Golf gti wide body project From a new member

[Vric]

WoW.. nice putty job !

[GT-Alex]

Here are a few others:
http://freetuning.free.fr/vosautos/vw/golfgto2.jpg
http://www.tramont.fr/showroom/vw/vw_gof1.jpg

[Orion37170]

those are Mk1's

[dread_darven]

and to my knowledge the second pic

isn't a rieger bodykit (i could be wrong) ,but thanks anyways

[dread_darven]

Another update:

As i stated earlier, this build is inspired by rieger.
But as i continue to work on the body i am becoming more and more attracted to completely reproducing it instead of "rieger is just an inspiration".
So the body itself will be a fairly (if not completely) accurate reproduction of the rieger gto bodykit.
The hood and front bumper will only be a little different .

So here are the new detailing thingys

First off, i made the rear wing completely from scratch,


It still does'nt fit right, but a bit of sanding and it should fit.

The sideintakes are done and i'm very happy with the results, cause they are completely made out of putty.

The line you see on top of the intake will be stretched, but first the door needs some adjustments.



The rear bumper now has the shape it needs.

I made the lower part of the bumper a little narrower so the wheels are more exposed if you see it from the rear.



The fender flares where dremeled out so the body could stick lower to the ground.


Here you can see how low it can go now


And here are some overall progress shots.




The body still needs some putying to remove the scratches and some fine sanding to remove the bumps.
The sideskirts will also be made completely from scratch but that's for the next update.
Good and bad comments are welcome as i'm still in the learning fase

[Orion37170]

COOL!
You got the riegerstyle very well replicated

[dread_darven]

[Cychalen]

Very nice putty job. Rieger style is cool.

[joecwlaw]

Looking good!!!!!!!!!!

[D[X]P]

That looks SOOOOOO hot!!

[Samurai75007]

Love the thing ceep it up...

[flying finn]

Excelente! I love the Rieger Golf and you are doing great job replicating it.

[GT-Alex]

Originally Posted by Orion37170

those are Mk1's

I know, this was just to give some reference, the gto bodykit is very similar for the 2 first gen. BTW it's very hard to find pics of widebody golf's.

As for the model, i think the front fenders needs more work, the rieger one have more sharp edges, and the front bumper ends need to be extended to line up with the fenders.
Any progress of fitting the bmw engine ?

[Tommycool666]

I'm not all for rice burners and modern car's , but this is nice. I'm mostly rat rodand muscle cars. Keep up the good work, it look liek you still haev plenty of body work to do tho, otherwise great build so far.

- Tommycool666

[dread_darven]

Originally Posted by GT-Alex

I know, this was just to give some reference, the gto bodykit is very similar for the 2 first gen. BTW it's very hard to find pics of widebody golf's.

As for the model, i think the front fenders needs more work, the rieger one have more sharp edges, and the front bumper ends need to be extended to line up with the fenders.
Any progress of fitting the bmw engine ?

Finding pics of a widebody golf is indeed difficult, but i have found a rieger GTO in a dutch tuning magazine (it's actualy an VW corrado but the bodykit is almost identical) and it got some very good reference pics cause it is a 6 page fotoshoot .

The front fenders need some work as does the front bumper.
But the front bumper is far from finished so i'm first going to make the sideskirts .