My MKIII Golf GTI 20 Years - Daily Driver

[Dr.AK]

Today I helped Stefan add some more awesome to his GTI in the form of shorter strut bearings for more low.

We didn't expect much actually but the car was dropped about 2 - 2.5cm again.









Oh, and the moneyshot




But we had to raise it back up again so it's nearly the same height as before but drives much nicer... why did we have to raise it back up? Because of the drive shaft.

[e36cruiser]

why did you swap out the tinted headlights for the dual housings, the tints looked hot.

[Shepherd]

Since I like the DEs a lot

[Shepherd]

Dang... tried to change the threadtitle, but seems like it doesn't work? Would be nice, if some mod could change it when he reads this

Anyway.... I drove a lap at the Ring on Carfriday (Good-Friday) and got caught by a couple of photographers.... sadly the track often got closed a lot because of several bad crashes... so it was my only lap on that day.















After we put the new strut bearings in, we raised the car 2cm up, so it rides very smooth now and it handles just awesome on the Ring...
I got to cut the frame, though... the driveshaft hit it a lot.

[MikeG]

lookin good...Keep it up!

[Dr.AK]

Stance on the Ring = Awesome

[P78]

lol haven't even reached 200.000 in my 94 golf lol


nice ring pics

[selah777]

not going to lie, I like your winter set up a whole lot better. red lips just kill me

[Dr.AK]

Yesterday @ the drive in cinema Cologne, FnF5 premiere party.

[Spork40k]

I want to do this now so bad.. that is sick

[Dr.AK]

Stefan finally got around to cutting his frame and dropping the car even more.

3 Shots today from Eurosunday in Belgium.

[Aludrin]

Wenn doch nur alle 3er in Deutschland so aussehen würden ;-) :-D

[Shepherd]

I was bored, so I bought a new set of seats two weeks ago





Black Recaro leather seats with heating from a black 94 or 95 MKIII Golf Colour Concept.
Spent the evenings this week reparing and refreshing the leather of the front seats.
The driver's seat was a bit used and damaged due to wrong or no care...





The result is okay, nothing I'm going to keep forever, but good enough until I find a good set of replacement sideparts for the seat.

Yesterday my brother and I just been bored, so we decided it was about time to swap my interior... out with the old Recaro interior and in with the new:



Still got to get the harness for the seat heating installed... but it already looks great. It's a whole different feeling inside now... and I'm not really sure yet, if I'll keep them or not lol

I guess for this year I'm done with the mods, I'll just get a new trunkdoor with no rust and no hole for a wiper, so that damn, plugged bump and the rust will finally vanish.. Gonna get some rust removed on the body as well and that's it.

Next year though there'll be some minor changes....
Some months ago I bought those:


Borbet A 9Jx16 ET15
I'll need 15mm spacers at the front for brakeclearance and 20mm at the back to fit the front.
So yeah it'll be ET00 at the front and ET-05 at the back, tires will be 215/35s or even 205/40s... depends on if I want to go all legal or not.
There are just two real requirements for my plan: I won't pull the arches and I don't want to raise my car more than my daily setup

[G535]

Seen this car in person once, lookin forward to see it again! Its ridiculously low for a daily MK3 - but lookin so nice. Ive had a MK3 myself so know quite something about these cars

Do work and get those Type As on the car!

See ya at MIVW!

[Shepherd]

Didn't even drive the Borbet As....
But oh well... got a set of Salad Shooters 16x9,5J ET38 for cheap, so byebye Brobets.