concept, they came with heated recaro leather as standard, there were 5 colours, 2 of which were colour concept only, and 500 cars in each colour, 250 3 door and 250 5 door, the trouble is they all came with the chappy 115bhp 8v engine, the second slowest gti in the fleet, golf vr6 was a 170bhp 2.8 engine, the rado vr got a 190bhp 2.9 engine, and there was a limited run of golf syncro which were a 4wd motor, in Germany I found a colour concept golf variant (estate) with a 2.9vr6 engine and syncro 4wd system, I have never in 15 years of going all over the country to vw shows seen one of them, ever

My timing belt was done just before I got the car, mine does need doing as every time I stop at lights it looks like the cars on fire lol, if I do it I'm gonna do the guides and tensioner too so it's too much cash that I just don't have yet, it will be done though

Yeh I traveled all over in the vw's going to the shows, I wanted to get to places in less than a week and aircooled are not reliable in the slightest, plus I like warmth in winter and as yet I've not found a bug that can defrost it's own windscreen in less than an hour lol I drove the Fiat coupe once, was a 220bhp model I think, 20v engine too, nippy little bugger

Most definitely pal, I think it'll be going to a few shows if it goes to plan

You mean like these? http://www.subarugenuineparts.com/product_info.php?products_id=1085

Yeh, I have the same leak, I jet washed the entire area of oil and ran it about 7 miles, put it on the ramps and what I thought was a rocker gasket leak is the crank seal, not a massive problem just marks it's spot on the driveway lol

The ecu and loom controls the timing and injectors on the engine, in theory you could swap all ancillaries from the old engine to the new and it will work On a previous conversion I've done (not subie) I fitted a seat engine from a 96 model car into an 89 vw, original engine was a 1.8 16v,new engine was a 2.0 16v,i stripped the 1.8 down to head and block, same with 2.0 and retro fitted all the parts over so all I had changed was the head and block, that worked perfectly as all electrics remained the same Sorry for the long explanation, just trying to clarify what I did

It's a plan later on, I want another classic saloon and I'll put the wagon in the back garden and build a shelter for it and do the work over a year or so, I've a few friends in the vw scene that have done some funky pick up conversions and it's not that hard really, you don't need that much more metal than what you have in the car already, the bottled window area becomes the rear window of the cab, then a sheet of metal under that to take it to the floor of the pick up, the bottom half of the boot can be a fold down tailgate or welded shut tailgate, the a sheet of steel for the pick up bed, paint and job done

Yeh I had a mk2 16v in royal blue metallic that I promptly killed the engine, fitted another kr in, few thousand miles kills gearbox, after a few engines and boxes I got a fully rebuilt box with strengthened diff, and sourced an abf from a mk3,thats was 170 ponies and serious fun, then got the v6 itch so found a vr engine for 75 sheets, fitted that and the blew it up in less than 12 months, after 7 years and 7.5k in engines and boxes I called it quits and scrapped it after stripping it bare obviouy I then found a mint 97 mk3 colour concept in jazz blue, it wasn't ebay mint it had 2 stone chips on the bonnet and a tiny scratch on one door that you couldn't find without polishing the car first, I modded that, big time, then sold it in less than 12 months and made £100 on what I spent out Got a mk4 v6 4motion in jazz blue, full factory fit gps system, heated leather, every conceivable extra, it had gallardo rims but in 19" they made the handing site, I fitted audi s line rims, not the flat face ones that every other mk4 has, rolled the arches and wound the coil overs as far as they'd go, I went on a subie rolling road day, drove to my mates, went from his and back in his impreza, going home I floored the v6 and thought I'd lost the engine, 204bhp and v6 torque with an m3 soundtrack from the exhaust just didn't do it anymore, swapped that for my impreza wagon and a pug 106,sold the pug after a week, bought a maf for the subie and laughed every time I've driven it since, I never thought I'd find a car more fun than the mk2,now the subie wins that by a mile and a half The wife has a jazz blue gttdi 130 and that keeps fuel and tax costs down so happy days all round

Looks good, suits the clocks perfectly

i'm so tempted to do this to a wagon

are you fitting the 22B arches? i do like the 22B look, i think if your going to build a replica you have to do the whole lot, if your just wanting wide then stop at the arches and use sti/wrx parts for the rest

cheers for that, cleared up something i have been wondering for a while now

thing is, when vinyl wraps first came out for styling they were good quality vinyl and very experienced wrappers, now you can buy a heat gun, some felt covered squeegees and some vinyl and call yourself a vinyl wrapper cos you saw it done on you tube once, i'd probably try and find a sign writer type place as they probably have more experience from doing van and such over the years

i like a mean ******, makes it more interesting