anyone had a look to see whats under the propshaft tunnel in a FWD Soopy?

 

 

The exhaust?

1 hour ago, Ohimgood said:

The exhaust?

 

This is looking backwards... 

 

with no hump it would be like a limo in the back

 

phone Gas Monkey

 

 

Edited 18 February, 20188 yr by lichfielddriver

I had a look under mine during the MOT, couldn't believe how much space was unused under the FWD floor pan. 

Isn't that space filled with the propshaft and haldex on 4x4?

 

Edited 18 February, 20188 yr by xman

12 minutes ago, xman said:

Isn't that space filled with the propshaft and haldex on 4x4?

 

 

Kind of, looks like this

 

 

20 hours ago, xman said:

Isn't that space filled with the propshaft and haldex on 4x4?

 

 

 

Probably

 

and they only make 1 floorpan to suite FWD and 4WD versions

22 hours ago, lichfielddriver said:

 

This is looking backwards... 

 

with no hump it would be like a limo in the back

 

phone Gas Monkey

 

 

 

Stainless system?

 

16 minutes ago, lichfielddriver said:

they only make 1 floorpan to suite FWD and 4WD versions

 

Yup - and they (VAG) used this floorplan across other marques in the VAG group as well.

 

I had an argument with an American buddy over this - he didn't believe his own Passat (!) or the Golf he rented here was FWD because that tunnel is there in the rear. "Whats the point of having FWD unless you get the flatter floor and legroom in the back?!" was his thinking....

 

Now with the MQB platform - all the cars are like the product of a Hillbilly Incest orgy - everybody gots something in 'em which is related to, or shared with, all the other kinfolk in the VAG clan......

 

There is even a 'hump' in fwd Fabia, Polo, Ibiza, A1's, but then the platforms are shared which allowed Audi to built A1's with quattro (haldex), 

Before that they were able to homologate for rallying then and have Fabia S2000 2.0l AWD, then Polo AWD, Fabia R5's.

 

52 minutes ago, TheRobinK said:

 

 

 

Now with the MQB platform - all the cars are like the product of a Hillbilly Incest orgy - everybody gots something in 'em which is related to, or shared with, all the other kinfolk in the VAG clan......

 

 

 

while they play banjo?

really fancy this cut job..

1 hour ago, bigjohn said:

 

Stainless system?

 

 

 

not mine, just only soopy underside i could find

https://www.supersprint.com/ww-en/new-supersprint-performance-exhaust-for-skoda-octavia-rs-tsi-and-tdi-in-development.aspx

just an idea of the result

 

 

Apart from making room for bits that have to run the length of the car, that hump also contributes a lot to the car's structural strength. Taking it out could be quite problematic and something you would need a detailed engineering report on if you want to have any hope of insuring it afterwards.

1 hour ago, chimaera said:

Apart from making room for bits that have to run the length of the car, that hump also contributes a lot to the car's structural strength. Taking it out could be quite problematic and something you would need a detailed engineering report on if you want to have any hope of insuring it afterwards.

 

Spoilsport - just when I was thinking about dusting off my angle grinder and welder 

 

 

23 hours ago, xman said:

Isn't that space filled with the propshaft and haldex on 4x4?

 

Yes of course it is, I was just making the point that us poor 2WD folk lose a lot of otherwise useful space just to keep 4x4 folk happy.

 

In terms of the tunnel though I think this is at least partially deliberate to impart stiffness to,the floor

a 1/4" plate x-member would replace the hump, directly underneath the humps location from 1 side to the other of the car, probably ending up stronger than the original

 

The plate might make up for some of the loss of torsional rigidity but it's not going to do anything to stop the floorpan sagging in the middle over time.

Insurance companies would not accept modifications like that to the floorpan methinks.

I think it would have to also be inspected and approved by an appropriate body. And it would probably be virtually unsellable.

On 2/18/2018 at 19:13, lichfielddriver said:

 

with no hump it would be like a limo in the back

 

In all the years I have never had any customer complain about the lack of space in the rear of mine.

I fitted the Skoda rubber mats and the tunnel rubber as well to protect the rear carpets. 

5 minutes ago, DEL80Y said:

In all the years I have never had any customer complain about the lack of space in the rear of mine.

I fitted the Skoda rubber mats and the tunnel rubber as well to protect the rear carpets. 

 

Ive had no complaints but its bloody irritating its there

the Yanks built a FWD car (Toronado) --- V8 --- and didnt see the need for a transmission hump

 

 

25 minutes ago, lichfielddriver said:

the Yanks built a FWD car (Toronado) --- V8 --- and didnt see the need for a transmission hump

 

 

 

 

Right, but they designed it from the start not to have one. Skoda haven't designed the Superb not to have one, so removing it will have serious implications for chassis stiffness.

 

I also suspect that the Tornado may not have been very stiff.