Ants 86 Jetta GTi Engineering with a twist

Ant wrote:WOOHOO MOT'd today and she went straight through I also had my 1st chance to open her up on the local dual carrageway today and lets just say im impressed

Wiggy im ready when you are

I was born ready HAHA and look forward to it as well come on Santa

i dont think Mrs Claus would be too happy Wiggy!

nice car!! nice engine!!

congrats!!

shes back in the body shop now having a few minor irritations redone. Im having withdrawl symptoms

youve got withdrawl symptoms!!! I only drove mine for 3 miles!
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Loving this Jetta! - did the VR6 conversion take long to carry out?

Nah didnt take too long if you compile all the evening together lol

Got afew new shots shes a bit dirty

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back on the road again
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I love this car a bit more everytime i read this thread ive lost count just how many times that is lol! Looks top draw well done.

God damn teething problems breaks boiled on the car over the last couple of days oh well got a good pic before hand

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nice pic.
did you cook the brakes doing trial runs to the hospital.
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Why thank you mr popeye. Sadly no i was just merryly tootleing along the local duel carrageway

ye ye ye

nice little piece in PVW

Yep, i saw the mention in PVW as well. Interesting that you fitted a different dash. i thought you would have stuck to the original look, but guess you kinda moved away from that when you fitted the VR!

Ha Ha this mention finally im getting there

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Very nice!
Congrats!

Recognition at last two words GET IN!!! Well done chap feature next?

You got any closer pictures on the interior Ant?

I have got more pictures but i dont relly want to flash them about till after Spring fest at santapod and a feature is a maybe just waiting to hear back

i like your car...a lot..

Well i failed to even clean the car at Spring festival but now my first show has come and gone ill reveal all on the interior. But first one of these for good measure

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I wanted to be diferent with this rather then the plain old Mk3dash so i did a little investigateing to see what vehicles are built on the Mk2 chassis (this would mean minimal work). Low and behold i came across one of these

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Yep i know what you are all thinking its far better than it sounds the work load lightend due to the fact tha the whole Mk3 loom ran with Mk2 switch gear

Here it is in situe in a Toledo

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well here ya go we had to cut of roughly 2 inches from the rear of the dash for it even to fit this is because the toledo has no scuttle pannel as you can see the first ledge in the toledo below is where the Jetta window starts.

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also the a pillar is much thicker

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And here is the initial fitting

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Hmm looking good me thinks you will notice in the next pic there is only space for a single din head unit now i know im supposed to be keeping this car stock i came to the decision when the old engine blew id keep the special eddition part standard (all the GTI Engineering stuff) the rest is rife for changing. I even changed the new dash slightly as im a double din man so heres how the dash looked with the clocks and shroud before modification

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and heres the shroud after

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and fiited

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You will also notice my Mk3 VR clocks as seen before fitted perfectly into the Seat dash

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Only minor modifications for that one

and heres the finnished product

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Well i hope you like ive also got the luxury of a hight adjustable stearing column now aswell
Let me know what you think i have more updates to follow

Not to sound like im blowing smoke up ya but, i really like it, it doesnt look so modern that it looks to out of place but it still suits the VR clocks the only thing im not sure about is the double din headunit im just not sure on the size of it. All in all top work chap i applaud anyone that is propaired to think out side the box well done a big thumbs up from me

You took the words out of my mouth Alex!!
Not sure on where the headunit goes into the vents, think i would of stuck with single DIN, but the headunit looks flash, so probably worth the sacrifice to use it.
Rest of the build looks good.. hope it bags you a feature!

I shold of looked more at this at pod the other weekend. lol. Instead of thinking you had put a mk3 dash in it:$