24V Renshaw

Looking good mate. Takes me back :) Its nice when things just "fit" once in a while isn't it! Nice to see a proper conversion with attention to detail and completely useable. Jay

Lol, no idea if they will fit, but the calipers are tight on the rotor, so might just about squeeze in... Jay

Yeah give me shout Ben, would be good to catch up... Got these brakes for sale at the moment as could do with the cash, but tempted to try and squeeze them under my 17" OZ rims.... 360mm 6 Pot VW Racing brakes. Jay

To my mind if you have to ask the question then I would choose something else. Have you ever seen them being used on anything in competition? I haven't. Might be OK, but for the money there are better option IMHO. Jay

Me too :) LOL

Would like to use a Porsche colour again, don't think cream would be right. Want something dark and moody I think, have a few ideas ;) think the gt3 green thing would be a bit too cliched, but would obviously work with the rest.... Jay

Cheers. :) Nope green will go. No idea what will replace it yet though. :confused4: Jay

Cheers guys. Going to trim the dash in alcantara aswell all going well. Plan for the rear is something along these lines ;) Jay

Well......... I have been fairly busy on the basic mechanicals over the last couple of weeks, alongside building nursery furniture and buying prams etc.. :) Started by removing the complete rear beam and replacing/upgrading every single part. Stripped the rear beam, fitted brand new OEM bushes as the old ones had seen better days! Then proceeded to create a make shift hoist to support the beam as I carefully pressed the new bushes into the beam, using a vice and some careful movements so not to damage the new bushes. Managed to fit all that and then fitted the following to the rear beam. (No pictures sorry) - New MK4 Golf rear calipers and carriers. - New OEM rear pads - New OEM rear discs - New OEM Rear Bearings - New Goodridge braided hoses. - New OEM handbrake cables (had to move the handbrake over by an inch for the boxster centre console so did that at the same time) Also fitted rear Bilstein Coilovers and new AP front coilovers too. While I was replacing the rear brakes I figured I might aswell do the front, so rather than replace the boggo 280mm stuff I got a full almost new 312mm setup of a TT, complete with Mintex pads. Also picked up some wheels to go with the Clubsport theme I will be running eventually...... Chassis and brakes are now million times better than it was and the first step towards making this a nice daily, as it was/is cold, uncomfortable, scary and noisy! LOL Also set the tracking using my home made tracking gear. It simply consists of nice straight poles which attach to the wheels, one with a laser pointer at 90 degrees to the pole, the other with a mirror on it. If the reflection of the laser is not straight back, the tracking is off. Simple and free!! :) INTERIOR ------ So with the chassis progressing I focused my attention on the interior again. With the dash back out I wanted to fit the Boxster climate control, which in principle is the same as the MK4 golf/Audi etc.. climate control. Having fitted the passat one before I decided to get the fan and ducting part from a Passat as its slightly different to the MK4 golf one. The main difference is the way the air-con pipes go through the firewall. On the golf its a big plate with lots of holes and a complex seal. On the passat its one big hole with one big seal This can be made to fit by cutting 3 x 50mm holes in a triangle and then filing them to create one neat hole that matches the passat seal. The easiest and neatest way to do this is with a 50mm panel punch. Pictures tell a thousand words so...... Fitted a brand new Corrado heater matrix while I was there. Then by modifying a couple of the Passat brackets and drilling an extra hole in the firewall for the studs that hold the heaterbox in, it was done. Wired it up and it works no problem. Unfortunately I don't have a fan motor (its in the post) so the drives to work have been a little chilly this week LOL!!! Now the pretty bits :) For the interior I am going for the style and feel of a GT3 Porsche. With the dash the obvious choice really. So. I had previously acquired a 997 Porsche steering wheel, but it was a cream leather one with a blown airbag. Having had a quick chat with my best mate and general interior trimming genius Doug (tribetypefourty) we decided it would work well in alcantara. A few steps reconstructing the airbag with foam and filler and some nice trimming work you end up with a GT3 style wheel. All credit to Doug for the work on this. Top man! Finally my other investment this week. A set of Kevlar Composite FIA Approved buckets, to continue the theme, currently stored under my mate Vicks christmas tree until I collect them next week. Should look good with the dash and the stripped out back end/ roll cage ;) Its coming along slowly :) Jay

He already had it kicking about in the garage, as you do ;) Top work Doug, have a few ideas I want to run by you later. Jay

I did indeed fit the MX5 mirrors to my Rado (now Vicks) and they are not a straight bolt on job. Fit off you have to trim a lot of the ally from the base to get them to sit level, I have seen a couple (including porsche mirrors) where they "droop" and look all wrong. You then have to change the holes in the base to suit the holes in the rado door. Then I made some trim pieces for the bottom to squash between the door and the mirror when bolted down. Fiddly and you need a bench sanding disc really. Much better mirror for visibility than the rado, plus the bottom edge doesn't go brown :) Jay

I have wiring diagrams mate. What I could do with though is the resistance values of the water temp sensor if that is something that could be found out :) You could be my new best friend dude ;) Jay

Thanks. Got a scary amount of work to do to get this Rado anywhere near the last one, but I am looking forward to it. Failed miserably at the weekend with doing anything as we were busy then it lashed it down for hours. Did wire up the earlier clocks and I now have a speedo, but it's Reading 1/6th of the speed so that needs some work. Going to blitz the car in a coupl of weeks and get evrything done to make it drive right. I do have a Porsche 997 steering wheel now :). But it has a blown airbag so needs some work too! LOL progress soon I promise. Jay

Thanks for all your kind words again :) Not touched the car for a couple of weeks, other than driving it to work and back every day with no interior :) Hoping to get some decent work done at the weekend and post up some progress. Bought and collected a few more bits for it, which will hopefully make it quite a driver focused car. Updates this weekend I promise :) Jay

Sorry for the lack of updates on the car over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately I lost my Dad to cancer 3 weeks ago, quite suddenly after a very short fight with it and consequently have not been too focused on the car. Also we are moving house this week, so that has kept me busy too! New place has a bigger garage with power and lighting though so I will be able to crack on soon :) Bought some wheels and a couple of other interior bits which I will update with as and when they arrive. Cheers Jay

Keep on it dude, there are too many people awaiting the results of the rolling road :) Jay

I am in shock, feel a little faint....well...done.................................

Keep it coming dude. You lot ain't seen nothing yet!! :) Jay

More posts Doug, this car is epic!! Jay

Yep, digital speedo should be fully functional aswell. :) Got a lot of inspiration for cracking on with the car having a wonder round the show at the weekend. Spent too much time selling stuff in the autojumble to really soak it up, but was good to catch up with a few people and come away from the show with some decent cash for new bits on the rado :) Jay

Cheers all. Actually figured out the easiest way to get round the CAN-BUS issues is to use earlier Boxster clocks which look identical, but don't use CAN-BUS for anything significant, so I am going to swap the clocks next week. Most CAN-BUS converters are expensive and tend to convert CAN to Analogue and not the other way which is what I need. Swapping the clocks for earlier ones is free :) Jay

Managed to finally get an evening with some breaks in the rain and partially wired up the clocks. Will need some extra work as some of the feeds are CAN-BUS, but there are ways of getting round that :) Pleased so far and with a few more bits of the dash dropped in its starting to look quite good, even though there is a long way to go yet. (too dark for photos) Will being doing Auto Jumble at Edition 38 with various Rado bits so pop by and say hello :) Jay

Got a lot of work to do to get this car how I want it, but I am looking forward to it now. Only managed to wire in the headlight switch last night as I needed to get the car mobile to drive to work this morning. Currently got the Corrado clocks stuffed into the middle of the boxster dash so I can check my speed and temps etc..! :) Mission for tonight is to get the boxster clocks wired up, will post some pics up later if I get them working.... Jay

Going to start the wiring and climate install tonight if the weather holds... Just need enough functionality to get me to work and back tomorrow! Jay

Not very quickly today as its now peeing it down outside :( Jay