Ell Diablo - Hydraulic Clutch In

[Grant]

You have PM mate

[Grant]

So nothing terribly exciting happened to the car this week, or last week. Or the week before, to that fact.

New engine hopefully in at the weekend.


But in the meantime, this happened;




For anyone who saw my garage before, it was a mess of crap piled up with a filing cabinet in the middle. Too hard to work properly in.

Much better now

Need to line the top with steel still, but it will do for now

[Midnightclub]

Loving the 'tools' lined up next to the drill

[Piggy]

Needs more hammers and chiller for the beer...

Also needs a 306oc© calendar!!

[Grant]

Vital motivational tooling next to the drill! Haha

There's actually a freezer on the left, so Ill just bung some beer in there for 15 mins when needed

[kentiiboii]

Nessasery tools for working on a 306!

[306Dan]

Where's the selection of hammers???

[Jonny b]

f*ck the hammers!! Seems to me as he has the tools next to the drill to be able to do any job!!!!

[Eeyore]

So manly <3

[Grant]

f*ck the hammers!! Seems to me as he has the tools next to the drill to be able to do any job!!!!

That's it. Nothing like a bit of dutch courage!

[cully]

i see youve been taking hints from my garage

[Grant]

With the exception of a few shineys... Lol

[Grant]

So spent this evening preparing for the engine change that is looming this weekend

Cleaned and painted the seam welded subframe :

Before:



And after. Also chucked a coat on the bonnet badge as it needed freshening up:




Gave the GTi inlet another lick of paint:




And gave the K&N cotton cone a soak in detergent: Niiiiiiiiiiice




Hoping my heat wrap will turn up for tomorrow, so I can get the spare manifold wrapped ready to go on.
Will nip to pug and get some gearbox oil, then am good to go

[devils_fuel]

I can't be bothered to look back but what engine is going in?

Are you going for all the win grant,

[Grant]

Just chucking nialls old GTi engine in for now.

It's sitting there doing nowt.


I'm getting naughty thoughts about Subaru flat 4 cyl turbo lumps though. Just know jack all about those engines...

[devils_fuel]

Sounds like fun times ahead

A Subaru would be all the win, would you be going AWD ?

[Grant]

Probably just RWD.

Tbf it's a new idea. Need to weigh up the possibilities.

Wouldn't be too bad to AWD if the RWD is going in I suppose.

Worth a laugh!

[devils_fuel]

Mate a flat 4 AWD 306 would be awesome and so much fun, you never get bored of it

[306Dan]

awd would be awesome but i dont know whether you could get the engine far enough fowards tho

[Dum-Dum]

The wheelbase of a scooby is pretty close to that of a 306

[306Dan]

hmm who's got a scooby i can cut up??

[Grant]

The wheelbase of a scooby is pretty close to that of a 306

Yeah, you're right.

Believe it or not I got the idea watching ChopShop, where they cram a Scooby engine into a MK2 gold for Jonny Vegas.




The chassis legs on the scooby are a lot closer together than on a 306, so if anything, there will be loads of room width ways, as for length-ways, if I have to hack about the exhaust tunnel to get a transmission in, which i can't see being to bad, who cares?! lol

[Midnightclub]

Do eeet!

[kentiiboii]

The wheelbase of a scooby is pretty close to that of a 306

Yeah, you're right.

Believe it or not I got the idea watching ChopShop, where they cram a Scooby engine into a MK2 gold for Jonny Vegas.




The chassis legs on the scooby are a lot closer together than on a 306, so if anything, there will be loads of room width ways, as for length-ways, if I have to hack about the exhaust tunnel to get a transmission in, which i can't see being to bad, who cares?! lol

I just watched that, the front end looks wrong!

[Grant]

I missed the second episode last night on TV, and haven't seen the finished article. I'll make sure to have a look lol

[devils_fuel]

No you don't grant, it's shite

Hate to say it but they ruined the golf..

[kentiiboii]

The rear and roof looks ok, front end is terrible. But I agree ruined the golf.

[Nath140889]

A series 1 impreza floor pan and wheel base is only ten mill out both ways, could be an interesting shell transplant , wiring and dash would be fun though

[Matt]

Need a hand with the engine atall man? I've got tomorrow off

[Niall]

Matt we are doing the engine at mine. Your welcome to come up but parking is difficult at the moment so will have to park a fair way away!