Hi all, i've decided its about time i put a build thread togeter. just done my drift works build which didnt take too long but this one is going to take some time as i'm 2 years into the project!!
Anyway here goes... i may as well start by bringing you all up to date with a brief history of my cars, all of which were inspired by moy love of vw's and at the time my education at the time (college & uni) in motorsport engineering
My first car was a Vauxhall nova (i make no excuses for this) it started life out as a tatty 1.3 sr and ended up as a 1.6 running a fully built engine on webber 40's, the chassis was seam welded, full polly'd suspension etc and rear disc conversion to list a few off a long list of mods... sadly it never say paint lol.
(excuse pic quality)
Then followed one of my faveriots to date... My mk1 Golf cl. this started out life as a rather tidy 1.1. with the offer of a free 1.3 litre lump this changed rather shortly after. various evolutions of this car came about but she ended up as a built 1.6 on a set of BMW e30 bbs rims... as with the nova fully polly'd etc but with all the usual mk1 chrome refinements.
unfortunately i dont have a digital pic of the car in its full glory but here's a mid point picy
i shall endevor to find and scan in a good one later in the thread
Next followed a pair of mk2 Gti's. A 1.8 8v and a 1.8 16v. the 16v was an absolute steal and i couldn't resist it. it did however need 4 calipers, solid brake pipes all round a clutch, a gearbox and the top end rebuilding! i set about this with great enthusiasm and built my first and last fully standard car. was in stunning condition!!!
The 1.8 8v was less of a steal with some of the work already done but wasn't as fast as i'd have liked. that was soon sorted with a yet again built lump (2.0 8v from a mk3 gti) this was awesome and gave some serious machinery a run for its money but again i wanted more and fitted a 2.0 16v lump. unfortunately my current motor isn't currently as fast as the insane motor but it is a work in progress.
2.0 8v golf on dished rims mmmmmm
2.016v rebuilt ready to swap.
once i had settled into my new job and house it was time for a new motor (as the misses hated "that old thing" aka the golf) having had an offer to buy the Golf i couldnt say no to i set out to buy a mk4 Gti. after a couple of weeks trying to find a low mile 180bhp model i stumbled across a leon cupra 180 at a Vauxhall dealer with only 24k on the clock
as i was now working for Vauxhall i picked her up at a silly cheap price too!
Anyway here goes... i may as well start by bringing you all up to date with a brief history of my cars, all of which were inspired by moy love of vw's and at the time my education at the time (college & uni) in motorsport engineering
My first car was a Vauxhall nova (i make no excuses for this) it started life out as a tatty 1.3 sr and ended up as a 1.6 running a fully built engine on webber 40's, the chassis was seam welded, full polly'd suspension etc and rear disc conversion to list a few off a long list of mods... sadly it never say paint lol.
(excuse pic quality)
Then followed one of my faveriots to date... My mk1 Golf cl. this started out life as a rather tidy 1.1. with the offer of a free 1.3 litre lump this changed rather shortly after. various evolutions of this car came about but she ended up as a built 1.6 on a set of BMW e30 bbs rims... as with the nova fully polly'd etc but with all the usual mk1 chrome refinements.
unfortunately i dont have a digital pic of the car in its full glory but here's a mid point picy
i shall endevor to find and scan in a good one later in the thread
Next followed a pair of mk2 Gti's. A 1.8 8v and a 1.8 16v. the 16v was an absolute steal and i couldn't resist it. it did however need 4 calipers, solid brake pipes all round a clutch, a gearbox and the top end rebuilding! i set about this with great enthusiasm and built my first and last fully standard car. was in stunning condition!!!
The 1.8 8v was less of a steal with some of the work already done but wasn't as fast as i'd have liked. that was soon sorted with a yet again built lump (2.0 8v from a mk3 gti) this was awesome and gave some serious machinery a run for its money but again i wanted more and fitted a 2.0 16v lump. unfortunately my current motor isn't currently as fast as the insane motor but it is a work in progress.
2.0 8v golf on dished rims mmmmmm
2.016v rebuilt ready to swap.
once i had settled into my new job and house it was time for a new motor (as the misses hated "that old thing" aka the golf) having had an offer to buy the Golf i couldnt say no to i set out to buy a mk4 Gti. after a couple of weeks trying to find a low mile 180bhp model i stumbled across a leon cupra 180 at a Vauxhall dealer with only 24k on the clock
as i was now working for Vauxhall i picked her up at a silly cheap price too!
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) but it meant lots of room for improvement!!!
with this in mind and something a bit special up my sleeve i set about transforming The Little Leon for the show!!!
