A little durtydubs and a lot of eurowise: r32 AWD-twin turbo Mk1 by Nashty Rabbit

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So here it goes... eurowise got a ton done, literally!!!!!! I've decide to give them all another 10 cent raise

Here is a complete underbody shot of the rear subframe \differential bolted up in its new home.



Closer shots of subframe\differential bolted up.





A passenger shot of the suspesion.



The drivers side trailing arm mount and bolted in place.



I like this part... The removable trailing arm like OEM.




The factory floor is now in place.... the rear spring seat\mounting cup is retained and utilized.




This goes out to patrick.... Even inserted arrows for you my friend... A shot of where the rear shocks will mount. Like the r32, it mounts at the bottom of the spindle and at an angle bolts to the bottom of the floor.



According to Mike, the rear floor pan is 75% complete.

Transition where the floor pan and rear differential pan hump meets they welded 2 parallel square tubing braces. The pockets on both sides of the drive shaft open. One for an full size battery and the other will be a storage pocket for my toilet paper and Depends diapers...





The pockets.... passenger side gets the battery and driver side gets the Depends.



And one last shot.... I might be a little biased, but this shot is too damn sexy.... wheel gap and all




Thanks again guys for all the comments.... Its definitely helped motivate the guys up at eurowise...

12/3/2010

I told mike I want to maintain a pretty aggressive stance and wanted to minimize wheel gap as much as possible. In order to achieve this with the new taller spindles, they raised the strut towers. This will give us 1.75 inches in height drop without adjusting the suspension and sacrificing ride quality.

A shot of the passenger side strut tower top cut off and this section will be extended and cap will be welded back on.



half finished product. The welds will be grinded down and smoothed out...





They way it currently sits with 16" wheels with 205/40/16 for MOCK up and yes, we have already been notified that they are on backwards...








And they began mocking the cage up... In the background you will see the father of the man...

12/4/2010

So they started cleaning the towers up this morning...

First, they went back and welded the towers from the inside.





Once done, they went back and grounded down all the outside welds.

12/8/2010

Hump day updates:

For the past few days they have focused their attention on completely seam welding the entire car. The rabbit should be 10x stronger than stock with all the structural bracing and welding of the panels.

They started working on the dash today, shortened and modified the factory R32 dash support brace and welded\bolted it in place.



A rough idea of what to expect...

The dash was shortend approx 5 inches on the side and about 4-5 inches in the front along the windshield.



With the dash being almost 5 inches more narrow, the steering column stuck way out, so they had to modify and shorten the entire steering shaft, u-joint, and all the attaching parts.

And now a steering wheel can be bolted up....



And one last perspective.

12/11/2010

I was totally against the idea of running the r32 dash in the car, but both doug an mike insisted and asked me to drive up and entertain the idea..... having said that, it looks 10X better in person than it does in the pics, and i absolutely LOVED my old dash setup and am going with the r32 setup... having said that, i can see why the old dash would have more appeal, but hopefully you can see it in person and you might have a change of heart... If not, no worries, we all have our preferences

Anyways, me and marty drove up this moring and met up with mike (aka fouckhest). Thanks for giving me a peep of the setup and thanks big time for your mathimatical skills today

So, basicly spent an hour "discussing" wheel setups (i.e. backspacing, offsets, diameter, camber, turning radious, and everything under the sun in regards to set of frick'n wheels... ). We have some relatively serious issues to work out now (first of hopefully a few setbacks) but the long of the story is i'm going to run a staggered 16" setup.... It wasn't what i was hoping for, but it is what it is, considering the build will be both a comprimise of show and go. Again, big thanks for fouckhoust, doug, mike, and marty for the help and opinions

Enough jibber-jaber and some fun pics i took today.... Took the wheels off my corrado to help give us some relative perspective....





Motorcycle rear fender cut in half...



Oil pan clearance...



Doug began buildingthe eurowise r32 short runner mani





A pic of the what it will look like when done. It's one they built for a r32 turbo project not to long ago...