Posted by dubqnp on June 7th, 2010 |
1 comment
Well the sanding is completed. Were just waiting for our body shop to come over and show us where they want the pannels cut for the new ones to go on.
We’ve started to clean the ziebart off the engine bay so that we can cut the rear tray out and smooth it all ready for [...]
1977 . angle grinder . DC10 . engine bay . manila green . mk1 polo . polo . sanding . smoothing . volkswagen . vw . ziebart
Posted by dubqnp on May 9th, 2010 |
1 comment
Well with the price of petrol sky rocketing we made the decision to sell our New Beetle V5 Sport. We didn’t do a lot to it as we felt it didn’t need it just lowering it on eibach springs and having the front and rear smoothed. A lovely guy from Scotland is the new owner!
Gone [...]
bbs . New Beetle V5 Sport . smoothing . volkswagen
Posted by dubqnp on December 27th, 2009 |
0 comments
Sorry for the delay in updating the blog just been so busy!
Anyway last Saturday was the big day for the engine coming out. After spending an hour rebuilding the front of the Passat, Mark had installed new headlights and it was a bigger job than it looked. Then we got the engine hoist delivered and [...]
1977 . engine . engine hoist . mk1 . mk1 polo . MK1 Project . painted . polished . polo . PureKLAS . smoothing . stripped . volkswagen . vw
Posted by dubqnp on November 15th, 2009 |
0 comments
Just a quick update after returning from Rayvern Hydraulics, we spent a couple more hours sanding the Polo. We are getting there slowly the roof is half done so we should finish that when we get back next week. After that the rest shouldn’t be to much, the biggest job left to do will be getting [...]
mk1 polo . MK1 Project . polo . polo mk1 . smoothing . volkswagen . vw
Posted by dubqnp on October 26th, 2009 |
0 comments
The little 1.1 engine in the Polo works after putting in some fresh fuel and pumping it through it started second time! All we had to was clean the dizzy to get it to fire and it ran really sweetly no splutters no power surges or dips just smooth.
So now we need to sort out [...]
1.1 . engine . engine hoist . mk1 Polo. polo . MK1 Project . smoothing . volkswagen . vw
Posted by dubqnp on October 16th, 2009 |
0 comments
Marks giving his new Passat some loving with a Votex front skirt and side skirts. I’ve managed him these thanks to a contact within VW parts. He’s also had a set of GTI pedals and Passat door sill protectors to finish off his interior.
The skirts are with Head Works being sprayed up and the Passat [...]
alloys . GTI . passat . ride height . smoothing . volkswagen . votex . vw