A while back I put up a wanted ad, Chris S put me on to a guy on this site who had one. A few weeks later and I’ve bought it and it’s back home. Thanks Kevin, I’m delighted with the car.
Here are some photos of when it arrived:
So I got stuck in straight away. Swapped the standard 16 front discs for pagid grooved discs included in sale.
We then fully rebuilt the rear drums with new brake cylinders.
Then we gave the car a full service.
I took it for a drive. The few tuning bits done to the engine seem to have made a nice difference, it’s suprisingly pokey, I reckon it’s near enough 8v GTi power, however it gets its power high up in the rev range.
It’s brilliant being back in a MK2 again.
I’ll throw up more photos when I wash it.
What a lovely looking car [
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Glad to see you are happy with it Conor, and I’m pleased it has a good home.
Keep us posted on the progress.
Kev
The car had a significant list of jobs needed. Here is what I have done since the last update.
The car was not running right, this was traced to a split rubber carb mount and a few split vac pipes, fixing this solved the running issue.
the was a small water leak from the front flange on the head, a new O ring sorted this.
My new syncro handbrake cables arrived, I now have a functioning handbrake.
Standard MK2 headlights are terrible, so I fitted a HID kit that I had lying around from my Quattro.
There were a few areas of bodywork that had to be addressed. A rust hole on the p/s rear door shut was cut out and a patch was welded in, the back bottom corner of the p/s back arch had a rust hole, this was welded in too.
I fitted a colour coded GTi rear spoiler.
The coilovers were wound down another 20mm.
I fitted plastic arch mouldings.
I fitted chrome trim bumpers that I got with the car
I wet vacced the interior and carpet and refitted it.
I also refurbed the wheels in BMW Sepang bronze with a polished lip.
I brought the car on its first ever drive on Sunday, a 220 mile round trip,apart from an occasional squealing alternator belt (Now tightened) it didn’t miss a beat.
I think I have brought the exterior as far as it can go without a full respray, the next update will probably be something interior related!
hi connor seen your jetta syncro i noticed that your car was lowered from standard i have problems with mine i have a disc converison and it lowered on ap coilover and the camber was so bad it would not pass the nct so the question ,what spring have you on your syncro i would be inetrested to know all the best thomas dublin.[
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