Making 'em good

So here's what happened in the last 3 weeks. The E34 turned out to be way more rusty underneath and fixing all that took some serious work from all of us in the workshop. Plenty of welding was done so the car needed a complete respray, we went for Indianapolis Red Metallic, one of the color options for E60 M5s and E63 M6s.


We also got some new body parts for it which will be installed soon!


Next up is the Mk2 Golf, this one got some major changes as well! We found a complete GTI bodykit including the grille and fender flares, fortunately these parts are not so hard to find because of the popularity and amount of Mk2s around here. Later on i had a look in the classifieds to find some interesting parts, and the results were amazing! First up, those "rally style" Hella light covers and a set of 16V badges, i'll explain why i bought those in a moment.


I don't even know what this part is called but everyone calls it "heckblende" like in German, anyway. If i think about it, it's completely unnecessary but i found it interesting! It's white and red so i had to clear the orange blinkers on the taillights to make it fit.


And now for the best find in the classifieds: 15" Zender Sport wheels! These are quite rare nowadays. Not the usual choice like BBS RS but still totally period correct, i'd say. To make these fit so well we ordered a set of Eibach Pro-Street S coilovers, together with anti-roll bars which should provide great handling.


And this is the reason for the 16V badges i mentioned earlier. Phonexius wanted to make an unusual engine swap on this Mk2, he had many different ideas in mind but most of them were way too expensive for this build. So we started looking around for parts cars with an engine which would make an interesting swap for a Golf. A few junkyards later we found a 1998 Honda Civic 1.8 VTi with the engine still in decent condition, that means we got a B18C4. It was quite an easy fit, something like the SR20 swap with my Mk2 in USA! However i didn't know how to make the transmission fit so i took some notes about that while we were doing this swap.


The B18 runs perfectly but there are still many things to be sorted out: Wiring, exhaust system, brakes and maybe a few engine upgrades. Well, it's probably less work remaining than on the E34 which is almost a bare shell at the moment!