Wide bagged '01 TT

[OsckR]

This is starting to look like a racecar
Great work man!

[Forty-six and 2]

Nothing really. I have busy the past couple weeks with my 944 and doing home upgrades.

I did buy a carbon hood. It will make it easier to extend and widen. I also am selling the airride, motor, and quattro system. The bags are pulled and sold, the motor is coming out today, and the awd as soon as possible after that.

I will be building this into a tube chassis car, with a mid mounted Audi 4.2lt. The V8 will show up sometime this week.

I love this car, and am building the body exactly how I want it, so I decided I should not limit myself to simple motor swap options. I have experience with building a tube chassis. The 4.2l is capable of crazy power when turboed and sounds unbelievably amazing. I have now committed to building my 'dream' TT. If and when my parts sell, I will have made back nearly $10k. Basically the project will fund itself, for the most part.

I have to keep focused on the body though. After pulling the motor, I will pull the rear 1/4 windows. This will allow me to build the entire 1/4 panel, including the window's sill, out of carbon. I have some minor finishing work on the passenger side's flare, then they will be ready for carbon. I am going to end up making a carbon hatch as well. I would like to be able to have a full carbon tilting rear end.

I have recently seen some photos of the process used for building the rear end of a Rossion Q1, and feel that I am capable of adapting a similar technique to this build.

[OsckR]

Woah ... this is gonna be so sick

[andybob]

Holy crap. That's gonna be awesome.

[GTOguy]

this is so awesome! I'm excited to see where it goes as it is finished!

[Dane083]

Time I subscribe

[mikey G]

Wow a lot more planned for this car. Can't wait to see where it goes man! Love the progress this far....

[Forty-six and 2]

Thanks for the interest! It is very motivating.

I have pulled the motor, clear the bay of everything, and am now trying to strip down the interior. It's 40% done. Then it will be on to getting setup for the first round of carbon in the rear.

[95DaytonaM3]

Hey Matt, I was just browsing and noticed the "bagged wide TT" and then saw GOTG. Figured you would be on here. Build is coming out great man.

[Forty-six and 2]

Been a while since the last update...

Gutted and sitting on a chassis table.





The bottom of the chassis.





And the beginning to the upper plane of the chassis and the engine and trans sitting in place.






I also widened the flare more. I wanted to increase the track width to 66" with a 315, so this will allow that to happen.





A comparison shot of the original widened arch and quarter, to the extra wide arch and widened quarter.



These are now 6.25" wider, per side, than the factory TT's quarter panels.

These are the new tires. 275's and 315's Nitto NT01



The 4.2l v8 didn't work out, due to the shipping company. It was replaced with a old I-5. I have everything needed for it to be a 700+ whp motor. We will see what it ends up with when that time comes.

There is a guy talking about paying a shop to widen his TT. It is sounding like he will biting my style quarters... If he ends up following through with it, just remember this is the original car, and 100% built by me.

[smiles]

Damn glad to see an update! Didn't realize you were gonna be building a new chassis for it. Keep up the awesome work man!

[ramong24]

That was quite the plot twist...

[austin2112]

This thing is gonna be insane. Looking forward to more updates

[scweet14]

holy fuck!

[Forty-six and 2]

That was quite the plot twist...

Haha, yeah. I was bored with it, but didn't want to sell it. Now it will be crazy enough that I will never want to get rid of it!

Damn glad to see an update! Didn't realize you were gonna be building a new chassis for it. Keep up the awesome work man!

I love fabrication. This will keep me entertained for a little while, and end up a way better handling car for it.


Thanks for the words and continuing to follow along after all this time. The thread could use a title change though.