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simply awesome attention to detail and ocd approach
simply awesome attention to detail and ocd approach
one of the most amazing mk2 golf builds ever undertaken
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Mk2 golf, pretty much the normal 1.8t conversion except this guy spent loads of money getting things shot blasted and so on and so forth.
Oh and made a half arsed hash of an attempt to merge the golf interior with the donor car (a Seat Leon) interior. Result is it looks gash but at least has been done to a good standard.
Don't bother reading, its tiresome, unless you are particularly interested in these things.
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Alec
Oh and made a half arsed hash of an attempt to merge the golf interior with the donor car (a Seat Leon) interior. Result is it looks gash but at least has been done to a good standard.
Don't bother reading, its tiresome, unless you are particularly interested in these things.
Ta
Alec
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That looks bloody great if you ask me, from the pics it looks like a fairly standard golf in excellent nick, only with the advantage of 260hp and a nice modern interior that looks like it has being done to a high standard.
Hardly, nothing he has done is particularly amazing. I suppose at a push transferring all the electrics and dash over is fine in principle, however the interior in a Seat Leon leaves a lot to be desired.
It's gash. I mean look at it, really? The 1.8t thing has been done to death so that's not amazing. A questionable interior in to a golf has been done before, that's not amazing. And people restoring their golfs to a high standard has been done. Again not amazing.
That's just my feelings on the matter.
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I disagree, I am no expert but i would have thought transfering all the interior and making everything work like the abs,traction control etc would take a lot of skill, knowledge and hard work.
For someone who owns a Mk2 GTI and should be reasonably up on their Golfs, I'm amazed at your levels of ignorance.
What's so "gash" about it
It's not "just a 1.8T" - did the ABS, Air conditioning, traction control etc transplants all completely pass you by? Genuinely confused by your comments in this thread, looks like you skipped to the last page and made the rest up.
For someone who owns a Mk2 GTI and should be reasonably up on their Golfs, I'm amazed at your levels of ignorance.
What's so "gash" about it
It's not "just a 1.8T" - did the ABS, Air conditioning, traction control etc transplants all completely pass you by? Genuinely confused by your comments in this thread, looks like you skipped to the last page and made the rest up.
Was going to say the same thing. I mean...like he could do better. I've been in the VW scene in the past and used to own a MK1 Golf GTI. I know what's involved in that and it's a LOT of hard work, skill and dedication. To give it the OCUK mototrs treatment of "meh....it's not that great" is just school boy ignorance.
I agree, it does take a fair amount of skill knowledge and time. However the end result is just a let down. In principle putting all these modern systems in a mk2 golf could be really cool. However the choice of engine, interior and drive train are just a little bit "safe" as they're all easy (in comparison to what else has been done). The physical act of putting the dash in was quite imaginative and well done however.
Ultimately it just isn't THAT good.
For someone who owns a Mk2 GTI and should be reasonably up on their Golfs, I'm amazed at your levels of ignorance.
What's so "gash" about it
It's not "just a 1.8T" - did the ABS, Air conditioning, traction control etc transplants all completely pass you by? Genuinely confused by your comments in this thread, looks like you skipped to the last page and made the rest up.
What am I being ignorant about Lopez? To be honest that actual act of putting those systems in is just a case of plug and play. Oh and paying someone to make up the drive shafts for you.
See above.
I would have a lot more time for it if he either made it look good, or made it looks as original as possible but instead he's stuck some scaffolding, gash dashboard, gash checker interior (well half on one) and some mis-placed alloys on it.
A minty orginial looking exterior and interior with all those systems would be full of more win IMO.
Anyway, no hard feelings because this is just how I feel about it. If anyone disagrees that fine, however calling me ignorant because I don't like it or find it inspiring is, well, ignorant.
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And here is my absolute number one hate of the VAG scene. Anyone who disagrees or doesn't see the sheer brilliance of all their "hard work, skill and dedication" (despite how pointless and unnecessary) is ignorant.
He's spent hundreds upon hundreds of man hours and no doubt thousands of pounds to create something that isn't remotely impressive to the vast majority of people outside the VAG scene and somehow that is OUR fault?
To my ignorant self I don't see the logic behind anything that he has done, let alone why it is so amazing.
Look at this for a second from someone who is not in the scene. He seemingly wanted modern features such as ABS, A/C, Traction Control, a modern interior and the 1.8T lump, so what did he do? He bought a by his own words perfectly repairable Seat Leon and then proceeded to ***** many man hours in retrofitting it into an old golf and arguably ruining the charterer of an old car. Has anybody else spotted the logic fail yet? He had a modern car with all the features that we should be praising him for getting to work, but instead of doing what most people would do and slap a new bonnet, bumper and headlights on he stuck it all into his Golf, and in the process made a not so interesting project.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an advocate of tuning and modifying. I can at the very least understand most trends, scenes and fads, but certainly not the VAG attitude of "Let's do something a bit pointless and then moan when people don't get it".
Previous offenders include:
The Rat Look
Stretched Tyres
Putting wheels from other marques onto your car
"Tidied"/stealth engine bays
etc
(This rant was fuelled by Strongbow. Hard Earned™)
you dont sound jealous one bit, not one bit