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Been meaning to do this for 2 weeks and I haven't posted in a while so I thought with my new addition I'd make another build thread. This one is happening a lot quicker than my E21. Student budgets a b*tch at times 
Little bit of info:
VW Golf 2002 2.0 SE
Silver
Leather Interior
Manual
The car chilling at work
I am SO glad I got rid of the Commodore I used to drive. That thing was becoming more burdening everyday I drove it. Also, now driving a manual makes the little 8v engine a little funner and still a lot more economical even when I'm being an idiot haha
So far, all I have done to it is install JOM Blueline coilovers, attach a CAI (just for the induction noise), put on rear centring plates and paint the calipers Blue. The coil overs I picked up from the guys over at slickonline.com.au for around $450.00. For the price, I am seriously impressed. Reading through reviews on vwvortex people made them out to be a very hard ride. But, from my experience, even with these installed I have a more comfortable ride than in my Commodore. Gotta love the quality of cushiony German seats. At the moment they are sitting at around half way on the threads all the way around and with the stock 16" wheels its still hard to find a good height I like. But that will be fixed with new rims and a better offset. This isn't how they're sitting at the moment. They are much lower but need to be dropped a further 20-30mm to be nice and flush
I got the CAI and rear centring plates from ECS Tuning, which I'm sure if you have a BM or VW you've at least looked at the website before. I'm looking at also picking up a R-line shifter, new clutch kit, angel eye headlights and 50mm antenna to complete the look of the car.
The guys at Slick are good guys with a good service and they offer a lot of random things on their website for lots of models of BM's and VW's. At the moment I am waiting for licence plate LED's and LED tail lights to arrive from Germany. I can't wait for it all to get here.
One other thing I'm trying to get on top of is getting in contact with the guy from Carbon Demon. The interior plastic trim of my car is covered in some weird sticky black stuff and I want to carbon wrap a lot of it to clean it up and make the interior look a little nicer. So far I've called and email with no response
but oh well, I can imagine he's quite busy.
Finally, this week I will be ordering some 18x8.5 +35 & 18x9.5 +30 SL14's in Flat Black from Klutch Republik and running 245/40/18's.
Even though its an 8V I needed something economical to run around in as my daily and my ultimate goal is to get a MkIV R32 in the next year or two depending on jobs/funds and switch over a lot of the mods going onto this car. (Rims, headlights, taillights, etc.)
The BMW E21 I'm restoring is going slowly but just recently I bought some stock front struts over in the UK to send off to GAZ to have them fabricate some coil overs to finally get this beauty low. At the moment I am probably able to crawl into the wheel gap its so large.
Max
Little bit of info:
VW Golf 2002 2.0 SE
Silver
Leather Interior
Manual
The car chilling at work
I am SO glad I got rid of the Commodore I used to drive. That thing was becoming more burdening everyday I drove it. Also, now driving a manual makes the little 8v engine a little funner and still a lot more economical even when I'm being an idiot haha
So far, all I have done to it is install JOM Blueline coilovers, attach a CAI (just for the induction noise), put on rear centring plates and paint the calipers Blue. The coil overs I picked up from the guys over at slickonline.com.au for around $450.00. For the price, I am seriously impressed. Reading through reviews on vwvortex people made them out to be a very hard ride. But, from my experience, even with these installed I have a more comfortable ride than in my Commodore. Gotta love the quality of cushiony German seats. At the moment they are sitting at around half way on the threads all the way around and with the stock 16" wheels its still hard to find a good height I like. But that will be fixed with new rims and a better offset. This isn't how they're sitting at the moment. They are much lower but need to be dropped a further 20-30mm to be nice and flush
I got the CAI and rear centring plates from ECS Tuning, which I'm sure if you have a BM or VW you've at least looked at the website before. I'm looking at also picking up a R-line shifter, new clutch kit, angel eye headlights and 50mm antenna to complete the look of the car.
The guys at Slick are good guys with a good service and they offer a lot of random things on their website for lots of models of BM's and VW's. At the moment I am waiting for licence plate LED's and LED tail lights to arrive from Germany. I can't wait for it all to get here.
One other thing I'm trying to get on top of is getting in contact with the guy from Carbon Demon. The interior plastic trim of my car is covered in some weird sticky black stuff and I want to carbon wrap a lot of it to clean it up and make the interior look a little nicer. So far I've called and email with no response
but oh well, I can imagine he's quite busy.Finally, this week I will be ordering some 18x8.5 +35 & 18x9.5 +30 SL14's in Flat Black from Klutch Republik and running 245/40/18's.
Even though its an 8V I needed something economical to run around in as my daily and my ultimate goal is to get a MkIV R32 in the next year or two depending on jobs/funds and switch over a lot of the mods going onto this car. (Rims, headlights, taillights, etc.)
The BMW E21 I'm restoring is going slowly but just recently I bought some stock front struts over in the UK to send off to GAZ to have them fabricate some coil overs to finally get this beauty low. At the moment I am probably able to crawl into the wheel gap its so large.
Max
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