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I got this car about a year ago and it is my first car. For a while nothing happened because I only made enough money to pay for my gas. Earlier this year, I got a job as a "freelance contractor" for a software company. I was supposed to make quite a bit more money than my last job, and I did for about two months, but now something happened with all the contractor paychecks, and mine is two months late and I'm still working on getting it to me, so I am sort of between jobs and don't have any money, so no real progress on my car will happen for a little while. I've had to borrow a lot of money from my parents 
, so most of that paycheck will be used to pay them back, but I'll be working at some of the races at Road Atlanta, so assuming I find a job soon, that money can be used for parts. So now onto the car:
It is a 2001 VW Jetta with the 2.0 litre engine. When I first got the car, I ***** how slow it was, but I needed the gas mileage, so I eventually got over that desire to go fast, and realized that this car is a great commuter car. But as we all know here, no car is perfect from the beginning
.
So far, I've only done a few things, as I am driving to two different schools every day and that uses a lot of gas, and I've not been making a lot of money at any point since I got the car.
The very first thing I did to the car was put in an iPod adapter and run the cable through the center console because the only aftermarket head units I like are the touchscreens, and at the time, I didn't think those were worth the money.
Not long after that, I got a set of long beach wheels because I ***** the 15" avuses. They were plastidipped black and had a huge gash in them, but they were a good price, so I got them and immediately pulled the plastidip off and filled the gash with metal filler. I got dark grey plastidip as a temporary thing until I pulled them back off to paint them. At about the same time, I debadged the Jetta letters because to me they look like the stick-on AutoZone letters.
Not a lot happened for a couple months, then I painted the rear VW badge black to match the front one, as well as bought some used spacers and bolts and put them on and installed clear side markers.
A few weeks later, I got my WRD coilovers in the mail. I paid a guy from another forum I am on to put the coils on for me because I have almost zero mechanical experience. Those went on, and the long beaches came off. I have seven threads left in the front, but I haven't decided if I'll go down more or not.
So far, that is all I have done, but I was on my school's Scotland exchange, and the kids from Scotland just left about 30 minutes ago (I am not ashamed to say that was the most emotional thing I've been through, and I am writing this through teary eyes
), so this weekend I should finally have time to start sanding the long beaches and painting them silver. Also, the guy that did my coils said he has a set of Brembo pads and rotors that he would give me that came off his car when he upgraded his brakes again, so over the next couple weeks, I'll get the car aligned, get the long beaches back on, and get new pads and rotors.
The car is pretty slow, and the headliner and one of the door cards are starting to sag, so I have quite a few plans for this car. I am not going to make it lay frame or make it into a race car, I am just going to make it into what I think is the perfect daily driver.
My plans for the exterior are:
My plans for the interior are:
My plans for performance are:
Wow, that was a lot longer than I expected it to be.
, so most of that paycheck will be used to pay them back, but I'll be working at some of the races at Road Atlanta, so assuming I find a job soon, that money can be used for parts. So now onto the car:It is a 2001 VW Jetta with the 2.0 litre engine. When I first got the car, I ***** how slow it was, but I needed the gas mileage, so I eventually got over that desire to go fast, and realized that this car is a great commuter car. But as we all know here, no car is perfect from the beginning
.
So far, I've only done a few things, as I am driving to two different schools every day and that uses a lot of gas, and I've not been making a lot of money at any point since I got the car.
The very first thing I did to the car was put in an iPod adapter and run the cable through the center console because the only aftermarket head units I like are the touchscreens, and at the time, I didn't think those were worth the money.
Not long after that, I got a set of long beach wheels because I ***** the 15" avuses. They were plastidipped black and had a huge gash in them, but they were a good price, so I got them and immediately pulled the plastidip off and filled the gash with metal filler. I got dark grey plastidip as a temporary thing until I pulled them back off to paint them. At about the same time, I debadged the Jetta letters because to me they look like the stick-on AutoZone letters.
Not a lot happened for a couple months, then I painted the rear VW badge black to match the front one, as well as bought some used spacers and bolts and put them on and installed clear side markers.
A few weeks later, I got my WRD coilovers in the mail. I paid a guy from another forum I am on to put the coils on for me because I have almost zero mechanical experience. Those went on, and the long beaches came off. I have seven threads left in the front, but I haven't decided if I'll go down more or not.
So far, that is all I have done, but I was on my school's Scotland exchange, and the kids from Scotland just left about 30 minutes ago (I am not ashamed to say that was the most emotional thing I've been through, and I am writing this through teary eyes
), so this weekend I should finally have time to start sanding the long beaches and painting them silver. Also, the guy that did my coils said he has a set of Brembo pads and rotors that he would give me that came off his car when he upgraded his brakes again, so over the next couple weeks, I'll get the car aligned, get the long beaches back on, and get new pads and rotors.The car is pretty slow, and the headliner and one of the door cards are starting to sag, so I have quite a few plans for this car. I am not going to make it lay frame or make it into a race car, I am just going to make it into what I think is the perfect daily driver.
My plans for the exterior are:
- Glass headlight lenses
- Euro tails
- Side skirts
My plans for the interior are:
- Brown suede door card inserts, pillars, and headliner
- Get rid of the peeling soft touch and paint those pieces black
- Black carpet
- Touch screen double-din head unit
- Armstrong clan tartan shift boot (because that's my name)
- Subwoofer with a box covered in the same tartan wool
- Tan leather seats (possibly)
My plans for performance are:
- Chip
- 260 cam
- Techtonics exhaust
- Lighter underdrive pulleys
- TT short shifter
Wow, that was a lot longer than I expected it to be.
or should i say Bora 
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