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who's that butthead in the background??

MATE, funny you should say that because when I was attaching the prop to the VC, the bolts didn't seem long enough, I to bought new ones from the stealers as well. Both my old man and I said they didn't seem long enough!!!! I'm going to get under the car asap and pull a bolt out and see if I can buy some longer ones.... unlikey mate!

arh thats what that message was about yesterday... it all makes sense!

cheers mate, having the whole lot leathered matey, you like the single front seat I have? Its a Recaro Speed seat like the ones in Lee's car, but mine will be a little different as with everything else in the car..lol

hehehe :wink:

thanks mate, I hope it will look good once trimmed!

It will always be gay in my mind..hehehe

I'm looking forward to driving mine to see how it handles, I never built mine to drag so therefore I think the syncro system will suit me ok, plus with my power at least I won't have much torque steer like an equivalent FWD car would have.

You need an extra 100bhp then Jay...hehehe

Keep with it Paul, I bet once you get the ECU sorted you'll love that car, I driven an R32 with the AMD stage 3, 300bhp I think and thats fun! Yours has the potential to be like that, if not better so stick with it. Can't tell you how many times I have said, sod it I'm selling up!! lol

RIGHT! Massive amount of work went into the interior this weekend, firstly I started with mounting a complete mk4 heater box, I made a c shape bracket to fix it to the bulk head then supported it with 2 other small brackets. Its spot on fits like factory and it misses the dash, which I'm happy about. So that pretty much took half of Saturday. Then the passenger’s side of the dash needed doing, I'm happy with the end results. I've designed the dash how I have, because I can utilise the 4 factory mounting points, 2 on the scuttle panel and 2 on the sides next to the doors. Even without anything being bolted down its solid. Moving on, I design and implemented from scratch a surround to blend the climatetronic face into the TVR dash without it looking too out of place, I have 90% finished this but need to neaten it up before trimming as you can see from the pic. I made from scratch a passengers side under tray to go around the heater. The mk4 heater is a lot bigger than a standard corrado one and sits a lot further forward. I also realised that however much I kidded myself I would never get a front seat in place with the tunnel being so thick, so I cut away the passengers side of the tunnel and re-glassed it about 30mm further in. This leaves quite a cool over hang and the seat fits like a glove. I had to re-modify the handbrake mechanism, which you can see in one of the pics, a view from inside the tunnel, plenty of room for a cd auto changer etc in there :) I also blended the rear bench into the dash as best I could. That little lot may not look like much, but it took me 3 days solid to do! Never fabricate your own interior... you loose your social life! So I wanted to have the interior finished this weekend, but as I thought this is not the case. I still have the following to do before anything even gets near a trimmer... Finish passenger’s side under tray, Passengers door card, Finish climatetronic surround, Mount switches + warning lights, Fabricate heater ducting, Mount tunnel in place and mount the sides of the dash into place, Make driver side under tray, Extend tunnel sides to firewall, A pillars require blending into dash, Modify parcel shelf supports, After that list all I need to do is remove everything and smooth over all the moulded stuff ready for trimming. Phew, think I mentioned everything, oh no one more thing... and have it ready for E38 !!!!!!! :cuckoo:

see below..

Fitted the mk4 climate control today, it misses the under side of the dash by about 5mm, phew :wink: !!! Finished the center tunnel and dash is pretty much finished now. Just about to pop out and make a start on the under trays and its 10:35pm! Still got to make the passengers doorcard mould, plus a long list of other things. Been going since 7am this morning and won't be finished until gone midnight. 1 day left, can he finish the interior...?? humm :roll: :roll:

good lad, how is your car?

fair play...

lol, whatever.... Mate would love to make it but going to Epsom races with work that day and we plan on getting very drunk :D therefore its not that i don't want to come, I just won't be physically able :lol: :lol:

any more news on your 4wd coxy?

me 2, it made me laugh so much at work today!!!

hehehe

hahahaha :lol: :lol:

:lol: :lol:

I'm here... A picture is better than a 1000 words... A powerflow exhaust.. 3" downpipe into 2 1/2" bore...

Cool mate, you out sat night? few cheeky ones..? or just up for the show on Sunday, either way I'll be around... I'm trying.. no promises though...

Yeah the warm up issue does worry me slightly, especially in the winter. I plan to sell my everyday car (cough... pay the loan back... cough) and use the corrado daily! I might be mad but it seems a waste not to use it daily, will turn the boost down for every day driving though... 8)

hahahaha, yeah exactly. I have been so tempted on many occasions to slap a standard interior back in but I'm glad I've kept with it. The interior has basically taken 14 months to do, not solid work but a lot of man hours, wouldn't like to guess how many! I just hope it will look good once finished and trimmed! This weekend I should have 95% of it done as I plan to spend about 40-50 hrs on it over the bank hol weekend. I'll leave the partying to the following weekend in Henley before Stoner... Anyway will post pics of it at the weekend... cheers for the comments and I hope I can convert the other half of you that says its OTT, even though I think that myself sometimes..lol