Looking good!
Finished putting everything together last night. I just need to tighten one axle nut, bleed front brakes and put some trans fluid in. Then just wheels and it should be able to come out of the garage finally.
I snapped two new pics of the dirvers side. Not much diff that before, just all together.
Dan
damn, that work looks awesome, commendable work :tup:
Very nice work! Looks great. Who did your powdercoating?
Great work man! Love reading up on projects like these:)
What kind of paint did you use for the wheel wells?
powdercoating was done by Modern Coating in Palmyra (notice im from Macedon, ok near Rochester ;))
The paint in the wheel wells is just some duplicolor truck bed liner in a spray bom. I usually get it at walmart of all places.
Dan
Thanks. Yes, I noticed but sometimes you have to drive a bit to get services worth paying for 
I had a very unsatisfactory experience with a local PC place (Powder Systems) and would like to avoid a repeat. Your parts look great, though it’s hard to tell from a pic.
i hope with all the work that you are putting into it, that it isnt going to be driven in the winter?
Brian
^^^ hell no.
Dan
Very nice work Dan. I picked up a 97 Cabriolet for my slut GF last spring, she loves it, I’m sure your wife will love her’s. Did you clean up the engine any or is that for another time?
lol @ slut GF
^^ haha ya
So far nothing motor wise. I just wanted to get it safe and looking nice for now. My plan is to do some sort of motor swap next winter. Then Ill clean up and paint the engine compart etc.
Im thinking an ABA maybee with a simple turbo setup and MS. 10psi should put down about 200ish hp. Be pretty fun little ride.
dan
Yeah, the old ABA is a stout engine. She also has a 96 Golf Gl and I was driving it a bit ago, timing belt broke, towed it home, threw on a new one, and she fired right up, no bent valves or anything. Then, Saturday night, the tensioner for the timing belt froze, and the belt shredded. Towed it home, put a new belt on with a new tensioner and it fired up with no issues. The only reason why I didn’t do a tensioner when it went the first time was not knowing if the engine had 6 bent valves or not. 9 times out of 10 a 2L ABA will be fine after breaking a timing belt. With 10psi it would make a nice power upgrade in the cabby.
Its even funnier when he says it to her face :lol: 
Very nice project :tup: powdercoating looks great. Whom are you using?
Jeller
Modern Coating in Palmyra (ya, i live on the OTHER side of Rochester).
Dan
Hey, what can I say. After 7 years together, I have to do something to get a reaction out of her. Yes, the PC looks nice. At first I was thinking that they powder coated the whole knuckle including where the wheel bearing gets pressed in, that would be no bueno, they did a nice job keeping that bare.
so the car is on the ground now, has been for a few days. But the starter seems to not work anymore. I think I must have broken the 15 yr old “seal” when I removed it. So for now its going to sit until I can find/buy a replacement (hopefully next week ish). For now its back to trying to get the cavy ready.
Dan
Been a long time since I updated this at all, so here we go.
I pulled the motor and trans out in APRIL since there was realy no way the car could be ready to drive this summer. Plus picking up the Audi meant my wife didnt have to commute in the Suburban anymore.
I also picked up a 2.0 16V locally for $250. Currently the plan is to swap that in but running on MS to keep it reliable, simple and super clean. (I think I may be shaving alot of the extra crap in the engine bay and doing a nice wire tuck etc).
A few pics of the super dirty engine bay. Would have been near impossible to get this cleaned up with the motor and trans in anyway… damn thing.
And finally some of it cleaned up a little. I pressure washed it on monday as I had the PW out already. Its def better, but a far cry from being able to paint it.
Ok, that is probably about all until the fall. 
Dan
Getting there. Everything you have done looks good man