Yo!! I'm back!... floors in, projects back on

cheers pete - if my new welding set doesnt arrive this weekend then i will probably look to design and make up my new gearbox and front engine mount at a mates workshop using his welder.

o this is the state of play with the car atm ... been having fun with a grinder/sander/chisel/spot drill and hammer (pretty much copy and pasted from the corrado forum thread i have going)... this was once such a nice looking car! lol

no1 - cut a bloody big hole in the middle then slowly remove spot welds front and rear to take out most of the wheel well panel



no2 drill the spot welds out down the side of the arch and floor to remove the top of the chassis leg cover panel and remove with hammer and chisel v carefully and we cut excess off as we got a bit more done so it came out in pieces



no 3 do the same on the other side... looks like cheese but have been careful to only go through the sacrificial panels with the spot weld drill on 95% of welds :gag: ... takes soooo long



Your then left with this





with a lot more careful cutting/sanding/drilling/chiseling you get to this stage - note the state of the wheel arch - previous owners fitted autochangers straight through the wheel arch so it rusted out and best of all they drilled and self tapped straight through the fuel filler neck - lucky i'm still here!









All so i can fit this ... this is how i picked it up (the subframe has already been stripped and fitted with the new arms.. luckily for anyone whos thinking of this... the mk2 syncro/rayyle cetral frame are the same and they can accept the trailing arms of the mk3 vr6 syncro which have a wider track as per the original vr 2wd rear axle



this is the rear floor after 10 - 15 hours or so of spot drilling and panel seperating!



and this is the rear beam after i stripped it and fitted mk3 vr6 synhcro trialing arms



And i have this sitting in my garage now



Which'll look like this when done

Nice one dude,

Cant wait until its finsihed!
LOL! Still quite a bit to do though.

well i've jsut found out that the welder wont arrive till tuesday... arse, so bracket design and i'll start wiring instead!

yeti wrote:

well i've jsut found out that the welder wont arrive till tuesday... arse, so bracket design and i'll start wiring instead!

Sounds like you will be having fun dude,I wish I could lend a hand but I am pretty much tied up the whole weekend, having friends out from overseas.

WOW what a thread , me likey

Insane, keep it up.

This things gonna be one bad mo fo! Cant wait to see it on the road!

Cheers guys -yeah a little bit crazy but you've got to be to get the car i want at the end, plus its alot of fun!

I just cant wait till its done and i can drive the beastie, at least if i wire her up i can then look at getting all the ancilleries plumbed in next and the i can work out how to arrange everything in the bay - want it arranged like a mk4 for a factory look so lots of little custom brackets everywhere but tbh i kind of like that sort of fabbing as providing i over engineer it (i usually do ) then theres little chance they'll ever move!

O and i decided to use the climatronic aircon now... it feels nice basically i'm 'fixing' all the things that i thought were wrong about the corrado... adding more toys and getting rid of those useless rear seats!

yeti wrote:

........ and getting rid of those useless rear seats!

You mean those "token" seats................. good idea, less weight too

u are mental....................

i've spent a bit of time in the sun recently... think its affected my brain, decided the passat needed some love at the weekend

i've lowered the 'sat another 20mm at the front and 12mm out back, o and i had some annoying stone chips on the roof that had started to rust so decided to strip it, treat the rust and satin blacked the roof ... just realised i'll have had it a year at the end of this month, not a bad lil transformation,

this is how i bought it, added clear repeaters and gave a much needed wash... (look at the gap between the arches!! lol)



to this...



this is the rear arch gap now! lol... still got 5mm more to wind down but i need to roll the arches this week as i'm taking it to belgium saturday!

It can go lower dude! as we now both know!

You better be doing it tonight though and not tomorrow morning!!

Will get camera ready tonighjt for road trip madness to charlys! You ordered another sump from vw too?!

and changeed it to lefthand drive and made to number plate back to front
but on a serious not look good!

We saw that black rapid rado up santa today.....then we started saying how mad yours will be....


..any updates?

Hope all is going well!

Evenin!

It was great to see everyone at ed, even if i didnt get as much time there to chill with all nomads like i wanted!

Ok its been a while girls and boys, sorry i've not been v sociable recently! This is changing now though so i will see everyone at the cow roast at the start of next month

Right cars... firstly, oops! bought my 350z, crashed it within 3 weeks, getting it back next week though so its all good.

More importantly Corrado, Ed the dog traning girly haired legend has been weilding his torch like a good'un (he's a master welder and fabricator, i just make a horrible mess he has to clean up if i play with the welder!) Fortunately for the corrado he's taking the summer off from work and we've been chopping the rear all round so the new floor now looks factory, yes peeps, its in.

M2MEW is now officially has a 4wd chassis

The rear rallye beam has also been chopped around and converted to take the haldex diff so within the next month it'll be a fully rolling chassis with the engine and box trial fitted so i can make up all the custom brackets needed to make the bay look like a mk4!

I'm away on holibobs next week but when i'm back i'll take lots of pics to show the beastie - tbh theres not much to see cos it all looks like its meant to be there ... wel actually the floor is about 3" higher than the standard corrado's

O and also, the nice minty leathers have been sold on to fund bits, would have been nice to keep them but tbh the cage will be going where the rear seats went

Also, Adz, i'll give you a shout when i;m back as atm the brakes are still on the car... It might be getting some rather large brembo's all round soon - one of the good things of hunting round jap forums now so the R32 stoppers will be up for sale as well

GWAN big guy, keep pluggin away ;-)

Great news about the rado dude, keep going and keep the updates coming.

Oh and it will be nice to see you also next month

Glad its all moving on swiftly! Cant wait to see pics.....get some up soon!

Just let me know about the brakes, im not in a major rush.....got a remap booked in for the 23rd so funds are bit low at the moment!

See you at the next meet

good work mr yeti!!!

that is one hell of a project and fair play to u!! - make most of our 'project' cars look like a stroll in the park!!

not at all matt! i think i'm just doing all in one go now what most sane people might try and do over a few years... but tbh now the floors done this really is not much more difficult than refitting a standard vr, just like most of us nomads i'm just having a go and seeing what happens... with a lot of researching

ok so heres a few more...

heres the floor once i had it shot blasted by terry next door and i'd covered it in weld through primer





had to unstich the drivers side chassis rail from the floor to fit it in (re welded it once the main part of the floor was in).. as you can see we've tried to be as neat as humanly possible with a spot weld drill and a 1/4" chissel... long winded but accurate



gonna upload the rest of the pics from my phone this eve (need to find my cable)

looking really smart wish i had the time money and patients to be as methodical with it do a proper job , just keep your hand well clear of that drill bit trust me i have a scar to prove the pain they cause

Gricey wrote:

looking really smart wish i had the time money and patients to be as methodical with it do a proper job , just keep your hand well clear of that drill bit trust me i have a scar to prove the pain they cause

ha ha yeah we were lucky, the studidest thing we've done so far was to braise some 8mm bar on to the back of a standard spot drill as some are right in a corner and it broke on full wack in an 18v drill... flew past my face before i knew what had happened

Yeti you are a legend

Yeti is a mechanical beast!