My Swift Conversion, GS to GTI

Hi all, as some of you already know, i started a conversion from a 1992 Mk2 Phase 2 GS to a GTI using a 1992 Mk2 Phase 2 GTI as a doner car. Both white fortunately.

The GS was my bro's first car and then my first car when he bought a black GTI.

I then bought a 2006 Navara Pick - up as my daily car and kept the swift as a bit of fun / second car.

I then got bored of no practical on my Motorsports engineering course at uni and decided to convert the swift to a GTI. It took a while due to having to do it on my drive at uni so the weather got in the way and then the coursework and exams sat in the way. But its all done now bar a few niggles and with thanks to Andy for the help on certain parts.

Here are some pics.

The GS as my First car.




Collecting the Donor car, I knew my truck would come in handy for the project


The Donor Car




The engine to come out


The Engine to Go in


Changing cam belt and water pump in the living room.


Ye olde engine out



Give the engine bay a clean


GTi Lump in




A few late nights




The Doner car to get taken away by the very persistant scrap metal geezers


Unfortanetly no pics of me changing the chassis loom as i, well, forgot, apart from photos of the different connections all labled up. No photos swaping all the brakes over either.

And no photos of the finished car yet becasue i havnt taken em, will do that tomoz.

Sorry for all the pics and story at the beginning.

Cheers
ADAM

its not a work in progress thread without a story lol

nice car mate

well done mate, when dus the engine rebuild start then
you should`v kept all of the glass from the gti as its got a slight tint to it

gary

Looks like a good job! What was wrong with the GTi though?

cannot wait to start my conversion now! 13 days!

and u should of kept the bumpers as spares

but good job all round

Cheers for the comments guys.

I would have kept the glass but don't really have any room for keeping loads of bits. My dads already goin on at me for havin a spare bonnet set of alloys and a few other bits. Anything else just isn't worth the hassel.

The bumpers Wernt in good nik, the front had gouges in it and broken clips. And the back one had a very badley cut out for bigger exhaust.

The GTI shell was in crap condition, it had holes in the floor, the engine was alreay out of it and in the drivers footwell, most of the interior was missing and to be honest, I still wanted my first car lol.

Cheers
Adam

Nice work
Engine work in the living room is total win!

Hi Guys, sorry for the huge delay in Photos of the almost finished Swift, but here they are, sorry bout the quality but i had to use my phone.








Oh and bodieanddoyle - engine work in the livings room, well, what more could u want

looking good but please put the side skirts on and peel off that black plastic strip


steve

Yep does look good but needs Gti skirts and a decent exhaust tip

yer ive got the skirts waiting to go to the painters next week so dont worry them and the black strip will be sorted.

as for the exhaust i dont mind the look of it apart from it needs to sit alot further back into the car, so gotta get tht sorted at some point.

Cheers
ADAM

Bit of an update. I got the car back from the body shop just before christmas but only just got it back out of my workshop to clean and polish it up back to my liking.... for a body shop they really cant clean a car lol

anyway here are a few pics










The swift is kept in good company when not in use, a central heated workshop (warmer than the office) and surrounded by some of the nicer stock of my dads





there is an Mk 5 Golf R32 behind the S Type and the swift has spent the whole christmas parked next to the XKR

Cheers
ADAM

That looks lovely!

Exhaust stick out too much though

Cheers M8, yer the exhaust has got to be sorted, its starting to piss me off now. It sticks out far too far and tilts down for some reason.

Still gotta get my rear anti roll bar on, and then think about putting some money aside for the turbo

Lookin good!!
What wheels are they?

Cheers for the comment

The wheels are TSW's, not sure on model, i have a feeling they were a factory upgrade wheel, but not at all sure on that. (they are the same wheels as on the car during the conversion only without the centre caps)
I have some new rota wheels to go on, just need to get the tyres.

looking really good nice and clean love it


steve

do well mate looks really smart like the luguna splitter sets it off nicely i've always had a soft spot for white gtis bet its pain to keep clean tho!! p.s if that had white wheels that would give me a semi white on white

Thanks for the comments guys, im pretty pleased with how its turned out - really glad i got the new front wings

hobo - im not actually 100% sure on white cars with white wheels although i am putting these on it when the tyres arrive

mate they will look nice will look like my old car lol


http://www.uk-ssgti.com/t38-my-new-toy-update

STEVEGTI2 wrote:mate they will look nice will look like my old car lol


http://www.uk-ssgti.com/t38-my-new-toy-update

ahh haaa so it will, looks good

How much did u pay for them if you dont mind me asking, and was it 195/50/15s you were running on them?

Cheers
ADAM

hi i boought them new from rota back in the day were like 390 then there 440 ish yea 195 50 15s that came on the car at the time



steve

STEVEGTI2 wrote:hi i boought them new from rota back in the day were like 390 then there 440 ish yea 195 50 15s that came on the car at the time

steve

Oh right ok kl, i bought these off a chap for £220, only 1 month or so old, not a mark on them so virtually new.
Just about to buy four Yoko Parada 2's for them tonight wop them on the car and fingers crossed it passes its MOT which is next week. ( Hopefully my engine conversion sails through )

dude dont buy paradas get hankook rs2s much better and only about £10 more

Woops little late for getting the Hankooks instead. Ordered the Yoko's on Monday, they arrived Tuesday.
The cheapest i could find the Hankooks for were £16 more than the cheapest i could find the Yoko's. Where do u get them??