John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
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What's the plan Stan?
VR6 stuff or some more elaborate Audi-based idea? Brgrds Brian 
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John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Brian Klausen Godlike Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
Sounds like VR6-stuff then...
A milling machine... what luxury... I plugwelded those suckers with my 180 Amp MIG, and ground down the welds with me trusty angle grinder with a flap disc on it. The most luxurious part of the process was that I own a very old lathe that I used to skim the welds the last bit. For marking and drilling I had no fancy milling maching with a divider head and such fancy stuff. I used a cardboard template made with very-nears (I love that word :-)) and a pair of scissors. All drilled on my chinese crap bench drill, and then obviously hand-tapped with a tap bought on Fleabay from Germany. Well - If I had access to a milling machine with a divider head I would have used that as well - but just to say to people that may have the need to do something similar, but are already abandoning the idea because of lack of access to such machinery: take your time... then you can do it with pretty basic tools (it can be done without a lathe...) Brgrds Brian
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John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Brian Klausen Godlike Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
Well - yes and no... :-). I have some 20 mm. bolt-on spacers at the front to be able to fit my 11" brake setup under my preferred wheel: ATS Cup (got a bunch of those - pretty strong, good offset, fair price). Those bolt-on spaceres use... bolts.... :-). And normally you're supposed to use your regular bolts to get the wheels on. But I converted the spacers to use studs (did milling on the lathe by the way - bit of magic to clamp the spacer in the lathe, and hey presto...) - they are nice M12x1,5 (which is stock) press-fit from... what was it? Rally Design I think - UK shop anyway. Nice hard suckers, but obviously M14 would be stronger. Then again: I have never ever broken one in 8 years of running either bolts in the beginning and now studs. But I'm also very careful with torque and using centering rings. If I was to convert to M14 I'd have to redrill all my wheels. Very doable, but doesn't seem worth it to me. I have other things that are more in need of bulletproof-ness, and then I always prioritize seat time too. Brgrds Brian
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John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Tom B Professional Moderator Location: Douche Canoe, WA Join Date: 02/27/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 780 Rally Car: VW Golf |
Jason Wine Mega Moderator Location: Seattle, WA Join Date: 02/20/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 448 Rally Car: Started a Golf... Never Finished It |
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