1988 scirocco project (shortened bumpers too) by JonnyPhenomenon

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5-14-2007

thanks  that is what I keep telling him. hah

update. just rebuilt my sunroof seal.

check it out. 

couple things about wheels, I took my (borrowed) 14" bbs's off my other rocco and swapped em onto this one. they are gold with unpolished lips. got a few compliments for them, but I cant stand the way they look. if they were acually mine, Id paint them black and polish the lips, but they arent!

so I am working on buying a set of 15" RM two peice from a guy in arizona. they are beat up, but some paint, a new set of trim rings and a bolt kit should dress them up really nice. 

anyone know where I can get bbs parts?

5-16-2007

OK, so my future brother in law scooped up those RM's for a song 

from the guy down in Arizona. they are pretty beat up, lips will all need replacing, no centers, and cracks on the centerbore ofone of them, but the seller gave us a good break and made it worth it. 

(thanks bud 

now I need to track down some centers in black and gold, new trim rings, and locate some gold bolts.

any advice?

6-14-2007

Hey Carl, I took your advice and pulled my headlights off to paint the trays. while I was at it I decided to polish my turns too. sanded off all the bumps and smoothed them all out. up to 2000 grit and then polished them to a glossy shine thanks to some glazing compound my father gave me. I couldnt beleive how it shined. it looks wet!

3m "perfect-it" hand glaze for the win.

sorry the pics suck. its hard to get a good snap of a reflector when its dark out and you need the flash.

pics:

I also worked on installing my carputer some more today. 

I cut out the ashtray and temp guage and put my 7 inch lcd touch screen in there, but that made it so I had no place for the stereo so I had to cut the hell out of the bottom center console bit and mount the stereo there. 

the PC itself is hidden under the glove box. its only about 12"x10"x2.5" so it fit pretty well. I am actually holding it in place with nothing but the cloth peice that hides all your wiring and stuff over there.

took me all day to finally decide where I was going to put the stereo. I was really tempted to put the stereo under the seat and build an extention for the face plate so I could put that somewhere useful. - I have done it before.

but my face plate has a slot for the cd to go through it so it would look stupid if I put it someplace on the dash.

not to mention that i really wanted a simple design with everything within usable reach.