1990 Golf GTI 8v

Been treating the rust/removing it, and cleaning all the old waxoyl/grease/curse word for ages. Must have went over it about 20 times and found more hidden curse word every time. Got some zinc primer down, then a couple of coats of high build. Got a little filling to do then a bit more primer, then colour. Maybe even before Christmas. Fingers crossed. Then I can start putting it back together.









This is basically where I stand as of December 22nd.

I did a little bit of filling and sanding the last few days, then tonight gave it another 2 coats of primer. My paint arrived today as well, so I should get some colour on there over the Christmas break. Then it can go back together. I'm really excited about the reassembly. Should be good fun!

Cheers for reading!

Looking good! Keep it up! You should get this thread up on Mk2OC too

Excellent. It's really sad that I looked at the pile of bits and recognised the Mk2 golf panel... but then I have just been stripping mine further.

I consider this timely inspiration to get everything absolutely spot-on...!

Nice one! The loom on ours is going to be getting a thorough refresh, I'm pretty dure the car was parked at the bottom of the North Sea for a few years...

I might ask you for some photos of how it all goes together as well, since I've lost a lot of the pictures from my strip down

We'll see if I can get it back together I marked most of the plugs as I took them off, then there's a couple I didnt because "those ones are obvious" - 10 months later, they're less obvious. haha.

Right then, can't believe I've not posted anything since February. Only feels like a month or 2!

As you'd hope, I've made quite a bit of progress since February.

Installed the refurbed and painted servo, 16v master cylinder and new copper pipes. First time making up full pipes like this. It was quite therapeutic, even in the cold. Not 100%, but good enough.




Been working on improving my zinc plating set up and knowledge, it's gotten progressively better as I've went on, so probably going to go back and do the initial stuff again at some point.

These bits are for the subframe and steering rack.



Got Superpro bushes for the wishbones.


Subframe powdercoated, painted, zinc plated and put back together. Looks pretty good






Refreshed the shifter. Powdercoated, plated and new bushes.
Before


After - I know that weather strip isn't in the right place, I fixed it before fitting.




Cleaned up the surface rust in that area too and painted it up.


Subframe back in the car.




Engine looks tiny


Then manhandled back in place - cheers to beefdogg for the muscle.

Front crossmember back on too


Cleaned up the fuel rail. Changed the seals on the injectors. The plastic casing around the wiring was broken, so glue it back together. Removed rust and plated all the bits.






Starting to put the bay back together


Gear linkage in after plating. This is one of the jobs I'll need to go back and do again. It came out quite dull.







Removed the timing pulleys, cleaned them up and painted them. Reinstalled with new timing belt.


Got quite a bit more to show after this, but will post that up in a few days.

I looked at home plating kits but the cost of getting it done professionally was so inexpensive that I decided it wasn't worth the bother.

He's doing a nice job though.

Cheers guys!

Yeah it's not too costly to pay to have done - if there's someone close by who can do it. But there doesn't seem to be many people close by who electroplate, which I find odd. But if I find out there's a process or job I can do myself, I'll almost certainly at least give it a bash. I really enjoy the process of getting rusty bolts to look new.