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Some of you might already now my MKIII GTI:
...most of you won't know my long term project, though.
Couple of years ago I bought this 1986 Scirocco 16V:
It was a rustbucket, but a very rare one. It had the 1.8 16V KR engine in it, which has an output of 139PS, it was one of the last engines that came without a cat.
Because of the high car tax on cars without cats, there are much less than 100 registered and used Sciroccos left in Germany which have the KR engine in it.
Another thing that made it even more rare, was the fact that it came with nearly every orderable extra. It only missed leather seats, seat heating and cruise control.
Power windows, mirrors and A/C might've been pretty common in the US and in other countries around that time, but here they were rarely ordered on cars like the Scirocco.
My first plan was to get some rusty holes fixed up, so the Scirocco would pass the German TÜV, but the more I digged, the more rust I found.
I ended up making it a project.
Had 80% of the body fixed up in the following two years, but on the transport to our new garage the body got slightly damaged. On top of that I realized that I pretty much failed at welding a new wheelarch in earlier.
I could've done it properly when I realized my mistakes, but back then I just didn't have enough experience at welding.
Tried my best to fix my mistake, but it just wouldn't work out anymore. I lost interest in my project and payed more attention to my Golf.
...until a few months ago. As there's not much to do on my Golf anymore, I decided to finish my project.
Sadly there are no repair body panels for MKII Sciroccos anymore.So since I would've needed a donor car anyway, I decided to buy one with a shell that still was in a good condition.
Found a rustfree 1992 Scirocco for cheap, bought it and made some space for it at the garage by cutting up the old shell.
TL;DR
BAM! Untouched, rust free donor car
Even the bumpers don't have any scratches on them!
well, okay... I lied. One of the previous owner moved the antenna from the fender onto the roof... which I would've had to do anyway as all 16V Sciroccos had the antenna on the roof.
(...oh and he cleaned the trunkdoor. Professional job right there, bet you didn't notice the missing badges until now!)
Only the interior looks like somebody used it to move around garbage and dirt... doesn't matter, I don't need anything in there.
95HP almost completely removed.... don't need anything from the engine bay either, most parts are already sold. Only kept the engine and gearbox in so I got some weight on the suspension when I testfit my wheels.
Ordered some small dish for the RM wheels...
...and applied some fire here and there.
New and old.
Well.. that looks acceptable. 9J and an offset of -02.
Fits nicely!
...should've ordered a bigger dish though, it barely pokes out.
Testfitted it at the back, too. I don't like the staggered look, so I'll use spacers here.
The lip pokes 30mm at the front and 10mm at the back, so I'll use 20mm spacers at the back, resulting in an offset of -22mm at the back.
Needs low and camber, but god I love that dish!
Now I'm waiting for some used coils to fiddle a little with the suspension before I rip it out, along with the engine, gearbox and interior.
I'll build a rollable frame for the shell, so that I can move it around and out of the garage.
...it's just more easy to do all the dirty work in front of our shed where I don't have to clean
...most of you won't know my long term project, though.
Couple of years ago I bought this 1986 Scirocco 16V:
It was a rustbucket, but a very rare one. It had the 1.8 16V KR engine in it, which has an output of 139PS, it was one of the last engines that came without a cat.
Because of the high car tax on cars without cats, there are much less than 100 registered and used Sciroccos left in Germany which have the KR engine in it.
Another thing that made it even more rare, was the fact that it came with nearly every orderable extra. It only missed leather seats, seat heating and cruise control.
Power windows, mirrors and A/C might've been pretty common in the US and in other countries around that time, but here they were rarely ordered on cars like the Scirocco.
My first plan was to get some rusty holes fixed up, so the Scirocco would pass the German TÜV, but the more I digged, the more rust I found.
I ended up making it a project.
Had 80% of the body fixed up in the following two years, but on the transport to our new garage the body got slightly damaged. On top of that I realized that I pretty much failed at welding a new wheelarch in earlier.
I could've done it properly when I realized my mistakes, but back then I just didn't have enough experience at welding.
Tried my best to fix my mistake, but it just wouldn't work out anymore. I lost interest in my project and payed more attention to my Golf.
...until a few months ago. As there's not much to do on my Golf anymore, I decided to finish my project.
Sadly there are no repair body panels for MKII Sciroccos anymore.So since I would've needed a donor car anyway, I decided to buy one with a shell that still was in a good condition.
Found a rustfree 1992 Scirocco for cheap, bought it and made some space for it at the garage by cutting up the old shell.
TL;DR
BAM! Untouched, rust free donor car
Even the bumpers don't have any scratches on them!
well, okay... I lied. One of the previous owner moved the antenna from the fender onto the roof... which I would've had to do anyway as all 16V Sciroccos had the antenna on the roof.
(...oh and he cleaned the trunkdoor. Professional job right there, bet you didn't notice the missing badges until now!)
Only the interior looks like somebody used it to move around garbage and dirt... doesn't matter, I don't need anything in there.
95HP almost completely removed.... don't need anything from the engine bay either, most parts are already sold. Only kept the engine and gearbox in so I got some weight on the suspension when I testfit my wheels.
Ordered some small dish for the RM wheels...
...and applied some fire here and there.
New and old.
Well.. that looks acceptable. 9J and an offset of -02.
Fits nicely!
...should've ordered a bigger dish though, it barely pokes out.
Testfitted it at the back, too. I don't like the staggered look, so I'll use spacers here.
The lip pokes 30mm at the front and 10mm at the back, so I'll use 20mm spacers at the back, resulting in an offset of -22mm at the back.
Needs low and camber, but god I love that dish!
Now I'm waiting for some used coils to fiddle a little with the suspension before I rip it out, along with the engine, gearbox and interior.
I'll build a rollable frame for the shell, so that I can move it around and out of the garage.
...it's just more easy to do all the dirty work in front of our shed where I don't have to clean
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