I was in a similar position with the abandoned 16V restoration project Sam - car in Ireland, yours truly in Canada and only making it home twice a year at best. I really wanted to see it out but time and distance beat me - my cousin Niall to his credit got her restored and back on the road after I sold it to him. I made no money in this (quite the opposite actually) but I do have a serious stash of genuine, OEM and good quality Mk2 parts. At some stage I will start selling those off, (I'm hoping Tristan, Dave and fellow countrymen will assist me with that in the future) and I might break even - chance of a profit is extremely slim. Your conversion is more desirable these days, along with all the parts so you're most likely in a stronger position to make a profit/break even - presuming that's the route you decide to go - it's difficult one way or the other, I would have loved to keep my 16V but it simply was no longer feasible to do so.
I spoke to dad last night, and he’s found all my bits in the shed and is going to make a start on it whilst I’m away. So I bought a few bits last night, cheap spray gun, some more paint and dad is going to make a start on the inside paint for me. I’ll buy some more paint and under seal to get the arches and chassis legs done myself.
I’m the grand scheme of things, I don’t have a huge amount left. All the hard stuff is done pretty much.
Fair dues Sam - the fact that your Dad will work on it while you're away is excellent and will keep the project going, I wish I had that support on the other side of the pond but that was not the case.
Well dad is going to buy some paint and bits and bobs tomorrow, so hopefully we’ll see some progress! I hate paint prep so I don’t mind too much
Aye, just put it on my list, seem to be do all the work and collecting parts for mates R32 swap and trying to get mine done between sorting out the other cars and phone calls ten at night as a mate of someone at work cant get their central locking to work on a skoda. If I was more local I'd be round helping I'm sure Sam, think how lovely and shiny the bits could be and you have a smug smile knowing you did it.
For my own attempt at motivation, things i can do at home. Clean, paint, order parts and rebuild engine Repaint Servo Clean MC Bottle Finish electronic speedo conversion (Buy new corsa clocks) - Or just bin the idea all together and figure out something else... Attempt to build haldex controller (again) or buy CanChecked controller Bring home car wiring, check over and make sure nothing is damaged. I'd like to totally rebuild the looms but it's not worth it. I'm sure there's more but I can't think off the top of my head.
I used to be of the "build everything myself" camp, but now I'd probably just grumble at the cost of the controller, then buy it, and be glad of the time I'd saved.
Yeah that's what I'm thinking, It also displays more than just the haldex stuff so we'll see. I'm not sure what to do about the speedo stuff. @rubjonny anymore suggestions?
@Savagesam were you thinking about making something around the OpenHaldex project? Would be quite cool having a whole Haldex controller behind a button blank, DigiFiz mini style. Would happily help out with hardware design or software if you go that route!