Project Cordy - My old 16v reborn

[andyj]

Good work Pete

Did you manage to raise the front panel slightly as I suggested last week? Hopefully it's aligned the headlamps better with the wings......

 

[Icecavern]

I tried but it didn't help much, although I'm pretty sure I know how to get everything lined up now. Need to remove a bit more metal from around the lights I think to get it sat properly. That's a job for after the move I think.

Pete

 

[Icecavern]

Wiring diagrams all aquired. Wiring up the front headlights should be easy, wiring up the Mk3 dash headlight switch to the Mk2 loom however is a different story...

 

[Fl@pper]

got a mk2 haynes manual i can copy off the lights page if it helps ?

 

[Icecavern]

I've got a Haynes somewhere mate. Just need to find it lol

 

[Icecavern]

OK so about time for an update. With the house move and everything not much has happened but the Mk3 Cupra front end is provisionally on the car.

Still needs some work to trim some more off the inner wings to get the headlights to fit 100% without rubbing. Also needs a new front panel as the one I had really had been abused, welded in nuts missing, rust etc. Also the wing ( that came from the same place as the panel ) has been pulled around the arch badly. I have a brand new wing in the shed for that though.

Pete

 

[UncleFester]

That looks spot on that and really smooth too - you definitely need to change the wing mirrors though.

 

[Icecavern]

That looks spot on that and really smooth too - you definitely need to change the wing mirrors though.

Thanks, I agree she's beginning to look how I want now ( bar the re-spray )

Slowly getting to where I want to be. Revisiting the photoshop I did way back, i'm getting there

The mirrors are the Mk3 ones, but I'm going to replace the drivers one with a stubby when I can lay my hands on one for a reasonable price. I have a TT filler cap ready to go on when the respray happens ( Not going to attempt that one myself ) and a Mk3 boot lid to go on. Mk3 boot lid needs a plate recess in the rear bumper though so I have to sort that out first.

I was going to smooth the swage line that goes around the bumpers, but actually I've decided to leave that. It wasn't until I put the Mk3 Cupra front on that I realised that it will give a line that wraps around the top of the side skirts, and then around the bumpers front and rear all at the same height. I like that visual effect so they're staying. But I might smooth over the bit where the bumper trim goes on though so it matches the rear Mk2 bumper better ( I don't like the Mk3 bumper and it wont fit a Mk2 anyway. )

Pete

 

[UncleFester]

CF wrapped bumper inserts would look smart ....

 

[Icecavern]

CF wrapped bumper inserts would look smart ....

Had considered it, the thing is it'd only be on the front. Not sure it'd look right on just the front.

 

[RobT]

nope - I would go body colour - coming along nicely!

 

[Icecavern]

Getting there *very* slowly but getting there.

Mk3 Cupra dash is partially installed, huge amount of wiring required for switches etc there, and I threw on a Mk3 steering wheel. Mk3 wheel really makes a difference to how it feels to drive bizarrely.

Pete

 

[Fl@pper]

I threw on a Mk3 steering wheel. Mk3 wheel really makes a difference to how it feels to drive bizarrely.

Pete

told ya - everyone thinks i'm nuts when i say the same - best mk2 mod ever

 

[Icecavern]

told ya - everyone thinks i'm nuts when i say the same - best mk2 mod ever

Yup, very odd but makes a big difference. Just need to work out how to get these door cards to work so I can have the full Mk3 interior

 

[Fl@pper]

might be ripping mine up soon - got some smooth small mirrors on it may help ?

 

[Icecavern]

Pic?

 

[Icecavern]

Well time to post up and draw to a close this cars journey. After a lot of agonising I've broken the Cordy and the shell was taken away today for scrap

A sad day, and now lots of stuff to ebay, but she'd sat for over 6 months without turning a wheel, and the MOT had expired and she'd never pass due to lots of little things I still hadn't finished from the Mk3 front end conversion. I've just not got the time these days to tinker with cars.

RIP R147 CVV

 

[m0rk]

too bad mate

 

[Seatmann]

Bloody hell! and there's no for sale page, that bumper would've been sweet on my Cordy

Ps where does the water get in?

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?p=3405425#post3405425

 

[Icecavern]

too bad mate

End of an era really. Sad times