I can't believe it's been three months. Sorry about this..! Lately I have been busy working, but you just have to put in the work to make s*it happen..!
I took a shot right before end of the season on a road trip far into the country side for work. I thought it was a cool shot.
Another shot - I just love the Funcargo in lowered mode with small wheels and tires. It's not practical and on a daily basis it sucks a little, but I never get tired of how it looks..
As the car is getting on, some rust is forming here and there.. No problem as long as you keep it in check but you have to know every nook and cranny of your car.. Something may look like this
But actually it's like this
I don't love undercoating.. It does a good job until rust, moisture, dirt and salt is getting underneath the undercoating, then it just accelerates the process by trapping all the elements that make steel brown.. This is the OEM undercoating - you have additional tar-based undercoating that works very well as long as the process is repeated every four years or so. My car was never protected beyond the OEM coating, so every autumn when I raise the car and install winter wheels I also spray the car with oil.
I do like sand blasting..
There are no super awesome shots of before and after the oil process but here is a picture of the car with Fluidfilm on it, my oil of choice
Then my daily was attacked by an XJ Cherokee. The Jeep won.. The door was already not perfect, the same goes for the rear quarter panel. Doesn't look too bad in the right angles
It's easy to lose motivation for a car when it goes from October through March looking like this
I have decided the car is starting to look and feel a little too much as a beater now and I either have to replace a few panels (including getting a hood in the right color) and do some TLC to it, drive it into the ground or sell it. I am leaning towards the first option
Current mileage is 175k miles/282k km.
Made another iteration of the 3D printed air filter bracket for the Charade GTti at work.. The next iteration will be a finished product, most likely in ABS. I'd like to build a heat shield and an air duct from the bumper into the heat sheld but I am unsure if that's where my time and energy should go..
Atleast I think this little thing is pretty awesome.
I noticed the rear frame rails on the GTti were pretty nasty; a good amont of dirt and some surface rust.. I figured I would clean them and sand blast, paint and oil them up..
But how to clean? How to vacuum them when the inside is smaller than a regular vacuum cleaner handle? Also 3D printed.. My co-worker printed this attachment we use when we clean up printers that are in for service.
I printed an extension (the white part) and it worked very well
A 3D printer is really becoming a must have tool for us who likes to tinker with old cars..
I also fabricated a nylon mount for the rear side marker on the Charade.. It's not rocket science but it's interesting as these are things I can design and fabricate pretty easily.
I found a guy selling a Mk2 Golf center console. Not the regular one that extends to the dashboard but the one that only surrounds the gear gaitor, found on base spec Golf Cs and CLs I believe and also diesels in the US. I picked it up and mounted it in the car.. I need to do something with the bracket that the stock center console attaches to and I also have to find out where to hide the ECU. This rests in the center console on fuel injected cars, which the early cars with the simple console wouldn't have. Looks cool though.. The next and last bit inside should be a two spoke Porsche steering wheel..
