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Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car

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rex:
I didn't get the chance to take the car on the track so I have no idea about the stiffness.

I will see if the bakes fade with this setup and if they do I will remove the dust shields and improve the brake venting (similar to NeilM).
This is still my daily drive so I do not want to be to extreme  :grin:.

rex:
Last weekend I also got to work on the car to fix some of the known estetic issues.

First of all I had to take the roll bar out to prevent rust from forming around the wholes drilled for the rollbar and for the seatbelts:



Then I had to paint some parts of the roll bar because by taking it off and then putting it back on this happened:



Then, inevitably, the mechanics that worked on the car left they mark on the ceiling (sorry for the out of focus photo):



And here a photo with the ceiling cleaned and the roll bar painted:



Then, when first mounting the Recaro seats I noticed that the interior carpet (not sure this is the right name) was cut for the stock seats (seat rails) and mounting the Recaro seats left some body parts not covered by the interior carpet:



So I had to make it look ok... I bought some carpet and not everything is fine:



And the last but not the least thing I did was to mount the Schroth Clubman II asm:







As you can see, the back mounting is different to Steve's or Neil's car. Schroth say that this is the correct mounting if the distance from the seats to the mounting point is more than 50cm.
I will still keep the oem seatbelts for daily drive and the Schroth ones for track days.

Comments are welcomed as always.
Thanks for watching and all the best!

fab5freddy:
Devil's in the detail mate  :happy2: looking really good

 :drinking:

jimk04:
Great stuff, you cant beat a cage and some Schroth harnesses + Recaros! :drinking:

rex:

--- Quote from: fab5freddy on May 22, 2012, 07:53:33 pm ---Devil's in the detail mate  :happy2: looking really good

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Thank you!
Yes the devil's in the details. Still not done though... I still have to cover the place where the back seat was and the wholes made for the roll bar.
But working on these is a pleasure so no worries.


--- Quote from: jimk04 on May 22, 2012, 08:11:51 pm ---Great stuff, you cant beat a cage and some Schroth harnesses + Recaros! :drinking:

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Thanks!  :drinking:

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