Be Safe Be Scene......to space or not to space...WELDING

[EF_Russ]

Love this Walsh, nice work

Seeing the tucked wires run all nice an tidy makes me wanna get on with finishing mine.

[Gizmo]

More....

[Tahir]

You crazy guy Ethan!

[M8NYG]

You crazy guy Ethan!

x2, love the bay colour

[vibe85]

Looks amazing.

You are one crazy guy.

[perfectionist]

You gonna paint the car? What colour?

[Czezcho]

I definetly love the paint, awesome indeed. what are those "sparkels" ? metal paint or flake or?

[jonny f]

you crazzzyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[walsh123]

Thanks for the comments guys

EF-Russ YEs get on with your tuck ! It makes you slowly loose the will to live but when its all done and working a nice cold beer and jobs a good-un

You gonna paint the car? What colour?

I have done a little quick bodge bodywork for the time being until i have some more cash but yeah the car will get painted, As for colour undecided as of yet i have a couple of ideas

I definetly love the paint, awesome indeed. what are those "sparkels" ? metal paint or flake or?

Its a Mica colour meaning it changies colour in sun light like pirates black or barca green. Not a pearl though.

And As Gizmo insists MORE....

So sadly even the good ones hide some rot



Driver side wasnt too bad at all just a little pitting really



Pas side however did need some work so mega speedy bodge to be done in time for JAE

I chopped out the rot and welded in a couple patches to make the inner arch back up and used a replacement rear arch panel ive had lying around for 3 years or so to do the lower section of the wheel arch, then all acid etch primed primed again and then painted. Also a massively thick coat of underseal Job done for now, ill rip all that out and redo when i get the car resprayed. Just could be a little neater.





Good old john doing some body work and spraying







Little bubble in the middle of the drivers sill taken care of





front wings also got some attention as they were bubbling a little around the arch. Seems to be an early spec thing that not sure why



So i came into a small problem basically me just not thinking ahead, a D14 powersteering pump bracket won't bolt up to a Z6....Ahhhh cock *facepalm moment* So i though maybe lop the whole lot, but that seemed... abit hard to do in meaning the rack is full of fluid but no way to check etc. So it was obvisous the only thing to do was to remove the full rack rack and replace it for a VT manual rack i had lying around in the garage So bolted the new rack on and changed the rack ends and TRE's and boots better safe than sorry. Only pic i have of this was on my own and in a mega rush at this point



random pic of driveshaft in i assume not sure why i took but meh its here now



Coilovers on undersealing galore





Cusco lower brace fitted



5Zigen manifold clearance



Little snap of the brake set-up that wasnt to be before JAE, bit random Brembo discs from a MK2 golf gti used them just for a test but aint that far off really Also anyone need some Mk2 GTI dics ? As we have no use for them from an old Mk2 VR6 project that wasnt to be.



The Gl's together



And wierdly thats all the pics i have i dont seem to have taken any of th car done So erm Giz JAE pics insert please

Also just two things i learnt from the swap, that we seem to be asked alot on here.

All engine mounts need changing apart from cambelt side. wierdly the rear mount is for auto is similar to a VT mount in where it bolts to the subframe.

Drive shafts are seemingly the same for auto and manual, ive got auto shafts in atm and have done 400 miles no problems.

Thats all folks ill get some pics of the car done and engine when i have a minute

[Gizmo]

[mattj]

Little beauty Walshy. Glad I spotted this thread mate, nice to see the works thats gone into it. I knew it was clean after seeing it at JAE, but your thread certainly highlights it. I'm so tempted to paint my DA this colour.

[Czezcho]

That is awesome color... If ya dont mind i think i overspray my 4g with Pirate black, it is so awesome after all.

[mattj]

It's not pirate black

[Czezcho]

It's not pirate black

Oh, my bad... i tough it was NH 605 P, Pirates Black Pearl Metallic...

It look so much similar and awesome, i would definetly wanna know what is it...

[bryan]

great work eth.

is it quick? run well?