With welding, grinding and burning going on it pays to be safe.

With welding, grinding and burning going on it pays to be safe.

Fair enough.

What are your plans with seating now that you're selling the vRS interior?

I can't give everything away, come on.

Boooo - just don't do mk5 GTI seats - so last year

Maybe...

Just me thinking that looks a bit like...

Little bit done today. Had work to do on other things today bit a bit more tidied up.

Good work Ross - cant wait to see it rolling

Couple of hours up there this morning.

Exhaust and gearbox cables out next, subframe off and carry on with the bulkhead tidying.

May seem a bit daft, but as this is a classic spec car are you going to add some extras that wouldn't have been on it originally? for example electric wing mirrors or other creature comforts?

Nope.

Just an idle thought, I wonder if it would be possible to swap it over to a belt driven pas pump rather than one of those daft electric ones you get on a fabia?

It would be possible but a load or work for no reason.

Plus no power sapping pump running off the engine (although obviously alternator load is higher)

Surely the Alternator from the 1.8T would be more than enough for the Fabias PAS pump anyway?

Yeah I was referring to drain on engine rather than battery

Plus how tidy and uncomplicated is this

Yeah I was referring to drain on engine rather than battery

I Know, My comment was to Tom

Still looking good haha

I like the simplicity of the no pas pump setup... But surely it will take the same amount of 'power' to steer the car weather it's mechanical or electric... Yes I agree an electric motor is always more energy efficient but to power that the kinetic energy is converted to electrical energy by the alternator, then back to kinetic energy again byan electric pump so you end up with twice the amount of losses in the system.... It was just an idle thought anyway, sorry to clutter up the thread with my inane rubbish.

Yeah I was referring to drain on engine rather than battery

Plus how tidy and uncomplicated is this

She's exceptionally clean :')

The engine looks lovely. Great choice of colour too

I like the simplicity of the no pas pump setup... But surely it will take the same amount of 'power' to steer the car weather it's mechanical or electric... Yes I agree an electric motor is always more energy efficient but to power that the kinetic energy is converted to electrical energy by the alternator, then back to kinetic energy again byan electric pump so you end up with twice the amount of losses in the system.... It was just an idle thought anyway, sorry to clutter up the thread with my inane rubbish.

Thats what I meant in a simplified manner. However the electric pas pump doesn't run all the time, where as the power steering pump is always being driven.

looking good there, I'm running a mechanical pump on mine as I really don't like the positioning of the fabia eps unit in a rally car lol.

are you going to seamweld the engine bay?

Whats the motor out of ? passat/supurb ? just noticed no engine mount sticking thru the cambelt cover lol

Must be a transverse fitment engine because it's got that type of sump fitted to it by the looks of it, maybe it's got a different timing belt cover fitted... I seem to remember reading somewhere about somebody using a mk3 golf subframe on a fabia and using the engine mounts that bolt to the back of the block?

Would the stock MPI fuel pump capable of supplying enough fuel with constant pressure at the rail? ... The MPI engine is only 68hp and you need around 3 times as much fuel

I have an uprated fuel pump anyhow.

And as for the engine it's out of an Octavia (as per earlier in thread) in that picture I haven't bolted the mounting on yet that's all.