Another slammed b5 build thread.....of epic proportions

[.Drama.]

Sell the alphards and buy my amgs

Or my carlssons

[Chuckdee]

love me some alphards!

Keep up the good work yo!

Thank you good sir!

Sell the alphards and buy my amgs

Or my carlssons

[Chuckdee]

Oh, they're officially for sale now:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...3#post80938533

[thepirate]

Oh, they're officially for sale now:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...3#post80938533

[Chuckdee]

Honestly, i like your old set of wheels better than these alphards and i came across a chrome set of those for sale but the alphards came up for a good deal. So i jumped the gun on these and now im like "...Meh, i wish i got the pie plates."

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[Chuckdee]

Today i put in my wood grain wheel

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[Chuckdee]

So this happened....


And the horn works! I'll be making a diy in a few minutes


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[Chuckdee]

Man, I should update this thread more lol.

So what have I done since my last post.....


I got my "new" set of wheels about a month ago


they had a sh&t ton of curb rash on the rear wheels






Ordered adapters right after getting said wheels



My pass side motor mount from ECS Tuning gave up on life....


Along with the snub mount


Didn't realize that ECS has warranty on most (or all) of their products so they sent me replacements



While replacing my pass motor mount, found out my driver side was done with life also


already have a replacement on its way from Rockauto, should be here tomorrow

Got tired of driving around with broken headlights (adjusters are broken on the current set), so I re-polished my old set.....the right way. The turtle wax kit I first use was aiiiight but it wasn't perfect for a $9 kit. So I polished mine the traditional way...wetsanding and Plastic x polish


Hopefully these should hold me over until I can get some ecodes and then I can throw these out.

This past weekend, I decided to tackle on the wheel repairs myself.....did a damn good job



Washed and cleaned them to get them ready for primer


Tomorrow, I'll finally put primer and paint them.

So what's next? Well since I'm going to SoWo, I want this car to drive with no major problems (not like it has given me any since I've been driving around as-is for the past year) With that being said, I'll be doing a couple of checks on what needs to be replaced. I'll be replacing my windshield and Camchain tensioner, also fixing some stuff for inspection time. Hopefully if I can get my wheels on by this weekend, I'll look into finally getting an alignment soon.

What other cool sh*t I'll be getting done before then? Mainly the rest of my interior stuff

*wood floor
*fabric for the door cards
*woodgrain vinyl

And repaint parts of my trunk and rear bumper. More of that later...
After Sowo, I'll only have a few more things to add to the car and hopefully all I'll have to worry about from that point, is just to drive the car.....and that's it. God I miss that feeling, the feeling of driving a car you feel is complete in your mind...done in a way you feel that no more is needed to make it complete. Now, whenever I drive around, sometimes I think about what needs to be worked on, what needs to be changed, etc. such a crappy a feeling sometimes.

[MarcMiller]

Doing work man! keep it up.
my cars a wreck right now man..hopefully i can get it all together in time for sowo and still have enough cash to make it lol

[kdf8454]

Love the twists

How thick are the adapters? I'm curious how they're going to fit.

[90slow_rado]

If you throw those headlights out, throw em in my yard ....seriously I hate my cloudy 2 piece crap

[Chuckdee]

If you throw those headlights out, throw em in my yard ....seriously I hate my cloudy 2 piece crap

Haha ill just give them away to whoever wants them

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[thepirate]

Haha ill just give them away to whoever wants them

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Those are something you can throw in on our discussion earlier

[colinisneat]

I'm interested in this wood floor.

[Chuckdee]

Doing work man! keep it up.
my cars a wreck right now man..hopefully i can get it all together in time for sowo and still have enough cash to make it lol

Hopefully man, I'm barely just started saving up for just the bare minimums...(gas, food and a t-shirt to say that i went to sowo haha)

Love the twists

How thick are the adapters? I'm curious how they're going to fit.

Only 25mm all around. I almost did 25mm front/ 30mm rear but after talking to Marc about it with the current tire size I have for the rear, i would have to pull the rear fenders....which would be a hit or miss with how clean they come out.

I'm interested in this wood floor.

My good sir, you should get on this as well. For teh classiness

Those are something you can throw in on our discussion earlier

Perhaps i'll have to text you about that cause I really don't need 2 pairs of headlights haha.

[Chuckdee]

So yesterday I did 2 main things:

Change the motor mount out:




And start painting my wheels a root beer bronze brown:







Don't worry, I still have more to paint today but it looks good so far

[Brennan610]

That color looks amazing on those wheels, I can't wait to see them on.

[Chuckdee]

So update....
I was so focused on getting the two rear wheels to look perfect, that I paid less attention to the front wheels. The rear wheels are ready for clear, while the 2 front ones look all ratchet. Which means now I had to strip those wheels and re-paint them. Paint came out rough to the touch in some areas before the clear coat and the primer was even cracking

So tonight I'll just work on stripping them down and tomorrow, hopefully, I can finally paint them and get this over with

[thepirate]

You get your interior ripped apart?

[Chuckdee]

You get your interior ripped apart?

Oh yeah, got that done too just need to take out the center piece lol

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[thepirate]

Oh yeah, got that done too just need to take out the center piece lol

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I haven't started mine...no motivation I have new rear bags and a sway bar to install to.

[Chuckdee]

I haven't started mine...no motivation I have new rear bags and a sway bar to install to.

New bags already?! What happened there?

And it's cool. I've decided to tackle another part of the interior, something I've should have done in a while lol.

[MarcMiller]

I haven't started mine...no motivation I have new rear bags and a sway bar to install to.

What kinda bags?

[Chuckdee]

Update....it's time for one.

Finally changed out the other belt



.....and what I've been working on since yesterday.




Rear panels are finally done. Now for the fronts. As boring as this sounds, I'm having fun with this lol.

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