nine-deuce Jetta

[itschrisb]

love calypso green, as far as the adapters go id go with adaptec or search vortex for a used set. 475 seems high and i know they offer a 1-piece version.

[BigMeech]

ive seen ur car around dude , very clean.

bump for a local

[Rocambolesque]

I found a couple of places for the adapters. But that will get sorted at the end of the winter, because right now there's no point in dropping a couple hundreds on adapters to run wheels for less than a month.

BigMeech what do you drive? I most likely saw you around too!

Thanks for the comments people!

[Matt]

erm, if i was you id demand them to make you a new set for no charge...

[Rocambolesque]

I finished the transition to winter mode today. I put the winter tires on, put rubber mats inside, re-anti-seized the coil's threads, touched up a few spots under the car with undercoating, rustproofing inside my cut front fenders, hit a few rust spots on the body with por-15 (I'll paint them next spring), changed the oil to 10W-30 and unfortunately I raised it half an inch . Anyways its still kinda low...

However I found a 2 little rust holes (maybe 1/4" in diameter) in my driver's floor. I patched the holes with por patch and painted the rest with por-15, but the floors will be stripped, welded and entirely por-15'd next spring. I'll post pictures tomorrow as it was too dark to take pics when I finished.

[Chuckdee]

looks like you're prepared for the winter.

[DannyE32]

mint Jetta.

did you have to mod the ECU for the new 2.0 engine?

in the first page looks like your rear raceland shock is already blown, isnt it?

[martinm13]

seriously hope you didnt sell the porsche wheels. also this....

http://racelandus.com/p-136-vw-4x100-to-porsche-5x130-20mm-wheel-adapters.aspx

[Rocambolesque]

seriously hope you didnt sell the porsche wheels. also this....

http://racelandus.com/p-136-vw-4x100...-adapters.aspx

No the wheels are sitting in the shed. Problem with the raceland adapters is that they do not give you enough poke to be "stanced". I would still have offsets of like 45 in the front and 32 in the back. The ones I made were 35mm, giving me 30 in the front and 17 in the back. I think I will still go with these sizes. Maybe even step up to 40mm in front.

mint Jetta.

did you have to mod the ECU for the new 2.0 engine?

in the first page looks like your rear raceland shock is already blown, isnt it?

The ecu is the stock ECU from the mk3. Same for the wiring, its almost plug and play in a CE2 mk2 fusebox. The shock isn't blown, its just anti-seize on the threads.

Here's winter mode.



The floor rust I found yesterday really pissed me off though. I always keep finding rust on this car... I wish I could move to the west coast just so I can find 30 year old cars with no rust instead of dealing with overpriced clapped-out rustbuckets like we have here.

[Minty_Fresh]

love the car. need to look into some eastwood rust products keep everything safe from rusting onto ver winter.

[Rocambolesque]

Already got por 15 for that.

[Rocambolesque]

Time for my bi-monthly update lol.

Well, soo after the last post I parked the car. For some reason, driving this car with the windows down in warm summer weather is great fun, but driving when its cold, rainy and dark is no fun at all. Plus the floor rust isn't fixed yet, so I thought I'd give the car a break for a little while. Meanwhile I can take stuff apart and fix what's broken.

Fast forward to december 22nd, a friend calls me, he's going to study away for 6 months and he's having his goodbye party at a bar downtown. Not wanting to come back at 4 am and having to work the next day, I decide to take the car to go there. The car hasn't moved for a month, and 2 tires had a slow leak and hold like 5psi... Wasn't enough to stop me. I inflated both tires, changed a lightbulb and hit the road. I arrive there and spot a street with about five parking places in a row. I park there, an e46 does the same and goes in front of me. Now for some strange reason the e46 BACKS UP, and he doesn't stop. I honked but he still hit me. What a good way to start the night.

I get out of the car and ask the guy about 3 times if he looks in the back when he backs up. He never answered... The grille was smashed, my new VW badge was cracked in half and one headlight was pushed back. No biggie I thought, and the guy agreed to give me 80$, which is about the value of a grille and a badge. The next day I take everything apart:



Bent rad support, and 1 headlight adjuster was busted. If you ever tried to find a headlight adjuster for a VW 7" round Ecode, you'll know they're made out of unobtainium... Anyways, it was a great time to change the grille, since the old one was held with screws (thank you shady garage) and gravity. I also disassembled the headlights, painted the buckets with POR-15, and destroyed a set of old aero headlight to get the adjuster screws, since the other ones were stripped. Found out the aero ones were stainless I also fixed the city light sockets and ordered some LED bulbs. Reassembled everything:



Next up is bending and painting the rad support, painting the grille strip and finally re-do the lights wiring. After I'll play with the engine a bit. Stay tuned.

[EBMW21]

nice mk2! i just finished doing the single round conversion to mine!

[Whiskerz]

nice work.... unlucky about the accident though.... you should always add 50% to whatever you think it will cost though

still doesnt seem to have been too bad for you!

now hurry up and get the porkers on

[am4nf]

Looks great with the golf headlights, jetta headlights look terrible