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Mini update

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With a big helping hand with the welding/grinding duties from Rob of Volvo hotrod fame ;), the support bar is in place and the drivers seat is in :thumb: Thank fook!!

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The seats were a bit awkward to line up, so fortunately Dave Bailey arrived and held the chair whilst I did the last of the measuring up. I am still to tidy up and do the painting but these pictures give you an idea of where I'm up to, and at least now I can do the Sunday trackday @ Snett :D
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I'll do some more work including fitting the passenger side seat between now and Thursday.

Onwards and upwards.

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Most people struggle with one project car...yet you manage to keep two moving forward. Nice one mate :thumb:
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The GTR is dead in the water at the moment Pabs. No money at all to finish that for a while. The seats and harnesses were bought for that so I've borrowed them for the Golf. Without good mates and a ridiculous will to take more than on than is healthy, I may just about get away with it.....Sunday will tell me more about that :D

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looking sweet :) - hello Rob - thanks for your help on saturday
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That looks really good mate.
It is tough to try and keep two projects running side by side, i am finding that now!

Did you manage to get subframes for your seats specific for the car or did you make some out of steel and weld them in?
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2" x 1" mild steel welded across the floor pan from the door to the transmission tunnel. Bolted the sidemounts to that :) Enables the lowest mounting position that the scrutineers will be happy with

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Oh its sidemounts, i see now!!
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lovely Golf stuart 8) i wasn't much of a Golf an a couple of years back, but i can now see the attraction in them :)

keep up the good work :D
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Did a few basics over the last couple of days including:

Fit replacement alternator with associated belts

Fit sump baffle

Change engine oil
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16v alternators do not fit, as the spacing is different where it mounts to the block. I made numerous phone calls and eventually a combo effort of SteveVR6, Natodubber and GT4Dave meant that an alternative 8v one was sourced and slapped on. A right pain in the arse but we got there in the end.

The sump baffle/windage tray was a bit more fun. I wanted to fit one of these as I do like a hoon from time to time and in theory there was a cheap and easy option. I like those :D

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This effectively stops the oil sloshing around in the pan. We'll soon see. I bought it from GSF in Norwich for less than

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Nice work Stuart :thumb:

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