1988 scirocco project (shortened bumpers too) by JonnyPhenomenon

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thanks 

I was scanning through the pics, and I realised that I was going to have to cut my muffler shorter now that it sticks out farther than my bumpers..

You have no idea how good it feels to have THAT as my problem. I never thoguht I would see the day that my muffler was "too long" compared to those stupid bumpers. lol.

anyway, sleep now. will post updates tomorrow.

5-3-2007

drove out to the shop yesterday after work, and found that my father had primered the car. Man he works fast!

check out these bumpers!

and heres Me.  

Hey Ginster, trust me man, your project was an inspiration to kick me in the behind and get me going. (Mr Lees too!)

I was determined to see my car painted in time for the summer, and wouldnt you know it, its gonna happen 

My father had primed the car yesterday and it needed to set up overnight to be sanded today. he uses a high build primer and layed it on really thick in a few areas where it needed it. 

I showed up at 5pm and took the late shift. I stayed up till 1am sanding out all the door jams, pulling out the dash and other interior bits so I could run a new antenna wire. and effectively destroying my headliner in the proccess 

(anyone know where I can get a new liner? I might just make one.)

we made mad progress today I tell ya. Got up at 5:30am, had a cup of coffeee and went straight to work. 

I sanded all the bumpers , side skirts, mirrors and other loose bits. my father did all the delicate sanding on the rest of the car.

by noon we had the car completely sanded and ready for paint. My father said this was the fastest hes done a car in years. LOL.

unfortunately, I wont be able to be there for the painting proccess.  I have to work from 8am to midnight tomorrow and I will miss it. on the bright side tho, I will also miss all the masking, wet sanding, masking, wet sanding, masking, wet sanding and buffing that will happen between layers of paint and clear 

sanding rrrreaaly friggin sucks.

I have to work all weekend too, so by monday the car should be read for me to get up there and put it all back together. hopefully by then worldimpex will have delivered all my parts. they can be really slow. 

if the car is painted by tomorrow, he is going to send me a picture. rest assured, I will be posting it 

hell yes.

700$ worth of tornado red, clear, sealer, primer and reducer.

high five from one Mainer Scirocco owner to another.  

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I forgot to mention, when we were cleaning up the shop after we finished sanding the car today, my father hit the bench with the air hose, and my "16v" hatch emblem popped up and got sucked out of the building by the exhaust fan. I looked and looked for it, but its gone forever. now I need to get another one of those  

I was just about to mask it up for painting too. 

thanks man  

I wish I had got a good side view pic of the bumpers before so I could compare em to the after pics directly.

does anyone here have a tornado red rocco with NA bumpers on it who could take a pic from this exact angle?

heres one you guys might like:

On sunday, my fiances bridal shower was at my parents house. 

at the same time as the Taledega race.

so I brought up my lcd projector and we ran 200 feet of coax from the satelite dish to the garage and watched the race in there while we worked on the car