Projekt Golf Zwei

Started by 80 Vert, June 28, 2020, 12:08:36 PM

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80 Vert

#200
Final bits, last major thing to do were the side skirts. Lot of to and fro ing with these.
Being aftermarket and not sure about the fit I was worried about painting them to match the other plastics and then having to faff with fitting them. I really did spend ages looking at the best way to do this.
In the end I decided to fit them and paint them on the car, thankfully all the clips and attachment strips were ok on the broken originals as these are not included in the new skirts.
Placement of the attachment strip on the body is important as well so what I did was attach everything to the skirt and slap it on as one unit so to speak.
Didn't like the way it all fitted together and settled on small pop rivets with a washer on the other side to spread the load on the brittle plastic, nice secure attachment that way.
New 3M trim tape on everything ready to fit.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

80 Vert

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2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

le mans

Man that looks so nice all together. Did the windscreen arrive?

80 Vert

Yep sure did, nice new Pilkington one.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

le mans

About ready to drive then?!

80 Vert

Been driving it for weeks already, got it wof and reg before Christmas. The thread is running behind as usual.
Just a couple of really minor things to finish off now.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

Period_Correct_

This is an awesome Restomod! well done champ.
1971 Porsche 911T | 1990 Audi Quattro Turbo | 2003 Audi RS6 Avant | 2009 Renault Megane R26

Skilfil

Love this kind of restomod stuff, have been doing something similar to my NA MX5 and aim to do the same for my Mk2 Jetta. Would love to have a look at this if it shows up to a meet sometime.
1997 Mazda MX5 (B2 Limited Edition)
1990 Volkswagen Jetta Mk2 ABF
2006 Lexus GS430

coons

That 3M tape is bloody good stuff. The car looks great John!

80 Vert

Mostly complete for now, few small things to finish and a couple new mini projects for it in the pipeline. Did I mention these projects are never really finished?
Anyway been driving it for the last few weeks and happy to report it still goes as well as it did before, maybe chuck a tune on it maybe not. Another 50 hp and 60nm torque could be fun.

I went back to the same spot I took this photo when I bought the bucket of molested bolts.

And 2 years later in the same spot, Doesn't look any different really.......apart from there's over 1000 hours of hard work between these two pictures.


2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

liv

#210
That is an amazing transformation, and thank you for taking the time to document the process to share. It?s threads like these that got me my first mk2 project some 15 years ago, and I really miss being able to read these end-to-end and see the vision all come together.

Edit to add: what?s your thoughts on adding the swage line vinyls back to it?
2016 Audi S4 (B9)
2019 Mercedes Benz B180 AMG (W247)

80 Vert

Thank you, I did think about it but I like the clean look myself. I'm also not sure if the big bumper cars still had them, not that I've really looked in to it so far.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

Skilfil

Got bored on Friday night and read the whole thing from start to finish, definitely a good read. I can relate to the fixing previous owners pain, I've encountered some questionable decisions on my Mk2 ABF swap.

The aircon part is brilliant, I'm an advocate of taking the time to install it, gives me the craps when people bin it in street cars "to go faster".

Where did you source the Hella rears from? Last time I had a Mk2 was 13 years ago and it seems a lot of the usual sites I visited have dropped off the earth.
1997 Mazda MX5 (B2 Limited Edition)
1990 Volkswagen Jetta Mk2 ABF
2006 Lexus GS430

80 Vert

eBay.de was my go to place for lots of things.
AC is a must, anything I drive regularly must have AC.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

tyz-fly

As always, a man with fine taste in cars and the skills to build them. Nice work John!

80 Vert

Few more little things done, the oem VW sunroof seal I bought just didn't want to work with the tilt slide roof. Don't know if multiple layers of paint added too much thickness or what but the roof had difficulty (in fact didn't want to at all) transitioning from slid back to the tilt position without a helping hand. No good.
What I did initially to prove my point was to use the VW seal at the front and sides and a piece of E30 BMW seal at the rear as its not as wide, problem solved but looks ugly with visible joins.
Ordered a brand new BMW seal from Ebay and fitted that today, thankfully its longer than needed so the fit is perfect and the roof works flawlessly.

2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

80 Vert

Last bits on the sunroof completing that. The BMW seal works a treat, couldn't be better.
Finally painted the air deflector flap satin black as well.
Still have my replacement door rub strips to paint and fit and that will be the last of it. Until I decide to change something else of course.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

80 Vert

Not much to report here other than just driving it / enjoying it. Did have a few niggly rattles in the dash I wanted to sort out plus some other maintenance that I still had to do.
Got that done today, passengers side drive shaft out to try and locate an annoying squeek but didn't find anything out of place there.
At least everything underneath is bone dry, no leaks what so ever from anywhere.
Rattles in the dash were from the glove box and the main one was the radio which wasn't supported at the back like it's supposed to be. Those issues easily resolved.
With some spare time left I did a test fit of it's next set of wheels, I like the Work wheels and will keep them but I'm also quite partial to OZ Superleggeras, these in 17x8. The Work Pietra Corse are 16x7.
Next is a bit of machining on these wheels and decide on a colour for them.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

The Admiral

OMG. In. Cred. IBLE. What an outstanding job. Very inspiring too!

Thanks for the pump!

80 Vert

Looking at converting this to a 6 speed, have a nice O2S gearbox lined up which uses the same architecture as the 02A and 02J but before I can do anything I need to find the gear ratios.
Nothing on the net so far, box code is MXQ if anyone knows of anything.
Came out of a 5C Beetle.
2010 T5 Transporter TDI  Tuned by Superior Tuning NZ
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration