ph2 gti6 on a budget

[kernow_joe]

Yeah.. i also blame the noise for my fuel bill! Rev counter goes up, wallet goes down

Fair play to pug though, they certainly can get an epic noise from there engines

too right also realised last night that they're quite underated,

chattng to a friend of a friend going on about his car he had, (fiat coupe 20v) and taking it to the nurburg ring blha blha blah when I said doubt he'd keep me through the corners, a few of the guys actualy thought I was joking! bahaha

[Midnightclub]

I was so surprised at how well they handle in standard form tbh! Looking forward to stiffening it up..(giggidy)

[Curt]

Nile bumders, get a room


Looking good Joe, needs more pics though

[Midnightclub]

You're just jelly your not in our club

[kernow_joe]

Nile bumders, get a room


Looking good Joe, needs more pics though

cheers curt, its on axle stands again though, and no mot so when I get them sorted some pictures may follow

[kernow_joe]

You ask and you get curt. On axle stands one drive shaft missing , No hubs, missing a wishbone, drop links missing and odd shocks

[Curt]

Haha nice one Joe, looking a bit sorry for itself but I'm sure it'll be looking good soon

[kernow_joe]

hopefully be back on the road in a few weeks, just finding the time now its dark so early and no garage/lighting.

really dreading lowering the beam though

[Curt]

Yeah the weather/darkness is really depressing and limiting. You can take solace in the fact it can't be as bad as my phase 1 beam!

[kernow_joe]

I'm not sure we snapped a breaker bar and bent another removing a hub nut on saturday, had to take a trip to halfords and buy the strongest one they had!
if thats anything to go by I'm in for a fun day

[kernow_joe]

with the immenent failure of the mot fast approaching, I'm wondering what its going to fail on?

in past few weeks I've replaced the following ;

both track rod ends,
both wishbones (meyle HD ball joints, P bushes and front bush),
both drop links,
both front wheel bearings,
rebuilt drivers side drive shaft,
pas steering pipe,

todo;

replace pershed brakes pipes,
maybe weld the exhaust/lash it up with gum gum and exhaust tape :p

I'm sure its still going to fail though

[Niall]

make sure you give it a goos thrashing before the mot. These seem to suffer with emissions big time even when they stand for a few weeks!

[kernow_joe]

make sure you give it a goos thrashing before the mot. These seem to suffer with emissions big time even when they stand for a few weeks!

that won't be a problem, it always gets trashed when its driven

[kernow_joe]

before/during



after



made a start on the inlet manifold aswell



none of its perfect but will look a darn site better than it does now

[Curt]

Look good man need to get around to painting mine!

Good luck with the MOT.

[kernow_joe]

cheers bud,

I was planning on painting mine but after giving them a quick rub down think they're staying plain, only took about 1 hour to clean so far, although the inlet needs quite a bit more time ...

[Tom]

They look nice! I do keep my eye out for 306's when im out and about, there seems a fair few of us cornish lot on here!

[kernow_joe]

cheers Tom, where you too?

just dropped this off for the immenent mot failure, and damn it drives nice, first time I've driven it for a while on the account of being illegal and all, hopefully be legal again tomorrow

[Midnightclub]

Don't discount it just yet mate! I thought mine was going to fail miserably and it passed with no advisories after i swapped the headlights over

[Frosty]

How did the MOT go?

[kernow_joe]

all I think it could fail on is exhaust maybe and headlight aim, rest should be reet.

MOT is tomorrow plus getting the cam belt done at the same time only thing I didn't fancy doing myself, couldn't drop it off in the morning though due to work

[kernow_joe]

just had a chat, the cat is f*cked as I thought, just hope its not beyond repair/bodging untill I decat it, and 2 brake pipes need replacing as I new, just didn't get round to fixing them

[Frosty]

just had a chat, the cat is f*cked as I thought, just hope its not beyond repair/bodging untill I decat it, and 2 brake pipes need replacing as I new, just didn't get round to fixing them

not to bad then apart from the cat which could be a bit of a problem

[kernow_joe]

nah not too bad, not an actual mot test just check by mechanic whilst doing cam belt, need to find a cheap cat or bodge the f*ck out of mine in the rain over the weekend now

[Alee83]

Mr Pellowe has a gti cat for £35 posted! I was gonna buy it as a spare!

[kernow_joe]

Thought he'd sold it, nice one cheers, rep when I get to a computer

[kernow_joe]

went down to have a chat after work and my mechanic handed me a handful of bits of rubber that used to make up part of my cam belt!!

and one of the pulleys was f*cked, I'm so lucky it hadn't snapped and caused any major damage. but end of the matter needed a pulley thats going to takea few days to get in, never mind atleast it will be trust worthy when its done

[cwspellowe]

Save the rep joe, cat sold on ebay sorry mate

£30? Pah. £50 minus fees suited me nicely

[Curt]

Lucky escape with the belt by the sound of it! Cat shouldn't be a problem, there's loads about and they go pretty cheap

[kernow_joe]

Save the rep joe, cat sold on ebay sorry mate

£30? Pah. £50 minus fees suited me nicely

ah sound mate, I would have been happy with the original £40 but got to try save myself a few quid :p

think I've got myself a cat and cat back stainless sorted now though, going to have a nose after work tomorrow.

yeah very lucky escape would have been a double snapper....