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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #500 on: 03 August 2012, 22:02 »
This is why I just hacked em out with a grinder and then flap wheeled any ridges. I could have removed more of the metal but I got bored and left it. Worked out quite well as the remains of the runners on the sill and tunnel make a good platform for the cross bars for the buckets.

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #501 on: 03 August 2012, 22:26 »
1. the driver's seat needs to be mounted as low as possible as it's going to have double-locking sliders under the side-mounts to allow a range of driver sizes, so the remains of the runners might not be in the right place for such a job.
2. the seat rails come with reinforcement plates which weld in around the rails and to the tunnel.  It's unlikely the reinforcement plates would sit flush on the tunnel if the remains of the runners are there.
3. I'm taking weight out.  Why would I leave surplus metal in, especially when it's that thick and heavy!
4. I don't get bored that easily.
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #502 on: 03 August 2012, 22:38 »
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #503 on: 07 August 2012, 11:04 »
Got my scales back on Sunday.

20kg in sound deadening, bracketry and clutter out of the car.

Scirocco seats weight 19kg each and the side-mount shells that will replace them come in at 11kg each.

Ordered a few bits from Demon Thieves, too.  Should be here later in the week.

Lightened flywheel is on its way back, too.
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #504 on: 07 August 2012, 11:07 »
Got my scales back on Sunday.

20kg in sound deadening, bracketry and clutter out of the car.

Scirocco seats weight 19kg each and the side-mount shells that will replace them come in at 11kg each.

Ordered a few bits from Demon Thieves, too.  Should be here later in the week.

Lightened flywheel is on its way back, too.

All sounds good... so, enough weight loss to justify a vinyl wrap then?  :wink:

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #505 on: 07 August 2012, 12:38 »
All sounds good... so, enough weight loss to justify a vinyl wrap then?  :wink:

With the weight that's going to be added shortly it was time to make sure the unnecessary bulk had been stripped out.  :wink:
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #506 on: 07 August 2012, 12:46 »
All sounds good... so, enough weight loss to justify a vinyl wrap then?  :wink:

With the weight that's going to be added shortly it was time to make sure the unnecessary bulk had been stripped out.  :wink:

Fat co-driver?

I'm guessing engine... hmm, but what, would never be a VR, you wouldn't be that daft.

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #507 on: 07 August 2012, 13:35 »
1.8T mk2 Syncro sounds good to me.

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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #508 on: 07 August 2012, 15:49 »
Nice man from Parcelfarce turned up with a big box of things that would disgust my wife while she was out.

WINNING.
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Re: Golf2 Syncro ABF
« Reply #509 on: 07 August 2012, 16:17 »
Nice man from Parcelfarce turned up with a big box of things that would disgust my wife while she was out.

WINNING.

I dread to ask.  :laugh: