After a few months of lurking I've finally applied for membership today, so don't feel guilty posting.
The Story
Had my Mk2 since July, when I bought it as an impulsive present to myself for graduating.
It was an ebay win, and think I got her for a fairly decent price.
4 owners including me from new. 68,000 on the clock when I bought it (now 72,000). Full service history. One old woman for 2 years, then an old boy up who used it as his Sunday car and kept it garaged up until 2011. He had to give up driving, and sold it to his local garage, who sold it to the young guy I bought it off, who had used it as his daily for a year.
Good things - no seat bolster wear.
No real rust anywhere (solid fuel petrol filler etc).
Recent cam belt, aux belt, brake disc + pad change.
Bad things - car park dings on both doors with a bit of touch up over the top.
Heater blower's noisy.
Idles about 12-1500 rpm. (Pooberg)
Stereo doesn't pick up radio stations, speakers are knackered, and there's no fascia.
Clutch only engaging right at the top of the travel.
I drove her as my daily over the summer and managed to break various bits getting used to her. First I blew an inner cv joint. Then she popped out of gear when my brother was having a go and the gear selector popped off (semi fixed this). Then she went for her first MOT under me and failed on corroded (probably 10 year old) tyres and brake lines. She's now running all new hard lines, a new-old set of steelies all round I picked up from a chap I know who was swapping his scirocco's steelies for alloys, and most importantly, braided brake hoses.
Currently laid up for the winter away from the salt while I collect parts.
Current problems to be fixed.
Borrow a mate's selector guide, and adjust the gear selection.
Ditto try to adjust the clutch cable, to get a better biting point.
Replace stereo with replacement period model.
Replace speakers with 6x4s hidden behind original covers.
Replace the pooberg with a Weber. (Need to get the kit for this for the choke cable etc, already have the Weber)
Replacement heater blower.
Plans
4-1 exhaust manifold.
2" exhaust.
Better air filter.
Gti cam.
Better shocks and springs, with a mild hit of the lowering stick.
Polybush all round.
Top and bottom strut braces front and back.
Probably some period alloys like Avus Snowflakes shod in decent rubber.
Port and polish the head.
Eventual plan is to have a word with my cousin, get his company to media-blast the whole thing back to bare metal, full respray in original colour, then have a subtle engine mod to a G60 (probably from a Corrado), mated to a 6 speed box, with no external clues (I know this means new fuel pumps etc, but plan to replace most of the loom, ideally with Digifiz dials, and uprate the fuel pump). Idea is to make it eventually look like a car that a tuner in the late '80s could produce (or the car VW could have produced if they had put the G60 in the Scirocco shell).
That turned into an essay.
Opinions?
