So today I started taking the interior back to basics. This was the starting point. I take back the earlier comment on the seat rails, they were a decent 2mm thickness material but they were drilled a few times and didn't have crush tubes fitted. In my experience without taking the centre plate off the... Continue Reading →
Since last week I ordered a few parts to sort out the steering rack and they arrived during the week. As I went to disassemble the rack it appears the tensioner screw plug had been staked in place. This wasn't apparent until I tried to remove the screw as the damaged threads in the alloy... Continue Reading →
Coilovers are nearly finished, but as I have some work to do I chucked the standard shocks off the GTI on. So this is what I am working with - a very dirty 106 Rallye! I've done some repainting of the door shuts and around the rear quarter windows transforming them from this: To this:... Continue Reading →
So the car's gone nowhere since arriving home as it had no springs on the front struts and the steering rack/column needed sorting. I bought a set of Bilstein B8s about the same time as the GTI which were sat in a box, so I thought that I'd convert the struts to coilovers. Dunc Conway... Continue Reading →
This is the new project car, it is well known in the 106 Rallye Register forum community having been around since at least 2009 as far as I can tell. I bought as a rolling shell from Andrew Mathias. So the history of my second S1, L958KBW, is as below as far as I can... Continue Reading →
So since the last update my dad came up and we blitzed the car for a full day getting it 85% stripped, over the next couple of weeks I did the rest, taking it back to a bare shell. As the destination was the scrap yard I chopped out a few bits just in case... Continue Reading →
Not updated on here for a while but did some more digging and came to a reluctant conclusion. The shell is f***ed! I've found rust places I've never seen it before on a 106. Can't believe the MOT on this only expired in January last year. So I will buy a base model and transfer... Continue Reading →
I have a load of photos from the earlier build work. There are six from when it was just finished at Hockly's but the one I posted previously is the only one that shows the rear mount. Hockly's came back to me this morning with the conclusion that Sadev did the housing, but talking to... Continue Reading →
Same rear arch, more adventures in crust. It's the car that keeps giving. Chased the rust and discovered moisture had risen between the rear panels from the seam edge and rotted from the inside out. End of the sill had gone too and the bottom corner of the arch. I cut one piece out to... Continue Reading →
With help from Stuart Trundle and a 400mile detour north of the border on the way home in the snow I have a sequential gearbox again, this time with all the internals and it came with a box of spares. There is a slight issue of now having two bellhousing adapters neither of which fit... Continue Reading →
So after last week and taking a good look at the car I realised that it was dirtier than a very dirty thing. So I put all the wheels back on and took it outside to meet Herr Kartcher. Germanic engineering aided the removal of about a tonne of mud. I swear it was sitting... Continue Reading →
So I decided to fit the new plastic arch extension to the drivers side wing. Unfortunately the wing fell off in the process and the side skirt also made a successful bid for freedom: I suspect that the reason for this is that Dr Frankenstein may have travelled from Mexico to work on this very... Continue Reading →
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