Sciroccoshite GT2, teardown begins

[omegod]

 I had great plans of a collection thread but it would just have been me in a 306 5 miles down the East Lancs Rd. 

 

I mentioned this car in an earlier thread when I was asking how to steal it as the keys the guys widow had didn't fit the ignition and went today with the intention of having to cause some damage to get it moving. The guy had passed away 5 months ago and it had stood since.  There had been another interested party but he severely pissed off the owner somehow so she fucked him off and I got it for a pretty decent but fair price.  

 

She was "tre emoshe"at the thought of parting with the car and even more "emoshfuckingupset" when it became apparent that some utter twat had poured a large amount of brake fluid over the car overnight. I tried to reassure her that it hadn't caused much damage and i'd do my best to rescue it. If it had sat much longer I think it would have eaten right through.

 

By a miracle as I was about to start drilling the barrel she came out with an extra set of keys she'd found which fitted the ignition and crooklock, HURRAH we all exclaimed   ! She thought it was a sign that her late hubby approved of me taking on the car bless her. Impressively it started first time but smoked something rotten, I'm guessing the valve stem seals had dried and dropped a load of oil into the cylinders, this cleared up  nicely on the way home. Straight to the jet wash to remove the brake fluid and once home I hit the affected areas with some Farecle G3 to take the top paint layer off.

 

First impressions , it's driving really nice but needs a full on weapons grade valet and the paintwork needs a mop and polish but there is a very nice example lurking under the oxidisation.  

 

      

 

 

Brake fluid 

 

 

Sexy twin pipes 

 

 

[nacho man]

J reg is pretty late as well for these, is the gt11 model a carb? I had a gtx donks ago that was ace. it was a ace steer.

 

Found a pic, soz about the plates peeps this was when they was cool for ten minutes aka 2004.

 

Did my first cambelt on one of these.

 

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[Vince70]

That really looks lovely.. I hope you managed to get to the damaged areas in time before the brake fluid could do its worst..

I think the modern fluid isn't supposed to be as toxic as it once was to paintwork so fingers crossed you should be ok..

[gm]

nice looking car, I always admired a white gt2 / scala that I passed on the way to school (a loooong time ago)

 

shame about the brake fluid, what kind of arsehole does that - do you think it was the guy who she wouldn't sell to ? what a muncher !

 

good luck with the t-cut, red can be a bugger to restore

[HillmanImp]

I fancy another one of these now as I really liked my old one.

[Liggle]

I sold my dads old 1988 Scala (complete with faulty 2E carb after being sat for 5 years) in 2005 for £75 to make way for my first car. That car was awesome, wish I could of insured it! My dad ran it for 9 years without anything failing... a testament to older VAG engineering. 

[barefoot]

I fancy another one of these now as I really liked my old one.

Your old one, despite breaking down last Saturday, due to a bit of crap in the fuel pipe, is still really, really good fun.

On a long steady run it will do mega mpg and when being thrashed around the lanes will out corner almost anything.

Omegod, good luck with the red one.

[TRW]

Takes me back to the 82 1600 GT I was given FOC back in 1997. Not my cup of tea but I had to sample one.

 

These later ones do look snazzy and much better than the MK1 IMO.

 

Good luck with it.

[oldcars]

I so want to machine polish that. Shame the rocket in the first pic is heading straight for it.

[omegod]

Yeah I think the knobhead used the modern stuff as it seems to have just  eaten the oxidisation, maybe it's the new T Cut  ? It's pretty evident that the other party did it , he lives in the same road as her, once it's finished I said i'd take it back round to show her and she can grab some pics with her son in it, hopefully the knob will be well pissed off when he see's it caused no damage .  It's MOT'd till November, looks like he did 15 miles in it after the last MOT before he croaked . Got water coming in so need to acquire a wet vac and sort the interior before I mop it , My OCD is killing me though as the paint in now shiny in places  

[Faker]

Score. Cool old motor

[Pillock]

I loved mine, decent engine (although the 1.8 injection, not carb) with plenty of grunt low down. 16 valves are for losers.

On the one I had, the water inside was from two patches at the top of the windscreen, presumably sunroof drain holes. I see yours doesn't have a sunroof but still I think the screen surrounds can be a bit iffy. It used to fill the little shelf below the dash with water, and the first corner I got to would chuck cold water down my leg and into my sock.

 

Massively underrated and a complete mystery why these aren't 5x the price a la Golf.

 

Really late on a J too. Corrado had been out for two years by then, the Golf was on the Mk3 shape so quite brave to be buying the frumpy old Scirocco with all the angles, the 1970s oily bits, and a frikkin' carburettor.

[omegod]

Started on the inside, must have been half a golden labrador in there, Bonus £2.79 under the seat and a bic lighter. Seems there is some water ingress as carpets are wet passenger side so that needs investigating with talc and a hosepipe. Seats all scrubbed up nicely but will fit a new drivers cover if I can find a match that doesn't require me parting with a kidney. Saving the buffing till last

 

 

 

One of these required if anyone comes across something in a scrappy