Are you not painting the entire shell before you put it back together ?

At the moment i dont have enough room in the unit as full of Cat D cars waiting for me to repair them, so going to put most of the interior back in and complete the engine bay. I can take it to the unit and seal it up then work on the prep. Will get all the bolt on parts in primer first so car will be in and out in the shortest time.

True, I suppose the inside of the doors and boot are easy as you can take them off to spray.

Spent over 4 hours getting all the dog hairs out of the rear wheel arch carpets but looks ok now.

Removed the petrol flap lock mech as not using the air central locking system.

Modified to take an electric motor and re fitted.

All the clips for the rear loom in place just need to remove the crappy high level brake light wiring and clip it all in place.

Just catching up on a few updates - it's certainly looking good

Those wheels just look epic!

Steve

Got loads done today when the rain stopped.

Finished sound deadening the boot and got all the rear carpets in.

Re made the rear section loom to tidy it up a bit.

Cleaned and fitted the front carpet section. Heater matrix replaced and foam seals on heater box replaced. Rear seat and passenger front seat fitted.

Cleaned the subframe, fitted the heat shield and started on installing the power loom.

Must be real satisfying putting clean shiney bits back into a nicely painted up body shell. Top work!

Kind of but spend more time trying now to scratch anything.

Got the dash inn and all the looms connected in the fuse box.

Almost looks like a car inside.

Looms placed in as waiting for some more clips off vw

Modified a corrado pas reservoir bracket to fit.

Engine mounts all in rack boot fitted.

Looking excellent!!!

What condition is the chrome strip round the dash in?

Chrome strip is very good and no cracks on the corners like normal.

ECU bracket cleaned up and installed. Scuttle area finished apart from wipers, throttle, clutch and speedo cables.

Drivers side loom all done and coil fitted.

Corrado PAS pipes cleaned up and painted.

Gear linkage bracket painted.

Gear linkage refurb parts ready to go in.

Need to finish the loom on the passenger side so i can put the battery in.

I approve of the effort gone into this, it's awesome!

Thanks for the comments guys.

Went to look at a octy vrs for a mate this morning so cracked on in the afternoon.

Built up gear linkage and finished the brake servo. looks better in white.

Made up my loom for the central locking and all tested ok.

Managed to get the servo fitted when the rain stopped.

PAS pipes fitted to enable the gear linkage to be fitted.

Need to get the brake pipes and master cylinder sorted now.

Loom is all finished and in place now. Just need to tidy a couple of bits when the engines in.

Touched up a couple of bits to tidy up the bay. Once i get the speedo cable in i can finish the dash.

Very nice!

The blue connectors on the inner wing look dirty :P

Ground in dirt that is. Will be covered up when the front panel is on.

Dash almost finished now. Just need to wire in the graphic.

Brake calipers all cleaned up and painted.

Brake pipes cleaned up and painted.

Master cylinder painted and fitted along with speedo and clutch cables.

Central locking loom in and powered up. Test electrics and al look ok.

May give the calipers another coat tomorrow and fit the brake pipes.

I have been checking daily for updates, looks lovely!!!!

Wanna swap for another Octavia?!

That is lovely mate. I'm toying with the idea of doing that to my 1991 Jetta GTI 16V as its a rare motor but don't know if I have the technical know how or the balls, just worried about taking it apart and just ending up with a garage full of parts that I don't know how to put back together..

I take it you have a sound mechanical engineering background of some kind behind you..

I take it you have a sound mechanical engineering background of some kind behind you..

No mechanical engineering background just like to learn. Only did the 20v conversion on the silver mk2 as it was a challenge. Done enough mk2's i dont need to ladel anything and know what a cables does by the colour code now.

Restored a mates Jetta 16v last year. Came out well and as you say rare now.

That is lovely mate. I'm toying with the idea of doing that to my 1991 Jetta GTI 16V as its a rare motor but don't know if I have the technical know how or the balls, just worried about taking it apart and just ending up with a garage full of parts that I don't know how to put back together..

I take it you have a sound mechanical engineering background of some kind behind you..

I'll gladly take it off your hands!

Started on one of my wheels today as the powder coat does not get into the area around the edge of the centre peice so had a play. Was a total **** to do but looks ok.

Fitted all my painted brake pipes. Just need to make up my last one and paint.

Think they look better in white.

Engine bay is almost complete now.

Stripped the front cross member and painted the lower part and mounts.

Not looking forward to doing the rest of the wheels but got to now i have done one lol.

Why didn't the powder get in there?

Love it............

Why didn't the powder get in there?

When powder coating the powder is atomised and then applied with an electrostatic charge which draws it to the item being coated so hard to get into the tight places as with paint you are propelling it onto the item.

Loving the wheel. How did you do it?

Loving all the white bits too, does make them look much cleaner. Had it been a blue or metallic car I think it would look overkill, but looks just sooo perfect with it all in white