Thanks chaps :)

So bought 2 new cars recently..

A Nissan 1.8 turbo RWD

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And a BMW E46 coupe, 3.0 straight 6 manual diesel, for the daily. That brings me up to 4 cars in total, what with the Weber'd cabriolet. Basically 4 projects now...

Despite this there has ...

Rear floor in.. good progress mate! not too far off paint now!!

BMW axle is now bolted up, chassis frame welded into Scirocco.

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Note dowel pins all surrounded!
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Chassis rail raised and fabricated down into the sills
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A good milestone!
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Seeing as the world is all quite normal at the moment, nothing out of the ordinary to report.. thought it's time for some Roc Thread

Cage not yet complete. front bars made up but not yet welded in.. more tube has arrived so this can be finished now

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Fabricating ...

Looking crazy as ever :) looking forward to seeing this develop.

There are going to be some crazy Scirocco's in a couple of years time aren't there.



Yours too Phil!

Roll cage time!

Goals for the cage:
- strong
- motorsport specification
- bolt in
- aesthetically pleasing
- keep the bars out ...

Rear arches welded up and welded in

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The new chassis rails will be boxed in to the original ones here.
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Need to decide how to mount the rear axle to this frame ...

liking this, dont let the thread die! very cool


I shall try not to :)


Awesome Andi!

Can't wait to see what you do with it and how you go about it too.

I can picture our RWD roccos at a drift event already ... 8-)


I can picture them going sideways around Glencoe.. Seems like I've got a ...

Ploughing on then....


Next job: forming a plan of how to tie this new chassis frame into the body of the car.

Wheel arches. It seemed like a good idea to cut these out and do my own, as they are not the same each side where the cage will mount, and they will be getting new suspension turrets ...

So after getting the seat rails and everything in that area basically done, I began to think about the crossmember in front of the seat rails.. it went like..

'hmm those crossmembers will be on show on front of the seats. probably should redo them'

'while I'm there, how about a bigger tunnel, in ...

So picked this build up again after 6 months of not even touching it, and got a little bit more momentum now.

Continued on the cabin, and made some removable seat bars, copying a motorsport design I saw.

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Made some 3mm captive nut plates and welded to chassis ...

liking it. having the car on a trolley is so handy! money well spent.

I have started work on the car once more, more things are being made... updates soon

Long time since last update.. mainly because I bought a MK1 cabriolet on a whim so have been doing that solidly for the last two months. If you're wondering why there's been no updates it's because of this!!

Gone from this
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Focus....


Realised I haven't spoken much about the plans for the car, so I'll try and do a quick spec here so it all makes sense what I'm doing.

I'm building a forever car. The plan is big power FWD (350-400bhp), but with the correct engineering for that power. It will be track happy, so all the ...

Awesome work again Andi, love the drain holes in the sill!

A moments silence for all the grinders that are no longer with us today...


Thanks dude!

....we may need to be silent for quite a while methinks!




a wee update, more metal work, this time the driver's side rear arch. Rust was cut ...