The level of detail is blinding - fair play to you!

Can’t do much else in this weather so let’s do something different...

 

#distractionmethods

 

 

 

 

Half a bag of week old Skips crisps for the right guess

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Non car related?

3 hours ago, Dark_Hero said:

Non car related?

 

No they are 100% car related

Interesting. No clue lol

Drive on ramps

I was going to say ramps or a tyre rack?

On 17/06/2019 at 19:20, Tech1e said:

Drive on ramps

 

Ross wins the packet of skips...

 

I never use ramps like this for services, much prefer the higher reaches of the trolley jack and axle stands, so I decided to prep an old pair of ramps into show/display ramps for when I eventually show the car.

 

Got a litre of Dulux metal gloss paint mixed up in the right RAL6029 vRS Mint Green, and painted them up. Fitted some grip tape on the rungs and Bobs your aunts live in lover.

 

Not at all exciting but appealing to the geek in me....

 

 

 

I’ll hopefully be back on the car this week as well so progress will be made on what matters...

Edited 29 March, 20215 yr by Lofty

Progress.... of sorts..

 

I researched industrial adhesives for a bit with regards to reattaching the rear spoiler and settled on some  Sikaflex 291i marine adhesive in black so the other night I bonded the spoiler back on, and weighted it down in three places. I have to leave it 24 hours to go off so this is what it looks like for now..

 

 

 

 

Spured on by such massive progress I finished the wiring at the battery box by adding the new positive lead which joins the battery to the fuse board. 

 

Then found out the Ibiza PD160 intake pipe and fitted that, bloody tight squeeze against the battery box.

 

 

 

 

You can see also how I’ve altered the main intake socket and removed the rain deflector, might help airflow, might not??

 

 

Edited 29 March, 20215 yr by Lofty

5 minutes ago, Lofty said:

Progress.... of sorts..

 

I researched industrial adhesives for a bit with regards to reattaching the rear spoiler and settled on some  Sikaflex 291i marine adhesive in black so the other night I bonded the spoiler back on, and weighted it down in three places. I have to leave it 24 hours to go off so this is what it looks like for now..

 

 

Spured on by such massive progress I finished the wiring at the battery box by adding the new positive lead which joins the battery to the fuse board. 

 

Then found out the Ibiza PD160 intake pipe and fitted that, bloody tight squeeze against the battery box.

 

 

You can see also how I’ve altered the main intake socket and removed the rain deflector, might help airflow, might not??

 

 

And finally got the drivers headlight out to test fit, realising that during being stored it’s lost the left hand securing tab...FFS.

 

 

So I’m going to have to raid the local scrappy for an old cheap headlight so I can cut the tab off and then plastic weld it to the original xenon unit... annoying but not the end of the world.

 

The body of the headlamp is the same, so you can swap everything over into a different body if you can find one with a good enough lens.

Congratulations. I wish I could embark in a project ten times simpler than this. That said, I spot some little rubber stops of sorts, which my car doesn't have. Are those original to your car or did you put them yourself? Since I have no hopes of getting them from the dealer where I live and basically no cars have them here, I would appreciate if you may tell me what dimensions they have to get similar, generic ones.
I guess they are there on the TDI cars to stop the bonnet from rattling?

 

I think they are decorative caps for the wing bolts?

54 minutes ago, Tech1e said:

I think they are decorative caps for the wing bolts?

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed... 

Yeah they’re just 10mm domed nut covers, available off eBay everywhere 

Excellent, thank you.

Just a splendid build thread this! 

 

Not really sure how it's taken me this long to spot it, but nonetheless I've now spent the time reading through.

 

 

The spoiler is now all finished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And on this pic you can see the mk5 Golf aerial as well..

 

 

 

 

Happy with that, looks different without being too OTT in my opinion.

 

More soon

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So far I’m two hours into this little task..

 

 

 

 

 

The OE Fabia fuel cap is a roughly textured thing, I’d looked at something else from the extended VAG family but couldn’t stomach paying £140 for an aluminium Porsche Boxter one, so thought I’d tweak what we have.

 

So I’ve spent two hours tonight rubbing the cap down with varying grades of paper to remove firstly the texture and secondly the odd moulding which looked like a lip to get your fingers round.

 

 

more updates soon

Edited 29 March, 20215 yr by Lofty

Slight "wordy" update, no pictures for the weary followers yet!

 

Frustrated at the broken headlight I chanced across a member on here selling a pretty near mint set of OE Hella Xenons, so did a deal and they arrived in the post. All lovely! In the meantime Rich Hutchinson had dropped me a message saying he had located pretty much the last set of Black Mask brand new Xenons in the UK, so now i'm the proud owner of those as well. In fairness the Black Mask ones will suit the front end of the daffodil just fine with the carbon dipped grille and washer jets etc, so they will be fitted with the factory fresh ballasts and brackets that came on the used set.

 

In other news I've test fitted the lower hard boost pipe, and i'm slightly put off by the massive loop that is in it, surely theres no need for that? Might look into making something bespoke and tighter fitting. 

 

More pics over the weekend as there's just so much going on at the minute I've barely been in the garage!

Sneak peek, straight from the dippers email..

 

 

 

 

More updates soon.

Edited 29 March, 20215 yr by Lofty

Had a couple of hours free tonight so I test fitted the new headlights, firstly to make sure there’s no fouling on the upper solid boost pipe and secondly to see what the fitment was like round the grille/bonnet etc.

 

 

 

I’m glad to say the boost pipe “just” clears the back of the light unit and the gaps are acceptable. Just waiting on some side light bulbs then I’ll build the lights up with the backing covers and ballasts.

 

The reason for the extreme angle is i’m still sorting out the lower boost pipes and actuator vacuum piping.

 

I’ll get the new drivers wheel arch liner in next to make sure there’s no fouling on that, then it’s front bumper refit time.

Edited 29 March, 20215 yr by Lofty

The sheer amount of adjustment on the MK1 Fabia headlamps is mind boggling. You can move them about all over the place on the inner and back adjusters. Have spent ages before getting them to line up with the wings then bumper and then to look the same as each other. 

17 hours ago, Tech1e said:

The sheer amount of adjustment on the MK1 Fabia headlamps is mind boggling. You can move them about all over the place on the inner and back adjusters. Have spent ages before getting them to line up with the wings then bumper and then to look the same as each other. 

 

I have looked again at my headlight fitment and the drivers one needs moving closer to the wing, other than the top two fitting screws and the long 10mm headed bolt into the front panel, where are the other adjusters for the lamp body Ross??

The back T30, the mounting that it goes through onto the lock carrier also adjusts up and down. 

23 minutes ago, Tech1e said:

The back T30, the mounting that it goes through onto the lock carrier also adjusts up and down. 

Ahh right I’ll have a look later.