[car_overhaul] Project Eddie

[GTIJIM 10]

right then new thread for a new (to me) car its a 1989 Pug 205 1.1 GTI replica

 

first off a bit of background on it, it was bought by my brother off a woman on this month 2011 and has been slowly turned into a 1.6 GTI replica it was a pile of junk that misfired and spat oil out with very faded/ orange paintwork and some granny seats my brother had bought it, modified it but never drove it or even ran it for more than 5 mins but now i have bought it it will be a 1.9 GTI replica with a few extras and better yet will actually be driven lol

 

heres a link to the old project thread on detailing world which shows it getting fixed up

http://www.detailing...ad.php?t=216524

 

soo how its is looking these days, not bad for £250

 

after moving it i have realised it needs a new clutch but i got one with an engine i bought off eBay 99p, as well as a new cambelt tensioner and water pump so its all good

the reason it has to be moved

all clean now though

the old car and the new, going to miss the ax

 

cant wait to start on it , hopefully more tomorrow

it wont be staying red for long, im thinking white like my old GTI or black, opinions?

Edited May 23, 2012 by GTIJIM

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Looks great mate! No cambelt cover though?

[S@m 156]

No cambelt cover though?

 

It seems to appear at the start of the thread and its gone by the end!

 

Either way, nice car! I'm liking the number of low mileage base model's that we are now seeing here on the forum - usually only see them in France (absolutely everywhere!)

 

Sam

[GTIJIM 10]

Looks great mate! No cambelt cover though?

It seems to appear at the start of the thread and its gone by the end!

 

Either way, nice car! I'm liking the number of low mileage base model's that we are now seeing here on the forum - usually only see them in France (absolutely everywhere!)

 

Sam

 

thanks

i have replaced the cam belt cover with one off the ax now ran over the last one as my brother didn't put the nuts back in and it fell off

[GTIJIM 10]

today then after changing the clutch on the mothers vauxhall astra i decided to get the car cleaned up in the nice weather

also temporarily fitted the red strips to see what it looks like

so it was washed tyres dressed trim dressed and glass cleaned heres the afters

 

just the interior to do next , cant wait to get rid of them seats lol

[BlueBolt 156]

Like it!!

[GTIJIM 10]

thanks

[sensualt101 31 1 Cars]

looks very convincing till you look at the quarter bades , interior and under the bonnet!

 

are you gonna remedy all those too?

[td_dan 7]

iv got some seats if your interested mate, red and black cloth although the drivers could do with being redone, £30,

 

looking lovely by the way cant wait to see progress

[GTIJIM 10]

looks very convincing till you look at the quarter bades , interior and under the bonnet!

 

are you gonna remedy all those too?

 

there the only things letting it down now will be changing the interior and quarter badges but my insurance would be rubbing there hands together if i put a GTI engine in lol already at £350 a month to insure

[GTIJIM 10]

iv got some seats if your interested mate, red and black cloth although the drivers could do with being redone, £30,

 

looking lovely by the way cant wait to see progress

 

thanks

i would be very interested is it fronts and backs or just the fronts?

just got to raise £30 now lol as I gave all my money to my brother to buy the 205

Edited May 26, 2012 by GTIJIM

[BlueBolt 156]

Get classic insurance!! Have a look at some of the threads on here about insurance ad you'll soon see the light that classic car insurance is the way forward lol

[GTIJIM 10]

Get classic insurance!! Have a look at some of the threads on here about insurance ad you'll soon see the light that classic car insurance is the way forward lol

 

i thought you couldn't get classic insurance if your under 25?

[BlueBolt 156]

Depends on the company... How old are you??

[GTIJIM 10]

16 at the moment lol will start driving early next year hence getting the pug ready

[td_dan 7]

front and backs

[GTIJIM 10]

you have pm

[BlueBolt 156]

In that case your £350 is a good price!! Keep it going!!

[GLPoomobile 958]

at £350 a month to insure

 

£4200 for the year! f*** a f***ing duck You could rent a 1 bedroom flat for that much in some places!

[GTIJIM 10]

it is quite high lol, hopefully should go down a bit after my first year of driving

[GeorgeXS 32]

quite high!! It's insane. My first years driving on the 205 XS was £550, not my own policy admittedly but still its a yawning chasm between them! I feel so sorry for learners now, its only been 3 years since I was in your boots but it still seems to be rising.

Anyway car looks tidy, once some seats are sorted it will be rather nice.

[GTIJIM 10]

it is pretty insane, don't know why they charge so much really, it was the same situation on my Citroen AX at £397 a month all mods declared though standard it was around £289 a month

[GTIJIM 10]

today's update then id set aside a bit of time because its a big one lol

spent the morning stripping the ol AX

looking bare now lol

 

then as some of you may know i had a problem with the 205 which was my flip up DVD player didn't fit due to the dash layout, so went back to halfroads and changed it for this

its not a CD player its an MP3 player which is much easier as i don't need to carry CD's around

got to change my amp now though as im currently running these

off this so 2000W of a 360W amp lol

anyways enough about stereo's lol

decided to wrap my electric window switches( even though i dont have electric windows lol)

before lovely rotten plastic

Edited May 28, 2012 by GTIJIM

[GTIJIM 10]

and after

switches in

much better lol and not as lairy as i thought it would look so job done

 

next up i replaced this old rotten handle

with this one off the AX

much better

then i got bored and decided i hated the dashboard so i changed it

heres the before's, reason for hating it are A its the wrong colour

and B it didn't have a glove box

so fetched this one out of the loft off my old GTI unfortunately it got a bit damaged during storage but still in OK nick

[GTIJIM 10]

so first out was the centre console

and then the centre dash

top cowling and dials

and then the dash itself

after a quick clean i got the top half of the new one in

and the bottom half

and we have glove box