Turtles 20v tintop quattro

Joe over at fab labs is doing the same thing.

Good luck with it all

Backinblack thanks I can't wait for it to be on road, I think r lass can't either so then she doesn't have to hear me going on about it.

Mk1 daz yeah your right, a customer literally only came in last week and showed me. I'm not going to lie I am gutted that somebody has already bet me to it but from what I've seen he is a very talented bloke.
He is in the same town aswell, about 3 mile away so I can't even say I've got the only 4 wheel drive mk1 golf in town.

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I just looked at the image of the other one which if the right one is a martini rally look with really wide wheels. Not sure on your plan but if it could look more standard to the casual eye but have the power and handling of something special then that would be awesome. I love the ‘nothing to see here’ cars that are actually very good and very fast motors. I am guessing the floor pan is much wider so to do it would take some extra special fabrication of the rear quarters or somehow tuck and inboard the wheels.  

No matter what still can’t wait to see it as a rollin shell let alone finished. Keep up the good work


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Backinblack said

I just looked at the image of the other one which if the right one is a martini rally look with really wide wheels. Not sure on your plan but if it could look more standard to the casual eye but have the power and handling of something special then that would be awesome. I love the ‘nothing to see here’ cars that are actually very good and very fast motors. I am guessing the floor pan is much wider so to do it would take some extra special fabrication of the rear quarters or somehow tuck and inboard the wheels.  

No matter what still can’t wait to see it as a rollin shell let alone finished. Keep up the good work


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Yeah I had a look at his page last night, if you look through his photos you can see he's actually widened the shell to fit the audi, fair play to him cos he's fit a piece all the way down so I think the big arches are simply to house some mega wide wheels.
I agree you cant beat and old school sleeper.

I will be keeping mine as standard as I can,  the 6.5j wheels it's on have a little bit of poke and I imagine I will settle for some 7.5 wheels in the end so I think I should be able to do something that looks standard, ish.
I've also gone against fitting the TT dash, going to try find a good condition standard dash.

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Right so before I started welding I thought Ill double check my edges and it seems where the floor pan dips has caught me out and needs a quick kiss wi grinder.

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Quick update. I have been busy sorting the chassis legs at front and removing the old chassis legs off the front panel so I can somewhat gauge how it will fit together.

Will hopefully be positioning and welding into place next week as I'm still not happy with the angle its at, it's not that easy to marginally move a chassis and I only intend to have to do this once so needs to be perfect

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This is absolutely mega work. Kudos to your hard work, keep it up.

If you're in Sheffield I'd love to come see it

Looks like it's getting there.

Ian

Amazing work, in for more updates.

How do folks, been a while since I did an update but I’ve not had much chance to do much.
I got the shell positioned and started racking some panels in to hold it steady but disaster! Somehow I had the shell out slightly so I had to un pick the shell and adjust it slightly





With the shell now straight I could crack on making some panels up






Now unfortunately the spot welder has packed in atm so I’m waiting to get that back up and running so in mean time everything has just been tacked quickly.



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Hoping this project is still alive. Just seen something on Instagram that reminded me of this want to see if there was an update. No pressure haha.

I’m curios to see how the body finally looks married to that floor.


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yeah it’s still alive.
Been busy buying a house so forgot all about this till you commented.
I’ll get it off ramp and take a full picture of it.
It has a 205 GTI living underneath it at the minute so will have a shift about.

I’ve been chipping away at it in the background when I’ve had chance, I’ve been building the scuttle tray to join between Audi and golf. The TT wiring loom goes through either side here so I’ve had to make it wide enough for that. Just need to run spot welder down it an then can build the dash support on top.



I’ve experimented making the offside rear wheel tub, found it difficult with it having a bulge for the filler neck so that’s a work in progress, might chop it back out.

Other than that just been doing a lot of mocking up, testing things seeing how I’m going to go about other parts



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Wow … Really impressed … Good work man ,and good luck …
Keep it going, and,keep us updated ….

This is pretty similar to the project that I have in mind, and I'm glad that it looks like you're doing it properly, love the pressing marks you're putting in, I'm guessing you have a hydraulic pressing tool amongst other tools in there?

I keep flicking back to this thread hoping to see more pictures but nothing. Any updates?? You've had us in suspense for long enough now mate

Self isolation could be project time ?


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Any updates on this?