Engine is IN!!!!

30 minutes later.....

Now for the wiring.

Eww.

:P

Sweet.

Prollem fissed:

That is quite the colour scheme you have! Congrats on getting the motor in.

Prepped for Purple. Interesting!

I love the Grape engine bay.

Winston wrote: Prollem fissed:

WHY THANK YOU! :-)

ArthurDent wrote: That is quite the colour scheme you have! Congrats on getting the motor in.

Thanks!!!

Erm... yeah. The outside is not going to stay so colorful. Though, she has been through quite a set of different pain schemes in her life. She started out white. :-)

I really want to paint her glossy black, but I worry about the heat and sitting around at the race track. I remember soaking to death in my own sweat in my light green CRX..... Black may just about kill me, though it may be worth it (or have just a white roof, though that might look funny!). The thought was that the purple would look amazing with the silver and black of the engine, and fit with the black car/white wheel setup that I have been dreaming of. Maybe some color matched mudflaps for fun........

teehee. ;)

Here is her in an earlier time of her life:

I think we should call the color "grape smoothie"

In reply to anjaloveshervw:

ewwww look at that reverse rake action goin' on!! What was I thinking!?!?

sigh good thing that's over!

dean1484 wrote: I think we should call the color "grape smoothie"

done and DONE!

I DID, afterall, mix the paint myself. The lady at the paint store let me go behind the counter and mess around with all of the different colors and everything! It was such a fun experience.

If you can believe it, I actually BRUSHED that on! It looks just as amazing in person as in these fuzzy photos, I wish they did it more justice! It is a 3-part marine paint, and it took long enough to dry that all of my brushstrokes smoothed out! Not bad for barely over $100 in paint, after the first coat of RustBullet also. :-)

<3 Grape Smoothie

Black exterior will be fine, just do the interior in light grey or white and the heat won't be so bad.

Btw; yeah! On the swap!

It sure stands out. In a good way.

N Sperlo wrote: It sure stands out. In a good way.

Why thank you!!

Yes, a genuine VW mutant. No other like her so far a I have seen :)

In reply to chandlerGTi:

Hells yeah!

BTW, I NEED the Hot wheels in your userpic there....

anjaloveshervw wrote: In reply to chandlerGTi: Hells yeah! BTW, I NEED the Hot wheels in your userpic there....

I have twenty of them, lol.

I think I'm in love with you..........lol

Where have you been all my life?

Me like and I like your "to do" list the door, hard to miss.

nice job!

I really need to get to work on my GTi...

VDUBNINJA wrote: I think I'm in love with you..........lol Where have you been all my life?

Not to enable your crush (and it will), but there are.... Better pictures in her other thread.

Those lights are Hella sweet.

ArthurDent wrote: That is quite the colour scheme you have! Congrats on getting the motor in.

I think it looks grape!

beans wrote: Those lights are Hella sweet.

I think there are many cars it would not work on. On their current home, they look fantastic.

VDUBNINJA wrote: I think I'm in love with you..........lol Where have you been all my life?

LOL thank you for the compliment :)

You resurrected my old thread!! Oh jeez. Lots of bad memories from those photos.....

Hey, this is actually a good reminder, so the motor HASN'T been in the car a year yet. So I am not that lame for not having it done yet. lol, I'd like to have her done by August.

Donebrokeit wrote: Me like and I like your "to do" list the door, hard to miss.

Ha! You noticed that! ;)