Another Wreck, another Race Car.....

[Peter Jones]

Ssshhh! He's sleeping......

[GOLFBALLS]

Very cool. As long as thats the only 'rolling' that car does!

[Peter Jones]

As I get nearer to getting the cage in I need to make some decisions about where things go in the cabin. To do that I need the hardware.

With the dollar so strong at the moment it was time to go shopping.

Pedal set is OBP with 0.750" cylinders for the Clutch and rear and a 0.625 for the front brakes.

Clutch slave cylinder is by CNC brakes, I'll continue running the 020 boxes for now so I'll need this to pull up the clutch lever. I need to go hydraulic as my knee is shot and won't take the abuse any more.












Wanted to sort the wipers too as I might take a bar across the scuttle in lieu of a strut brace bar. This is a storm wipers single wiper kit, I'll be adapting a MK3 wiper motor to a MK1 frame and then applying the single wiper conversion. It'll be mounted dead centre and parked upright.



By sheer luck I managed to pick up a bargain steering wheel on the weekend too.

It's a suede 350mm MOMO Deep Dish Volatne wheel. Here it is mated up to a matching MOMO hub I scored months ago for $10 off e-bay.



Just a few last little things to do to the shell before the paint comes off and the seam welding begins.

[Jarred]

Woot! some nice goodies there Pete!

If you're around this weekend, I might pop buy and have a gander, helping my brother moving into his new place, which isn't far from you!

[Volksee77]

Man you have some serious golfs on the go Pete, makes me want to go out to the farm and start building my other rally car and my genuine GTi........................................but now the moment has passed How's the wavetrac going compared to the peloquin mate as with the dollar like this i'm buying one or the other. Since you are the only guy on here using both which is the better of the two?

[Peter Jones]

I haven't actually got the Peloquin into a box yet. Every time I've come close I've had some other gear box issue to sort first.

Right now for example, my Wavetrac equipped box is stuck in third.

I'm very happy with the Wavetrac though, I'm wondering if the Peolquin won't be a step backwards.

I almost need to find a third close ratio box to build up so I can finally get both diffs set up and just alternate between the boxes.

At the moment whenever I pull the wavetrac box out I have to put my spare box in which means I never get around to putting the diff in the spare box.

One of these days I'll just bite the bullet and figure out how to build these boxes my self.

[Peter Jones]

Had a play with the single wiper kit today.

Going to use a MK3 wiper motor on a cut down MK1 frame.

Here's where I got to today, still need to work out a stay for it.

[Jarred]

good work Pete!

[GoLfMan]

love it Pete! This is going to be great!

[Peter Jones]

Starting to get my head around the more esoteric stuff like "where do all the wires and pipes go?".

Bit pre-emptive but there's some stuff that needs figuring out up front.






The hydraulics are a bit of a brain teaser there's going to be a mix of metric brake fittings, imperial brake fittings, imperial pipe fittings and imperial aircraft fittings!