The Project Pad

That is a lot of bends (work) looks sexy!

Looks like you and I are having some very similar fun with rust and welding I can't really even understand what is going on here. Don't understand how you know what the heck you're doing! The car doesn't even look like a car at this point! Definitely one of the coolest builds around.

Craig, just to echo what everyone else has said, the level of fabrication and attention to detail you are putting into this is simply jaw dropping. Loving every update!

Thanks for the kind words guys.

It really all boils down to patience and more patience. I've decided that I will spend as many hours at is takes to get this shell
as good as I can get it. I will go over every inch of the body and get is sorted............... I bloody hate rust!!!!!

The next car will be tubular framed carbon fiber good shit , and will be a twin turbo'd v8 .........and it aint no Audi.... think horses

Cheers,

Craig.

I had a very productive day.

The floor is nearly finished. I anticipate maybe another 15 hours.......hopefully

Today I installed a coupe gt front subrame on the rear to make sure it cleared the rear diff..........no problems !!

Next order of the day was to verify that I had my rear control arm brackets in the right position. After some head scratching as to how I
was going to do this exactly, I decided to use some threaded rod. The position of this bracket is really critical. If the bracket is welded out of
position the control arm will bind during suspension travel.

A little video, so as people can understand what the hell I'm babbling about......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgC1bxsejI

Also I have some fettling of the battery box in order to fit it in the same position as the road going Sport quattro. It's going to be tight next to
the driveshaft, just like the factory car.

All in all a great day. It might not look like it, but that's a full day's work right there.

Cheers,

Craig

A few more

I absolutely love these detailed posts. Keep up the great work, Craig!

Damn sad news about Compomotive... I was hoping to score some one day. I imagine the price will get ridiculous on what remain in circulation as a result.

Anyways the car is really progressing, thanks for sharing the updates.

awesome Craig!! I hope you have a warm garage to work in - mother winter is approaching! I expect this project to be complete come spring

Fast rear diff swaps, nice!

Thanks for the kind word's guys. I'm starting to freeze my bollock' s off now that the weather has turned for the worst.

That's okay, I have so many custom parts to build it's just crazy. Again, Martin to the rescue with his holy grail parts stash

Ed no garage for me...................

He kindly loaned me his hoard of sport quattro control arms, now I can make my own. I made a jig and started drawing them up in the computer. I'm thinking of making a few different designs.
It would be so easy to move the center point forward thus increasing the caster. I'll have to fabricate a set , and play with the caster specifications. Also I think I'll make a set
to accept a stock 4000/urq ball joint.

Hopefully it all works out. Much nicer working on the computer indoors :-)

Cheers,

Craig

I would like 12 please, maybe 16 we can discuss the details later.

highlander69 wrote:Thanks for the kind word's guys. I'm starting to freeze my bollock' s off now that the weather has turned for the worst.

That's okay, I have so many custom parts to build it's just crazy. Again, Martin to the rescue with his holy grail parts stash

Ed no garage for me...................

He kindly loaned me his hoard of sport quattro control arms, now I can make my own. I made a jig and started drawing them up in the computer. I'm thinking of making a few different designs.
It would be so easy to move the center point forward thus increasing the caster. I'll have to fabricate a set , and play with the caster specifications. Also I think I'll make a set
to accept a stock 4000/urq ball joint.

Hopefully it all works out. Much nicer working on the computer indoors :-)

Cheers,

Craig

Awesome! Also awesome is the billet three bolt spherical ball joint.

Well today might just be the last day of working on the shell for the year. I froze my bollock's off again. I was even welding in a light snow flurry.........I think it's time to stop

I can say that the floor is almost done. I had a really productive couple of days. I'll probably spend another 29-30 hours cleaning up the floor and making fuel line,fuel pump,handbrake,shift linkage
brackets etc, then I can focus on the roll cage and such. I'm really glad I completely ripped the floor out. It was alot of work for sure, but worth it IMO.

Anyhoo a few pics.

Cheers,

Craig.

Audiurq wrote:I would like 12 please, maybe 16 we can discuss the details later.

For sure Mike.............

Mega drool

Craig, looking spectacular!!

So awesome.

Question... how do you paint the inside of something that you're boxing in like a frame rail? My friend told me there is some kind of weldable paint. Is that how it's done?

There is weldable primer (though my experiences lend me to believe it's a b!tch to work with - ie still not nice to weld to), or there are sprays that you can do after you're done. I saw it on TCP Global, iirc. It's like a wax, and it has a longer hose that you put into the area and spray that way and it supposedly coats everything.

That being said, I stuck with the weldable primer behind my UrQ rockers when welding them to the OEM 4000 rockers.

Craig, spectacular work as always! And I say get a portable tent and a propane heater and work through the winter . Carlisle 2014 is right around the corner!!!

Thanks, that's just the kind of info I was after I think I'll get that primer and see how it does.

Thanks for the kind word's guys.

Chris, I use exactly the product that Justin was talking about,weld through primer. Any time I have bare metal to metal contact ,I either paint the part first, then grind the paint off in the weld zone, and then use weld through primer. Once all welding is finished, I then seam seal all joints. Once the final paint has been done, I drill holes where needed, and spray a wax coating to all internal areas where the paint can't be applied.

I used this method on my urq with great results.

Well the weather has finally beat me for this year. Bring on the Canadian winter.

I still have many parts to build over the winter, so all is not lost.

A few pics to close off the year.

Cheers,

Craig.

highlander69 wrote:Thanks for the kind word's guys.

Chris, I use exactly the product that Justin was talking about,weld through primer. Any time I have bare metal to metal contact ,I either paint the part first, then grind the paint off in the weld zone, and then use weld through primer. Once all welding is finished, I then seam seal all joints. Once the final paint has been done, I drill holes where needed, and spray a wax coating to all internal areas where the paint can't be applied.

I used this method on my urq with great results.

Well the weather has finally beat me for this year. Bring on the Canadian winter.

I still have many parts to build over the winter, so all is not lost.

A few pics to close off the year.

Cheers,

Craig.

Thank you very much, now I'm going to have to look into this wax thing for my door sills. Nothing like doing it right

The car is looking great by the way. Almost looks like it could drive soon

I made these up yesterday.......it's finally spring !!!

Not only will these add strength to the chassis, but I now have somewhere to bolt my Recaro's to.

Cheers,

Craig.

Good to have you back Craig! Please say your coming to the may meet?

Good lord! I just spent some time reading through this. I'm flat out amazed at the work done here Craig! From something to nothing, to something else. Friggin' impressive!