11/78 mk1 gls

[JoshFair]

hey man, gotta love titivating! i cut and polished my entire mk1 today and it came up a treat!! where did you go to get your wheels sandblasted?? and what paint/method did you use?

[Tim]

I would really like some nice subtle 13" or 14" wheels though. 'Pepperpots', Riken or Epsilon or SSR 'Mesh/Meshies', all-silver ATS classics etc.
One day...

Not sure if it suits your style but I have a friend looking to offload some 13x6 4x100 ET25 minilite reps if youre interested. Not sure how they go fitment wise on a mk1. All are in excellent condition and plenty tread on the tyres. cheap cheap.

link to a couple pics here.

http://www.vr6.com.au/images/13s/P1050234_02.jpg

http://www.vr6.com.au/images/13s/P1050229_02.jpg

[Jace]

I just went to a place in Geelong called Steel Shack design. I've had some stuff like windscreen wipers blaster/powdercoated by them before. It set me back $40 a wheel for blasting, which in hindsight is more than I would like to have spent.
Any deep scratches I flapper-wheeled out, then I gave them a scotchy (3M Scotchbrite), prepsol (wax and grease remover), then primed with primer surfacer, scotchied that, then wipe the dust off with a tac-rag, then more prepsol, and then came paint; a thin layer first up, then another 5 or 6 even coats, and let that cure for about 4 days I think, before I re-mounted the tires.

A fair bit too much effort I think. If I did it again I'd just wire-wheel/sand the faces, prepsol, etch prime, primer surfacer, scotchy, more prepsol then paint.
I didn't start with the straightest wheels either, so they're fairly out-of-balance.

But they look better. I've got some base-model center-caps coming (the small black ones over the hub centers), and I'll be happy with that for a while hopefully.
I have a bit of an infatuation with wheels. Actually, it's a big infatuation, but I just don't have the cash to get into it.

...one day.

[Jace]

Not sure if it suits your style but I have a friend looking to offload some 13x6 4x100 ET25 minilite reps if youre interested. Not sure how they go fitment wise on a mk1. All are in excellent condition and plenty tread on the tyres. cheap cheap.

link to a couple pics here.

http://www.vr6.com.au/images/13s/P1050234_02.jpg

http://www.vr6.com.au/images/13s/P1050229_02.jpg

I appreciate that Tim!
I'm not too sure. Not really what I'm after though. I want something sort of rare/cult-like.
Not that I can afford sht now anyway.

Thanks though!

[Tim]

yyyyep no stress man. Not really anywhere near as cool as the wheels you have listed above. Just chucking them up in case they tickled yours or anyone elses fancy. Already got a couple pms about them

[Jace]

New suspension arrived today.
I'll probably install them tomorrow night.


Tonight I gave the threaded section of the shafts a good coating with this:


I've had coilovers in another car before. The same night they arrived I was straight under the car chucking them in.
Long story short: raising the car sucked!

There's a lot more room in the wheel-arches in a Golf than in a MX5, which should help too.


Since I bought the car I was hoping to fork out a bit more and get something a bit more reputable, like KW V1's, but these popped up, and thanks to Alex (mrlex) I've got 'em.


Now all I should need for RWC are brake pads/rotors and a windscreen.
Just gotta get motivated!

[16v_kid]

Awesomeness!

Looking forward for this one mate.

[anth]

nice work man, glad to see you with a project that I can follow after reading your posts on jdmst for so long I'm really tempted to sell my mk4 and get a mk1 as a daily

[Jace]

Cheers Anth. I appreciate that, because your 510 build thread is awesome.
You attend the Melbourne meets much? For VWW and JDMST?
I'll meet you at one of them man!

One of the other reasons I wanted a MK1 is because they seem simple as to me. I wanna tool-up and learn to do everything on this.

[Jace]

Got the front coil-overs in tonight. I don't have good garage lighting and it was dark.

Yes, that's my excuse. I'll probably have the others in tomorrow night.
Although, >100mm

[GeorgeMK1]

Dude, im seriously jealous you picked up the coilovers

Hopefully i'll find some soon..

[Jace]

Ha well they're no better than Hottunings. Plus for that bit extra, the Hottunings come with strut caps I think.
What's an extra $200!

Took a spin in it.
Way too much negative camber in the front left, but rides soooo much nicer. Standard shocks/springs were well and truly past it.

[GeorgeMK1]

Rides smoother, however how low have you got it? meaning if you go pretty low, do you reckon it will have a nice smooth ride, or will it be hard..

[Jace]

Nah it's legal height for now. Rides better because its firmer.
The standard set up was so far gone that the car would rock back and forth on gear changes and just had a stupid amount of body roll.

Moar low after RWC.

[GeorgeMK1]

LOL i think my rear shacks have gotten to that state as well. In vic how low is legal?

I'm un certain if it were a pack if cigies, or a can of coke, care to elaborate.. ahaha im hoping to go low after i paint my rims.