MonK-E's ST170 Project
 

Hi all, I haven't been round here long but i thought id just jump in with a project. It will be a nice long term one that I'll try and keep updated regularly.
I've previously built a supercharged mk4 golf and a couple of turbo projects. if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post up some pics.

I felt like getting away from the vag scene and wanted to go with something that handles straight out of the box. So i went out and picked up a fairly battered st170 for £450, its only done just under 80k miles but it has a smashed drivers window, 3 bald tyres, a completely dead battery, the EML is on and dents all over it.

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The person I bought it of was kind enough to give me the door glass he got from the scrappy to replace it.
It was a nice easy job.


Then got her straight on a 4 post ramp to go through a fair bit and see exactly how much fun I'm in for

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A few bits of bodgery gone on but nothing too bad. plenty of surface rust to sort out as to be expected from a car of this age and a bit of rot round the inner arch liner.
Emptied out the boot and found the spare wheel mount has almost disintegrated haha

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Then onto the out side damage :D

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The front wing I'll just replace. but all the other dents are going to have to be pulled out. luckily my cousin has a body shop so I have pulled out some of the interior to be able to get to a couple of spots

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Then loaded her back up on the trailer ready to get the dents pulled out tomorrow. my cousin has told me because I'm a cheap skate he'll show me how to do one then its up to me to do the rest. Fair play, could be fun. or it might come back far worse hahaha.

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Oh yeah before I forget I did the little trick with the trip meter and found out the EML was just the battery voltage low code. So I put another battery on and all is spot on, fires up straight away all gauges reading normal :)

I'll be sure to up date tomorrow with how my first attempt at dent pulling goes :thumbup: