87' VW Jetta Coupé

Hello, british friends, i'm new at this forum and this is my first post, so i will introduce myself, I'm João Fernandes, 21 years old, almost 4 years in the Dub planet (since i found out what's the real deal LOL) i spend almost 3/4 of all days since 2004 living , breathing and loving Vw's, i live in Portugal, ALgarve (shure that a lot of you guys actually know it).

I'm an Olschool way fan, so i think that the way of knowing of our cars and understand them as nobody else is by building them with our bare hands, and try to improve them everyday of our lifes, with a lot of Research and development by ourselfs.

I was seeking for a MK2 Jetta coupé for almost 7 years (at that time one uncle show me one in some german magazine and i got completely crazy about them, at that time he said something like "forget it.. you will never find one of these in Portugal, they are one of the rarest watercooled vw's in Europe, i've never seen one myself.." at that time i got very disapointed and during several years i amost forgot the holy graal of Mk2 jettas, the time has passed and in 2006 i started my quest after the coupé.. always with no sucess.. one day, in December 2006 i acidentally found this coupé, in preety bad condition, and i commited myself to buy it as soon as possible.. following that i went to pick the car in 7 January 2007.. and that was the beggining of many sleepless nights, many problems and above all many PERSERVERANCE )

Everything in this car (except the Paintjob) was made by me and my uncle in my building's garage by our own hands, it is not perfect, and i have the conscience of that, but at that time, with a very low budget and made by a kid of 20 years .. i think that isn't bad at all..

its enough of cheap conversation..

this is the deal! after 448 days under construction

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And to Check all the work since the first day i made a foto/video of it.. hope you enjoy it mates..

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Best Regards from Portugal

Looks great!

Lovely car mate and welcome. 2 door jetta's look great
Like the rims too!!

very nice!

Great work! Super commitment! You should be proud!

Looks like you have a few friends with them as well? Tell us more please!

so sick, makes me want to make mine a coupe!!

Nice one chap its nice to see the restoration being taken as seriously as the modification. and well done for saving what looks like a bit of a scrapper.. Well done.

My mentor, my instructor, my source of inspiration! you are the greater. your effort and devotion to this project is any thing of anormal.

Abraços

truely gorgeous coupe

Well done
Keep up the good work
Welcome to the club

07jettamk5 - the only dubber in portugal with one of these as well is actualy Rodszanto, that actually posted 3 posts ago they are very very very rare in Portugal, i only heard of 3 or 4 of them..

Rods - estás a exagerar .. LOL

Thanks for the welcome guys, i have a sticker of your club in this jetta, rodszanto bought 2 of them and actually gave me one..thanks rodz

btw - real nice sticker.. i must take some pictures of it

regards

Theyre a great pair of jetta yours and rodz... even better that they roll around with each other lol!

oh yeah mate, and here they are .. togheter!

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sweet as feck!!

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in these photos is kind of hard to check the new Update, the 16v Spoiler for the small bumpers.. i must take some day pictures as soon as possible for you to check the detail...

regards

top motor,

just love it,

turbo diesel too

Maybe something for the JOC calender!

mmm that would be hardcore

some new (nice) photos , with fender flares on

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photographer : Luis Mangorrinha

Great shots!!

hi there, what kind of badge is that you have on the grill? did you modify it yourself? thanks

i think its an original mk2 jetta "turbo diesel" badge,

i have seen these around, but not for a while now,

that is gorgeous

Too Kool 4 Skool!

Well mates, it's been a while since my last post here..

I swapped the engine to a 1.9 TDI AFN 110 HP, it still's almost stock (i only fitted TDI 150 turbo VNT1749VB) so it should have about 115 hp now, because i need to fit another injectors and remap the ecu.. then it should be around 180 hp.

here are the pics from the Portuguese Golf club meeting



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i must end the engine bay.. all the intercooler pipes should be made in stainless steel, and i have to make a sweet clean up as well, this pics are from the last November.

i will show you some nice pictures of the bay when it is properly finished

regards