1988 scirocco project (shortened bumpers too) by JonnyPhenomenon

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5-8-2007

went up last night to get a look at it in the sunlight.  

wow wow wow wow wow.... just wow...

world impex is holding up my order because of a backordered part. meanwhile, I am going completely crazy waiting for them to ship the stuff..

Im sure you can imagine. Im like a kid on xmas eve. cant sleep at all. just sit there tossing and turning waiting to go unwrap my new bike. lol..

fogot to grab the latest pics while I was up there, but I did snap a couple with my cell phone. will post those in a sec.

no he doesnt  he painted the black on the b pillar and hatch yesterday. a nice satin black looks exactly like the vinyl.

I just called impex and asked them to mail me everything they had, and to mail me the remainder of my parts when they come in. dont care at this point if I have to pay twice for shipping. heh. I want my stuff now!

here are some pics.

(obscene finger gestures from my crazy dad  )

my friend Ryan gets in the frame.

one last one with ryan showing his approval 

forgive the lousy pics, I was taking them with a cell phone...

no kidding man! I cant wait!

the modification of the bumper rebar means that the skins cant just clip to them, so they need to be screwed. my father picked up some self tapping countersunk sheet metal screws and we are going to fasten them on that way and paint over the screw heads. thankfully the bumper pulls way in under the lip of the body so screws will not show. 

unfortunately, I have to work till 9 tonight, and wont be able to get out there till tomorrow night. so I will sit here waiting impatiently.  

EDIT: I wanted to edit this post to say that the bumper skin was Not attached with screws from the ouside and then painted over. instead I drilled a dozen or so holes through the rebar and then screwed the skin on from the inside with short coarse thread screws. it took a lot of screws to get it on really snug. when we first did it we only put 4 screws on, and I had to go back a few months later to add in a bunch more when the bumper skin started to literally fall off.

not to keep bumping up my own thread, but I didnt feel it was worth starting a new one for this.

I need new wheels.

the wheels I have are 16" genuine konig "prophets". the design has been copied by a handfull of other cheapo manufacturers and they all look like ****. even the konigs in my humble opinion. I am stuck with them because they came on my gti when I got it. 

so the question is:

while considering my extremely tight budget, what wheels should I be looiking for? what size rim, matched with what tire?

right now I have 205/40/r16. they grip really nice when cornering, but they look like crap on the car. should I go with a taller sidewall? plus size the circumference a bit?

I guess I need to learn a bit more about wheels and tires..