Hi all...
Maybe someone remember my blue probe, it looked like this...
And ended up like that
Then I had this one and few more dailys
And then I decided to buy new car... My GF had vw caddy and mk4 golf, both were pretty reliable, so I decided to turn down my antipathy for VW and bought a New Beetle, it's just different shaped mk4.
Bought this one, 2000 1.8t with 370k kms but It was in good shape.
The day I bought it
Traded my BBS RXII for these MAE crown jewels monoblock 9x19, they had huge tyres on them, but the thread was good, so I rocked summer in offroad mode. oh, and their lips were poorly painted white
Entertained myself with designing and 3D printing small stuff like dash vents, tow hook cover etc...
TA technics coilovers installed, pollished lips and smaller tyres. Sat pretty high that time as I got lot of axle binding...
Removed swaybar and wraped indicators with yellow tint
Roadkill damage happend
I was a little short on money, so I ordered no-fogs grill frame, made maself a grill from some stuff at work and also made a splitter/lip form damaged Alfa Romeo 147 bumper...
More lows needed, so notch, engine spacers
Polished wheel centers...
And newly tinted headlights
3D printed temporary centers waiting for better ones to arrive.
We washed our cars and attended VW festival nearby.
And on my way back home it drunked like 20 liters of water for 80km...
So to my friends garage again, did timing, waterpump, new radiator etc..
Also audi centers came in, sadly I can't find the right caps, but these are pretty close.
Looks better with them
Just testing my wide-body idea... not bad...
O really like how it stands out on the streets.
hohoo, extended balljoints came... More Camber and more lows
Always wanted open-air roof, but with roof that shape and size? Oh hey, used Ford Ka electric one comes to help.
Weekend in the garage, yey
I still need to 3D print cover for this compartment. It protrudes about 50mms to the opening and I decided to keep it. It's practicall
Yeah I know, same angle again
Noticed that rusty rocker panel? Yeah, solved that with new metal ones and proper job of my friend Kesam (see Kesam Garage on FB
He had to refurb some tabs and even made new ones when needed.
Unexpected oportunity... Whole set of 2pc AEZ Olymp 8,5x18 for 90€? Here we go. New winters bought.
Old 16s
"New" 18s
Daylying through winter...
... strikes back, shattered a lip by frozen snow
Nevermind, I took it off and came with Idea to weld the custom bumper.
First idea was with subaru legacy bottom end, and on my kinda over-the-top sketch it looked awesome.
But the bumper I wanted was already sold...
So I came up with idea of using Citroen C3 bottom end, with VW lupo indicators again
But this week. I found another add on austrian craigslist-like site...
Whole projektzwo bodykit, dual exhaus and set of fog ligst for 180€
Bought it... Bumper parts have few cracks etc, fixable. You can't find these parts anywhere anymore. It's not a mainstream car and these kits were pretty expensive new. Its front and rear bumper extension and 4 fender flares (not on my photos)
This is how it should look installed
Also mounted these rain guards, love em shitty pic though...
And these are already waiting to install, rear camber/drop plates -5 degrees from russian guy "billy bons customs"
and shorter front springs, not going that much lower but they should sit higher and I can probably get rid of 5mm wheel spacers and go a little bit lower then.
And this is how it looks now, dirty daily...
And my next plans?
- mount the dual exhaust
- AC/SAI delete, new cooling fans and their relay module
- replace engine bay fuse box - already bought
- replace front springs for shorter ones
- Fix, paint and mount projektzwo kit - not sure about fender flares- maybe we'll make custom ones.
- Rewiring the roof so it's memory works and you can slide it with one button touch - now I need to hold the button every time I shut off my ignition...
- rear camber plates, but I want to replace everything you need to remove for install... so new hubs and new brakes (maybe a vented bigger ones from skoda octavia RS)
- subwoofer revamp, sound deadening, new speakers
Looking for another wheels, I really like the maes, they are pretty rare in this monoblock version 1... but heavy as f... I'd love to find some wider 18s...
And I really want to touch up my interior, its... well, now it has 393k kms on its clock, you can imagine that interior
Over all I would love to go "fat porsche" look with widened fenders etc... slowly...
Maybe someone remember my blue probe, it looked like this...
And ended up like that
Then I had this one and few more dailys
And then I decided to buy new car... My GF had vw caddy and mk4 golf, both were pretty reliable, so I decided to turn down my antipathy for VW and bought a New Beetle, it's just different shaped mk4.
Bought this one, 2000 1.8t with 370k kms but It was in good shape.
The day I bought it
Traded my BBS RXII for these MAE crown jewels monoblock 9x19, they had huge tyres on them, but the thread was good, so I rocked summer in offroad mode. oh, and their lips were poorly painted white
Entertained myself with designing and 3D printing small stuff like dash vents, tow hook cover etc...
TA technics coilovers installed, pollished lips and smaller tyres. Sat pretty high that time as I got lot of axle binding...
Removed swaybar and wraped indicators with yellow tint
Roadkill damage happend
I was a little short on money, so I ordered no-fogs grill frame, made maself a grill from some stuff at work and also made a splitter/lip form damaged Alfa Romeo 147 bumper...
More lows needed, so notch, engine spacers
Polished wheel centers...
And newly tinted headlights
3D printed temporary centers waiting for better ones to arrive.
We washed our cars and attended VW festival nearby.
And on my way back home it drunked like 20 liters of water for 80km...
So to my friends garage again, did timing, waterpump, new radiator etc..
Also audi centers came in, sadly I can't find the right caps, but these are pretty close.
Looks better with them
Just testing my wide-body idea... not bad...
O really like how it stands out on the streets.
hohoo, extended balljoints came... More Camber and more lows
Always wanted open-air roof, but with roof that shape and size? Oh hey, used Ford Ka electric one comes to help.
Weekend in the garage, yey
I still need to 3D print cover for this compartment. It protrudes about 50mms to the opening and I decided to keep it. It's practicall
Yeah I know, same angle again
Noticed that rusty rocker panel? Yeah, solved that with new metal ones and proper job of my friend Kesam (see Kesam Garage on FB
He had to refurb some tabs and even made new ones when needed.
Unexpected oportunity... Whole set of 2pc AEZ Olymp 8,5x18 for 90€? Here we go. New winters bought.
Old 16s
"New" 18s
Daylying through winter...
... strikes back, shattered a lip by frozen snow
Nevermind, I took it off and came with Idea to weld the custom bumper.
First idea was with subaru legacy bottom end, and on my kinda over-the-top sketch it looked awesome.
But the bumper I wanted was already sold...
So I came up with idea of using Citroen C3 bottom end, with VW lupo indicators again
But this week. I found another add on austrian craigslist-like site...
Whole projektzwo bodykit, dual exhaus and set of fog ligst for 180€
Bought it... Bumper parts have few cracks etc, fixable. You can't find these parts anywhere anymore. It's not a mainstream car and these kits were pretty expensive new. Its front and rear bumper extension and 4 fender flares (not on my photos)
This is how it should look installed
Also mounted these rain guards, love em shitty pic though...
And these are already waiting to install, rear camber/drop plates -5 degrees from russian guy "billy bons customs"
and shorter front springs, not going that much lower but they should sit higher and I can probably get rid of 5mm wheel spacers and go a little bit lower then.
And this is how it looks now, dirty daily...
And my next plans?
- mount the dual exhaust
- AC/SAI delete, new cooling fans and their relay module
- replace engine bay fuse box - already bought
- replace front springs for shorter ones
- Fix, paint and mount projektzwo kit - not sure about fender flares- maybe we'll make custom ones.
- Rewiring the roof so it's memory works and you can slide it with one button touch - now I need to hold the button every time I shut off my ignition...
- rear camber plates, but I want to replace everything you need to remove for install... so new hubs and new brakes (maybe a vented bigger ones from skoda octavia RS)
- subwoofer revamp, sound deadening, new speakers
Looking for another wheels, I really like the maes, they are pretty rare in this monoblock version 1... but heavy as f... I'd love to find some wider 18s...
And I really want to touch up my interior, its... well, now it has 393k kms on its clock, you can imagine that interior
Over all I would love to go "fat porsche" look with widened fenders etc... slowly...
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