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Old 03-28-2015, 07:57 AM
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Thanks. They seem to fit the bird well. They also look like they are manual or mostly manual seats. Are they?
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Old 03-28-2015, 08:46 AM
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Thanks. They seem to fit the bird well. They also look like they are manual or mostly manual seats. Are they?
They are all manual and fold forward nicely to get to the back seat. I am glad they look to fit well. I had to cut up and modify the back seats to get them to fit. I also had to cut off all of the brackets from the front seats. I extended the sliders and bolted them directly to the floor braces in order to get rhem as low as possible.
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Old 03-28-2015, 12:29 PM
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I like the Recaros. I looked at them as an option, but was curious about the baseplate/sliders. I am 6'4" and they look like the sit really high. I may try to buy the rear seats and a more classic Recaro for the front. These second gen Birds don't have a lot of headroom
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Old 04-29-2015, 07:52 AM
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I haven't been able to work on the car in a while and probably wont be able to for another couple of weeks. I have to many house and other projects to complete. I will try and go back and document what I did to the car before I started the thread.

The car had very little rust but there were several body panels that needed to be repaired. This car will not be a show car. It wont even get a nice paint job. It is going to be a driver that I don't have to worry about scratching. So instead of buying new body panels to repair the car I practiced my fabricating skills and made my own patch panels.

Both sides of the cowl area had rotted away. there were a few smaller spots like the lower rear quarter. You can see I also deleted the rear side marker lights














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Old 05-14-2015, 08:50 AM
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The car had also been in a few accidents. The entire left side of the car had been damaged. Since I don't care about straight panels and paint I decided to patch and repair what I had. While I was at it I decided to widen the rear flares slightly.























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Old 05-14-2015, 09:10 AM
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Very nice and subtle.
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I have started to get some stuff done on the car again. I really want to get it done soon so I can enjoy it this summer. I probably wont do anything else to the body or paint until next winter. Im not going to setup the vintage air or a radio. I know the small things always take so long so I am probably being way to optimistic but I would like to take the car to Charlotte for the USCA event.
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Old 06-16-2015, 09:03 PM
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Good luck!
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Old 07-17-2015, 07:52 AM
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My plans changed shortly after my last post. Something else came up during the same week as the charlotte event so I decided to take my time finishing the build.

That turned out to be a good decisions because I ran into some unexpected issues and delays getting some parts. The picture below shows what I am doing now.


I removed the engine and am lowering and centering the engine mounts. I also cut out the shock mount and will be welding on a taller adjustable version. I surprisingly did not have clearance issues with my coilovers like others with Scotts subframe.

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did you try it with the spring?
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