clown car with low rider goalz

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The harlequin I picked up two years ago. Its going to be a slow and steady build since family duty calls, and I live in San Francisco with no garage or parking spot. But either way I hope to slowly make progress on the car. The key elements are in place. Harlequin acquired, and CBRA 3.2 from an 08 TT.

My GTI i have had for about 10 years, and my old passat. 2010 style.
CRW_5180 by kevin kleine, on Flickr
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Then I got distracted by this thing for a bit
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The BMW is now gone, which brings me to the harlequin.

The PO had the hatch covered in duct tape, and it was rusty. I was able to fix that up.
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IMG_5995 by kevin kleine, on Flickr

Also, the two rear door rub strips are re-installed. The PO had the super glued and spray foamed on so it was a battle to clean it all off. I need to go in and re-epoxy one more stud that broke off during install, and I have a new badge and wiper hole plug on the way

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So that bring me up to date over the past 10 years-ish.

-Kevin

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The timing belt was terrifying on this car. I do have the 3.2, but that will be a slow process for me. I am surprised the belt made it this long. The tensioner was almost completely seized and howling/crunching.



All 3 cars parked by each other. My gti and the wife's mazda 3. A rare thing when it comes to street parking.



My friend Pete who has his tools at home now and a garage he lets me use sometimes.

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Next on the list is the brakes. They are terrifying and very mushy, bad pads, lots of travel, and drums. I also have a moaning wheel bearing. Im lucky my friend at work is a machinist who can help me make my dual drilled setup. The ABA hubs are so I won't have to convert all the parts, and g60 280mm rotors that have the right top hat height.

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Snagged a disc rear spindle, mk4 caliper and mk3 carrier. I can run this disc for now if I want but i might just go straight to 5 lug 280mm kit.

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I also snagged my banchwerks drop plates for the rear beam before i sold the gti

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 lil nic nacs

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Trying to build a complete set of abt lights. My outers are cracked so I might do the e34 projector retrofit.



https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5220822-ABT-DUAL-ROUNDS-W-E34-projectors
This thread is pretty interesting




personal inspiration for abt lights

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Got these from vrclowncar

Here is his car with em




Also got some early euro bubble buttons

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So I finished the AC switch today. It took a lot of tinkering but figured it out. Stuff like this is good for dad duty while my son sleeps.  Im stoked. Early euro bubble buttons with later mk3.5 cabrio style lighting.



Removed the bulbs. One was burned out.



Had to desolder some connections to remove the board. Then soldered in the new LED.



The light transfer piece inside the button was tinted green and was kind of dull.



I ordered some 1.5 mm fiber optic cable that had a good side glow.





Illuminated. Compare to the normal defrost switch.



And norm and max buttons depressed.





Now I have to figure out the defrost switch. It might not look like it, but the outer amber ring has a green tint on the backside which I have to remove somehow in order to get it to glow blue like the others.

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Picked these up

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Also pumped on picking up these oem style decals.

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picked up bc type br with only 5k miles


To do this. There are made by UK based only charged dubs specially for mk3, to be used to BC BR coils. I love the idea of replaceable struts, and can swap to springs if i want to.

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The folks at only charged dubs in the uk were super nice and helpful.