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Been lurking here forever, time to add my build... I live in the ghettos of southern ontario for school, and share a house with a bunch of buddies. We are all engineering students and are into cars so we always have a ridiculous amount of projects going on. Pics of the Satchealous garage later in the thread. Project vehicles range from dubs to 240's to diesels, e30's, muscle cars and the list goes on... 
Here's my project:
It's an '83 GTI, basically bone stock mechanically. Looked like this when I bought it:
Then some kids smashed my windshield and it looked like this
And in the tiny garage for a long time
Then I got these snowflakes
I did a few other things... swapped the gas tank so I no longer had the right hand turn stalling problems, welded scirocco seat bases to some police car recaros, got a mk1 dash (old one was a hacked mk2 dash)
my haggered grill thats held together by zip ties
I drove the car like that for the summer and had a lot of fun. I even took it to the drag strip and did a blistering fast 18sec pass Later in the fall though, I hit a massive bump from construction and banged up one of my snowflakes pretty good. Tires were pretty well garbage too so I figured I'd just pick u a new set of wheels (with some rubber). Got some bmw exims with balloon tires for pretty cheap.
Front fender shaved
plugs set in the hatch, ready to be welded in
inner antenna wire hole patched
Nice and smooth hatch now
I also pulled my dash out and painted it with some duplicolor interior vinyl spray paint. Here's what it looked like before paint
while drying:
and somewhat put together:
Some rust repair:
The camera flash really shows the surface rust and makes it look worse than it really is but still, the passenger side is pretty bad :banghead:
Pulling the 8 valves of fury:
Found a first gen rx7 steering wheel so I thought I'd modify it to fit my quick release hub
Tucked away in the Satchealous Garage
started doing some engine bay work
Painting the block:
my new seats
:
started dickin around with a flange in solidworks
Here's what I want to do with the intake:
Engine specs:
-2.0 16v block (stock, replaced rod bearings)
-1.8 16v head (stuck but rebuilt)
-raceland header
-zx6r bike carbs
-act 4 puck clutch
That's about it for now. So far this has just been copied and pasted from my vortex build thread but I'll add new stuff soon.
Here's my project:It's an '83 GTI, basically bone stock mechanically. Looked like this when I bought it:
Then some kids smashed my windshield and it looked like this
And in the tiny garage for a long time
Then I got these snowflakes
I did a few other things... swapped the gas tank so I no longer had the right hand turn stalling problems, welded scirocco seat bases to some police car recaros, got a mk1 dash (old one was a hacked mk2 dash)
my haggered grill thats held together by zip ties
I drove the car like that for the summer and had a lot of fun. I even took it to the drag strip and did a blistering fast 18sec pass Later in the fall though, I hit a massive bump from construction and banged up one of my snowflakes pretty good. Tires were pretty well garbage too so I figured I'd just pick u a new set of wheels (with some rubber). Got some bmw exims with balloon tires for pretty cheap.
Front fender shaved
plugs set in the hatch, ready to be welded in
inner antenna wire hole patched
Nice and smooth hatch now
I also pulled my dash out and painted it with some duplicolor interior vinyl spray paint. Here's what it looked like before paint
while drying:
and somewhat put together:
Some rust repair:
The camera flash really shows the surface rust and makes it look worse than it really is but still, the passenger side is pretty bad :banghead:
Pulling the 8 valves of fury:
Found a first gen rx7 steering wheel so I thought I'd modify it to fit my quick release hub
Tucked away in the Satchealous Garage
started doing some engine bay work
Painting the block:
my new seats
:started dickin around with a flange in solidworks
Here's what I want to do with the intake:
Engine specs:
-2.0 16v block (stock, replaced rod bearings)
-1.8 16v head (stuck but rebuilt)
-raceland header
-zx6r bike carbs
-act 4 puck clutch
That's about it for now. So far this has just been copied and pasted from my vortex build thread but I'll add new stuff soon.
I tried some fine thread 1/4" bolts but something weird is going on there
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