Low, Slow And Teddy'd Mk2 Golf

[MkIIJay]

Just a single photo for you guys...

[Shepherd]

Sitting nice!

[CraigSnedeker]

Absolutely beautiful car!! I do miss the teddy bear wheels though haha.

[doninphi]

Saw you at woodcocks on the last Thursday classics meet last month, looked cool.

[MkIIJay]

My pursuit of being silly low continues! The next step for getting lower was camber. There's a photo above showing the little amount of camber before so i'll just post the afters...





Tomorrows job is to (hopefully) camber the fronts and then I can wind the coilovers down some more!

[SunOfABeach]

i was all for this thread, when i opened it up on page one. thoese rims were BADASS!!! love it, but my oh my it looks soo clean now good job man!

btw, your girlfriends quite the woman, mine would never buy me a car.. let alone draw spot on pictures of it

[MkIIJay]

Another week, another update.

Yesterday I finally got around to cambering the rear wheels and then today we camber the front which in turn, allowed me to lower the car all around a bit more. The rear has not yet been lowered (tomorrows job) but the front has.





I've had to remove my splitter as it was curled under the car. I'm now on the look out for a small CL splitter. I'll post a few photos tomorrow once I get the back down more

[doninphi]

Prefer it splitter less tbh...

[MkIIJay]

Another update and it's been an up and down day. I started by lowering the rear. Sorry to repost the same photo but before:



After:



I then decided to take it for a drive. Bad idea. My front right tyre suddenly lost all air forcing me over into oncoming traffic. Luckily, no accidents but it would appear that TEN bolts had snapped in my split rim.





No messing around, straight home and the wheel was split.



Now, there was absolutely NO sealant between the inner dish and the centre, could that cause it?

[renngolf]

Now, there was absolutely NO sealant between the inner dish and the centre, could that cause it?

Nope. Looks like they were torqued incorrectly from image.

[MkIIJay]

Afternoon! Figured it was time for an update.

A few of you may have seen a thread from me last week. Long story short, I had TEN split rim bolts fail at the same time. It lost all air instantly but luckily, didn't damage the actual wheel itself.





We have since learnt that the bolts were torqued up to THREE times what they should have been. Anyone, spoke to Image Wheels for the correct details and rebuilt the wheel.

Took it out for a couple of photos, i'll just show the one for now...



I'm attending a local meet tonight so hopefully we'll see a few new photos tomorrow!

[Miles.]

Car looks awesome. where abouts are you in the UK mate?

[MkIIJay]

Car looks awesome. where abouts are you in the UK mate?

I'm in Lincoln mate

[surfpig]

fuck i dig your car man,

a shit tonne of inspiration for my mk2 build here in australia!

[MkIIJay]

Evening guys! It's been a while since I last posted.

It has been a bit... eventful since my last update. I sold my Westy front and replaced it with my single 5 slat grille. I've also added camber all round. Unfortunately, due to running so low, I managed this to tear my fuel line out...

The first time:



The second time:



And a fancy photo just for the hell of it: