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GTI Track Car - Now big turbo, sidewinder.
LC5F:
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--- Quote from: shannon-ob on April 15, 2021, 10:57:26 am ---The arches finally came!
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Wow, you will need wide load signs on the road!
Can't remember if you are keeping this road legal(ish)?
The rear arches go a lot higher than the OEM arch, how much metal do you think you will be chopping out?
--- Quote from: Pudding on May 01, 2021, 02:03:40 am ---I've got Scirocco alloy hubs waiting to go on to mine. As far as I can tell the bolts are the same.
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Yes - bolts the same.
Just note that the rocco ABS sensors plug in and work with the Mk5, but physically they are different length - you wont be able to use your old sensors as spares. Hopefully the ones in your hubs are good.
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Yeah will be kept road legal buddy. Mainly for nice weather drives and driving to local tracks.
I’ve cut out about 50mm. I have pictures so will update
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That a lot to take out, inner wing chopped too - this will be mad on the road.
Thanks for correcting me my bolts error - I recall cross referencing the bolt sizes between Mk5 & Scirocco - all came up the same PN on 7zap - can only assume the Mk5 must have been superseded by the longer scirocco bolts.
Bearings I just ordered rocco ones.
shannon-ob:
Sadly no pictures of before to show the state of under the car.
You can seem all the seem sealer on the floor that I’ve removed! Never again will I do that
So all under the car and arches have had the seam sealer removed, rust removed and treated, zinc primed and then stone chipped.
Below is primed.
Stone chipped (is actually black, but wasn’t dry so looks grey)
Fitted both front and rear subframes so it could be rolled outside.
Very dusty! Can see the new sills here. Think I’ve done well getting the wheels to fit the arch.
I LOVE these brakes
Finally got it outside to rinse it off. Please ignore the rear steel wheels! Only have 2 tyres on the TDs for mock up purposes.
Surprisingly the windows aren't too bad, I was expecting them to be very scratched with all the dust!
The front wheels sit out VERY wide with not wing/arch on :ashamed:
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shannon-ob:
Someone had asked how much of the originally arch had been cut, the inner skin has since been folded up and welded.
Had put the rear subframe in with no shocks or springs and with as much neutral camber as possible just to make sure the rear arches were going to cover the wheel! Very close but I’ll be running about -1° camber so should have plenty of room.
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rich83:
What discs are those? AP or reyland?
shannon-ob:
--- Quote from: rich83 on May 10, 2021, 03:50:17 pm ---What discs are those? AP or reyland?
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Reyland 370mm bud.
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