NZ: MKII 3 Door Project Car

[ranton-inc]

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Right round baby right round like a record player round round right round...



It works


Pivot point Adjusted much easier to spin. Clearance is fixed.. and also found i cocked one of the measurements up on the Mk1 build the back was already 60mm lower than the front.. eekk


Corrected and then dropped them both by about 150mm




Also learnt a lesson not to overly weld something up untill your fully certain its going to work.. I burnt up nearly two hours and many Grinding and Cutting Discs cutting the old metal off..


Ran out of cutting discs to properly and nicely cut off the exisiting gussets.. so they can stay there for now and look ugly... maybe tomorrow afternoon Ill cut them off and install the Wheels and mount the Tie bars so the whole body and setup can roll around the Work area.

[ranton-inc]

Final Touches of the Rotisserie happened this evening..

Car can now be wheeled quite easily around the warehouse and rotated etc to where i need it...

Just need to add a few extra holes to fine tune locking the rotation of the body.





On Thursday, Will start Trimming and measuring the R32 Floor Pan and seeing if it can Fit...

If not time to measure it all out and start attatching the Mounting systems to the exisiting floor pan!

[ranton-inc]

We did some planning on Thursday evening for the next steps of the project

And decided instead of making a mess of the Mkii's floor trim up the 32 rear pan as much as possible to make it almost fit the mk2

Cracked in to killing the spot welds today... what a **** of a task....

Drilled out a heap of them and started to split it bit by bit

[ranton-inc]

So damn over drilling them out...

[coons88]

Your making good progress though Mr Ranton

[ranton-inc]

Mr VERT has been a huge help

and Glidn has been doing quite a few tasks for me as I have ruined my Second shoulder this year... so am on light duties for a bit...

[GoLfMan]

cracking progress dude!

[ranton-inc]

Swiss Cheese anyone...







Those "Braised" welds that are all over the place in random spots are a pain in the but.. need my grinder in action..

going to Crack back in to this Thursday night....

[vert1]

Swiss Cheese anyone...

Those "Braised" welds that are all over the place in random spots are a pain in the but.. need my grinder in action..

going to Crack back in to this Thursday night....

Sooooo many more spots to drill out, looks like fun........................NOT.
Brings back many memories building the Coupe

[GoLfMan]

certified nutter

[ranton-inc]

Slowly chewing thru this floor pan having and ******* of a time with some parts a few small tears in the metal in places (more to fix with the mig)














Apologies for all big pictures its just easier like this off the Photobucket app

On the next episode of Mk2 Ball Z the Floor pan saga continues

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[ranton-inc]

Took a break for a few days to Save my Cousins LHD MK2 GTI 16V

some animal had been at it before... and had unleashed some pretty horrible carnage on the poor thing...

The Gearbox was graunching in to third.. drivers door card had gone saggy and a rust hole in the door happening...

and worst of all some monkey had Welded the subframe to the chassis because it was to hard to find the correct threaded subframe bolts...



However

She is on the road to recovery...

On the list left to do to save this old girl
- Wide Track w/ 5 Stud - Check
- Fix Rust on Door and replace door card
- Install 02A Gearbox and cable shift from MK3 GTI - in progress
- Bigger/Better Brakes all around (MK4 Front and Rear) - Check
- Dodgey Subframe welding fixed - check

The bodged Weldup of the subframe.. (my heart sank when I came across this cluster ****...)



Now Fixed.... Had to sacrifice another mk2 but its ok (it was rotten as a pear everywhere else..)

Thank fk




and since i wont be using any of the nicely powdercoated bits for my Project for a While.. they made a nice addition to Hooky (as i refer to her as now)

[moostin]

Awesome build, fitting that r floor Pan ---brave!!

Keep it up

[ranton-inc]

Still Cutting.... FML

[mitch750]

im excited to see the end result