A lot of people said I should have done a project thread when I went up to ACE, so had a bit of time tonight to collate this....
Well it all started playing golf one day, I was having a bad round until......
The guy who i was playing with happened to be the service manager at my local garage, he proceeded to tell me about one of his customers who had a GTI6 which had to go due to the arrival of a new company car, i knew the car in question straight away as it lived just down the road from me, after a little bit of prying and perseverance i got to view the car, as i remembered and had been told it had been mechanically maintained well by the garage with lots and lots of bills, however the interior not quite so good and pretty filthy (This got me thinking!)
When it came to the crunch i made an offer and walked away as the guy was not ready to let it go, or for what i offered, so as far as my thinking went i had been blown out the water already.
3 weeks later however i got the call, "your cars here to collect as i'm off on holiday tomorrow" so off I went!
in this 3 weeks though I'd managed to buy yet another go-kart to fill the mother in-laws garage up with the one i already have and now a car to put on her drive just in time for my operation 2 days later!
In the next 6 weeks of recuperation is when i met all you wonderful guys on here, i was helpless and had plenty of time so thought I'd sign up on here as i had plenty of questions that needed answers and lots of stuff i wanted to buy, well i certainly havn't been let down as everyone has been so helpful and such a credit, i cant thank you enough!
The car was perfect, I have always been around Motorsport as my Dad raced in top level saloon cars and my family had owned a Peugeot dealership yet i have never driven round a circuit myself............... Time to change that!
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Next big step I started working out how to do the seats, which wasn't as easy as I thought and hoped as me being me bought Corbeau Revolution style which was proving to be a bit harder than first thought, due to them being very wide.
I was trying to make them easy to move backwards and forwards without using the sliders as they were going to make the seats far too high, but they needed to be easy to adjust as not everybody is as lanky as me!
After a bit of time and thought we came up with an idea which involved minimal welding and no cutting of the cars structure ie: tunnel or sill gusseting,
It turned out to be top draw, really low, nice and far back and very easy to adjust (scraping the soundproofing off was pretty dire!)
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Well it all started playing golf one day, I was having a bad round until......
The guy who i was playing with happened to be the service manager at my local garage, he proceeded to tell me about one of his customers who had a GTI6 which had to go due to the arrival of a new company car, i knew the car in question straight away as it lived just down the road from me, after a little bit of prying and perseverance i got to view the car, as i remembered and had been told it had been mechanically maintained well by the garage with lots and lots of bills, however the interior not quite so good and pretty filthy (This got me thinking!)
When it came to the crunch i made an offer and walked away as the guy was not ready to let it go, or for what i offered, so as far as my thinking went i had been blown out the water already.
3 weeks later however i got the call, "your cars here to collect as i'm off on holiday tomorrow" so off I went!
in this 3 weeks though I'd managed to buy yet another go-kart to fill the mother in-laws garage up with the one i already have and now a car to put on her drive just in time for my operation 2 days later!
In the next 6 weeks of recuperation is when i met all you wonderful guys on here, i was helpless and had plenty of time so thought I'd sign up on here as i had plenty of questions that needed answers and lots of stuff i wanted to buy, well i certainly havn't been let down as everyone has been so helpful and such a credit, i cant thank you enough!
The car was perfect, I have always been around Motorsport as my Dad raced in top level saloon cars and my family had owned a Peugeot dealership yet i have never driven round a circuit myself............... Time to change that!
Next big step I started working out how to do the seats, which wasn't as easy as I thought and hoped as me being me bought Corbeau Revolution style which was proving to be a bit harder than first thought, due to them being very wide.
I was trying to make them easy to move backwards and forwards without using the sliders as they were going to make the seats far too high, but they needed to be easy to adjust as not everybody is as lanky as me!
After a bit of time and thought we came up with an idea which involved minimal welding and no cutting of the cars structure ie: tunnel or sill gusseting,
It turned out to be top draw, really low, nice and far back and very easy to adjust (scraping the soundproofing off was pretty dire!)