The exterior ...

This is the car...

Side view.

So far I have made only slightly mods on the exterior. This are the clear corners.

I changed the previous clear corners for this ones.

As you can see it had steel wheels, it's the cheapest model.

A rear view, nice magnaflow polished stainless steel exhaust with 3" tips.

This is how the exhaust looks, I think they did an excellent job on the muffler shop when cutting the bumper to make it fit nicely.

I didn't like to see the shiny body from the exhaust, made my car look a little bit ricey, mostly at night if you were driving behind the exhaust shone pretty much. I decided to fix that on the magnaflow muffler like the guys from Remus did.

This is how it eneded after I painted it with hi temp paint.

I painted only the side that faces the rear from the exhaust body, the exhaust tips and the rest remained with polished stainless steel finish. Much better.

This is an old view form the front, I replaced the lower grilles for aluminum mesh. You can see here that the middle part is bent.

Here it is after I replaced this part. Now it looks perfect.

I removed the alu mesh to give it a more "stock" look and hide the intercooler a little bit from the untrained eye on the street, hehehe.

Rear view.

As it looks now.

After I added the H&R wheel spacers on the rear, looks even wider.

All the windows are tinted, the second clearest dark tone, including the front one, which makes it really nice to drive under any kind of weather.

I got the wing finally, it looks very clean.

I hope it's functional, because some wings are just for looks.

A rear viw of the car with it's wing, looks nice!.

The paint looks really nice, but the color is a pain in the ass to keep clean.

Another one from the paint...

I have to polish this car every month so no sctraches are seen.

I want to add carbon fiber tail lights from APC.

I got the heated blue mirrors at the 2004 DROME expo here in Guad, I installed them and look much better than the stock ones.

Since the bumper had to be removed for installing the intercooler, I took out the stock lights to paint them like the GLI version.

This is how they ended, used high gloss laquer to match the car paint finish. They look awesome mounted!

I got some 8000k bulbs (right) for the head lamps. check out the difference compared to "HID" imported purple bulbs (left).

I got some black FK headlights with angel eyes, they look great!.

This is a close up of the projector light (low beam).

This is a close up of the projector light with the fogs turned on (note that I pulled 2 bulbs from the angel eye, I have to put them back on!).

This is how it looks at night, cool, huh?.

This is how it looks with the fogs turned on.

This the light pattern of the main (low) beam.

This the light pattern of the fog lights.

This is how it looks from behind with the fog light turned on.

My car didn't have fogs from the factory so I had to add the harnesses and the euroswitch to make them work. The wiring was purchased from ECS tuning, it includes everything you need to make the installation.

I changed the bulbs by white leds, since the bulbs burned out quite fast, I guess because of the heat from the lamps or something like that.

Another view, now the angel eyes look white.

I got also PIAA Xtreme White plus bulbs for the low beam, the illumination is much better than the hella bulbs, and it seems I have xenon because of the lenses I guess.

This is a close up from the headlamp with the leds and the PIAA bulbs. Looks much better than before, and I see better at night too!.

I got a Co-Way 8000k HID kit for the low beams. Here is the installation.

Here you can see the difference in intensity from the HID beam (right) compared to the PIAA halogen (left).

Here are both low beams with HID. Now I can seee really well at night and thanks to the projector style lamps there is no glare to other drivers.

I moved the PIAA bulbs to the high beam, now it's even stronger!. Looks much better than before, and I see better at night too!.

This is a close up from the headlamp with bulbs again for the angel eyes and the low HID beam.

This is a view from the front. The light is white but the projectors make the headlight look really blue. Looks nice.

I got this GLI front lip for my car, it was used but in good condition, this is before it was painted.

This is how it looked when installed.

The lip lowered the front of the car, so I had to get side skirts to match it. I got the OEM GLI skirts. Her are before installation.

The lower part of the rear bumper had to be painted too in order to match the whole thing. I didnt get the GLI on in this case because the height is the same and I had the exhaust cutout already. Plus I don't like the wing looking thing it has on the sides. This is how it looks now.

The results:

I got GLI smoked tail lights now, it looks nice. For some reason on the picture they look clear but they are smoked.

I replaced the rear wing by a OEM german one, looks really nice.

This is the rear view.

Another view.

Check out the carbon fiber hood... I added a shaded clear coat so it looks darker, also painted black the front and it fades after loke 4-5 inches. It weights less than half of the OEM one.

This is just before I changed the wheels. I like it!.

 I just got these center caps for my OEM wheels:

This is how they look... cool!!

I changed the rear amber bulbs by chrome ones and the rear red fog bulb by an LED one.

 This is how it looked before, you can see the bulbs color through the smoked areas:

This is how it looked afterwards:

It looks better, but the brightness of the chrome bulbs (right) is slightly less than the OEM amber ones (left), check it out:

 This is the OEM antena:

I installed this aluminum antena, much shorter, but didn't like the color, looks kinda ricer:

I painted it black and think that it looks much better, what do you think?

I shaver the rear to add the .:R emblem:

Completing the Volkswagen Racing look (.:R):

I smoked the side markers and bumper lights to match the rear GLI tail lights. I made some extra passes after the pics were taken so they ended up darker than what is shown on the picture. I think they look nice. will take some pics from this later.