The Project Pad

Looks like I need to come up and visit soon, you're getting some serious work done!


Are you done working out in Idaho?

ya. i hope. i think i am going to take the rest of the month off.... got some work to catch up on with these carz.... haha.

i have your B4 red hood to go on the Lago. and H4/H1 1pc headlights. and the front of the Cup kit left to do yet. and the rear S2 bumper. and that is nothing to do with paint for the Lago.... i will primer the red hood for now i think.

welcome to stop by anytime....

did some more work to the front. and i cut the hood pins in. talk about scary LOL.

and i got the upper cross bar in place. its really coming together. now to mount the bumper, and its done. waiting on the manifold (intake) and i can get some placement going for the AWIC. i gots me some ideas hahaha

and it is amazing what a person can get done if he can just BE AT HOME!!!! told my work i was taking the rest of the month off. trying to use LAST YEARS vaca time. so i gotta go to work monday :( thats ok. its a job walk to bid some work, and site orientation for me as the supervisor. and for each day i gotta go in, i am taking two days longer time off. its fair, right???









and the front upper core support type deal.

looks sweet :-)

very, very cool. this things a race car, like a real live race car!

its too bad your like 2000 miles away, it'd be awsome to see this thing at waterfest this year.... slaughtering everything!
:bullshits:

ill be at waterfest....hopefully....

....but im sure aaron will be collecting my doors if he were on this coast. :slap:

Aaron, I know it's too late, but is there a reason you installed those Aero Catch hood pins in that orientation, versus reversed like this:



I think it's in the instructions the way you did it, but I was talking to one of the APR engineers last year (they ran their Koni Challenge cars at a couple of our events), and he said there is a slight aero advantage to running them backwards like on that R8 GT3. Probably won't matter at all on a drag car, but I thought I would mention it for anyone else that might be looking at using them.

By the way, the car's looking great! :-)

yeah Mark, i did it like the destructions said to. small end forward. and yeah, its way too late

and thanks, i am trying. amazing what can get done here if i just get some time.....

those Aero Catch latches are nice, definitely "on my list" for the CQ. I love what you did with the roll tubing as well, makes me eye my sawzall while looking at the empty engine bay in my coupe...

haha... kinda what happened here, too. after i tried to set that big turbo in the bay to see how difficult manifold was gonna be and there was just no room.

and i can only imagine the kind of work i could get done if i had an actual shop (like your new one ). this is garage work at the house. this car started its modding life on the trailer in the driveway.

and i did my steering mods.

i put in the Fox manual rack. little bit of modifying, but its in. and then i made some changes to the steering arms. rather, i made my own. (as if right?) i think i ended up using an early VW Bug transition from Fox rack to Coupe steering column. i am going to weld it solid for piece of mind though.... i dug around at the VW parts yard for a couple hours trying to find something that was splined right. in my searching, i opened up a room that has a few 5cyl 20vt motors.... did not know they had that kinda stuff there.... cool to see though.

i now have Heims ended steering rods. and i made the front strut housings to be able to accept heims ends and capture them between two tabs instead of the typical ball joint. someone told me that what i was up to was not going to work, but they spoke out of turn as the setup was not completed at that time.

i raised the rack end of the arms up to be level with the mounts on the strut towers. remember, this car only sees one purpose, and one only.

i had to do this to give me just that little bit of room for the trans swap/motor swap/custom mounting i have done.

and i spent a good portion of today scraping floor sound deadener off. that sucks big time.

you gotta slow down here, youre making me feel like im getting nowhere.

yeah, and i have been home for ONE WEEK!!!!!

you been home since we started LOL. and also remember, the whole time i have been away, my ADHD self has been thinking, plotting, planning, and buying stuff. had to move two vw's out to move this one in and all of its parts

i whacked out the two pc rear strut coilover mods last week sometime.

oh yeah, i am doing two cars at the same time as well, not counting the Lago Coupe mods. got the second Peloquin LSD for the rabbit today, will drop it off tomorrow for the new trans to be finished. new gearing, 4.24 R&P, no syncros and grinding the teeth on the gears themselves. poor mans dog-box if you want to call it that. its a Lugnuts stage 3 mod....

i am WAITING on a manifold (hint hint SOMEONE!!!) so i can get it mounted, modded, and the AWIC mounted. tomorrow i think i will work on the cage some more, and remove the brake MC and put it closer to the firewall. give myself more room up there.

oh yeah, my rimz will be here this week, too.

and i got the parts to adapt my OEM brake lines to the Wilwood proportioning valve for the rear brakes today also. had a place just cut a new stock hardline in two, and flare the ends to work with my prop valve.

cough * eat me * cough...
this damn cold :(

guilt sets in.

Oh no you did not sir!

talk about progress.... good work Aaron 8)

BTW Aaron
small suggestion
possible to get that steering arm link 1 piece bent rather than a weld?if that weld breaks you are going to up shit street.

thanks for the thoughts.

its welded up both sides, fully across the bottom, and on the top as well where it meets the tab for the dampner shock. also, the original holes are plug welded full as well.

its 1/4" angle, and the bolts for it are standard grade 8 which = metric grade 10.9. they wont break either. it'll hold. you just dont see it all when its installed there. i will shoot pix of it when i take it off to paint it

i may be no engineer, but i be a thinker haha

someone told me that what i was up to was not going to work, but they spoke out of turn

lol at that.

lookin awesome man. i've got some time off too right now, gotta love construction work in the winter time. as much as i hate not working, its a nice little vacation and gives ya time to work on some other things.

true dat, RJ. BUT: i was sent to Idaho for 3 months in June '08. came home last week. i am off by choice. right now i am working off of last years vacation that i got hosed out of taking. told work not coming in until march and they are fine with it. two hours into my "vacation" i am informed that i have to be at a jobwalk on monday next week :x :frustrated:

i said to my project manager that for each day you do this to me, i am going to take an extra two. until you stop or i run out of time off. he understands, i think. they already FORKED me for the WHOLE RACE SEASON LAST YEAR. and i do not think i will let it happen again....

A Fox manual rack... jeeze... I've got a bunch of those kicking around! Hmmm...

yah, for the last year and a half i had only weekends or major holidays off. my company just figures winters the only time we need off. i was hoping not to get any major time off this winter, but i've had the last 2 weeks off, and now their saying we're not gonna start back up til april :-/ o well, it gives me lots of time to work on equipment for the golf course, and well right now my buddies 80q is on my lift gutted and awaiting an aeb so im workin on that here and there durring the week as he can only come over weekends to play lol.

ok. so i did not much today. well, i mounted and welded up the hoop for the cage. and started welding in the rear plates for the rear bars.

and i ordered the slicks. John @ M&H is going to hand pick and size for me the slicks.

and my rims get here tomorrow. well, two of them and the other two friday.

and i dropped off the Peloquin LSD for the new rabbit trans. and the doors got the first coats of paint today.

but i didnt take any pictures.... nothing to see really. well, the hoop, but seen one, seen em all right? haha.

hoop? ive never seen a hoop....please explain....