This is all the pics I have other than whats in the blog.

This image boils my blood. (even though in this pic the work is done)  If you want to put rear discs in a mk1, you have to either hang the caliper upside down, or clearance the beam by cutting the web here, and make room for the caliper.  The PO didn't do this, and the caliper didn't slide on the pins as it was jammed in there.  The rear brakes weren't functioning properly, if at all...more corners cut.

This is the best downpipe I had, so its painted with POR15.  I don't really like the stuff as if your prep is half assed, the POR15 will come off in sheets.  Let's see how long it lasts.

So, I bought back the old suspension off the blue Jetta I sold back in 2011...The current owner told me he never drove the car in the salt/snow.  Do ya'll think I was lied to by the look of the springs??

The hole that was cut and filled with a section of a cabby tunnel.  I'm still perplexed as to why the PO cut it out.  The mk3 shifter was still mounted above the tunnel, and the holes were cut in the firewall above too.  Back to stock!

Does relocating a 40lb battery to the trunk really have an effect on a 100 hp car shaped like a brick?  Come on guys, wake up...

Again, I will never buy a mk1 with gutter rot!!