2002 VW Lupo Cambridge - JDO

[Deaky97]

So, SUPER busy weekend, but have smashed out a shit ton of work.

Main job was doing the notch in the chassis rail/crash beam. Now if you're not sure what a notch is, it's essentially a cut out that allows your driveshaft to have more room to move without smacking the bottom of your car (Meaning i can go stupid low). I was going to give it a go, but as i've only really got limited experience with body work, i wanted a professional (My Dad) to do it. He's done 4 bare metal resto's over the past 15 years with 2 concourse magazine features so it was definitely worth the ask!

Initial cut out, 1.25" radial hole





Plate was then cut on, tried and cut down to size to ensure it fitted the hole perfectly. Then welded in and sanded back.







And there's your notch. Currently looks like that as i need to get hold of some underseal and paint! You can see in the last photo how much more travel room the shaft now has, under load or cornering that shaft was rubbing on the body and had left a groove!

Now the cool bit. While my Dad sorted that, i was ripping the interior out and putting the front end back on....

MAN i can't wait to get this done.







So so happy with the paintwork, needs a tiny bit of blending in with the doors etc as the colour is just the tiniest bit out but i'd expected this to be the case anyway. My bumper was like this until is had some sun on it to bleach it slightly, so it might just need some life to blend it in!

Wheel colour works so well with the body, i just need to get hold of some lips now so i can get it rolling!!

[Deaky97]

I dig the color man, can't wait to see what you have to tie it all together

Cheers dude! Glad it's came out as well as it has tbh, after this weekend it's really got me determined to get it done asap.

Really like that color choice, going to look perfect with the car.

Glad you agree!! When i've got some photo's on my decent camera i'll get them on here, Iphone camera makes it look a lot darker

Don't test me, I'm gonna do it!

New color looks great, for the car your are gonna keep the same?

I'll be over your side of the world next year i think for some shows, you'll have to meet me

Yeah man 110%, Was the main reason i bought the car hahaha. Body work came back Friday. You'll see in about 5 mins when i've written up my update

[DawsonLiri]

Ship it over here then

Don't test me, I'm gonna do it!

New color looks great, for the car your are gonna keep the same?

[hinrichs]

Really like that color choice, going to look perfect with the car.

[19birel]

I dig the color man, can't wait to see what you have to tie it all together

[Deaky97]

Well, the new wheel colour is sorted. Spoken, it definitely sounds like it would never work, but i really think it does. This, matched with the subtle interior plans i have and side graphics, is going to make it one cool looking little car (i hope!!!)

[Deaky97]

finally got a chance to read through this!

really good work, you can come over and finish the 36coupe for me if you want

Cheers dude! Hell yeah i'm ok with that hahaha

[Deaky97]

boy that’s one sexy frame

start a build thread now

[Deaky97]

Dude you're crazy, fix my wiring too

Ship it over here then

[Benwalsh91]

finally got a chance to read through this!

really good work, you can come over and finish the 36coupe for me if you want

[Hayddd]

Boy that’s one sexy frame

[DawsonLiri]

Dude you're crazy, fix my wiring too

[Deaky97]

Nice big chunk of work done and out the way this weekend thanks to my mate Kez!





In trade for repairing some of the wiring on his van, he's built an awesome frame for my false floor!! Saved me hours!! God send having a friend who's a joiner hahaha!

All of my splits are now split too, i just need some 1.5" lips (SOMEONE SELL ME SOME)

Also going for quite a different paint colour on the rims, but i'm very confident it's actually going to work, very well....

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Not even going to attempt to spell the colour, but they're going to be a very similar shade to that of that red model Porsche of my friends.

[Deaky97]

Absolutely lovely job my man. Impressed with your electrics knowledge. My electrical knowledge stretches to just about swapping over batteries in my flat's fire alarm but other than that...

Cheers dude! Anything on this car to do with electrics i’ve done myself! All fairly self explanatory when you get some base skill with it! Hahaha, student problems eh

[Mehowski]

Absolutely lovely job my man. Impressed with your electrics knowledge. My electrical knowledge stretches to just about swapping over batteries in my flat's fire alarm but other than that...