The shaved 88 Shitaco

[SebastienPeek]

She's beautiful man. So beautiful.

[harlerocco]

thank you i'll probably just keep posting more pics as i find them, since this thread is for my reference as well.

[harlerocco]

Came home this weekend from school to work on the car and finish up the last big project: the false floor/rear seat delete. I also had lined up a shoot of the car, but it's been raining nonstop so that wasn't able to come to fruition.

So here's some progress on that false floor. I used 1x3's for the frame so it isn't raised much and still looks a factory height. The frame has two pieces. One piece covers the back seat area and then the rear left of the trunk space. The other piece covers the rear right of the trunk space which covers the spare tire. I wanted this to be separate for easy access. Covered both frames with some thin plywood and screwed it down. Fitment is pretty good, and once it's covered with carpet it should look very clean. Once the carpet is in I will mount the tank and probably redo the lines coming out of it. At least the hard part is done. Sowo prep coming along nicely.









This is all one piece:



And this is with the spare tire well access piece installed. Sits nice and even with everything else.

[SebastienPeek]

False floor looks the goods man!

[SnazzyQ]

*Jaden Smith voice* How can a false floor be false when its actually real?

Also that floor is amazing.

[harlerocco]

Finished the false floor today. Went to Lowes and bought a 6'x8' outdoor rug. It was only $19 and was easy to cut and work with. Also matches the rest of the interior pretty well. I basically made a template and got to trimming. The front of the carpet is wrapped around the false floor so you don't see any exposed wood frame.









Tank isn't mounted yet. Just need to bolt it down basically. Probably going to run some different lines out of it and through the floor just for a cleaner look.

Took a pic of the front of the interior too with the new wheel. I'm pretty happy with it.

[P78]

i don't like fake things.

awesome


rug has a factory look to it

interior and false floor look great

[harlerocco]

It's almost time for Sowo. It is great to not have tons of shit to do this year. If anyone remembers last year, my car barely had the swap done and drove their and back like a champ. It was hardly put together and had so much wrong with it, but this past year has been great with tying up the loose ends. Also I still feel super fortunate for winning that air setup, as it really got me wanting to clean up the car to another level. I have ended up spending way too much on little misc parts to finish the car up that have nickel and dimed me to death. All of that stuff no one will really notice or see, but it became very important to me that the car wasn't missing a single thing. Problem with that mindset is that Scirocco parts are becoming very hard to find, so it's been an uphill battle finding the little stuff that no one manufactures anymore. I think most everything has been sourced and I'm still waiting on a few bits for the interior, mostly trim related stuff.

My last two finals are tomorrow and that marks the end of college for me. Can't wait to get home and enjoy this car for the summer. I'll have a few days of real sowo preparation but there's not much left to do. Leaving next Thursday early.

[Chuckdee]

I'm glad to see all the hard work you've put in the car finally paying off. Just go drive the car and be happy, you've deserved it.

[harlerocco]

I'm glad to see all the hard work you've put in the car finally paying off. Just go drive the car and be happy, you've deserved it.

Thank you I am very very soon! Tomorrow I hope. Anyways... got quite a bit done today!

I'm done with school Forever!!!! Came home last night after my last two finals and decided to get my tank mounting done today. I was going to mount it to a piece of wood on top of the false floor, but after seeing the tank on top, I thought it looked not so great with the large mounting posts visible. I did quite a bit of measuring, some careful cutting, and got the tank in flush with the bottom of it. I think it looks a lot better.

I removed the entire false floor and decided where to put the tank. This is a comparison pic of it on top of the floor and sunk into the floor after I cut some holes in it.



Once I got the holes drilled I had to cut a couple pieces of wood to attach to the frame. These two pieces would be what the tank mounts to. Here you can see where I mounted the tank to the two pieces, and you can also see the hole I had to make for the tank drain on the bottom of the tank. I couldn't sink it more than this because my floor is only raised 2.5" and the tank is lowered around 2".



I also cleaned up the lines going into the tank. Here you can see I drilled a hole through the floor so the line that goes to the manifold would go straight under the floor and be out of sight. Only a couple inches of it are visible before it disappears.



Here is where I think it looks so much better that it's sunk. It also gives me a little more room in the back since it doesn't stick up as high.





So I rolled it out of the barn it's been in the last month or so. My dad has been doing a ton of fiberglass work on a sailboat in there so when he started sanding it covered the car in a nice layer of white fiberglass dust. It won't hurt the car at all as long as it doesn't get wiped off. Spraying it off with the hose tomorrow and hopefully driving it around a bit. At least the inside is nice and clean... right?

[GTIKole.]

dusty rimz.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

[sdistc]

Great thread. Very impressed with the dedication and persistence to the project... and, perhaps unlike many on here, I love the underhood work - although, I would like to see more performance/efficiency oriented modifications (if not for freeing up unused horsepower, at least get better fuel economy).
I also hoped that, when you discovered all the previous repairs, you'd just throw on some fender flares to match the awesome wheel rebuilds you've done. But that's more likely because I'm inclined to convert it to AWD or RWD and make bulk horsepower
Subscribed to see where this build takes you Keep up the good work!

[87shark]

Next week \\\vapEr Revolution!!!!

[Robitussin]

Love the trunk, looks clean and simple. Hope to see this thing for a second time at sowo