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Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:30 am

Anglia?

Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:47 am

Patty B. wrote: Anglia?

no.
let me get the pan rolling first!! lol
jason

Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:02 pm

Since i can wait to see the body what are your plans for the engine?

Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:20 pm

1low65 wrote: Since i can wait to see the body what are your plans for the engine?
The one out of my other car.

:D

Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:22 pm

jdoisher wrote: 1low65 wrote: Since i can wait to see the body what are your plans for the engine?
The one out of my other car.

:D

Thats a very interesting apron and right fender treatment :shock:

Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:52 pm

Get off the computer and get to work!!--we expect progress!!! :D 8)

Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:16 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4...p;start=20

Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:45 pm

Renault

Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:19 pm

nuckled wrote: Renault

if i was giving out a prize you would be the winner.
sorry, no prizes.
told you all that you are all to smart.

Its a Dauphine (i have three of them) they are all rusty pieces of shit. but I do have one surprise left that I have never seen done!!
jason

Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:54 pm

This is gonna be awesome! I'm watching.

Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:22 pm

X2. I'm interested to see what you have hiding upstairs.

Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:39 pm

You've got my buy in, if only for the super clean fab work! :lol:

Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:36 am

Not a lot of progress but here is where I'm at. I'm still waiting on the trans to get built (looking for a used 1.48 3rd and 1.04 4th gear set) than I'll have the pan rolling. In the mean time I started cutting the floor out of the car.
Front (most are rusty cars)

Rear

Stuff removed! You can see some floor in there too!

Heater box, heater tube, air filter, rust....

The rear half is gone.

I'll cut out the rest of the floor tonight. As soon as my pan is rolling I'm going to remove the front suspension, motor, and trans from the renault, than more cutting, than I can start fitting the pan.
Jason
Send me a pm if the have some gears!

Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:14 am

Cool project!!

Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:39 am

Got back to cutting on the car. I started cutting and cut some more! Going to cut a little more tonight and should be done for the most part (maybe a little trimming here and there) and then I can start welding!
Made my gusset for the top half of the pan (part of the pan I cut out)

Torsion bars and spring plates. I'll be putting the trans and mounts in tonight.

Motor, trans, and suspension out!

Still had some cutting to do at this point

Removing front suspension.

My brace holding the car together

Centering the beam. (eyeball method)

Here you can see where the "more" cutting came from.

Some motivation!!

There so much to type and tell that I'm not going too! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves! I'm going to try and square it up and weld it in this weekend! Still a lot to do before than though, we'll see.
jason

Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:50 am

sweet project! r u guys that slow at the dealer? my boss was a stickler when it came to outside projects in the shop and using the expensive ass touareg operating table for that would have gotten me fired probably. can't wait to see more progress

Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:32 am

vwrabbitjunkie wrote: sweet project! r u guys that slow at the dealer? my boss was a stickler when it came to outside projects in the shop and using the expensive ass touareg operating table for that would have gotten me fired probably. can't wait to see more progress

Thanks!
It has been slow, but we are down 6 techs too! I work in parts and only get to work on the car after work. I'm going as fast as I can to free up the rack, the car has only been on their the last few days. (the car wash bay is next to that bay and water leaks in at the bottom of the wall so no one ever want to use it anyway). As far as the table, it hardly gets used!
Expensive, yes!
jason

Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:41 am

This is awesome! Great work. I'm with the other guy. Im amazed you can do all this at work!

Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:53 am

keep the updates coming nice work...

Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:44 am

Got a lot done last night, though it may not look like it.
Heres a bottom view of the pan in the car

Beam area still needed some triming for room

Tranny parts

And trans, mine is not done so I got this on loan form a friend who came by to lend a hand.

John came by with the trans and started helping, here he is welding in the mount after getting it fitted.

1" raise mount welded in!

Trans fitted (sorry for the dirty drums)

Ready to be set on the ground!

I really want to give a thanks to Brian here at work (shop foreman) for staying the night before and helping me get a lot done, and John for last night, we were able to get a lot done as well. I'm trying to get it rolling as fast as I can as to not keep the lift tied up!
jason