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keithmac

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Ran the PTFE brake lines through the car yesterday, forgot what a pain they were to make up!.

Rear lines have AN-3 bulkhead fittings in the wheel wells now.

Got some chassis work to do today, removed the sill covers and looks a bit suspect..

Making up some jacking plates out of 5mm steel for rear jacking points, belt and braces..

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Well I haven't got away weld free, ordered new sills both sides and rear beam/jacking chassis plates after pulling all the trim off!.

Managed to get the mounting strips off without breaking them (my wife's hairdryer to the rescue!).

Spent 3 hours trying to brake into drivers side this afternoon, lock had seized up and completely inaccessible with the door shut..

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So I know nothing about cars, and only have a vague idea of what's going on, but it must be immensely satisfying to be restoring such a badass car, as well as getting your kids involved.

Top work, chapeau!
 
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So I know nothing about cars, and only have a vague idea of what's going on, but it must be immensely satisfying to be restoring such a badass car, as well as getting your kids involved.

Top work, chapeau!

Looking forward to driving it again!.

Think my children will be proud when it moves under it's own steam again after all their hard work 👍
 
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Made a chassis support bar today for chassis trolley to sit on, children built some wheel skids and it's been liberated from it's resting place!.

Going to start chopping stuff out tomorrow hopefully..

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Made a rear lifting frame last weekend, managed to get car on both trollies now and pulled rear beam (with a little help 😀).

Company who I ordered my sills from over 2 weeks ago have lost them so that's set me back a week..

Chopping beam mounts out today hopefully.

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New sills arrived today from VW Heritage. Was going to cut and shut the bottoms but to be honest the new panels are that good quality I'm going to do the whole sill both sides, future proofing!.

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It's turned into a bit of a welding marathon!. Link to my thread if anyones interested.

Still going!.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/golf.124285/
 
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The link answered my question as I wondered why you had an IC for what looked like a KR engine.

Nice conversion!

It's a BBM front mount alternator G60 kit, MegaSquirt Fuel Injection conversion (could never get Digi1 running right), Aquamist water injection, Jabba Stage 4 G60.
 
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