[car_overhaul] 205 Gti Dimma

[luke1987 5]

Hi all just thought i would share my work with you this is my mates 205 gti dimma it was bought off ebay with a knackered engine for £700 we put a new engine in but thanks to a conrod bolt failing didnt last very long so we thought the time had come to give it a new lease of life so the idea is (Engine) 1.9 8v with piper ultimate road cam, Vernier Pully, Double valve springs, Twin 45 webbers, ARP rod bolts, Uprated Oil pump spring and baffled sump running on a fully rebuilt 1.6 box with quaife diff and 309 gti shafts and wishbones and hopefully 309 gti rear axle full respray in white should be coming next week so not to much to do then heres a few pics so far

[RalliArt 0]

I like it, keep refreshing the thread mate...

[luke1987 5]

Hi all not put any pics up for a while but here we are gearbox back

Quaife diff and rebuild car havin bodywork and respray done took some pics today

Will put some more pics up as work continues

[Arahan 4]

Cool, looking forward to seeing this in the flesh!

[Kev-G 1]

Why on earth would someone paint a car which was originally Miami Blue, White??

 

I would go back to Miami TBH - I hope that you are painting under the bonnet whatever you do?

[Dazza 4]

Hey luke , i love these Dimma's i remenber the first one i saw in Cheshire ...........................when these were brand new ..........showing my age now ...

 

Get down to the lancs meets with us lot , seek out Stufarri on meetins threads ..

 

Some good lads at these ..

[luke1987 5]

Well the car has now been painted in audi ibis white all under bonnet has been done to will upload some pics shortly (forgot my camera) apart from that not much else to report on shell.

Finally got round to painting Gearbox.

And head, ran into major problem today as engine builders reported 2 of the liners were knackerd but manage to find some more thanks to Baz off here shell hopefully back tomorrow so will be starting to put interior back in this week so more pics to follow.

Edited November 24, 2009 by luke1987

[luke1987 5]

Why on earth would someone paint a car which was originally Miami Blue, White??

 

I would go back to Miami TBH - I hope that you are painting under the bonnet whatever you do?

 

I know madness the car was originally miami blue including the kit but some berk decided to spray the car white with a spray can (some peoples thinking is beyond me) and not done a very good job so just thought be easyier to stay white as it needed a lot of prep and the garage already had the white paint which i got for free.

[Galifrey 1]

Why on earth would someone paint a car which was originally Miami Blue, White??

 

White cars are faster everyone knows that

 

[timmsy19 3]

White cars are faster everyone knows that

 

 

 

yep knows it!

 

loving the paint job on that gearbox. shame it wont be seen all that much

[luke1987 5]

Just got it back from bodyshop now so took a few piccys paint still needs a good buffing but will be going back when nearly finished for that and to add insult to injury ive just dropped the front bumper after having it for 5 mins only a crack and some chips so thats just gone back to be repaired (im starting to think im cursed lol) so anyway heres the pics.

 

 

gonna start work on the interior next i think got an alarm and rev limeter to wire up thats if i dont break them aswell luke.

[Galifrey 1]

How much were you charged for the paint?

[Goliath 94]

I am also interested to hear where you got the car painted and how much it cost you.

 

I like the look of white dimma's especially if they have some dark or brightly coloured wheels to offset it.

 

Good luck with it, keep us updated.

[luke1987 5]

How much were you charged for the paint?

 

Nothing he already had the paint in.

[luke1987 5]

I am also interested to hear where you got the car painted and how much it cost you.

 

I like the look of white dimma's especially if they have some dark or brightly coloured wheels to offset it.

 

Good luck with it, keep us updated.

 

Got the car painted at a garage round the corner from my house it cost £500 all in.

[luke1987 5]

Hi again ive been busy putting all the back end back together tonight which is now done (will put some pics up tommorow) that just leaves interior to do ill attack that tommorow and put some pics up of that to Luke.

[GLPoomobile 958]

Got the car painted at a garage round the corner from my house it cost £500 all in.

 

Hence the over spray on all the bits in the engine bay

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Haha, I see someone has fitted the twin horns at some point, just as i have done (mine are of a big old volvo). 205 horns are crap.

 

Also after a 2nd look there is some over spray! Looking good though keep us updated.

 

Ali

[welshpug 1,661]

Haha, I see someone has fitted the twin horns at some point

 

standard fare on the 1.6, Airhorn on the 1.9

 

 

I do like Dimmas, but prefer a colour rather than white

 

sounds like a decent engine spec there, I'd suggest you at least get a re-curved Distributor if not something like OMEX 200 to run the ignition side of things, you can stick a 60-2 pattern flywheel to run a TDC sensor as its all apart easily enough too.

[luke1987 5]

standard fare on the 1.6, Airhorn on the 1.9

 

 

I do like Dimmas, but prefer a colour rather than white

 

sounds like a decent engine spec there, I'd suggest you at least get a re-curved Distributor if not something like OMEX 200 to run the ignition side of things, you can stick a 60-2 pattern flywheel to run a TDC sensor as its all apart easily enough too.

 

running standard ignition at moment is it worth swopping to omex

[mikebullock84 0]

great paint job, who cares about a bit of overspray in the engine bay, your not going to see that! update us soon, good to see yet another dimma this year getting some love and being put back on the road!

[Joe-Tait 0]

Nice dimma