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honestly with as many spare parts that he has he could just piece together another MK4

Love the rear so much more w/ the R-Line. Looks great, miss seeing this car around. It seems so "blah" in the first few pictures. Not that it is (or was), but just pales in comparison to what the car has become now.

Thanks man I appreciate the compliment I miss the car too and I know they say hindsight is 20/20 and looking back I sometimes wish I never would've went in the direction with the bay that I did but maybe instead doing something else but oh well. Whenever the shoulder is better and I start working some ot again I'll get cracking on it As far as the R-line bumper yeah its definitely the best looking bumper out there for the MK4 golf...expensive as all hell though

i still remember the first time i came to Monday nights and only few cars were parked out there, yours really stood out. The fact that it was silver like mine at that time just gave me some hope because i hate used to hate the silver color. Like you I just got such a good deal on it I couldn't pass it up.

Watching this car transforming to where it is now has helped me go the direction I am going now.

Can't wait for you to start cracking on it Mike.

thanks Ko

miss this car

Yes.

me too guys, hopefully when my shoulder gets better and I can start workin some ot I'll start working on it again

another thing that sucks is that my build thread for this on Whoretex got lost during the transfer so I can't even continue to copy stuff over from there to here hopefully they can retrieve it

now that your back on tex...any chance that your build thread is back on there for your mk4. It would be a shame if it was lonst in transition

I've searched and its still not back yet, I talked to an administrator about it and he said they're in the process of bring back archived threads so we'll see. Hopefully its not lost forever I'll continue to update this as soon as they get it back

lets see more!!

Soon, I just got my build thread back on whoretex so I'll be updating this real soon

Must be nice. There's still nothing in the Cabby forum before June. Been whoring my stuff in the Carb, ITB, SEM forum, though!

Okay time to start bringing this back up to speed...I haven't been able to update this since the 'tex went down but I got my build thread back so on we go...

After a very sucessful '08 season I decided to go for broke and do a bay shave among other things...this isn't going to be your typical bay shave as I plan to keep all the mordern ammenities such as PS, ABS, AC, ect. in my mind its too easy just to delete stuff and shave the bay, I wanted to take things to another level and still do a shave but retaining all the the goodies while still keeping them as hidden as possible Also in the works is custom one-off wheels of my own design, airrride, more interior work, and a fully painted/smoothed/detailed underside.

Okay lets get this going with some pics...
First the wiring needed to be taken care of and that meant lengthening and hiding the entire harness...only an aircraft carrier could have more wiring than this and this is halfway done! you should've seen this mess when I got started!
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I'm running all the wiring that came out through the firewall out through this access panel in the raintray, why VW didn't do it this way in the first place is beyond me would've made my job alot easier
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All this crap is never gonna find its way back into the bay! N249, coolant bottle, washer bottle, sai, ect. thats a box full of shit people!
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Thats it for now but more to come later!

WTF Mike, where's your copper plated tranny

Seriously though I can envision your idea of keepin all the goodies and doing a shave, & fully agree w/ deleting items is an easy way out. I commend you on your vision & anticipate the updates .

Do you happen to have a link to your Whoretex build thread? I would like to see .

No copper for me...polished brass I have a ton of ideas for this car its just a matter of them coming to fruition, if that ever happens I swear this car will not dissapoint

btw pm'd the link for ya

Thanks bro

Okay more getting caught up...

So here's what the wire relocate/tuck looked like after I was all but done, all that needed done at this point was a few random wires and the ABS harness.
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This is the hole in the framerail that I was originally gonna run the ABS harness through
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Here's the ABS harness re-routed through the aforementioned access hole...this will change but I'll get to that later.
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It all tucked neatly and hidden behind the ABS pump
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Here's most of the drivers side harness that has been extended/re-routed through the fender rail, everything has been re-wrapped in oem friction tape.
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Fan control module relocated
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My battery relocation kit from Jegs
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Here's the access hole in the floorboard where I'll be running my 2 ga. power wire and ABS harness through.
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Thats it for now, till later