PhatVR6

I've borrowed a camera! more pics this is the OS panel welded in to the reprofiled chassis leg. and again on the NS leg and here's the panel in the car. and here's the nice snug fit inside the car, note how much higer the floor sits here a pic from under the car, note theres no x-member in there yet It was swine to fit this panel, it's too wide and too long. I had to cut about 15mm off the whole back edge and rear corners. Just done roughly for now so I can find the shape, I'll take the panel out and dress up the corners properly before I wled it in and the other side so, now that I know it fits I can tidy up the edges and rill them ready for the plug welds. I also have to tckaly the fuel tank breather section, for which I'll have to make a new part as I can't find it listed on ETKA. should get the x-member in this weekend too.

ooh, and I've got another camera now. sound clip anyone??

I'll be taking my rears out to 8.5", I'll let you know when I order the rims.

I think thats the same one as mine. seems to work all right, pretty sensitive. has a town mode too to numb it down a little.

I think you'll find that he's done a cowboy job. put golf wishbones on the front, so they are shorter, so he can use the rallye driveshafts, instead of doing it properly and having some made up the right length or using golf vr6 syncro ones. That's probably becasue it's a rallye box, with a vr6 syncro bell housing. I should know, I sold him the rear diff, and the f*cker never paid for it in full. The rear floorpan is a bodge too. I haven't seen dubsport do a proper 4x4 job yet. cracking engine though, shame the 4wd won't last 5 mintues.

looking from the front of the can, it's the black thing in the the front of th eblock to the right of the oil filter housing

I want some new mats too

I don't, haven't got a f*cking clue what he's on about.

that passat floorpan in that red one is minging

cosy? lol! near enough! Ben, got any pics of the rear corenrs of your floor?

the corrado is 1340mm wide inside. the syncro boot panel is 1380mm........needs 20mm trimming off each side. or rather, trim off 10mm, and fold up 10mm for a new lip. I've got both vertoical panels in now, need to borrow a camera to take new pics before I drop the main panel over it and hide it all. don't worry, I'm another night off that I reckon so I'll make sure I get a pic first. cosy, hours behind, LOL! you're only kidding yourself there matey! ;-)

You don't know Steve well then......he never drops below 6000rpm...

I'm ot working on the engine now, I'm doing the syncro conversion. my camera is knackered anyway.

so how do AMD get 270 BHP out of the R32 with a remap then?

I've got 2, which one do you need?

I think he means that the syncro floorpan physically won't fit in the car! I think I can get around that though. it won't fit throught the tailgate, but I reckon if I get it through sideways and open both doors I can swig it around and then slide it though up over the rear turrets. More pics, and these are the last unfortunately, as I've dropped my digicam and it doesn't work anymore! I'll try and borrow one. The old floor is just about out now. this reinforced sections were an absoulte swine to remove. I wore out my grinder and used 10 cutting discs over the last 2 days getting it all out. I've actually got all the floor out now, the front and rear edges are both prepped up, and the OS chassis leg is marked out ready to be cut down, and drilled through ready for plug welding (as I haven't got a spot welder). I've noticed that on the corrado there is a stiffening rib int he rear chassis leg, that the mk2 doesn't have, so I'm going to have to unpick this from the inside of the chassis leg (drill out the spot welds) so I can slide the new panel in between them, you'll see what I meant when I post up some new pics tomorrow. If you're wondering what the hole in the OS inner arch is, it's for the breather pipe on the top of the fuel tank. I'll have to weld this up and cut a new one higher up for the syncro tank. So, sorry I can't show you any more up to date pics from today's work, as it was just about done as far as removal is concerned, but I'll do my best to loan a camera to take some more pics. By tomorrow night it should be all cut to shape and I will be able to get the new side panels welded in too.

see sentence above, but swap the words gold and black around.

leave the headlights in the front panel.

Drive them both. if you still want the G60 go and get your head looked at.

Just take the whole front of the car off. VW made it like that for a reason. It'll take you 20 mins max. and make your life a whole lot easier.

undo the 2 13mm bolts either side of the selector tower and withdraw it completely.

New pics! I sheeted the car up with (fire retardent) blankets to stop the windows getting wrecked from the grinding sparks. Take a good long look at the boot floor, this is the last time you'll see it in there! This is just the bulk of the floor roughly cut out, keeping away from the chassis legs. just to get the bulk of the material out so I can actualy stand up in the car and trim away at the edges. It looks like a lot of work, but belive me, it took 15 mins, and there is still another day's work in there before I can even think about fitting the syncro one. Had a bit of bother with this, the reinforced sections as found on the later and all VR6 shells. it's 3mm thick plate, and tough as hell to cut. but once removed, ther'es just the stock early corrado/mk2 golf type floor behind it Got the right hand one to tackle tomorrow, it looks like it's going to be a bitch to do.

Well, D-Day tomorrow. I'm 90% done with the eninge, I can't do anything else now without parts which I'm waiting for. so it's only the exhaust and 4wd to do now. and I can't do the exhaust without the syncro stuff all in place. Which, in a roundabout sort of way, is my way of telling you all that I'll be dropping the fuel taking and cutting out my boot floor tomorrow! Coxy should have pics of his up soon too, we spent a day the other day hacking up a jetta syncro for his car.

nah, it's possible in a weekend, I've done 2 on my driveway!

Is it all sorted now? sorry. missed the thread earlier.