Havok's Nugget Yellow eventually VR6T build thread

[HavokRuels]

Engine bay is completely empty (except for brake booster), cut off all brackets and studs sticking out and ready for final sanding, smoothing and frame rail covers and all I suffered was a split thumb tip and a burned index finger.

It helps when the car is right outside the shop window and the air hose is easily accessed


Wire and new tyco relay connectors have been ordered for the wire tuck.






Oh and just got these for my corrado support vehicle
Came off of a 1995 740

[HavokRuels]

Did the rain tray delete today and was fairly simple with the right tools. Find all the weld dimples and grind them down just right and the assembly more or less pops out with a little persuasion.

Enjoy!






And my parts cars:

[HavokRuels]

Spagetti for dinner? Nope, just the wiring for the power window systen after I removed the door actuator wiring. What a waste! Putting together a much simpler design based off the ford mustang which reduces this pile of crap to just several wires.



Brought the floor boards down to the metal surface, got my seam sealer, kitty hair fiberglass, sound deadener, foam and carpeting in. Have a couple of small rust holes in the floor that will be fixed this weekend. Gonna re-carpet tomorrow and close up the firewall then starts the interior re-wire and wire tuck to the lights.

[Toffeerado]

What do you guys think about houndstooth for the center of my seats and the door cards?

Leave the door cards out of it, that stuff is busy and just distract from the seats. I had a 70's mk1 with hounds tooth factory, door cards were black thats all.
When using a busy EYE catching pattern leave it on ONE area if you start spreading it around the car it gets too busy.
Also houndstooth is 70's what else is going old school on your car? gonna be dating your interior pretty badly.

[HavokRuels]

Leave the door cards out of it, that stuff is busy and just distract from the seats. I had a 70's mk1 with hounds tooth factory, door cards were black thats all.
When using a busy EYE catching pattern leave it on ONE area if you start spreading it around the car it gets too busy.
Also houndstooth is 70's what else is going old school on your car? gonna be dating your interior pretty badly.

I actually decided to go with the westfalia reproduction plaid

[HavokRuels]

Finally some progress! Removed interior, stripped floor panels and prepped for the re-do.

1) Sprayed undercoat
2) Applied sound deadener, I chose 40mil edead at 2.00 per sq ft. Product worked well.
3) Applied foam sound deadener, again an edead product at only 1.00 per sq ft.

NEXT: Custom black carpet with latex backing that can be heat moulded or glued down.






Removed all wiring for door lock actuator system, power windows and power seat belts. I secured a brand new set of Corrado manual window regulators from VW in Germany

The goal is to have only the wiring for the power mirrors in the doors, and just the wiring running to the back for the rear lights, spoiler and fuel pump.

[TheBurninator]

you couldn't pay me to spray undercoating on the inside of a car.

POR-15 or bust.

[HavokRuels]

you couldn't pay me to spray undercoating on the inside of a car.

POR-15 or bust.

I did it for free and it came out great! Please humor me with what's so bad about spraying undercoat/sound deadener on the inside

[TheBurninator]

I did it for free and it came out great! Please humor me with what's so bad about spraying undercoat/sound deadener on the inside

stuff SUCKS.. take forever to dry and traps moisture.

[HavokRuels]

stuff SUCKS.. take forever to dry and traps moisture.

I'll take my chances.

[Praks]

mine 2 seater in progress...

[RedYellowWhite]

Engine bay is completely empty (except for brake booster), cut off all brackets and studs sticking out and ready for final sanding, smoothing and frame rail covers and all I suffered was a split thumb tip and a burned index finger.

It helps when the car is right outside the shop window and the air hose is easily accessed


Wire and new tyco relay connectors have been ordered for the wire tuck.

This may sound stupid (probably missed it somewhere) but where are you mounting the reservoirs since you shaved all of the brackets???

[BlackRado]

your parts cars are my favorite two colors from the factory... aside from black.

[HavokRuels]

mine 2 seater in progress...

wow same set up I am going with. Gives me hope! Looks great!!

[HavokRuels]

This may sound stupid (probably missed it somewhere) but where are you mounting the reservoirs since you shaved all of the brackets???

There is a kit for all three plus a mounting bracket. The will either be tucked behaind the left headlight or mounted on the side wall

[HavokRuels]

your parts cars are my favorite two colors from the factory... aside from black.

Yeah I loved the colors. Blue was aftermarket as the car was originally nugget yellow

[HavokRuels]

OK gents help me out here.

Purchased a low mileage aba engine for 100.00 and will be doing the bottom end conversion and wanted to know if the supercharger bracket mounts directly to that block.

[RedYellowWhite]

There is a kit for all three plus a mounting bracket.

You talking about the "Stroeve Motorsport" items??? If not, link of said "kit"...

[HavokRuels]

You talking about the "Stroeve Motorsport" items??? If not, link of said "kit"...

yep stroeve but since I only need two (coolant /p/s) I will probably go moroso or canton.

[HavokRuels]

so I haven't done much due to waiting on the manual regulators and manual seatbelts but I managed to do a door speaker delete and here are the results:





After my horrible experience with DAP spray adhesive I went with 3M super trim adhesive and the results as you can see were excellent. The adhesive stuck perfectly and didn't back off even bending the edges over to the back. Got it at autozone for 22.00

oh and I aslo finished fabrication on my rear upper strut bar mounts. Got the aluminum in too for the cross brace and just have to weld it up. Pics soon

[HavokRuels]

just picked up 3 of these and 1 cassette player slide out

[HavokRuels]

My Recaro LS seats that I picked up

[RedYellowWhite]

My Recaro LS seats that I picked up for 175.00 ....

^^Nice I love cloth Recaros

Don't like those leather headrests tho, a pair of fishnet ones would look awesome

[Wirbelsturm.VW]

Don't like those leather headrests tho, a pair of fishnet ones would look awesome

x2

[HavokRuels]

Yep I am actually looking around for the Halo headrests

[Sr. Karmann]

Officially subscribed

[HavokRuels]

My custom rear upper strut mounts. Just have to weld the end brackets together on the aluminum stress bar and test fit.

[Sr. Karmann]

My custom rear upper strut mounts. Just have to weld the end brackets together on the aluminum stress bar and test fit.

and fix that wicked rust hole?

[HavokRuels]

Yeah that will be gone soon. Picking up my paint on the 25th and will be resprtaying the rear and hopefully the engine bay.

[RedYellowWhite]

and fix that wicked rust hole?

^^x2....Damn man, I've never seen one rusting there

Yeah that will be gone soon. Picking up my paint on the 25th and will be resprtaying the rear and hopefully the engine bay.

You know paint won't cure that rust, right? .....

Brackets look good

[HavokRuels]

You know paint won't cure that rust, right? .....

Brackets look good

lol I was thinking a big wad of chewing gum then paint

[Sr. Karmann]

lol I was thinking a big wad of chewing gum then paint

It's gonna need to be Big League Chew for that one

[RedYellowWhite]

[HavokRuels]

so many flavors to choose from too!!

[Sr. Karmann]

so many flavors to choose from too!!

Grape or original will go well with your color scheme