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It's alive! https://vimeo.com/127356810 Another box ticked on my bucket list.......own a supercharged car! Love that noise!

Got a few more bits done this week, not as much as I would have liked as works been busy and I've been waiting on bits including the longer belt for the charger that's coming from America and is silly

Finally had some time recently to get a start on fitting the air ride onto the car, I managed to get a hardly used Airlift V2 digital set up with twin compressors at reasonable price, Started with s

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Just put a set of original smoked rear lights in the golf (as it came with hideous crystal rear lights when I bought it) and I think I might prefer them over my red black reds that I put in there. A bargain at £10 the set from Paceo and they're mint! What do people reckon? 84d4f26fc02a0b5ac5300bb516ad14d0.jpg Red black reds; b1195cb1537b3231d6d8b14bbea82202.jpg

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I guess we all live a very sheltered life on these cold winter nights

All stalking ebay and the dub sites for bargains.

A little off topic but just grabbed myself a pair of these beauties.

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Gotta be quick on that ebay because that bennyk's got eyes like a Bombay shitehawk and snaps up all the bargains. Haha

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I guess we all live a very sheltered life on these cold winter nights

All stalking ebay and the dub sites for bargains.

A little off topic but just grabbed myself a pair of these beauties.

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Gotta be quick on that ebay because that bennyk's got eyes like a Bombay shitehawk and snaps up all the bargains. Haha

How much did you pay for the visors Cabbs? Bargain or not?! Wanna see a pic of them in I keep thinking about buying a set, though I'm not paying the scene tax on the matching black interior light sun roof switch though, ridiculous what they go for!!!

Looks like the supercharger might be off, hopefully being swapped for most of a turbo set up!!

After spending some time with a friend of a friend who's just finished his mk2 Vr turbo sleeper, but mostly because of driving through the A1M Hatfield Galleria tunnel with him and the screamer pipe I'm sold!!!

So with that in mind I finally got my new fuel tank ( supplied by Paceo and picked up by Bealieboy, cheers boys!) changed today because of the rusty filler neck ring,I gave it a good clean and fitted an uprated fuel pump in there first good for 320lph and supposedly better and quieter than a walbro? And not to expensive at £75 delivered. Also used the stainless tank straps that I've had sitting around for ages on there after shortening them a bit because they were about an inch to long! Here's a couple of pics;

Cleaned tank; 38a0ba4062b1788ddd2895d8a5ddd33a.jpgUprated pump; 0aeea67ed26d490cfa291927328bb7c5.jpgOld tank coming down complete with rusty straps; f9f34b3a0b9787291773e8b9514c734f.jpg New tank up there nice and clean; 22f28fed4f1baf77720f4440f92804b2.jpg86ef8871d9ca2f653850d7ec5dcb7627.jpg

And amazingly it fired straight up spluttered a couple of times then ran perfectly, which makes a change as usually when I do anything mechanical on my own car things go wrong!

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Welcome to my world of doing things on the car and then it going tits up! Hence I pay you and my local German specialist for doing stuff on the golf That's another excellent write up for the work you completed today, I like these project pics. Next ones will be engine building?

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The visors were £24.00 pound pal including postage of fleabay. He did have another set on for the same price but just had a look and there gone pal. I had a few sets on watch but the last minute bidders killed the price and they were going off for about £45-£50. No chance I was paying that. Haha.

Nice work on the high flow pump and straps. I'm more excited that I can see snap-on tools scattered about the floor. Haha. I've got a serious addiction for snap-on. Haha.

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The visors were £24.00 pound pal including postage of fleabay. He did have another set on for the same price but just had a look and there gone pal. I had a few sets on watch but the last minute bidders killed the price and they were going off for about £45-£50. No chance I was paying that. Haha.

Nice work on the high flow pump and straps. I'm more excited that I can see snap-on tools scattered about the floor. Haha. I've got a serious addiction for snap-on. Haha.

I would of bought them at that price, bargain!

Yeah I love my snap-on stuff as well, you just can't beat it, I'm a proper tool tart!

Talking of bargains picked up this lot today for all of....... nothing7bccbb7a5bb32d906ee1a0907f93c9fc.jpg

Well the bloke didn't want anything but I gave him a drink for it, want to get it all painted or powder coated ready for the new engine. Plus it'll be good to have a few spares. Anyone got any idea what it costs to have something like a subframe powder coated? Not something I've ever had done.

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Welcome to my world of doing things on the car and then it going tits up! Hence I pay you and my local German specialist for doing stuff on the golf That's another excellent write up for the work you completed today, I like these project pics. Next ones will be engine building?

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Yeah hopefully! Going to get the head sent off for its rebuild this week if I get a chance.

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