Hello guys, I'm build a Chinese car: Chery Cowin to be a 1600cc show room stock race car, this car is base on Seat Toledo Mk1, & toledo is base on Golf II, so I'm building a 50% Mk2 race car！

& My car is "2005 sport version", so it use a pt cruiser power train with 1.6L Tritec engine.

here is the progress of my program, the first race will be 23/3

Here is the list of the work I did/will do

renew the wheel bearings
buy a new stock brake callipers but with some tricky :P
renew the engine
remove AC and steering pump
PT Cruiser ACT HD Clutch kit
MINI R53 MSD coil & Spark plug Alta kit
one make Hancock tire
Hawk front race pad
Koni Shock kit for Jetta MK2
B&G Spring Kit for Jetta MK2
21.5mm front sway bar
trying to move the original sway bar to rear

tips for find a MK2 sway bar with low price:

the normal performance sway bar is around us$2xx, and it is 22mm version.
my choice is little bit weak: 21.5mm, and not high tech material, but it is incredible cheap: us$25 including the mounting kit. $18 if u only buy the bar!!!
how does that work? It is come from taxi: 1.9L Diesel version of MK2: 1 of the most popular car chose by the Chinese taxi driver.

some really big bird shat on your roof, btw

dahoe out of nowhere.

Quote from Da Hoe :

some really big bird shat on your roof, btw

that is cover of addon antennaby the former owner

more pic

Good luck and make sure that you improve safety a lot - first things that I found after googleing was that this car is a deathtrap

Quote from 4d01f :

Good luck and make sure that you improve safety a lot - first things that I found after googleing was that this car is a deathtrap

Well, an Golf Mk2 was an deathtrap, too. So it's not really suprising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlNS6MZ-JBE
After the beetle.

Quote from 4d01f :

Good luck and make sure that you improve safety a lot - first things that I found after googleing was that this car is a deathtrap

I'll get the cage latter

You should post your build story here:
http://forums.mightycarmods.com/forum.php

I'm sure you'll get a bit of interest.

is this pad same as MK3?

Seems so. You can take those pads to local racing dealer and they can check it from catalog and you can order/buy proper racing brake pads

but no one race this car in China & no MK3 in China