Benny's MK2 GTI

[Oneofthegreats]

I like the stance of this Benny.

It's got a very sinister stance about it. Black, black window's, belly ached!!!

Good luck cleaning those wheels

I'll be honest & say I've never been a fan of the badgeless grill's.
I reckon a single headlight badged grill would be a goer.

[Satanstoenail]

They are the rims that used to live on the gti..
17x7 replicas of Volk wheels by Rays engineering.
heaps of pics of the black one on those rims on here around the place.

They are possibly the best looking rims I've seen on a mk2. Up there or better than ATS Cups imo. Are they available in Australia?

[86gti]

They are possibly the best looking rims I've seen on a mk2. Up there or better than ATS Cups imo. Are they available in Australia?

Yea the 17s are available in aus... i know BSA does a version of theese rims too. I cant remember the brand that i have, but the BSA ones dont look as good.......hold up, i'll head under the house and battle the spiders n find out (they not on any car at the moment)..

No brand on them....I got them second hand. And there was a set on the black GTI before I scored it...They were bought by a mate locally to put on an AE82 sprinter and then he put em on the GTI when he had it. He held onto them to put on a soarer....... another friend has some on her CRX..tonnes of cars around Launceston have em. lol.

I'll have to see what more i can find...they did have stickers on them had "Ravs Engineering" in the same style as Rays Engineering. and "vork" instead of volk racing...

I'll prolly put them back on the silver one once i get rego on it....


FOUND EM!!!!!!!
Advanti Striker


thats them, come in a range of colours...Bob jane has em

[86gti]

I like the stance of this Benny.

It's got a very sinister stance about it. Black, black window's, belly ached!!!

Good luck cleaning those wheels

I'll be honest & say I've never been a fan of the badgeless grill's.
I reckon a single headlight badged grill would be a goer.

yea, its going to sit a tad lower after when i get holidays...
I'm also taking the tint off ...already taken the black tail lights out...
Going back to plain old school in the looks department...
Cupla red fixed back recaros and a half cage... like something out of an early 90s PVW magazine. lol.

[86gti]

UPDATE. I've been very very slack. The Driver now has a 16v KR and is moving very slowly and all the plans have changed. "again"..
My car spending $$ were put on hold for a while due to a trip to Tokyo not long ago.

I'm going back to Japan in March and hopefully be working there by the end of next year.
So the outcome of all this will determine what happens to the cars.
The GTI stays...that is a dead cert. with the possibility of it comming to Japan if I end up staying for more than 2 years. ( golfs are actually very popular in Japan )

In the mean time I'm still doing a bit of work on both.
Since last time the GTI now has a carbon bonnet (thanks again Carl)

and a few little tidy up bits. Door rubbers, hatch rubbers, new underlay,
and a good detail etc....

here is a few pics over the last few months.



yes my Winter wheels look sus...LOL





My compomotives are currently off being detailed, so i'm riding on some horrid 15x7s..

and the driver now sits waiting some form of fueling......


All in all I plan to keep the GTI close to original, It's a classic car !!!!

[walshydub]

Welcome back to one of the best looking MK2's in oz!!

If you can't bring it to Japan with you i'll gladly look after it for you

[86gti]

I have been getting sick of looking in my rear vision mirror and seeing my hood lining sagging more and more evey day. So I decided to fix it.
Pulled the insides out of the car too due to doing a bit of a retrim over x-mas.

took all the grab bars, etc out to lower the hood lining shell and the trim just dropped, LOL. all the glue had given up and the only thing holding it to the hood shell was the grab handles and the mounting buttons.
the shell also has gotten brittle over the years and big chunks of it broke off ... No problems tho, I will fiberglass and re enforce it and then set about getting the lining back on.



the lining its self is still in great cond, no marks or splits so I plan to reuse it.



and untill some of my new parts turn up i'll be going race style with a stripped interior.





The enterior will be all black ...I have kept all the GTI specific parts so it can be taken back to original if need be at any stage.

Now has all black bumpers (no red gti strip) removed the bump strips and will be taking the arches off aswell.

then I will be adding some more dish to the compomotives.

[86gti]

OK! after a long while I'm back... Now Living in Japan with the GTI tucked up under my parent's house. I got in as much work to it as I could before leaving Aus.

I had to sell my other mk2 2 door the 16v and my AW11 mr2. But I decided to keep the GTI. I would never forgive myself if I sold it.
I'm now looking for another mk2 2 door here in Japan. They are actually very popular here! Mostly 4 door GLI but quite a few Imports made their way here over the years.

Here are some pics I took just before I left.


new rotors and pads went on all round, including all new wheel bearings.

A new exhaust system

stripped rear end with race seats and harnesses ---- Now all sprayed black inside


Door cards...now black

[86gti]

some instrument repairs




a NOS mk2 dash also went in

The hoodlining was pulled out and all the inside of the car was painted black.
I have kept all the genuine GTI parts that were pulled off also.

More pics when I find them !!!

[86gti]

the NOS dash

also new genuine sunroof seal and hatch seal.


front end came out for new bushes and sway bar

another cam was put in (no pics sorry)


all back together * std seat back in due to having to go over the pits before I left due to a #*$^ you know what!

Also any traces of stereo / speakers and unwanted wires were pulled.
Its so loud and lumpy now ya cant hear anyway.

annnnnnd, after all that all the OEM ambers put back in , tint taken off and generaly tidy up......

[GoLfMan]

looking good Benny boy! Glad you kept it

[Jarred]

om nom nom! I like it!

[86gti]

Cheers!!! I miss not being able to go out and stuff around with it.
Hard to get parking room in Tokyo , let alone some where to play with cars...

Now looking at buying this, it's only 180000 yen so about 2g AUS.
The wife is happy, just have to go look and test drive.

[Water Boy]

Benny you should get a job working on VW's instead of spamming FB all day like me...

[86gti]

hahaha, so so true!! I do need to find a job, I'm getting bored!