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[Water Boy]

Elton whip a 5 speed from one of the ibiza's at center road!

[eltonking]

Cheers guys, the mk3 booster, 22mm master cyl and 256x20mm mk3 brakes are incredible! super happy with them.

Woody - keen dude! but might have already organised a 5speed...

Anyway, I'm driving out to Albury tomorrow to pick up a clutch off James to throw in this weekend as the current one is on its last legs and struggling to get into gear and slipping pretty badly, also picking up an electronic dizzy set up and front hubs/control arms. Being an early swallowtail the balljoints (presumably 15mm) are riveted to the control arms and since installing the new poly bushes on the control arms as well as the coilovers i have some slight positive camber on the front, and am really needing the slotted later model control arms to allow me to correct that as the camber adjustment on the strut isn't quite enough.

Anyway, long day tomorrow (8 hours of work followed by a ~8 hour round trip to Albury and back) working all weekend (6.30am-3pm on saturday) followed by doing the clutch and the control arms etc then heading out to get on the piss for stu's birthday

will post up some shots maybe possibly probably not but will be cutting and polishing the car and getting the carbs tuned and hopefully all will be done by GAD and it gets there in one piece

[eltonking]

so, after quite a hassle, i have changed the clutch.

long story short, got a 210mm clutch/flywheel/pressure plate of james on friday, picked up a 5 speed out of a SEAT (thanks woody) and set about swapping it over (by myself)
managed to swap the boxes over but turns out the 210mm clutch I had picked up was a small spline and didn't fit the box, so swung past frenchy's and grabbed a brand new 210mm clutch kit (presumably to suit his 16v mk2) it was the larger spline and fitted up perfect.

now i blame woody for the next bit, as he assured me the SEAT 5sp had 90mm flanges. I found out it didnt when i went to bolt up the driveshafts.

anyway, came back the next evening and put the 4 speed back in with the clutch i'd gotten off james and all is peachy.

also got new trumpets and air filters and the car is in getting the carbs tuned, but despite that i dont think ill be making it to GAD

anyway, photos showing how everything played out

[Bsun]

Gawd epic read! love this build, looks tits!
well done.

[Petska84]

F#%*n sexy.

[Dubstein]

Dammit Woody!

Is that center console factory? I have never seen them before and that's exactly what I need for mine as I'm running a custom dash.

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[LowVeeDub]

Love this thing dude, keep up the great work..

[sports racer]

So she's all back together but you're not going to GAD?

[eltonking]

I got the centre console imported from the US.

I have next week off work and am planning on enjoying it - I haven't even started on the paint and don't really want to drive the car however many 100's of kms before properly road testing it

[Water Boy]

Did ya look at the flanges?

As George said! Seat ibiza had both.... you didnt get it from a 1.4 ibiza. You got it from a 1.8 or 2ltr didnt you....

[Dubstein]

Also can you show me where you mounted your coil?!

[eltonking]

Yeah woody got it from a 1.8!

I'll throw up some shots of how the coil and ICM have been mounted when I get a chance

[nightphotographer]

Can't believe I've only just looked through this properly - super jealous of your car and how much progress you've made in such a small space of time. It looks incredible. Massive achievement. Hoping to see it in person soon - maybe DOVW?

[eltonking]

Can't believe I've only just looked through this properly - super jealous of your car and how much progress you've made in such a small space of time. It looks incredible. Massive achievement. Hoping to see it in person soon - maybe DOVW?

definitely.

just finished welding up the bases for the porsche seats - should be in and recovered in time as well and then thats about it!

[nightphotographer]

definitely.

just finished welding up the bases for the porsche seats - should be in and recovered in time as well and then thats about it!

How/what exactly did you have to do to get the Porsche seats in - I have porsche seats with porsche subframes and also MK1 subframes ready to go - I just haven't really thought to much about how I was going to do it.